Best wishes and safe travels to the crew of the shuttle Discovery, which is as of now on schedule for launch at 3:51 today. I realize that I am usually pretty cranky and skeptical about the world in general, but there is something particularly fragile and crazy and heroic about hurling yourself up out of the safety of the atmosphere at the head of an explosion, in a vessel that seems so flimsy out there in the universe even though it is the strongest and best thing you know how to build, just because someone figured out how to do it and so someone else ought to. I don't see how you can't have at least a little awe about that.
Edit: oh well, never mind.
Posted by hilatron at July 13, 2005 11:01 AM | TrackBackIt's downright deflating to come up with a heartfelt, authentic and deserved tribute, only to have the tribute-worthy person or event then promptly faw down go boom.
I hate when that happens.
Posted by: Doombot at July 13, 2005 05:49 PM