On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:13:02AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The slashdot post was about Redhat in space. I doubt if it was > actually on board the shuttle in question. But that is neither > here nor there. I feel sad. The tragic loss aside, it also means > that the manned space program will be set back by another couple > of years. We're now farther away from 2001 than Arthur C. Clarke > and Stanley Kubrick was in 1968.
well, i wouldn't be as worried about it now as i would have in 1986
with the challenger disaster, for a couple reasons:
- the american public is more accepting of this tragedy and willing
to move on
- we have a couple astronauts in a space station who will need food
sometime in june at the very latest
sean
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