Re: OM Blows His Top...

On Jul 30, 7:48 am, simberg.interglo...@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:54:15 -0500, in a place far, far away, OM
<om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

...Yesterday, I got a call from Brother Dim. He started asking me a
whole shitload of questions about the Space Mirror Astronaut Memorial
at KSC, which I answered in order. However, when I finally got around
to asking him why he was so interested in it all of a sudden, he
answered with this:

Paul Dietz has occasionally proposed that if we were serious about
settling space, we'd dedicate a national cemetary to all the people
who will die in the process, and make it a big one. Well, there's
quite a bit of room on that thing for a lot more names.

It is a moving experience to see the names on the memorial wall. I
recall knowing that 7 more would be added after the Columbia disaster
back in Feb. 2003. Sure enough they were there when I went the last
time in Dec. 2003.

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