Spase!!!

[acid_soda]

They are about to launch the space shuttle!
anyone else watching it?

3minutes.

30 seconds...ZOMG!

[By-tor]

So far, so good. External tanks just peeled away. Thanks for the heads-up, acid!

[acid_soda]

picture perfect launch! :D

[By-tor]

Everytime one of those things lifts-off I get a lump in my throat , and I don't breath right for a while. Beautiful and yet terrifying all at once.

Edit: If you can get the NASA channel, they are showing some great launch replay right now.

[JK]

This is the first time in history NASA has launched on July 4th... pretty damn cool.

[By-tor]

Watching the news conference. Crimony, some foam comes off and all the reporters want is gloom and doom.

[Zens7s]

Watching the news conference. Crimony, some foam comes off and all the reporters want is gloom and doom.
That is because nothing good ever interests them.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

That is because nothing good ever interests them.Well how else are they supposed to sell newspapers?

[RobinHoodDaffy]

Sex.....duh! :D

[Abby Normal]

The launch was great!
I am another one who gets a lump in the throat.
Those of you old enough.....
Where were you when the Challenger exploded? I was sitting in my 4th grade classroom watching it on tv. Never forget that day, or the day of Colombia either.

[By-tor]

Not sure where I was for Challenger(although I did see it on live TV). But for Columbia, the explosion got me up out of bed that morning. Sounded like thunder, but the sky was crystal clear. Had a few friends see the tracer going across the morning sky.

[jjcourtright]

I was in 1st grade for Challenger. I'm not sure why we weren't watching it on TV, but there was an announcement made that it had lifted off. A couple of minutes later there was a second announcement.

[Threadkiller]

I'd just like to say that I think some top secret missile defence system (perhaps one started by Ronald Reagan) is responsible for the North Korean failed intercontinental missile test.

And while I'm on conspiracy theories, Ken Lay faked his own death so he could retire to the South Pacific rather than face a long prison term.

Prove me wrong!

[Robbo_the_Hood]

I'd just like to say that I think some top secret missile defence system (perhaps one started by Ronald Reagan) is responsible for the North Korean failed intercontinental missile test.

Isn't it interesting that the Koreans are testing a missle while we're launching a Space Shuttle?

And while I'm on conspiracy theories, Ken Lay faked his own death so he could retire to the South Pacific rather than face a long prison term.

Prove me wrong!
HORSE-POO! The government obviously had him offed because he knew too much, and he was probably getting ready to blab since the government didn't bail him out.

[jjcourtright]

An e-mail I recieved earlier today:

Was it a heart attack caused by too many shotgun pellets in his aorta?

Lets round up the suspects...

1) KL: "Cheney, this is Kenny Boy. If I don't hear from you about a pardon by the end of the 4th of July weekend I am phoning the Times and taking you down with me."
DC: "Oh, you'll be hearing from me."

2) KL: "Honey, you know those millions I set aside for you in the will? Well, it looks like the court is putting a restitution order on the fraud charge. I guess that after next week there isn't going to be an inheritance."

3) KL: "Thirty Five years? Let's see, I am 64 now. If I behave then... oh look, strychnine."

4) KL: "No, Lou Pei! I didn't tell them anything. You can trust me. We can make this all work out. Nobody will ever know what you did with the 355 million or why you bought the mountain in Costilla County. The plan can go on just like you wanted."
LP: "You have failed me for the last time."

5) Stress + too much butter = death

[karmattack]

Where were you when the Challenger exploded? 2nd grade, but the rest of the story is just like JJ's. They got a TV out and we watched the replays of it later.

[JK]

...seventh grade, on the front stairs, walking from pre-algebra to english. They wheeled a TV into the class and we watch the news for about thirty minutes and then everyone went home for the day.

[FanGirl]

3rd grade. Same as JJ and Karma. We weren't watching, but the principal came in with a tv and made us watch.

You remember the very special Punky Brewster about it?

[ratm1966]

Let's see, Challenger blew up in 1986, so I was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines.

[jjcourtright]

Let's see, Challenger blew up in 1986, so I was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Heh, heh...you're old!