I'm sure everyone else has seen this, but space shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry this morning. I hope this doesn't mean the death-blow for the US space program, although a part of me wishes that were so, to finally make room for private enterprise getting into space without getting beaten down by the government.
Sometimes at times like this, you need a little levity:
<@lovelace> Does anyone else see the irony in an Israeli astronaut breaking up and falling down to... Palestine, TX?
🙁 I’m so sorry for all the families that lost a part of their family on Febuary 01, 2003.:(