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stressed for motivation and achievement2003-02-01
Columbia
Space shuttle Columbia disintegrates on re-entry — seven dead. Sends a shiver down your spine, doesn’t it? :( Exactly as the Challenger incident did when I was a kid, in fact. Exactly the same.
It’s odd — there are so many things happening in this world that involve far higher death tolls and yet something like this can catch the attention so much more. Maybe it’s the loss (even if a temporary one) of a shared dream. Maybe the realisation of man’s fallability is more intense when one of our greatest achievements is made to look like so little. Maybe it’s the unjust death of those who were working for all our futures.
Or maybe it’s simply because it’s so rare. Senses dulled to the near-daily reminders of war, famine and mass-murder are pricked by something so unusual that it reminds us what it’s like to feel shock. Whatever it is that makes me so numb, I can’t deny the scale of its effects.
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