Space Shuttle Tragedy--Team tribute (please read)

[PsiMatt]

Originally posted by FAKrogoth
I know I seem (and probably am) fairly insensitive, I have a point to make. Can someone please explain Why a death is more important than a life? A failed mission more than a success?


Why do we mourn a tragedy more than we celebrate a job well done?

There has been more to NASA than just spectacular failure. Should we not celebrate the crews of spectacular successes just as much as the people who ended up on the wrong side of probability?

The people who have died on the Columbia were not mere victims of probability, they were people who gave their lives for the eventual embetterment of the human race. The truth is, though we often triumph, we seldom know defeat, and it is this tragedy, this loss that we mourn because it falls out of the reach of our sense of reality.

FAKrogoth, are you condemning all those who mourn their loved ones? Are you condemning the mounrning of death, and loss? Are you such a cold, insensitive human being that you will show such utter disrespect to those who gave the ultimate sacrafice? The world isn't entirely about efficency and the ends justify the means, otherwise, Machiavellian thought would reign supreme and organizations such as first would not exist. The only reason that you are able to be part of an organization like this, that you are able to post your views here at all is because people believe in making a diffrence, that not everything is about success, but in the attempt, and in the spirit of honor.

I'll stop myself before I go completely out of control, but my point is that the deaths of these astronauts meant something, and were not only a blow to the families and friends of those who died on the Columbia, but to the entire scientific community, and the world. If you have negative thoughts, please, refrain from disrespecting those who have died by saying that this tragedy was the equivalent of a minivan crash. If you had lost someone, or believed in the great human dream of space, you would understand. You obviously don't. As for your thoughts, keep them to yourself