Space Shuttle Columbia

[Aaron]

Originally posted by Ameya
I never said one death was more important than another. I said one death was more newsworthy than another. Yes, A.I.D.S. victims suffer a lot more than the people who died on the shuttle. That doesn't make each death worth reporting on the front page (or at all).

The thing that makes the Columbia so terrible is that no one expects a space shuttle to blow up on rentry. I agree that people that are passing awat more slowly should also be mourned but their death isn't such a shock.

Personally the whole thing is kind of creepy because I was watching CNN around 7 when (for the first time in a long time) the news was going to cover the launch and said everything was going well. CNN was planned to show the landing of the shuttle but got a horrible shock a few hours later.

My thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the astronauts...