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Where were you on January 28th, 1986, 30 years ago today? Do you remember?
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I was 12 at the time and remember a few of the bad taste jokes that circulated after
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I remember them as well: the "blue eyes" one sticks in the mind...
I suspect that jokes - no matter how much bad taste they are in - is one way of coping with a tragedy.
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"blue eyes" ?
The misogynistic one I remember : What were the last words heard from the crew on Challenger ? "No, you bitch, do not pull that lev..." 
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"How can you tell that Christa McAuliffe had blue eyes?"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was in North Bay, Ontario, working on an accounting system on an Amiga 1000 in C.
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Awesome 
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I was at school, and learned the news while walking down the corridor listening to my Walkman.
I'd rather be phishing!
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You were in the news?
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Huh?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I was in primary school, probably building a model of a Motte and Bailey castle. (We did a lot of those that year.)
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- Homer
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At work listening to the launch on the radio.
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I was at school asking people if they knew what "NASA" stood for.
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A school teacher, Christa McAuliffe, unfortunately perished in that disaster.
Here is today's BBC Interview with Barbara Morgan,[^], the school teacher, who was backup for Christa.
I was studying in college in Bangalore, India, and saw this in the next day's newspaper. Shocking, indeed.
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Being that the shuttle launches were still new and entertaining, I was at home watching it with my two little ones. It messed up my 2 yo little girl pretty bad. Every time we went for a walk, she would cry if she saw a contrail. Eventually she outgrew it.
Charlie Gilley
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"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I was 10 at the time. I remember watching the evening news on German TV with my mother. She broke into tears and I tried to comfort her.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Yes, I do remember. I came from a 48 hour shift in an air defense base and saw the picture of the explosion on the front page of a newspaper. Blowing up rockets was my job back then and I also already had seen failed launches, but this one already looked scary before I read the headline.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I'd taken the morning off from work to watch the lift off. 
/ravi
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I was a freshman in high school. At the beginning of math class, the teacher had wheeled in a TV and we were watching the coverage after the explosion (didn't see it happen real-time as I was out on the football field when that took place).
As soon as class started, the teacher came to me and told me my parents were waiting at the front office. At first I was quite embarrassed thinking "Seriously? Yeah this is a tragedy, but you don't need to pull me out of school over *this*".
Then I got to the front office and found out my grandma had died that morning.
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I remember.
We were shopping at the MetroCenter Mall (in Phoenix) and just walked past the upper floor entrance to Sears. There was a small TV/Audio store just outside the Sears entry and they had the launch on display on one of their TV's. We stopped to watch. What a sad disaster.
Dave.
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When it happened, we had just GOTTEN a pen plotter at work, and the most popular image to print was the space shuttle.
The day after it happened, someone printed two pen plotter drawings of the shuttle. A normal on, labeled "BEFORE", and an exploded view labeled "AFTER". I thought it was funny, but management blew a fuse over it.
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I was in the student center between classes during the freshman year of my first college attempt when I saw the broadcast. I remember standing in disbelief that it was actually happening. What a tragedy. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Kevin Marois wrote: Do you remember?
Yup.
I had quit my job at Northrop, was spending a week off before starting work at TRW, and was gardening in my yard in Crestline, PRC. The radio was on loud so I could listen to music while trimming the shrubs and planting spring bulbs. When I heard the initial announcement my plans for the day were cancelled, and I spent the rest of the day glued to the one eyed idiot, hoping for some discovery of survivors...
Will Rogers never met me.
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