What I hear is so ultra-tragic. Please cry a tear in the name of mankind, science, futurism, machines and all that. Space exploration and graphics programming triggers the same fashination-neurons in my head, they are both top entrys on my list of meaningful things in life. This his is so sad.
:-(
Glasses up for our fallen brothers and sisters. Let there souls be rested, and there memories not forgoten. Those who risk and (some times loose) there lives to better man kind, and advance humanity will always be the true heros of our lives.
Absolutely terrible news.
The world just lost another one of its most precious resources.
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Has this months cocaine crop been destroyed or something?
Knackered
for the ones dreaming of space, its a tragecy. for the ones living in reality, its 7 deaths, wich costed billions of money. if it would've been spend for other things than a stupid dream, those 7 would be still alive, and you could help millions on this world, wich die because rich countries live in dreams.
anyways, i like to dream, too, and i feel very sorry for the 7. it hurt me, too, when i got the news. still, currenlty i hear it everywhere, as if it would be the only tragecy existing in this world, while people prepare for a war wich will cost thousands its live, while people suffer of food and water the whole day, while i see people dying on our streets, etc..
and btw, why is it not OT ?
http://davepermen.net - if i could stay true to my heart, i would feel totally free
Writing a graphics engine or flying in space, the driving force (should) origin from the same emotional rush, the need to create and experience new things - explore unknown areas push the envelope. People who disagree would simply license a Q3 engine andOriginally posted by davepermen:
and btw, why is it not OT ?[/B]
get it done asap.
You are living in the most fashinating time ever in mankind, greatly beacuse of poeple at MIT, NASA, INTEL, ID etc are pushing the envelope. Thats why, IMO, this != OT.
What?Originally posted by knackered:
Has this months cocaine crop been destroyed or something?
[This message has been edited by fritzlang (edited 02-01-2003).]
Just found out about it - you mean the space shuttle.
I agree with davepermen - it's only 7 people. It's bad, yes, but I didn't see a topic created for the 9 people killed in the australian train crash a few days ago.
Get a grip, jesus. It's called life.
Knackered
It's OT, but it is tragic. A stunning accident. I always thought they had reentry licked, now this. As for dreams vs lives, America exports more foreign humanitarian aid than any other nation. They've earned the right to dream IMHO. Things like human space exploration enrich millions of lives and are part of what makes life worth living.
[This message has been edited by dorbie (edited 02-01-2003).]
P.S. Dave, have the courage of your convictions, sell your computer and send the proceeds to save a life or two in Africa instead of using it to tell others to do the equivalent.
>>I always thought they had reentry licked<<
the tiles (used during reentry) have never been 100%
>>America exports more foreign humanitarian aid than any other nation<<
i thought u were wrong + it was japan but looking at new figures i do see u are correct.
>>Almost all rich nations have constantly failed to reach this 0.7% target.
For example, USA's aid, in terms of percentage of their GDP is already lowest of any industrialized nation in the world.
Since 1992, Japan had been the largest donor of aid, in terms of raw dollars. That was until 2001 when the United States reclaimed that position, a year that also saw Japan's amount of aid drop by nearly 4 billion dollars (as tables and charts below will also show).<<
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp
new zealand has done much better than the us i see, 0.25% is bugger all.
>>Originally posted by knackered:
Has this months cocaine crop been destroyed or something?<<
hehe
personally im a great believer in spacetravel (space, the final frontier, these ... ) unfortunatly this incident will most likely harm progress.
we are actually in a mini darkages at present. whats happened 1957 spucnik then yuri gagarin in space -> 1969 man on the moon. then what?
sweet f.ck all
what we need to do.
build a mountain in the north of oz (about 20km high) stick a big gun on it + shoot things into space (not ppl of course). actually that black + white movie with the bullet in the end of the moon was the right idea (based on a hgwells story IIRC but he used airships to get to the moon anyways)
darkages u betta believe it boys.
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