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Ok I need my #GenX people to tell me if I explained this wrong: talking to the younger folks who ask "well what was your generational trauma?"

My answer is the #Challenger disaster. We spent a whole year watching videos from #NASA about Christa McAuliffe and her space journey, and then watched her and 6 other people get vaporized on live TV, and... then never talked about it again?

They literally wheeled the TV back out of the room and moved on to Social Studies.

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Day 22 cont 🗳️🖕🐧

“Traditionally safe seats are #flipping around the country, as voters put their hopes and dreams in independent and non-major party candidates.

But it takes more than just hopes and dreams to create a seismic political #shift that flies in the face of decades of voting history.

So what does it take for a #challenger to pose a real threat to a #SafeSeat?”

#AusPol / #LNP / #Labor / #Liberal / #Nationals / #Teals / #Greens <abc.net.au/news/2025-04-20/saf>

ABC News · How an independent or minor party flips a safe seat in federal electionBy Jean Bell

Idly reading about the #Challenger #SpaceShuttle explosion

....and I think I found a time traveler.

The previous several launch attempts were scrubbed for various reasons. The day before the launch:

"Monday was the next opportunity, but a screw failed to release from the crew hatch of the orbiter. A drill was ordered to be driven to the pad, but the battery was flat. ***Nine more batteries were sent to the pad, but all, for no apparent reason, became flat by the time they arrived at the launch pad.**" Time ran out and the launch attempt was scrubbed." [emphasis mine]

nasaspaceflight.com/2007/01/re

How does that happen? And how does someone, after changing a battery **4 times**, decide they need 5 more tried *using the same drill*?

NASASpaceFlight.com · Remembering the mistakes of Challenger - NASASpaceFlight.comOn this day, 21 years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger and her crew of seven…