I opened this thinking it would be about the Challenger - maybe some new information or some new theory. I haven't seen it on the news, because I haven't seen the news since it happened.

Very sad. Like a road accident where a bus goes off the road and a bunch of people are killed. I suppose with the space shuttle they are more aware it's dangerous, and there must be a sense in which they have this in mind as a possibility. But like the road accident, it's the price we have all agreed to pay for certain technological additions to our world. I can't say I see it as really different. Bad stuff happens sometimes.

Talk about it in terms of geo-politics and that seems somehow irrelevant to me. It invites people to see it in the wrong context, with flags and patriotism and that, when it's really a tragic accident like so many others we pass by and ignore - and we shouldn't.