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Dorkfuck has set up a memorial page to the Columbia tragedy.
This is all well and good , however in a stunningly poor taste decision he has a still photo of one of the crew patches that floated down into someones yard......is it just me being overly sensetive or does anyone else find this tacky and a shade repugnant?

Page is here : http://www.st-v-sw.net/SSColumbia.html

He probably means well, but hey it's Darkstar, so...

On a side note, I see your from Lafayette. Thats cool. I'm from Kokomo.

Looks fine to me, actually. Kind of artistic, in a way.

There's a lot to hate about Fuckstar, but I wouldn't include this on the list, I'd like it to fit on five pages after all.

nothing wrong about that page. you might be biased towards it since it´s from DS. i dont know him and dont give damn about him and i dont think that there´s anything wrong with displaying this badge. it represents nothing but the dead, just like a cross on a cemetary.

Sokar wrote:Dorkfuck has set up a memorial page to the Columbia tragedy.
This is all well and good , however in a stunningly poor taste decision he has a still photo of one of the crew patches that floated down into someones yard......is it just me being overly sensetive or does anyone else find this tacky and a shade repugnant?

You're being oversensitive. That seems perfectly fine and even appropriate to me.

I have a pic of the patch on my webpage. It doesn't seem repugnant to me; quite the opposite. It's a silent memorial.

It may be repugnant but its not like those fuckers who wants to sell part of the shuttle on the internet.

I don't see what is wrong with that page.
In my oppinion DS/RSA has done nothing "repugnant" (on that particular page that is).

Hmmm....I suppose, I guess I just find it personally unplesant. That patch was on someones flightsuit not 20mins earlier.....I think thats what bothers me about it. I was probably having a knee jerk reaction since this is Darkstar were talking about, but I would rather see pic of the crew in life rather than a reminder of their death.

KhyronTheBackstabber wrote:He probably means well, but hey it's Darkstar, so...

On a side note, I see your from Lafayette. Thats cool. I'm from Kokomo.

Aye , I'm a student here at Purdue, Social Studies Education Major

You know. I heard a woman on TV yesterday say that she took her kids to where one of the pieces of debris was so they could "see history". I say, "Fuck you bitch. Let them not have died in vein for some idiot to parade the pieces around like they have the flag that was at the World Trade Center." Yes, it's history, but that's going a bit far.

Why do people stop and stare at a corpse being hauled away by the coroner from a massive car wreck? People are fucked up.

Darth Wong wrote:Why do people stop and stare at a corpse being hauled away by the coroner from a massive car wreck? People are fucked up.

It reminds us of our own mortality.

Darth Wong wrote:Why do people stop and stare at a corpse being hauled away by the coroner from a massive car wreck? People are fucked up.

Yes, why do people drive by at 5 miles per hour by a wreck two states away? Do you think you might know someone involved?

Darth Wong wrote:Why do people stop and stare at a corpse being hauled away by the coroner from a massive car wreck? People are fucked up.

Things like that bother me alot, no one seems to care that the person being hauled away was someones son/daughter/mother/father/wife/husabnd ect , and in a few minutes their probably normal day is about to be shattered like a brick through a plate glass window when they get that awful call or visit from the State Police.....

Dunno how true or not this is, but supposedly it's evolutionary. Apparently primates do the same thing. Some subconscious attraction to it?

apocolypse wrote:Dunno how true or not this is, but supposedly it's evolutionary. Apparently primates do the same thing. Some subconscious attraction to it?

Curiosity killed the cat.

True, but I'll admit, I'm kinda like that. I won't go out of my way to be involved, but if I pass something I'll look around.

Kelly Antilles wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:Why do people stop and stare at a corpse being hauled away by the coroner from a massive car wreck? People are fucked up.

Yes, why do people drive by at 5 miles per hour by a wreck two states away? Do you think you might know someone involved?

I love those chain-crashes were people crash because they are distracted by the other wreck

Sokar wrote:Hmmm....I suppose, I guess I just find it personally unplesant. That patch was on someones flightsuit not 20mins earlier.....

No. The Shuttles aparently carried hundreds of mission patches on every flight. I have no idea why but that's what the NASA types have been saying elsewhere. Chances are all he has is a photo of a patch that was stored in some obscure but well-protected locker somewhere rather than on someone's arm.

Enlightenment wrote:

Sokar wrote:Hmmm....I suppose, I guess I just find it personally unplesant. That patch was on someones flightsuit not 20mins earlier.....

No. The Shuttles aparently carried hundreds of mission patches on every flight. I have no idea why but that's what the NASA types have been saying elsewhere. Chances are all he has is a photo of a patch that was stored in some obscure but well-protected locker somewhere rather than on someone's arm.

What do they want with that many mission patches? Isn't that just useless additional weight?

Cpt_Frank wrote:What do they want with that many mission patches?

I haven't a clue. I'll post to sci.space.shuttle and ask for a confirmation but given that the original poster who made the claim wasn't flamed..er...to a crisp, the story seems to be fairly credible.

They sell the patches as souveniers. They also carry up flags and such. Considering that they tends to not weigh very much, it's ok to spend an extra 5 pounds on something that could be sold for $10 each or so.

They sell THAT cheap?
You'd think people'd pay more for something that has left the planet.