I didn't watch the Challenger disaster live myself, but the kids in one of the science classes at my school did. That particular science teacher had been a finalist in the teacher selection, and knew Christa MacAuliffe personally. It hit him pretty hard.

I didn't watch it live, but I do seem to remember that tape of the accident was all anybody watched for the next few days.

Turns out the video was of a man getting mauled by a lion. Great use of company resources, bucko.

Feh. People get mauled by lions all the time. Now, someone getting mauled by a llama, that would be a video worth passing around.

Now, someone getting mauled by a llama, that would be a video worth passing around.

If it isn't out there already, it will be. Like doggy porn.

Now, someone getting mauled by a llama, that would be a video worth passing around.

If it isn't out there already, it will be. Like doggy porn.

Which of course brings on the inevitability of llama porn...

You say this, but I think about, say, the Rhinoceros whose real-life counterpart has a 2 foot dick. Marvel should just steer clear in general.

On the other hand, keeping up with the parallel biologies would give the Vulture a chance for at least one tactic that would be effective against opponents...

I was sick at home the day the Challenger died. I was watching the launch on general principle; by then they were routine, and I hadn't watched one in ages.

I still remember the slow sickening realization that something was wrong. It was like the moment after the second airplane hit the WTC, when I knew "Oh, shit, this was deliberate".

With Christa McAuliffe set to be the first teacher in space, NASA had arranged a satellite broadcast of the full mission into television sets in many schools,

OK, so that's how I saw it. I have mentioned on occasion that I saw that live and people would tell me that wasn't possible. But it was on the tv in the school library and I was checking out books.

Wow, people told you that? They rolled a TV into homeroom for me, too.

I can't remember now if I was watching CNN or a regular network. I remember it caught me by surprise; you'd think if it was a replay, they'd have announced it as "Something just went badly wrong".

I was in the corner store near my dorm picking up the morning Trib and some Diet Coke when my brain finally started listening to bits of the news report that they were playing instead of the usual music. At first, I thought, "Why are they bothering covering yet another shuttle launch?" It took a minute or two before it struck me: "Wait, it blew up!?!" Then, I ran back to my dorm and turned on the 13" B&W TV to watch the endless repeats of that horrible footage.

It was a non-event at our school, so I guess it could have been other places as well. Besides, we only had 5 tvs in the whole school!