Space Shuttle Columbia exploded 10 years ago today: Why does no one care?

[Jon Hein is God]

It happened on February 1, 2003, and it's almost February 2, 2013 and I haven't heard anything in the news, on Twitter, anywhere.

Yet I heard a bunch of people commemorating the 27th anniversary this week of the Challenger disaster.

What gives?

Anyways, RIP brave astronauts.

Oh, and let's not forget a Stern show whackpacker whitnessed the explosion:

[fccstandards]

Ya, it blew up over Texas. I remember. Bad outerwear on the squares

[Icculus]

I have ZERO memory of this happening. To be fair, I was living in a dorm smoking an ungodly amount of weed, but it's still news to me.

[Jon Hein is God]

I have ZERO memory of this happening. To be fair, I was living in a dorm smoking an ungodly amount of weed, but it's still news to me.

[Jon Hein is God]

I'm asking because I'm watching a documentary on that crew.

They all videotaped each other as they bonded and camped out together and trained.

You can see their final moments on Earth here:

[suckemnuckledus]

It burned up on re-entry! Like Howards cock in Ralphs asshole!

[Avery]

Remember when this was controversial

[Farticulator]

Know why there was only 1 black guy on the shuttle?

They didn't know it was going to burn up.

[Avery]

I never knew about this Israeli connection. Inneresting....

[SouthernListen]

Columbia stole Challenger's thing.

[shockingmary]

Know why there was only 1 black guy on the shuttle?

They didn't know it was going to burn up.

[shockingmary]

Remember when this was controversial

It was?

[Scarfo]

You know what else happened 10 years ago this February?

(Listen very closely at 5:17)

[sfsn kali]

it's all over G+.

you just aren't looking in the right places

[Vashier]

You know what else happened 10 years ago this February?

(Listen very closely at 5:17)

That was a horrible fire. That 94.5 HJY van was opie and anthony's station when they first started out in new england.

[telecaster69]

I remember the when the Shuttle blew up 27 years ago well. I was in 4 or 5th grade and my class was following the whole thing because there was a teacher going into space. My teacher wheeled in a shitty TV so we could watch the launch and needless to say that didn't go as planned.

[username]

The Israeli guy was an airforce pilot. He was part of the only attack on a nuclear reactor that ever have been done in history. The only reason why Iraq didn't get nuclear weapons.

(BTW. The world should thank US/Israel for stopping the arabs get nuclear weapons. Just a couple of years ago IDF raided the Syrian nuclear test site and demolished. They also hijacked a boat with nuclear material from North Korea.)

[Vashier]

I remember the when the Shuttle blew up 27 years ago well. I was in 4 or 5th grade and my class was following the whole thing because there was a teacher going into space. My teacher wheeled in a shitty TV so we could watch the launch and needless to say that didn't go as planned.

I was working as a service tech for a catv company when it happened. I remember going to the first call right after it happened. I grabbed my test TV set and brought it straight in and tell the customer about the shuttle as I set my set up to watch it live. The customer and I sat there for 30 mins watching it before I got around to fixing her problem.

[killallposers]

I remember the when the Shuttle blew up 27 years ago well. I was in 4 or 5th grade and my class was following the whole thing because there was a teacher going into space. My teacher wheeled in a shitty TV so we could watch the launch and needless to say that didn't go as planned.

same here. i was in second grade. my teacher had the same name as the one on the shuttle. it was quite the tenses.

[Ipokesmot]

I've heard a lot of reports from former NASA engineers that those things should have never flown, period. They're lucky only 2 blew up.
Can't believe it was milked for 30 years instead of working on something more advanced.