"The moon landscape depicted in Petr Ginz's drawing attests to his aspiration to reach a place from where the earth, which threatened his life, could be seen from a secure range."
(from Holocaust-era Art from Yad Vashem's Collection sent into space with Israeli Astronaut)
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1:17:50 PM 
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Jim Flowers has started a metablog called 'Shuttle Lost' to track coverage of the disaster in the blogosphere.
categories: metablog
12:30:35 PM say what []
I suppose it was inevitable that the frootbats would crawl out of the woodwork almost immediately with conspiracy theories about the shuttle disaster, in this case claiming that it was a deliberate act of self-sabotage in order to provide distracting news coverage during the ramp-up to war in Iraq. And I thought I was being paranoid.
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12:17:20 PM say what []
There was no warning of a problem until the explosion, it seems. Columbia was NASA's oldest shuttle but has been entirely refurbished somewhat recently. This means the cause of the accident is still a mystery. They also seem to be ruling out human error/pilot error.
A spokesman for NASA told people who may be in the vicinity of debris to avoid touching or moving it and to call the local authorities so that it may be cordoned off and impounded.
They are also asking people who may have taken pictures or shot videotape to turn over their footage to the appropriate authorities so that every scrap of evidence may be considered in the analysis of the causes of this disaster.
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11:18:07 AM say what []
I felt paranoid wondering if there was any chance of sabotage or other hostile actions, but I realize now that I was far from the only person to have this thought, and I flipped to Peter Jennings saying that this has effectively been ruled out, or at least that the accident happened too far up in the atmosphere for there to be any chance that a missile or other projectile could have impacted the craft, and that the numerous photos and videotape of the incident show no such outside interference.
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11:18:06 AM say what []
I hate getting those calls or email that say, "turn on your TV." That's how 9/11 started for me. With all the talk lately about the Challenger disaster it seems cruelly ironic that the Columbia has broken up on reentry.
Anything else I was going to post or write about seems trivial right now.
categories: x-syndicate
11:18:06 AM say what []
There's no way to force people who have blogrolled my old address update their links. I can only assume that they haven't checked back much since their initial burst of inclusion, or if they have that they think I stopped blogging sometime last October.
Then there are those who subscribed to my old RSS feed and never updated it. In my first hasty move I learned too late how to redirect an RSS feed. By then I had already locked myself out of the Salon-hosted server. However, since then I have reopened a back door to my old address and assigned it a category in my current blog. This means that I can (I think) now replace the old RSS file with an XML-level redirect.
As far as I can tell, this requires manually supplying a new RSS file for my 0001111 category instead of permitting Radio to generate one automatically. I'll be trying that today. It's not clear yet that all RSS aggregators will understand the redirect. Radio does (naturally), and NetNewsWire does as well. Consider this an experiment.
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9:01:20 AM say what []
