Tragedy

Their sacrifice in the cause of science and for the advancement of humanity is the noblest, and the most tragic.

Updated 5:36 PM: It had been another very late night of hacking, so I'm surprised I awoke a little after 8am CST today. I don't know what aroused me, but I stumbled bleary eyed out of bed. I poured a bowl of cereal and sat down for the morning news. Yahoo! had an article with a "posted one minute ago" tag. It was one of those flash stories, just two paragraphs saying contact with the shuttle had been lost and it never landed. "Oh bummer," I thought and crawled back into bed, still half asleep.

I awoke a few hours later and it finally dawned on me. "Oh fuck! The shuttle has been lost."

I'm still surprised that something should stir me this morning. Doesn't seem likely the booms were audible here in Austin.