• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    But, did they also gather the whole school in the cafeteria to watch, via those same TV carts, the first teacher and mother take off for space — only to have the shuttle explode in real-time? That was an interesting thing to see: hundreds of students looking to their nearest adult and finding emotionally-glitching humans only.

    • nickiwest@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Oh, man. What a day that was. I was in first grade, still too young to understand that there were people in that thing and that those people died.

      When we watched it blow up like fireworks, I don’t think we realized that wasn’t what it was supposed to do. Our poor teacher had to process it pretty quickly so she could explain it to us.