. . . the rest is silence.

[kiya]

The phone rang about nine-thirty. teinedreugan's father, saying they'd lost contact with the shuttle.

A few minutes later, a vibration in the desk drawer. teinedreugan's pager, confirming, speaking of debris.

He got up. A while later, he came and confirmed that Columbia was lost.

My first thought was, "Feynman can't solve this one for us."


I got up and started looking at things. My second thought was on reading the BBC, and was something like, ". . . shit. There's fodder for the conspiracy theorists."

Aside from these two thoughts, I have nothing. Other people have things. I refer y'all to them.

• the BBC
  
• the Washington Post
  
• I'm guessing this is a Seattle paper
  
• CNN
  
  
• wcg, speaking about the Penguin
  
• patgreene, a perspective
  
• elynne, song lyrics
  
• solipsistnation, ow
  
• shaddragon, more song lyrics, these Jordin's, which puts a fold in my reality
  
• sstaten, memories
  
• rivka, watching
  
• brian1789, thinking really hard
  
• nex0s, requiem

I don't have words of my own. So I'm pointing every which way at people who say things.