A video on youtube that was put away in 1986 shows the Challenger Explosion!

creepy stuff

they are filming and and notice how bright it is and then that they did not remember the 2 rocket boosters going off like they did and the man keeps saying 'that's trouble'

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I'm sure its very interesting, but its also very sad for me. I don't really have any need, or desire, to watch those people blow up again.

Cerebus said:

I'm sure its very interesting, but its also very sad for me. I don't really have any need, or desire, to watch those people blow up again.

I totally understand where you're coming from. I decidedly don't rubberneck.

What I find interesting about this particular clip, though, is that it details the moment as experienced by other regular, anonymous citizens. Watching/hearing their immediate reaction to this huge cultural moment is intriguing -- the exchange they're having was probably happening in front of TV sets around the entire country.

Lammastide said:

Cerebus said:

I'm sure its very interesting, but its also very sad for me. I don't really have any need, or desire, to watch those people blow up again.

I totally understand where you're coming from. I decidedly don't rubberneck.

What I find interesting about this particular clip, though, is that it details the moment as experienced by other regular, anonymous citizens. Watching/hearing their immediate reaction to this huge cultural moment is intriguing -- the exchange they're having was probably happening in front of TV sets around the entire country.

That is what makes it so moving. There is something in the man's voice that hits me deep as ke keeps saying "that's trouble." Of course that dance that lady was doing was odd.

It's interesting because it does not look like an explosion right away from that distance. It takes time for the smoke to spread.

On TV it was obvious, but from that far away it is not nearly as dramatic.

Disturbing, after all these years.

I still have to pass. I've been a space geek my entire life (since the beginning of the Shuttle program, anyway) and I knew right away that it was bad (of course I was watching on TV, which did make it very clear). Every time there's been an accident with our space program it really puts me in a funk. I think there's very little we do that holds more importance as I believe 100% that we're not going to be able to live on Earth forever. So, with the current Shuttle program already coming to an end (which saddens me greatly), I think I'm just going to leave this one in the memory banks as is.

I was at work at a temp job the day that happened.

RIP

Wow, how eerie and so very sad.

I'm afraid to look, so I won't. I've read about it and that was enough for me....

LadyLuvSexxy said:

I'm afraid to look, so I won't. I've read about it and that was enough for me....

yep

that camera operator sounds like hick

i got the deliverance dueling banjos in my head now...

ok i watched the cnn version of it on youtube. shit! that's like movie stunt. sorry i was only 5 sooo.......

they keep that camera on the parents long enough...jeez!!

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i wish i didnt watch that....

if u dont want the sick stomach feeling give it a miss

I remember when it happened. I was at work watching it on TV. At first, there was a silence. Everyone was just shocked, and then I burst into tears.

I remember this...was in 9th grade, Art class, watching on TV....it was a sad, sad day for sure.

The most emotional thing I've ever heard was a broadcast of the auditorium at Christa Macaullife's school. They played it one morning on KIKK 95.7 FM. I just lay in bed and cried.

It was only audio (this was radio, after all). The students were so excited, and then...well, you know. I can't even talk about it 25 years later.

"It's silly, no?
When a rocket ship explodes
And everybody still wants 2 fly
Some say a man ain't happy
Unless a man truly dies
Oh why..."

PDogz said:

"It's silly, no?
When a rocket ship explodes
And everybody still wants 2 fly
Some say a man ain't happy
Unless a man truly dies
Oh why..."

Prince was on point when he said that part. I can now see how it relates to Challenger.

Timmy84 said:

PDogz said:

"It's silly, no?
When a rocket ship explodes
And everybody still wants 2 fly
Some say a man ain't happy
Unless a man truly dies
Oh why..."

Prince was on point when he said that part. I can now see how it relates to Challenger.

Well lets be honest that whole song is basically the 80's in a nutshell. Just wish there was a decent video for it.

I was in the 5th grade when this happened. I remeber that they had a TV in my home room at school,and had us watching about it.

lazycrockett said:

Timmy84 said:

PDogz said:

"It's silly, no?
When a rocket ship explodes
And everybody still wants 2 fly
Some say a man ain't happy
Unless a man truly dies
Oh why..."

Prince was on point when he said that part. I can now see how it relates to Challenger.

Well lets be honest that whole song is basically the 80's in a nutshell. Just wish there was a decent video for it.

Yeah, "Sign 'o' The Times" dropped roughly one year after the space shuttle Challenger exploded.

That's what made the song so powerful, in my opinion. The entire song was a thinly veiled commentary of all the relevant "real life" issues that were "signs" of that time. Before he came out with "Sign 'o' The Times", you had to kind of wonder if Prince was living in the same universe as the rest of us, or if everything was just one big purple orgy to him. This song was a reply from Prince that he was indeed in tune with what was going on in the world, and that it wasn't all good. As I remember it, this was about the same time Prince began to change his rather overtly whorish persona.

The strongest line, for me, came right at the start of the song:

"In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name. By chance his girlfriend came across a needle, and soon she did the same."

Because people were scared to death, and no one was really talking openly about why so many young people were systematically dropping dead after what seemed like a short period of severe illness. I never felt that it was a coincidence that 2 days after "Sign 'o' The Times" was released, President Ronald Reagan mentions "AIDS" in public for the very first time, a good 5/6 years AFTER the CDC had identified there was a problem.

I remember the 80's as being a very volatile and disturbing period in our history, and Prince masterfully captured the spirit of those "times" on vinyl.

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