usually have CNN on in the background in my dorm room, so I can see what the latest hype is. This morning, I awoke rather early and noticed that CNN was doing live programming. Normally its People in the News and other BS that sells one of the AOL Time Warner products. Yet there was a new host along with the normal early morning host, Miles O'Brian. He is a specialist on the Space shuttle as well as the weather. From 7am on, they had the shuttle landing on the docket of the daily news, and Miles even showed the flight path of the shuttle. He made a goof around 8am EST about watching the shuttle burn on reentry. Something along the lines of people should go outside and watch the shuttle streak through the sky (which is technically normal). After some stupid discussion about the Atkins diet (probably published by a subsidiary of AOLTM) there was some commotion in the studio and shortly there after they went to the NASA mission control. They mentioned that there is normally a radio blockout when the shuttle enters the atmosphere. Fast Forward a few minutes, the NASA mission control says to record the all data, which Miles said that is what happens when there as been an accident. Shortly after that NASA mission control begins its repeated message of stay away from debris.... About a half an hour later during one of the eye witness accounts. A man from, Lufkin, Texas, or very nearby, tells Miles what he saw. What is curious about his comments was that he said that he saw a commercial plane nearby the shuttle. Miles then poins out that the plane was 200,000 feet above sea level, and no plane flies that high. I agree with his assertion, but I don't think the shuttle was that high since it was in its terminal descent when the eye witness saw it. Also, I don't think that a plane could fly as fast as the shuttle was going. Anyways, I thought it was highly suspicious that the first Israeli in space (I watched the take off as well) died as he made made his way back to earth. Its the first time in the 42 years of human space flight that it has happened. I'm rather curious about the fact that it happened on the 42nd year, and this is not a Douglas Adams insight.....

The picture attached is a foto I took from CNN this morning. It shows the headlines that I found rather funny, ironic, and biblically disturbing.