• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    10 days 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
      1·
      9 days 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.