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[QUOTE]Originally posted by OnToMars: [QB] This morning, my friend from across the hall came knocking at the door. My roommate had locked it the previous evening, something we never do, because two of our drunk suitemates were being loud and generally extraordinarily obnoxious. So he knocks on the door and says he needs to talk to Brian. My roommate (sleeping closer to the door than I) asks why he can't just tell him through the door, but he doesn't offer an explanation. Slightly irritated I get up and open it. "You should come look at this." He says. We walk across the hall to his room and I see for the first time the multiple contrails across the Texas sky. Later on, another of my suitemates comes in as I'm watching the news in my room. At the bottom of the screen they scroll different facts concerning the event, including that the shuttle apparently broke up over the miniscule town of Palestine, Texas. Palestine is where another suitemate of mine and my best friend is from. We go in and wake him up, tell him the news. He comes out in a daze to the living room, and begins attempting to call home. All land line circuts are busy, so he tries his cell phone, and gets through. His parents heard a tremendous boom that shook their whole house and windows while they were sleeping, and woke them up. About a week ago, I was in my Human Factors class. Columbia was due to lift off towards the end of class. Our professor had put on the webcast that NASA always has and announced that she would dismiss us early, after it started it's ascent to go outside and see it, but we would watch the first minute or two in the classroom. We begged and pleaded to see the whole thing from outside, and to dismiss us that much earlier. Not that we cared so much, but it was a golden opportunity to convince our teacher to let us out as early as possible. We did. I walked out of the room and outside the building as fast as I could without making it look like I cared at all. Outside, every student on campus who was outside stopped and turned south, in the direction of Kennedy Space Center, and we watched a plume of orange climb the sky, producing the most extraordinary contrail we had ever seen. After she had climbed beyond sight, we went about our business, without a word or further care. I was glad to have gotten out of class early. It was the third time I had ever seen a shuttle launch. It may very well have been my last. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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