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The Challenger Disaster (Patreon)

Published:
2018-01-23 23:47:19
Edited:
2018-01-23 23:47:20
Imported:
2026-06

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

Comments

Deanna T.

I'm brand new to CN, and have been listening to Scathing for about a year. I was in 6th grade and remember it well. That y-shaped smoke plume as the first media image I saw displayed over and over, and the first that remains instantly recognizable decades later. I'm not sure how I feel about this episode. Most things can be made funny, even horrible things. I did laugh a little at some of the jokes while simultaneously being horrified. Not one I'd listen to again. I couldn't help but think of friends and family members of the astronauts who might have been hurt by the jokes.

AtheistEagleScout

Wow, Heath has a call forward to Cecil's job loss in 2023/4

Zach Van Stanley

They turned off the TVs after the death? I was a kid during 911, and the wheeled the TVs in for us to watch

Pterrorsaurus hex

Oh boy! This is gonna take me back to tragic memory of a day in first grade. I often wonder if my generation was shaped in any meaningful way by watching a group of people explode live on TV.

Charles Pickering

Haven't listened yet, but I am curious to see if they can make this one funny. The disasters covered thus far have all had some element of detachment or unfamiliarity, but this is such a vivid and tragic moment in fairly recent American history. I guess I'll find out now!

Tyler

Kudos to SGU for letting me know this quote exists: "Anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fueled system in the world--knowing they're going to light the bottom--and doesn't get a little worried, does not fully understand the situation." - John Young

Gold

I'm in a similar position. Really hoping for... respectful humor. Is that a thing?

Tyler

I have spots in my eyes from Noah's question.

Aya Sakurai

This episode brought me back to 1986, a couple of years after I started learning English. I still remember the very first distasteful American joke I encountered in my life: "What does NASA stand for? Needs Another Seven Astronauts." :(

Tyler

Oh, what I'd give to chill with Feynman. Just bongos, stanky nug, drunken walks, and inherent fuzziness. Sick.

Unlearning Ethics.

As a Canadian who's too young to be around during the Challenger, I was more appalled by the guy lack of mechanical aptitude.

Gold

Having now listened to it... The guys manage to pull it off. Barely. Well done guys. I do suspect that anyone that had any direct connection with the event and was personally emotionally scared by it... They should skip this one.

Cynthia Abawi

I give money to Podcasts and to the Food Bank. Because I believe that both are important, and should't put one on the back burner because people are hungry. But, you know. It took a human in Space to make the Hubble work. Eli might be able to live without the knowledge that was have gotten from it, but I can't.

Cynthia Abawi

John Young awarded my Husband his Silver Snoopy. I got to have a conversation with him over lunch. He was fascinating

Gold

On another note, I would like to propose Valcro as a future essay.

B. King

To answer this week's question (I don't have twitter or facebook), I believe that Heath's school trip to Action Park was ruined by multiple faulty o-rings.

Bowl of Piss Water

I would pay money for that poster, please make that poster!

Scott Lesch

I saw the memorial to the Challenger at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum a few months after the accident. I cried like a baby.

Vincent Jorgensen

I love you guys, but this one is too hard for me. I got two thirds through, but that's it, I'm done (with the episode, not CN). I was in the fourth grade when this happened and it shaped my future more than any singular event should. I gave the episode a fair shot, but I find nothing humorous in this tragedy. I'm still a patron, still a huge fan, but this is a trigger for me and reliving the trauma was not good therapy. Going to go listen to scathing to reset. Take care.

Jonathan Edwards

How many astronauts can you fit in a Chrysler K car? 12. Two in the front, three in the back and seven in the ashtray. Ahh...the good old days.

Justin Haines

I'm embarrassed to say that I had difficulty listening to this one. I subscribe to all of your various podcasts and have laughed and groaned-laughed at a bunch of the stuff you guys say. But somehow Challenger was a bridge too far for me? Maybe its just that it happened within my living memory as opposed to most of the other batshit crazy stuff that has been covered on CN thus far. Anyhow, I thought you did a good job at finding the the dark humor by focusing on the criminal negligence that killed the 7 astronauts.