The crowd fell silent and confused
The exact line as reported in the nytimes was:
Visitors and guests at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground here, watching the retrieval on large screens in a hanger, cheered when the images of the returning capsule appeared at 9:53 a.m. Over the next few minutes, the image grew bigger, showing a capsule spinning and tumbling.
The crowd fell silent and confused when the mission controller said, "ground impact."
I'm still a little unsure how one can fall confused but...
A parachute failed to deploy and a $260 million space project crashes to the earth instead of being fantastically snagged from midair. Is anyone to blame? For me at least, this is not discouraging - but maybe that means I've been working in government too long - we've certainly spent billions on less useful projects. Tres Keynsian of me no?
Probably deserving of another blog:
Saw Time Code Sunday night with JB, Pete full of anger, GB, Jay et al. Dogma films are always worth talking about, which I miss in much cinema. Best line of the film: "Trotsky in the house - diggy diggy" (sung is the best white boy rap you've ever heard).
Note to self: Salma Hayek is not a great improvisor.
Visitors and guests at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground here, watching the retrieval on large screens in a hanger, cheered when the images of the returning capsule appeared at 9:53 a.m. Over the next few minutes, the image grew bigger, showing a capsule spinning and tumbling.
The crowd fell silent and confused when the mission controller said, "ground impact."
I'm still a little unsure how one can fall confused but...
A parachute failed to deploy and a $260 million space project crashes to the earth instead of being fantastically snagged from midair. Is anyone to blame? For me at least, this is not discouraging - but maybe that means I've been working in government too long - we've certainly spent billions on less useful projects. Tres Keynsian of me no?
Probably deserving of another blog:
Saw Time Code Sunday night with JB, Pete full of anger, GB, Jay et al. Dogma films are always worth talking about, which I miss in much cinema. Best line of the film: "Trotsky in the house - diggy diggy" (sung is the best white boy rap you've ever heard).
Note to self: Salma Hayek is not a great improvisor.
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