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For me, imagining knowing that your parachute won't deploy as you hurtle toward the earth is pretty good at making me empathize with someone's death. I don't ne
by zymhan 11y ago
For me, imagining knowing that your parachute won't deploy as you hurtle toward the earth is pretty good at making me empathize with someone's death. I don't need to the photo to haunt me as well.
- brudgers 11y agoThe interesting thing as I was replying was that it's the caption that matters. If it was "commissars inspect moonrock" suddenly it would be science. With the caption, the photo creates the potential to empathize with the people who might have made better decisions...if not the actual decision makers, the people in uniform are a good representation. The audio is consistent with the tradition of space flight documentary. "Houston we have a problem," doesn't always work out to a Hollywood ending. None of which is to diminish someone's reaction. There are many news stories I forgoe because I don't want to go to the place they are likely to to take me, too.