I remember watching the "Space Shuttle Challenger" disaster (I was a little child back then) and I thought "wow!!!" and then my mother told me "there were 7 peo

I remember watching the "Space Shuttle Challenger" disaster (I was a little child back then) and I thought "wow!!!" and then my mother told me "there were 7 people in there that are dead and their kids will never see them again". And then I went outside and played football with my friends. Every time I am remembering those moments (well.. now I do understand 'more' about life/death/the universe) I am thinking "f...ing hell, those people were incinerated in 1ms, their families got back a handful of nothing to bury". (imagine losing someone and getting an empty casket) Every time I see a "test launch" going 'boom' I am 'happy' because I know that we don't lose 1-5-10-20 finest-speciment-people in that incident. How many boats are in the bottom of the seas carrying explorers, traders, fishermen, voyagers? Hundreds? Thousands? How many men are in the bottom of the seas that were those explorers, traders, fishermen, voyagers? Hundreds? Thousands? Space exploration is HARD. Shitposting or writing thoughtful and critically-correct articles on the internet is EASY (relative to the space exploration thingie). I do believe that from every failure we learn and we become better. So yeah, dear TheRegister keep a counter on your desks, while sitting on your chairs, in a warm office with hot coffee and cool water, while others work to make us interplanetary species. Do keep an eye on this for the following two reasons: 1) we need to know what's up and 2) we need to see the progress (and a secret 3) we laugh with you hypocrisy/negativity) And a side-note about 'feelings'.. the thing is called (apologies for the upcoming caps) "starship"... FFS we are developing "STARSHIPS"!!!!!!! Do people realize that we are developing "STAR-SHIPS"???? Not "cross-the-lake-ships", or "cross-the-ocean-ships". We are developing machines that can/will carry living human beings across the Cosmos and on to other planets far-far-away!!! I am a Trekkie and knowing that we are developing these and there is actual progress makes my heart beat faster!!!