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Hi
I didn't know of this event, but what does it mean to me? End of an Era .. Yes.
The closest emotional connection for me is the final flight of the Concorde. I have lived in the Heathrow flight path all my life. When the Concorde started, I 'knew' that the 'future' was here 'now'. I saw or heard most of its flights, and as I watched its last one, I felt a wrench. This, in a much diluted sense, is how I feel about the space shuttle. Though, having been born and bred into notions of ion-drive, anti gravity, FTL, and, more recently, Stargate, then the impact of its demise pales beneath my childhood intergalactic expectations.
Actually, as I think about this, I realise that by age 20, any excitement I might have had about human capacity to go further and faster had transformed into passion for exploration of inner space - mind and communication. The space shuttle's passing is, indeed the end of an era, but one which had lost my interest long ago.
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