[FPSPACE] Columbia crew / helicopter crash

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

 Sorry Jim, I really, really tried to avoid them 
 spelling mistakes! Which ones slipped through?

 Your glog is presumably 'glögg', or 'glühwein'
 in German?
 
 Swedish glögg is out-of-season as early as from
 Dec. 25th, at least in Denmark.

 Are you by any chance on a FEMA contract?

--
Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Oberg [mailto:jeoberg at comcast.net] 
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 9:07 PM
> To: dstdba at post4.tele.dk; fpspace at friends-partners.org
> Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Columbia crew / helicopter crash
> 
> Jens, I suspect these comments indicate you're
> still working on the New Year's 'glog', the potion
> that my grandparents from Goteborg taught us how
> to make, once we were 21. Svenske anti-freeze, it sure
> was. We had to flame off the alcohol vapors rising from
> the broth before it was safe to drink.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jens Kieffer-Olsen" <dstdba at post4.tele.dk>
> To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Columbia crew / helicopter crash
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mgr. Antonín Vítek, CSc. [mailto:avitek at lib.cas.cz]
> > Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:29 AM
> >
> > > If memory serves, in addition to Columbia's crew, two 
> pilots were lost
> in
> > > the Columbia debris recovery effort. I can't find a link 
> to their names,
> > > but IMO NASA's incompetence in handling the Columbia emergency
> > > killed them as surely as it killed Columbia's crew. 
> Perhaps someone
> > > here might remember what they're names were, and know something
> > > about the friends and family they left behind.  Those men 
> deserve more
> > > than to be forgotten.
> >
> > See e.g.
> >
> > http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=2317
> >
> > Mgr. Antonin Vitek, CSc.
> 
>  Your link reveals the following pearl:
> 
>  "The entire FEMA family expresses our condolences to the 
> families of Jules
>  F. 'Buzz' Mier, Jr. and Charles Krenek who died yesterday in 
> the accident.
>  Our prayers for a speedy recovery are also with those who 
> were injured,"
> ...
> 
>  I suppose it's fair to assume that the 'entire FEMA family' 
> comprises all
>  the anonymous gals and guys, who - as depicted in Deep Impact - stand
>  in the frontline to organize VIP resettlement in underground 
> shelters,
> should
>  a premature comet og asteroid pay a sudden visit?
> 
>  But then, why should such a calamity happen? Brahma ( or 
> God, or Allah if
>  you like ) has looked after us pretty well for the better 
> part of a century
> now,
>  so isn't He obliged to do so for a little bit longer?
> 
>  But then again, in 1755 the Great Lisbon Earthquake shocked all of
> Christianity,
>  who at the time were under the - apparently false - 
> impression that they
> lived in
>  'the best of all worlds'.
> 
> --
> Jens Kieffer-Olsen
> Slagelse, Denmark
> 
> 
> 
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