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40 years ago, the Challenger shuttle disaster occurred
17% of the US population, including millions of schoolchildren, watched the shuttle explode live on television. Today, an image of the Challenger shuttle crew with six older people resembling astronauts added to it is widely circulated on the internet. A popular website specializing in the critical study of urban legends, rumors, dubious stories and other controversial information has a separate page dedicated to this image:
In which it turns out that African Americans Ronald McNair and Carl McNair are brothers, as well as Hawaiians Ellison Onizuka and Claude Onizuka - therefore their surnames coincide, and the names differ. But white people Sharon Christa McAuliffe and Sharon McAuliffe, Francis Richard Scobee and Richard Scobee, Michael J. Smith and Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik and Judith Resnik are all just a little similar to each other persons, but have nothing to do with each other, except for the coincidence of their names and surnames.
Most likely, this is indeed the case, because if we consider the time and place of the events, interpreting this relationship between twins and full namesakes as ‘racial privilege to retain their original first and last names, and not just their last names’ may seem highly unethical (African Americans and Hawaiians were allowed to keep only their surname, while white people and Jewish women were allowed to keep both their surname and first name), in the event that the astronauts survived the disaster.
After analysing the surviving photos and video materials, some independent researchers concluded that the astronauts' namesakes not only have similar facial features, but even similar voices and even some facial expression, which is especially noticeable in the case of Yale professor Judith Resnik.
On this day six years ago, a YouTube user with the nickname starsnotfar432, impressed by the ambiguous image of the Challenger crew, recorded his meeting with Michael J. Smith, a retired professor and namesake of the shuttle pilot, directly asking him for his opinion on these rumours on the internet.
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The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was a fatal accident in the United States' space program that occurred on January 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.
17% of the US population, including millions of schoolchildren, watched the shuttle explode live on television. Today, an image of the Challenger shuttle crew with six older people resembling astronauts added to it is widely circulated on the internet. A popular website specializing in the critical study of urban legends, rumors, dubious stories and other controversial information has a separate page dedicated to this image:
Are the Crew of the Exploded Challenger Space Shuttle Still Alive?
False
In which it turns out that African Americans Ronald McNair and Carl McNair are brothers, as well as Hawaiians Ellison Onizuka and Claude Onizuka - therefore their surnames coincide, and the names differ. But white people Sharon Christa McAuliffe and Sharon McAuliffe, Francis Richard Scobee and Richard Scobee, Michael J. Smith and Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik and Judith Resnik are all just a little similar to each other persons, but have nothing to do with each other, except for the coincidence of their names and surnames.
Most likely, this is indeed the case, because if we consider the time and place of the events, interpreting this relationship between twins and full namesakes as ‘racial privilege to retain their original first and last names, and not just their last names’ may seem highly unethical (African Americans and Hawaiians were allowed to keep only their surname, while white people and Jewish women were allowed to keep both their surname and first name), in the event that the astronauts survived the disaster.
After analysing the surviving photos and video materials, some independent researchers concluded that the astronauts' namesakes not only have similar facial features, but even similar voices and even some facial expression, which is especially noticeable in the case of Yale professor Judith Resnik.
On this day six years ago, a YouTube user with the nickname starsnotfar432, impressed by the ambiguous image of the Challenger crew, recorded his meeting with Michael J. Smith, a retired professor and namesake of the shuttle pilot, directly asking him for his opinion on these rumours on the internet.
( Read more... )
