I have heard this tape. While it’s distressing, it’s something worth hearing. Not because it’s pleasant to listen to people die. But because it’s worth remembering their pain so that those mistakes are never repeated again.

Remember that the engineers, technicians and other support staff of Apollo 1 didn’t have the option of turning off the audio either (I listened to it to partially feel what they felt). They worked feverishly to save their colleagues who were burning to death only a few inches away from them. And to finally reach them to find out that it was all in vain.

This would have been a horrifyingly painful experience for NASA. And it did have an impact. NASA changed in an instant. No effort was spared in keeping the future astronauts safe. So much so that a deeply crippled Apollo 13 still made it back safely. And no lives were ever again lost on the Apollo missions. That’s the power of a personal connection to a tragedy. I watch a lot of accident investigation documentaries, including rail, aviation and space. Nothing drives the lessons deep like the depiction of human tragedy.

Just imagine. If only the aircraft manufacturers could see the final moments of the passengers that die in their low quality aircrafts. Perhaps they would try hard to avoid such incidents rather than chase profits at any cost.

RIP: Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, Ed White. The bravehearts of Apollo 1.

Please add a single line of description of the software for those who don’t know. The name gives no clue.

No. Just people fighting for the Darwin awards.

I wouldn’t call idiocy leading to ER admissions as ‘blown out of proportions’. That aside, I still don’t understand what you prove by consuming something as distasteful as tide pods.

How about religion-backed traditional garlic treatment? Not joking. A lot of pseudoscience is backed by dogma.

Please learn elementary anatomy and physiology. You don’t have to get a medical degree. High school level knowledge will do.

This dangerous misinformation wouldn’t get shared around, if people knew about mucous membranes.

It’s a high end and pricey epaper tablet with pen/stylus for note taking.

You wrote a compiler?

The result is still the same, isn’t it? (in language you like vs in language you’re forced to use)

What do you mean anything better? This is what conservative politicians everywhere do when they have nothing to show for progress. They inflame religious tensions and exploit the resulting emotions - especially the hatred and the feeling of betrayal to win elections. The real sad part is that those emotions linger far longer than their intended consequence. People will die.

Imagine having your life cut short and sent back to your family in a coffin to cause them immeasurable grief. All that for what? To satisfy the ego and greed of a tyrant who doesn’t give 2 shillings worth of value to your life or your family’s welfare? This is why nations glorify soldiers and wars. Sometimes, they’re necessary to defend peace and the rule of law of the land. But most often, it’s to gaslight young people to become worthless pawns in the ego trip of some pathologically narcissistic and sociopathic individuals. Be wary of the charlatans who sell nationalism and praise soldiers - they’re scheming cowards looking for ways to avoid the same. Despite what they teach you, nationalism and honor are just tools to control you.

It doesn’t matter how much you insult him. He and his ilk will never get it. Their entire families are born with a genetic defect that makes them incapable of having or understanding empathy.

There’s a mythical story (Greek or Roman) where a goddess managed to get her human lover an eternal life, but forgot to ask for eternal youth. This oversight led to the horror where he watched his beautiful young lover from afar while he lost all grace, prominence and influence while withering away into an eternal life of suffering.

Honestly, that is what this old goat deserved. Not the peaceful death that he got.

I don’t think you understand the psychology of sociopaths like him. They care neither for anyone’s suffering nor for anyone’s opinion about them. They care only for the pleasure they derive from the pain they inflict. He probably spent his last waking hours reminiscing over the glory days of the massacres he started.

The world would have been a better place if somebody had made a better decision 101 years ago.

And the cherry on top is the Nobel ‘peace’ prize.

If you didn’t read the article, the biggest source of smoke there is the burning of rice stubble in the neighboring state to prepare the fields for the next crop. The framers have repeatedly ignored all pleases over the years to avoid this.

This is exactly why I hate organized religion. Want to believe in God? That’s your concern. But don’t come to me peddling your sky daddy.

I feel sorry for all the innocent Palestinians caught in between. And I hope that the bloody Hamas and their barbaric supporters are satisfied in getting their innocent compatriots massacred.

I’m not familiar with the story. Are you saying that she was paraded after her death?

Edit: Nevermind. I saw the video just now. I’m at a loss for words to describe people who do this to innocent civilians.