What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space.
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You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball-size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.
We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.
I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.
Once while vacationing at my grandparent's house in Rajasthan, we were sleeping on the roof and I spotted an object hovering around in the sky - kind of a UFO. It totally spooked me out. I couldn't sleep for days after that.
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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