Musings on Columbia
Death is the end of all meanings. I have been reading news articles and online postings about this tragedy and again and again, the deaths of those 7 astronauts is being portrayed as a kind of martydrom. A sacrifice in the name of science. That's utter bullshit.
Nietzsche very aptly points out that there is no meaning to phenomena, there are only interpretations. Whatever meaning or intentionality that those seven crew members gace to their mission ended when the shuttle broke up at 200,000 feet. Once the individual existences for which that mission had immediate meaning ended, their futural project ended as well. All we are left with are the comforting fictions that their deaths had purpose, significance or meaning.
Death is the most absurd of life events, it is inescapable, it is final and it defies our understanding. To claim that the deaths of those astronauts was for anything like science or space makes a mockery of their short existence on this earth.
posted by WM @ 13:50
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