I haven't read the whole thread. If it hasn't happened already, I am sure it is only a matter of time before the usual jackasses will spin this as a conspiracy by the Bush administration for some cockamamie reason that exists only in their fevered pinheads.
This is a very sad day. People leave this life under tragic circumstances everyday, but it takes something like a space shuttle disaster to wake us all up at once to look skyward and know immediately and together the fragility of life.