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Intractable

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12. I saw it live on TV from my college dorm.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Wed Jan 28, 2026, 02:42 PM

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It exploded on live TV.

I didn't understand the "forking plume" that I saw.

I said to my friend, "That's weird. Are liftoffs supposed to look like that?"

Then, newscasters told us what happened.

Here's one of my favorite pictures of The Enterprise. (Check out those leisure suits! Very 70s.)

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