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[โ€“] blazeknave@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't think it left much of an impression on me, but I was explaining Challenger to the kiddo recently and couldn't stop choking up.

[โ€“] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago

Dude, I still remember sitting in class and crying my eyes out. I don't think anyone around at the time didn't get hit by that pretty hard