ZarbiNerada
Since: Apr, 2010
Aug 25th 2020 at 3:23:23 PM
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Does it still count if the doom part was certainly NOT intended? Because the Teacher in Space Project turned into this in NASA's despite when an O-ring on one of the solid rocket boosters failed, wind shear dislodged a solid-fuel plug that had formed in the resulting gap, and a jet of flame started cutting into the fuel tank...
Edited by ZarbiNerada
I've often wondered if Shirley Jackson was, ahem, "stoned" at the time she wrote her best-known opus.
And I rather enjoy being in a classroom full of "Lottery virgins" when the short story is being read to them for the first time, and watching their reactions.