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I'd think it's the setting, rather than who the target of the jokes is, that would make it controversial. But then, I wasn't around when it aired.
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What does setting have to do with making fun of astronauts and how they died? Not much.
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That's kind of a hypocrite thing to say...
Germans died too, joking about them is as bad as joking about any other (even if YOU think they were the enemy).
With that logic we could joke about Russian astronauts (because in the space race they were the enemy).
That said, I don't have a problem joking about the dead. We do it to poor Leslie all the time.
Not that I'd crack a dead person joke to a friend or relative of the deceased, of course.
Although humor IS a (dangerous) way to relieve the tension.
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Sander Rossel wrote: even if YOU think
Uhm, you don't?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yes I do, but I'm guessing a lot of Germans didn't think of themselves as the enemy.
I once had a philosophy teacher who was to teach us that there is no absolute truth.
Everything is basically just a figment of our imagination, shaped by the lens through which we see the world, and no lens is the same.
And then he continued (in all seriousness). Everything is just a personal opinion except Hitler, because he was evil and everyone everywhere agrees.
That last part made him lose all credibility 
So anyway, even Hitler should not be made fun of.
He is dead and lots of people mourned for him (and who knows they still do).
And that's not my view, because if you kill millions and have a mustache like that you deserve to be ridiculed, but by Slacker007's views I'm guessing that's not done.
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Kinda interesting that you don't, by your own admission, have any problem with mercilessly making fun of anybody when they're alive and actually able to care! I sincerely hope that I will live long enough in the memory of someone to still be being joked about on the 30th anniversary of my crossing the Styx!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Here[^]
Where were you on January 28th, 1986, 30 years ago today? Do you remember?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I was 12 at the time and remember a few of the bad taste jokes that circulated after
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I remember them as well: the "blue eyes" one sticks in the mind...
I suspect that jokes - no matter how much bad taste they are in - is one way of coping with a tragedy.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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"blue eyes" ?
The misogynistic one I remember : What were the last words heard from the crew on Challenger ? "No, you bitch, do not pull that lev..." 
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"How can you tell that Christa McAuliffe had blue eyes?"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was in North Bay, Ontario, working on an accounting system on an Amiga 1000 in C.
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Awesome 
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I was at school, and learned the news while walking down the corridor listening to my Walkman.
I'd rather be phishing!
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If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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You were in the news?
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Huh?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I was in primary school, probably building a model of a Motte and Bailey castle. (We did a lot of those that year.)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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At work listening to the launch on the radio.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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I was at school asking people if they knew what "NASA" stood for.
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A school teacher, Christa McAuliffe, unfortunately perished in that disaster.
Here is today's BBC Interview with Barbara Morgan,[^], the school teacher, who was backup for Christa.
I was studying in college in Bangalore, India, and saw this in the next day's newspaper. Shocking, indeed.
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Being that the shuttle launches were still new and entertaining, I was at home watching it with my two little ones. It messed up my 2 yo little girl pretty bad. Every time we went for a walk, she would cry if she saw a contrail. Eventually she outgrew it.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I was 10 at the time. I remember watching the evening news on German TV with my mother. She broke into tears and I tried to comfort her.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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