660+ S.S. Columbia items listed on eBay already!

[groovebuster]

Originally posted by Vector
now there are 1,336

Little update: 4837 now

That's sick! But it was always like that and will always be. People take advantage of situations like that.

On the other hand I feel that people are overreacting to that sad event. Just think of all the people who get killed every day in car accidents all over the world or little kids starving to death every minute and nobody cares.

Those 7 people knew the risk they were taking and it was clear before that there is no 100% safe way to get to the orbit and back to earth. It sucks for them and especially their families, but was their life worth more than the life of all the other people that die innocent every second by just bad coincedence?

That's something I'll never get about human nature...

For me they are just 7 people who got killed while doing their job. I can't see any heroes here...

Can anybody understand my point of view?

groovebuster

P.S.: There is no offense intended and I don't feel like discussing in detail the morals and principles of human nature. I just wanted to share my point of view. Thanks...

 

[MacBandit]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030202/ap_on_hi_te/shuttle_debris_auction_3

I should have posted this when I read about it Sunday. You guys wouldn't have had to carry on and on.

Taking a part of an aircraft involved in an accident is a federal offense, U.S. attorneys in Texas warned, and a conviction could result in up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

I guess this is what I get when I assume that someone else on MacRumors must have read something and posted about it already.

 

[eyelikeart]

just goes to show u...

money talks...

period.

 

[ibjoshua]

Originally posted by paulwhannel


they're not the same thing? i always thought capitalism encompassed opportunism...

condemn it if you will. it's good business. i think it's rather lame, i just don't see the point or desire to have pieces of this, but i don't see the point in a lot of things people do. doesn't make them evil.

pnw

Sorry. I'll rephrase that:
capitalism - maybe.
profiteering - probably.

Is it good business? Would selling one of the 9-11 boxcutters (assuming you had one) on eBay also be good business?

What I'm suggesting is that this has very little to do with free speech or capitalism. It is obscene and in bad taste.


i_b_joshua

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by i_b_joshua


Sorry. I'll rephrase that:
capitalism - maybe.
profiteering - probably.

Is it good business? Would selling one of the 9-11 boxcutters (assuming you had one) on eBay also be good business?

What I'm suggesting is that this has very little to do with free speech or capitalism. It is obscene and in bad taste.


i_b_joshua

Plain and simply put all of America wants to know the cause of the accident. Mainly for me it is so the space program can go on and we can continue to benefit from it.

Every piece is needed in the investigation. That one piece that someone is selling could be the piece they need to put the puzzle together. It is for that reason that stealing from a crash site is illegal.