I can't say as I've ever looked to Cracked magazine or it's new online existence as a bastion of good writing. I do love the way this is phrased, though:
"At what point did we forget that the Space Shuttle was, essentially, a program that strapped human beings to an explosion and tried to stab through the sky with fire and math? How jaded do we have to be to lose collective interest in that?" -- Robert Brockway,
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