GeekForce

Pretty compelling stuff, really, considering all of the spin that is out there.
Surfing through the channels the other night on cable I ended up watching some of the oddest footage I have seen regarding the shuttle disaster. Someone had carried a videocam with them and accompanied one of the debris recovery teams around. This footage was broadcast, mostly uncut and completely without narration or context. So for about an hour I watched a crowd of people pile into their van, drive off into the East Texas woods, get out, look at a piece of bent metal or charred hunk, hem and haw, nod their heads, shuffle uncomfortably from one foot to the next. Then a National Guardsman would wave a sensor over it, wrap it in plastic and tape it up, and off they would go to the next site.