Currently, Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Challenger explosion.jpg has become a topic of great relevance and interest for different areas of society. From academia to business, Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Challenger explosion.jpg has captured the attention of many people due to its impact and relevance today. Technological and social advances have contributed to the growth and importance of Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Challenger explosion.jpg in contemporary life, which has generated endless debates, discussions and analyzes around this topic. That is why this article will address in detail and critically the importance of Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Challenger explosion.jpg today, as well as its influence on different aspects of modern life.
If you were born before 1982, this image needs no explanation. It is a high-quality (albeit a bit dark and a little fuzzy) picture taken shortly after the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated during lift-off. I couldn't believe this image wasn't listed at Category:Memorable photographs, or anywhere on Wikipedia or Commons, so I uploaded it from the ironically-named Great Images in NASA page.
Oppose - I know this image is important and was widely published. I can't support it even so. We are looking at people dying in this image. No matter how widely seen, it remains too private a moment for me too look at without feeling as if I am intruding in an umcomfortably lurid manner. --Deglr632817:55, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you want me to do. Could you perhaps phrase your request in a more condescending and excessively simplistic manner? thanks.--Deglr632809:16, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
It was taken with a motion picture camera. NASA used several motion picture cameras to image launches. The Public Affairs Officers then go in an grab the *best* frames. That other famous image of Challenger's launch with the birds in the foreground was taken the same way. 216.134.171.2006:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Opposte -- If we didn't know what was happening then the image wouldn't mean very much... This is probably true with some of the featured portraits but I don't think this image is very good... despite the importance of the event. grenグレン?08:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Strongly Support Grenavitar has a point about how by itself (no caption), the picture would not mean as much. Still I believe that the placement of the picture (next to the "No explosion" section of the article)improved the article significantly. It gave a visual to the explaination of the incident instead of leaving it up to the imagination.--Jonthecheet02:23, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Comment. I saw this happen live... on TV, sure... but NO caption is necessary. For the rest of my life I'll instantly know what that image is without being told. --Dante Alighieri | Talk18:21, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
I was born a bit less than a decade after the incident and initially thought it was some picture about fire or smoke. The caption, to me, brought more significance to the picture. I think it would be analogous to a caption for the image of Saddam Hussein's statue being pulled down in Baghdad; future generations will not understand why the statue is taken down, but the caption could understand why the statue is being taken down. I think that is the purpose of captions.--Jonthecheet04:33, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
