No fewer than a dozen articles in various newspapers are citing a potential physcological problem with the new Disney Mission Space ride due to open this year. The Shuttle Columbia disaster was a terrible event. It is real life and all participants accepted the dangers involved with the risk they were taking. They also all felt the risk was far outweighed by the benefit derived form that and all other space missions. Mission Space is a ride that was designed to provide entertainment as well as some educational output. It does not represent the Space Program nor have any direct connection to the shuttle disaster. Everyone has a choice as to ride or not ride any attraction in any park. If emotional stress is associated with an attraction, then avoid it just as you would if you feared hights or speed. Too much "potential harm" is directed at the entertainment industry in many cases. Certain films or attractions may be in poor taste but no one has to support them.
Films, national parks, and attractions may be designed to depict an event or time in our history. That does not make them wrong or harmfull.
If the small groups that think up these kind of "potential probelms" are given support, the next logical step would be to close Thunder Mountain because trains have derailed or shut down the Holocaust memorial because of what it represents. I think reminders of history (good or bad) are positive, somtimes you can't figure out where you want to go until you know where you have been.
Films, national parks, and attractions may be designed to depict an event or time in our history. That does not make them wrong or harmfull.
If the small groups that think up these kind of "potential probelms" are given support, the next logical step would be to close Thunder Mountain because trains have derailed or shut down the Holocaust memorial because of what it represents. I think reminders of history (good or bad) are positive, somtimes you can't figure out where you want to go until you know where you have been.
