I watched the press conference. They clearly didn’t want to take much risk and said they had no interest in losing a crew and vehicle again, mentioning the shuttle losses. Probably the right call for the long term. Flight test means managing risk.
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That’s a company that desperately needs a C suite massacre.
Old joke, told to me by an ethnic Indian:
"When India first accepted delivery of it's first commercial airplanes, all the government officials stood on the runway to welcome the new aircraft.
When the first plane appeared in the sky, the Minister of Transportation excitedly exclaimed, "Boeing! Boeing! Boeing!"
"Be silent!" scolded the Prime Minister.
"Oeing! Oeing! Oeing!"
"When India first accepted delivery of it's first commercial airplanes, all the government officials stood on the runway to welcome the new aircraft.
When the first plane appeared in the sky, the Minister of Transportation excitedly exclaimed, "Boeing! Boeing! Boeing!"
"Be silent!" scolded the Prime Minister.
"Oeing! Oeing! Oeing!"
There are few American corporations where that’s not the case.
Lack of responsibility and accountability combined with nearly absolute internal power. What could go wrong?
That’s so damned true it makes my ears bleed.
The sad truth with complicated manufactured products is that a tiny percentage of sh*tty employees can make problems of epic proportions.
Everyone, top to bottom, needs to do their jobs right in order to have consistent success. Good luck with that...
The sad truth with complicated manufactured products is that a tiny percentage of sh*tty employees can make problems of epic proportions.
Everyone, top to bottom, needs to do their jobs right in order to have consistent success. Good luck with that...
What a load of old-fashioned silliness resides in your head.
Yes... yes... the world USED to work that way, but the physical laws of the universe had a meeting and came away concluding they'd been mean for all those years, so changed themselves to better correspond with the emotional needs of a few screechy upright bipedal hominids currently running around on Sol 3.
Is the same Boeing as the airplane and space capsule?
Boeing-made satellite explodes in space after experiencing an "anomaly" CBS News
It was 8 years old and another, similar, went kablooey after 3 years. Projected life 15 years. I just hope there aren't too many hazardous fragments; that's the bad news part of satellite break-up in orbit.
And the worse it gets, the worse it gets. Ever more rapidly. Then a tipping point is reached where it goes exponential.
It's a legitimate threat given Earth's ever-increasing reliance on comm satellites, weather satellites, etc. never mind one day literally "sealing" the planet with an impenetrable shell of bits & pieces traveling 18,000 mph (about 10 times the speed of a rifle bullet).
How to stop the growth and clear the junk? No one has a clue.
Kessler syndrome - Wikipedia
Alien subordinate to alien superior: "Sir, it's not a Dyson sphere, sir, just a layer of rubbish. It's an advancing civilization, sir!"And the worse it gets, the worse it gets. Ever more rapidly. Then a tipping point is reached where it goes exponential.
It's a legitimate threat given Earth's ever-increasing reliance on comm satellites, weather satellites, etc. never mind one day literally "sealing" the planet with an impenetrable shell of bits & pieces traveling 18,000 mph (about 10 times the speed of a rifle bullet).
How to stop the growth and clear the junk? No one has a clue.
Kessler syndrome - Wikipedia
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With the amount of space debris already floating up there a few more pieces isn’t going to matter much.