Concerning the Stranded Astronauts.

[Dante]

Concerning the Stranded Astronauts. It's not 1969 anymore.




Concerning the Stranded Astronauts. Stranded? Stranded? Hmm...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, We'll welcome you back to Earth, when you come. Enjoy your extended stay.

 

[okfine]

Concerning the Stranded Astronauts. It's not 1969 anymore.




Concerning the Stranded Astronauts. Stranded? Stranded? Hmm...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, We'll welcome you back to Earth, when you come. Enjoy your extended stay.

Returning which could have been a disaster... The Starliner is back on earth without them.

One definition of "adventure" is a gamble.

Boeing Starliner capsule lands back on Earth, without astronauts, to end troubled test flight (video)

Starliner has finally come home, more than three months after it launched on a planned 10-day mission.

www.space.com

 

[Augustine_]

Concerning the Stranded Astronauts. It's not 1969 anymore.




Concerning the Stranded Astronauts. Stranded? Stranded? Hmm...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, We'll welcome you back to Earth, when you come. Enjoy your extended stay.

Boeing has cared more about shareholder profits than making quality products for way too long

 

[Dante]

Boeing has cared more about shareholder profits than making quality products for way too long

It's not about Boeing. And they successfully brought the astronauts up to the Space Station. If you watched the video you'd see where it's expected things can go wrong with new endeavors and machines. It's no surprise to NASA who has contingencies, back up plans.

I doubt Boeing was mindless to how a serious accident with the delivery vehicle would affect the profits. There is no serious accident. It's a blip

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Boeing has cared more about shareholder profits than making quality products for way too long

Personally I suspect NASA has lost its confidence, the whole country has lost its confidence, and just as the Romans lost confidence and the empire collapsed, the US is going the same way, internal decay and loss of national confidence. We could not repeat the Apollo 11 mission today even with all the additional technologies we have, we don't have the confidence and without that nothing else matters.

This is an excellent overview of how confidence is essential for a civilization to grow and prosper, this is pre-positioned for you and taken from the excellent BBC Series from the 1960s, named simply Civilization - they just don't make them like this anymore...

"...so if one asks why the civilization of Greece and Rome collapsed, the real answer is that it was exhausted."

 

[Dante]

Personally I suspect NASA has lost its confidence, the whole country has lost its confidence, and just as the Romans lost confidence and the empire collapsed, the US is going the same way, internal decay and loss of national confidence. We could not repeat the Apollo 11 mission today even with all the additional technologies we have, we don't have the confidence and without that nothing else matters.

This is an excellent overview of how confidence is essential for a civilization to grow and prosper, this is pre-positioned for you and taken from the excellent BBC Series from the 1960s, named simply Civilization - they just don't make them like this anymore...

"...so if one asks why the civilization of Greece and Rome collapsed, the real answer is that it was exhausted."

That lame, old attack "just as the Romans...the US is going the same way" is so tiring. Heard it most all of my life.

Apollo 11 did not happen in a vacuum Apollo 8, 9, 10...

It's not 1969 anymore Concerning the Stranded Astronauts. Stranded? Stranded? Hmm...




Concerning the Stranded Astronauts. Stranded? Stranded? Hmm...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, We'll welcome you back to Earth, when you come. Enjoy your extended stay.

 

[Dante]

Personally I suspect NASA...nothing else matters.

This is an excellent overview of how confidence is essential for a civilization to grow and prosper, this is pre-positioned for you and taken from the excellent BBC Series from the 1960s, named simply Civilization - they just don't make them like this anymore...

"...so if one asks why the civilization of Greece and Rome collapsed, the real answer is that it was exhausted."

I like that it's titled "A personal view" and does not claim to be the last word or even the whole truth. You appear to have failed reading and comprehension 101

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

I like that it's titled "A personal view" and does not claim to be the last word or even the whole truth. You appear to have failed reading and comprehension 101

What has the title of the show go to do with my ability to read?

 

[Dante]

Personally...

It's a great episode of a great series.

I'm a bit amused by searching out Clark. He became in the end -- a convert.

Beliefs​

Clark's parents were Liberal in outlook, and Ruskin's social and political views influenced the young Clark.[106] Mary Beard wrote in a Guardian article that Clark was a lifelong Labour voter.[82] His religious outlook was unconventional, but he believed in the divine, rejected atheism, and found the Church of England too secular in its outlook.[107][n 12] Shortly before his death he was received into the Roman Catholic Church

 

[Dante]

What has the title of the show go to do with my ability to read?

"This is an excellent overview of how confidence is essential for a civilization to grow and prosper..."

"Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark (1969) - Parts 1 through 5"

I like that it's titled "A personal view" and does not claim to be the last word or even the whole truth. You appear to have failed reading and comprehension 101

and...

That lame, old attack "just as the Romans...the US is going the same way" is so tiring. Heard it most all of my life.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

It's a great episode of a great series.

I'm a bit amused by searching out Clark. He became in the end -- a convert.

Beliefs​

Clark's parents were Liberal in outlook, and Ruskin's social and political views influenced the young Clark.[106] Mary Beard wrote in a Guardian article that Clark was a lifelong Labour voter.[82] His religious outlook was unconventional, but he believed in the divine, rejected atheism, and found the Church of England too secular in its outlook.[107][n 12] Shortly before his death he was received into the Roman Catholic Church

Yes, it's odd how his son (Alan) became a right winger and became a minister under Thatcher. Here's a rare gem, this is Alan Clark responding to a question posed by John Pilger, the context is the British role in the genocidal campaign against the population of (Christian) East Timor in the 1970s, by the Muslim Indonesians,

Listen to the end, it's astonishingly honest, its less than one minute long:

 

[Dante]

Yes, it's odd how his son (Alan) became a right winger and became a minister under Thatcher. Here's a rare gem, this is Alan Clark responding to a question posed by John Pilger, the context is the British role in the genocidal campaign against the population of (Christian) East Timor in the 1970s, by the Muslim Indonesians,

Listen to the end, it's astonishingly honest, its less than one minute long:

I don't believe it's that odd about Alan.

Sherlock Holmes Brutally honest, and I look at it in a wider context than maybe others would on viewing this short.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

I don't believe it's that odd about Alan.

Sherlock Holmes Brutally honest, and I look at it in a wider context than maybe others would on viewing this short.

If you're interested here's the full docunmentary:



East Timor was an ally of the Australians in WW2 and bravely fought the Japanese. They were stunned in 1975 when Indonesia invaded East Timor and began slaughtering the population, until quite late, many of them believed that the British or Australians would come to their aid as they themselves had done in WW2. Little did they know that the US had green lighted the invasion with British support and Australian silence.

Note, this took place at the same time as the Pol-Pot massacres in Cambodia, both being examples of genocide. But the Western press gave like fifty times the column inches to the Cambodia slaughter than they did to East Timor.

 

[Dante]

If you're interested here's the full docunmentary:



East Timor was an ally of the Australians in WW2 and bravely fought the Japanese. They were stunned in 1975 when Indonesia invaded East Timor and began slaughtering the population, until quite late, many of them believed that the British or Australians would come to their aid as they themselves had done in WW2. Little did they know that the US had green lighted the invasion with British support and Australian silence.

I looked up Pilger. I do remember him.

 

[ding]

Yes, it's odd how his son (Alan) became a right winger and became a minister under Thatcher. Here's a rare gem, this is Alan Clark responding to a question posed by John Pilger, the context is the British role in the genocidal campaign against the population of (Christian) East Timor in the 1970s, by the Muslim Indonesians,

Listen to the end, it's astonishingly honest, its less than one minute long:

He must not think much about human beings to have such a cavalier attitude towards them.