Stuck in Space

[fncceo]

pursuit of corporate profits

They were a much more profitable company when they hired engineers based on education and experience rather than DNA profiles.

 

[Ringo]

Elon Musk explains the obvious truths that the only way to save American astronauts from orbit if the "Dragon" fails is to go and bow to the Russians.
...as always when your ass starts to burn...

 

[The Duke]

I wonder what the astronauts will do for sex.

Oh, they're gonna fuck.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Oh, they're gonna fuck.

The gravity problem notwithstanding?

 

[The Duke]

All I asked for was your proof, you failed to provide such proof. You are just one more FUCKING LYING MAGA MAGGOT ASSHOLE! YOU MADE A STATEMENT AND YOU CANNOT BACK IT UP. YOU PEOPLE HATE WHEN YOU ARE PULLED UP SHORT. POST YOUR FUCKING PROOF MAGA MAGGOT. IF YOU'VE GOT IT!!!

 

[The Duke]

The gravity problem notwithstanding?

That much time, it's inevitable.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

That much time, it's inevitable.

Did you ever see the movie “Passengers”?

They could leave the space craft and frolic around in Space.

Tethered of course.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

They were a much more profitable company when they hired engineers based on education and experience rather than DNA profiles.

Again, I'll point out that this is a bullshit statement. Corporations like Boeing operate on PROFIT. Making money. Doesn't matter how they make the money. Or with whom.
Corporate bonuses and payouts are structured on delivering plane orders on time...even if that means sacrificing safety.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Pursuit of profits is better than pursuit of bankruptcy, which is what most Leftist/DemocRATs prefer.

Which entails sacrifices. Your partisan right leaning BS aside.
And those sacrifices, usually come on the assembly line, where time can be recovered and trimmed down...and that, comes at the expense of safety.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Come up with something new, Pilgrim.

 

[fncceo]

Corporations like Boeing operate on PROFIT.

And rightfully so.

However, while you might be able to produce Pop Tarts or hackysacks with unskilled labor and the occasional bad batch won’t unduly impact your profits. Customers tend not to purchase planes and spacecraft with poor safety records and in order to make that profit which you so revile, they are forced to use the most skilled engineers to stay in business.

You don’t measure engineering prowess by gender, sex or abundance of melonin.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

The starliner does have a future, here's a photograph taken by an exploration vessel in 2055, it's been sent back in time to 2024:

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

There's clearly been a rather huge miss on the part of NASA or so it seems to me. Given the possibility of unexpected failure, people becoming stranded, the ability to rescue should be an integral part of the ISS project. There should have been a plan already set aside and scheduled, to perform a rescue. That plan would have seen a suitable rescue rocket already prepped and ready to go within a few weeks say.

The tested and robust ability to perform a rescue should have been a prerequisite to any sort of test launch like the starliner.

It's an after thought.