• RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    If I were one of these people slated to take the flight I would nope the fuck out. This is what they found, how many more issues are they going to “find”(because they kept quiet about it like they always do) once this thing takes off?

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      6 months ago

      Yeah there’s a chance this becomes another challenger

      Challenger happened because of negligence if I recall correctly and boeing issues are also happening because of negligence

      • Wanderer@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        Challenger happened because the engineers said they shouldn’t launch because it was cold and the politicians said just do it anyway.

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          6 months ago

          Replace “politicians” with “boeing” and “engineers” with “boeing staff” and its still plausible

    • Pumpkin Escobar@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I can’t believe they’re going through with it. The last (only orbital) test flight had serious problems.

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          6 months ago

          Interesting, I don’t know how I missed that, I follow a lot of space news. Thanks for the info / correction, definitely not as crazy given the second test that reached the ISS.

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        6 months ago

        Well the astronauts on the inaugural flight are from their death wish division so they accept the risks.