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Call me crazy but hoping for two innocent astronauts to die on the off-chance things improve isn’t something I would consider morally gray.
Call me crazy but hoping for two innocent astronauts to die on the off-chance things improve isn’t something I would consider morally gray.
Yeah that’s right, they’ve decided to not use one of the 5 again because of performance inconsistencies.
The people in every one of these Starliner threads seemingly hoping for the worst case scenario to occur just so they can dunk on Boeing for it are disturbing
Completely untrue. There are currently only 3 human-rated spacecraft docked to the ISS and none of them are set aside as some sort of emergency capsule. There’s no trickery here. The number of astronauts on board is equal to the number of seats available for them to ride back home in. The only reason they aren’t stranded is because Starliner is still fully capable of undocking and taking them home whenever necessary. If it wasn’t, then they would actually be stranded with no alternative way back beyond straping them to the floor of Dragon.
They scrubbed, investigated, found it was acceptable, launched, and discovered previously unknown issues. The original leak isn’t getting worse, they discovered more, smaller leaks, that still don’t pose a danger to the mission.
Discovering the cause of the 5 RCS thrusters shutting down with only 4 of them being able to restart is the current focus of things, because the spacecraft is no where near running out of helium.
It’s all still within the scope of this test flight’s objectives, so they technically aren’t wrong to say things are going well even when they’ve found issues.
As Business Insider previously reported, helium supports Starlink’s reaction control system thrusters, which allows them to fire.
Can’t even get the spacecraft’s name straight
What’s good this time around? In my cart so far I have Until Then, Disco Elysium, and MS Flight Simulator.
Pacific Drive is in there now too.
It’s opt-in because it’s a beta
This headline makes me think maybe AI isn’t as useless as I once thought
When they announced PC support was coming, I really wanted to get one just for that, but when they revealed all the features that won’t work on PC, it started looking like a worse deal than the Quest 3 and more like a side-grade from the Quest 2.
Any chance they move to the fediverse?
What’s the strategy for taking down a bile titan with an EAT? I always aim for the head, but it always takes multiple shots. Is it just my aim, or is there somewhere else I should be shooting at?
huh I somehow missed that news too
I just noticed this today. Do we know why?
I don’t know how far things have come since the aptly named Acer AH101-D8EY, but that was the last time I tried to be “productive” in VR and it was absolutely not working.
Oh no, does this mean they don’t need to spawn from their respective towers anymore?
Saving the children was its own reward, naturally
Middle left team! I just like the view
I’m not talking about people who just want Boeing to fail, I’m talking about the ones who think the best path to changing things is if they publicly kill two astronauts. eg. See the “morally gray” comment below