It's a perfectly valid worry with how the weather's been recently. 😔

So you're telling me that in the realm of manned civilian aviation where we rely on 0.004% margins to consider a flight even insurable 5% of the ship plain don't exist, 50% of all key tests were just blindly rubber-stamped despite being at best perfunctory and all of the cabling is rigged for her pleasure to just melt down and ignite a hilarious mix of fuel and thermal degradation products if the flight runs in the slightest turbulence or pressure SNAFU.

I see what you did there.

Yeaaah any collective skillset that is more, uh. How do we phrase This.

Productive than banking and isn't just one schmuck in a basement goes way above just hiring people with good grades and telling them to Make Thing Go.

You need processes. Conventions. Internal shorthands. A Way Things Are Done. Running gags. You need that before the saucy blueprints even start being drawn.

A lot goes into an industrial edge and the smallest part of it can just be scooped up and made to excel because you waved money at it.

A big reason so much advancement is driven by the creation and absorption of startups nowadays is because big companies just can't help themselves treating their employees like conquered & enslaved populations with routine reshuffling and layoffs ensuring no networks can form, making it easier to just buy up existing ones.

Nvidia is a notable exception and even before the AI hype it consistently kept them on top.

We really need to stop taking lessons from Stalinist Russia and the robber Baron era.

The Combine was meant to be a warning, not a blueprint on how to run a civilization.

This is apparently happening in a more official capacity with Nvidia.

Good for them though. Love it.

Yeah I'm a little surprised at this ongoing narrative of spaceflight somehow being this homegrown OG New Deal venture until Some Vague Time Ago where it was suddenly handed off to private business.

What happened is that it was always private, it was just better integrated.

Well not that surprised because it's an agendapost I'm just surprised by how easily some people rewrite history

It's a fundamental construction flaw. More intelligent and informed people have posted about it but basically the boat cooks off its own fuel and leaks gasses everywhere because they just didn't redesign the engine or tank placement after QA told them it was screwed.

They've been working on this since the space shuttle program was shut down under the Obama administration 13 years ago and I guess back then things didn't look quite so bleak.

They didn't suck so hard and consequences were actually feared because it was understood that grifting the tax payer out of money is as unpatriotic as teaching the little ones to venerate Stalin.

Non zero chance it just flat-out burns up.

/r/Starliner hasn't been kind in their analysis and subs like that are usually all-in on the meat riding.