What would one expect from a company that indirectly allegedly has its own employee murdered for speaking up in favor of basic safety. If they don't care about their own employees, and they don't care about hundreds of passengers, they sure as hell don't care about a few astronauts.
Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS
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Re: Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS
#12That’s terrifying
No it's not.
> While Starliner is docked, all the manifolds are closed per normal mission operations preventing helium loss from the tanks,
> “We can handle this particular leak if that leak rate were to grow even up to 100 times,”
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#13What would one expect from a company that indirectly allegedly has its own employee murdered for speaking up in favor of basic safety. If they don't care about their own employees, and they don't care about hundreds of passengers, they sure as hell don't care about a few astronauts.
That's a big old "citation needed". As far as I'm aware that's a crackpot conspiracy theory - just because some fringe lunatic alleges something is enough to honestly decribe that something as "alleged".
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#14What would one expect from a company that indirectly allegedly has its own employee murdered for speaking up in favor of basic safety. If they don't care about their own employees, and they don't care about hundreds of passengers, they sure as hell don't care about a few astronauts.
That's a big old "citation needed". As far as I'm aware that's a crackpot conspiracy theory - just because some fringe lunatic alleges something is enough to honestly decribe that something as "alleged".
Coincidences happen, but it sure is a mighty convenient one in this case.
Re: Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS
#15What would one expect from a company that indirectly allegedly has its own employee murdered for speaking up in favor of basic safety. If they don't care about their own employees, and they don't care about hundreds of passengers, they sure as hell don't care about a few astronauts.
That's a big old "citation needed". As far as I'm aware that's a crackpot conspiracy theory - just because some fringe lunatic alleges something is enough to honestly decribe that something as "alleged".
It is not a fringe theory. It is quite mainstream. Boeing is ostensibly "protected from above" due to their military and space contracts, but as we're seeing with Starliner, such contracts are proving to be a liability.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a big old "citation needed". As far as I'm aware that's a crackpot conspiracy theory - just because some fringe lunatic alleges something is enough to honestly decribe that something as "alleged".
Coincidences happen, but it sure is a mighty convenient one in this case.
Since you brought up coincidences, a second Boeing whistleblower died not too long after. The first died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and the second of pneumonia.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/02/sec...
Re: Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS
#17are these actually scary leaks? in the article they say they'd be fine even if the leak were 100x the size.
In a sense, yes. The leaks shouldn’t be there, which means the craft is out of spec. Being out of spec in one area makes you consider how good/thorough the design and testing was. The next step is to consider what else isn’t working or might break sooner than anticipated. And that is not a pleasant thought.
Re: Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS
#18If it's a Boeing I'm not going.
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#19If it's a Boeing I'm not going.
I don't mind flying on a well-tested 777 (i.e. one that's been in service for years). It's a great design from before Boeing really went down the shitter, and is probably the backbone of most carrier's long-haul intercontinental fleets today.
But there's no way I'd fly as an astronaut on Starliner. I have very little confidence it won't have a catastrophic failure, considering how Boeing's been doing things lately.
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#20We really still sure this whole decompression sickness thing was just a “simulation”?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/nasa-accidentally-b...