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What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

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Re: What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

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Post by recursivecaveat »

araes wrote: post #5

Do these people get affiliate money from that I.S.S movie? The topic seems suspiciously timed.

Often it's just synergy, ie unaffiliated creators know that some big well-marketed release will have a lot of people interested in the topic all of a sudden. So you benefit by writing something about space while space is riding high in the public consciousness. Another example is whenever a new entry in a popular movie or video game series entry is released, a lot of retrospectives are released by youtubers for the series or older entries.

Re: What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

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Post by lopis »

GeoAtreides wrote: post #28
wantsanagent wrote: post #17

If you hate the format of these kinds of article let me summarize: Guy builds an experiment, flies it, it doesn't work, requests more time to get it working, is denied, threatens 'not to come back', goes into a depression, worries crew that he'll open the door to space, eventually granted more time to work on the experiment, gets it working. There are consequences for letting this kind of person fly and dealing with…

> If you hate the format of these kinds of article You mean long-form articles? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-form_journalism I don't think the problem is with the format, but with your expectations. Somehow you were expecting a straight answer to the question in the title; instead, it's a detailed look into the incident and the context around it.

The tiktokification of our minds.

Re: What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

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Post by fritzo »

misnome wrote: post #22
wantsanagent wrote: post #17

If you hate the format of these kinds of article let me summarize: Guy builds an experiment, flies it, it doesn't work, requests more time to get it working, is denied, threatens 'not to come back', goes into a depression, worries crew that he'll open the door to space, eventually granted more time to work on the experiment, gets it working. There are consequences for letting this kind of person fly and dealing with…

And “They added a lock to the exit hatch” For a good portion of this article I thought the answer was “We don’t know”. It ambles around so leisurely and stop-start that it feels like reading ChatGPT output.

It's the prose equivalent of an online recipe sandwich: thin slices of content interleaved with airy filler

Re: What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

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Post by blackhaj7 »

wantsanagent wrote: post #17

If you hate the format of these kinds of article let me summarize: Guy builds an experiment, flies it, it doesn't work, requests more time to get it working, is denied, threatens 'not to come back', goes into a depression, worries crew that he'll open the door to space, eventually granted more time to work on the experiment, gets it working. There are consequences for letting this kind of person fly and dealing with…

Thank you!

Re: What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

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Post by schiffern »

TheHumanist wrote: post #20
oscarfr wrote: post #11

Is there any such lock mechanism on the doors of an airplane? I would imagine there could be sever consequences of someone opening an emergency hatch at 10,000m

Didn't that happen in a plane recently? There have been so many random issues in the air lately, especially with the Boeing planes... so I may be misremembering, but I thought some guy opened the emergency hatch and the plane was up there pretty high at the time. Paused my reply and took a moment to search. Looks like I was right and wrong. The plane wasn't very high in the air, only about 700 feet. A man did open th…

Working link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/27/man-who-opened-flyi...

Re: What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

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Post by ethbr1 »

m3kw9 wrote: post #32

So leave a switch to kill all crew available at all times till you think someone is unstable, then lock it. Genius

It's a pro and con.

What happens in the event the commander in incapacitated and the crews needs to open the hatch?

They probably aren't ever going to do that in space, but I'm sure there are scenarios that might require it? Maybe fire?

Centralizing control also centralizes a failure point. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes not.

I thought the discussion of undertrained / -bonded payload specialists was a good component of the article, as it spoke to that calculus. Do you trust this person under stress?

Re: What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

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Post by QuantumGood »

GeoAtreides wrote: post #28
wantsanagent wrote: post #17

If you hate the format of these kinds of article let me summarize: Guy builds an experiment, flies it, it doesn't work, requests more time to get it working, is denied, threatens 'not to come back', goes into a depression, worries crew that he'll open the door to space, eventually granted more time to work on the experiment, gets it working. There are consequences for letting this kind of person fly and dealing with…

> If you hate the format of these kinds of article You mean long-form articles? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-form_journalism I don't think the problem is with the format, but with your expectations. Somehow you were expecting a straight answer to the question in the title; instead, it's a detailed look into the incident and the context around it.

Nowadays there is so much fluff added (as an "SEO hack" to increase reading time) to what could be otherwise short posts, that long-form was bound to suffer by association. Of course, some never liked long form. I prefer it, but not it's SEO'd brethren
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