Ah there we go. I think there was some issue with why SpaceX couldn’t sent suits up earlier too right? Because that does indeed sound like IVA suits weren’t compatible
That will teach them to fly Boeing.
Modern day Gilligan’s Island reboot time.
An excellent idea, with each season finale being another failed return trip that gets delayed, and then the next season all their conditions are significantly worse until they resort to canabalism
A 3 month tour. 🎶
“For the love of god don’t cut that corner or some one will die”
-Man who shot himself in the back of the head twice.I know people have spent longer on the ISS but at some point, I’d come back in a Home Depot bucket wearing a spacesuit with some scuba gear.
And for those who want to argue about the heat shielding on a Home Depot bucket, I’d be responsible about it. I’d glue all kinds of shit to it. Steal a parachute from the Roscosmos side. I’d be fine.
“You’d land in the Indian Ocean."
This isn’t rocket science. It’s the opposite. I’ll land where I want. I’d aim for your mom’s house and land in her bedroom. Injuries would include a crushed pelvis and not from the fall. That’s just what happens when I visit your mom.
Death by snu snu. Nice.
A two week expendition has turned into 10 months. -Capitalism, baby!
What does that have to do with capitalism?
What does the privatization of space flight, and it’s subsequent technical failures resulting in a 2-week expedition turning into a 10-month expedition have to do with capitalism? Is that a serious question?
- So a non-capitalist space program would have no technical issues ever? Sounds about as sound as most communist propaganda logic.
- If you actually read the article, they are staying there to continue the science until replacement crew arrives. The capsule is ready and they are able to return any time. There wasn’t another technical failure.
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Sounds like capitalism apologist logic to me.
" There wasn’t another technical failure."
How many commercial technical failures and logistic failures is adequate for you? They are in this position because NASA (A public space agency) determined that Starliner -(a private craft) wasn’t safe to use as a return vehicle
Why hasn’t NASA just sent a NASA vehicle to receive them?
How many commercial technical failures and logistical failures is adequate for you?
Maybe fewer or equal than there were with government run NASA? Starliner turned out to be a safe spacecraft that was recalled due to abundance of caution. Which leaders at NASA were far more comfortable doing, since it reflects badly on Boing instead of them (which is a good thing).
On the other hand, while NASA run the launches itself, how many astronauts died in disasters?
You are seriously going to pretend one issue is somehow a failure of privatized spaceflight? A nonfatal issue that caused two astronauts to chill on the space station for longer than expected, most of it voluntarily?
Nuance isn’t allowed here on lemmy. You will hate capitalism or you will be silenced. You will hate privatization, or you will be ostracized.
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I’m new to lemmy world. I’m noticing every top comment is something negative about capitalism. Either the clueless reddit communists came over or it’s just Russian trolls. It could be a stubbed toe, “CAPITALISM FOR YA!!” I picked to post here because this is 8 out of 10 posts now. It’s pretty much equivalent to “THANKS OBAMA!”
I think capitalism is ruining earth, and is at the heart of most of the problems and challenges, AMA (jk, I don’t care). It doesn’t mean that I can suggest a good alternative, but observations are what they are.
Check where they’re from lemmy.ml is literally just a bunch of fucking tankies and russian/ccp apologist. They’re idiots who blame everything on capitalism and think communism has never been tried and that everything would be great under communism, so long as they were running the show. It’s pretty much just people with no life experience shouting off these things.
Yeah, I really hope at least most of them are trolls…
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fwiw, they both may never go back to space again so their time in space has been extended much beyond what they thought they could do and have repeatedly said they are trying to make the most of it. The real problem is just the scheduling bumps and resource allocations.
Holy shit; planned to spend 10 days, stuck there for almost a year… (if they finally manage this schedule)
What if this whole thing was a ruse and they’re keeping them up there because they know they’re dangerous aliens wearing human skin?
But if they realise that we know this they’ll send a signal to their mother ship and kill us all.
So we’re holding them up there while we come up with a plan…
Looks like you’re 100% correct. They’re gearing up to take those fuckers out:
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship…
Looks like the fear of a Boeing suicide ain’t bringing the morale as much as needed to execute this.
Another example of US corporate culture yielding yuge results. Epic.
Those poor bastards.
It feels like we’re just watching them slowly die up there. Maybe one of the billionaires is trying to discredit public space programs for good and their deaths are intended to be that final bell.
Edit: Thanks for the down votes guys! I guess my concerns are unfounded.
Oof. Upvoted as hell. That is EXACTLY how capitalism works. Except that said billionaire would have to be planning on profiting from their own private space program instead…
They’re astronauts, they’re loving this, they’ve said so in Interviews and it’s pretty obvious they’ve not just been told to say that. That’s not to mention that Starliner is a private spacecraft (just as much as Dragon is) and that’s the only thing being discredited here.
I love a gym or a sauna but I’m not gonna love it after 20x my normal planned time has passed and I can’t leave.
Also: we’ve got NO idea what they REALLY think or feel privately, of COURSE they’d be forced to pretend it’s what they want in a public interview (I mean, cmon.)
The ISS still gets regular deliveries and even some replacement astronauts from SpaceX but the Boeing and SpaceX suits aren’t inter-compatible so they can’t hitch a ride back afaik.
When your government is so afraid of socialism that they won’t even mandate that the two companies they contract out share some compatibility for the sake of convenience.
“Should we tell them that part of the deal is that they have to both work with the others technology?”
“What are you, Lenin?”
the Boeing and SpaceX suits aren’t inter-compatible so they can’t hitch a ride back
They are indeed hitching a ride back. The SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon launched with two empty seats for this reason. Two extra Dragon IVA suits were sent up as well.
I wonder what the defining amount of bone density loss marks the onset of osteoporosis. A cursory google search suggests that they are losing between 1-2% per month in space.
