"Former" Whistleblower?

[wonko the sane?]

Generally you don't want to make a (for lack of a better word.) spectacle of yourself when whistleblowing... despite how annoying whistles are. There are supposed to be protections in place for people who report others whom break the law.

It's nice to see the business world being called out for being the same as putins russia.

 

[Axaday]

There are supposed to be protections in place for people who report others whom break the law.

There are protections concerning losing your job and various workplace retribution things. There isn't secret service protection. It is not expected that a corporation will murder someone for telling on them. And unless some kind of evidence beyond the convenience of it shows up, I will continue to doubt that it happened here.

 

[Paladin]

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/02/1248693512/boeing-whistleblower-josh-dean-dead

if i had a nickel for every time a Boeing whistleblower died young and suddenly I'd have TWO nickels.

Which isn't a lot but, the rest of that joke.

 

[Axaday]

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/02/1248693512/boeing-whistleblower-josh-dean-dead

if i had a nickel for every time a Boeing whistleblower died young and suddenly I'd have TWO nickels.

Which isn't a lot but, the rest of that joke.

Different people have different amounts of money and it can be crass to talk about it at times, but I will say that would be a lot of money to get in that way.

 

[Axaday]

Here's what to expect during Boeing Starliner's 1st astronaut test flight on May 6

2 NASA astronauts and test pilots will help evaluate Starliner's performance.

www.space.com

I love it that the title is "What to expect" from Boeing's new spacecraft and the associated picture appears to show that the door has fallen off.

 

[Axaday]

Here I was worried that Boeing's space capsule's door would fall off and what actually happened was they had to spend a couple hours trying to figure out how to get the door to open.

 

[wonko the sane?]

It's space travel, would you rather "too hard to open" or "too hard to keep closed"?

 

[Axaday]

It really depends. If you are on a spacewalk and the door won't open it might kill you.


What I want is for Boeing to develop a door that works correctly.

 

[wonko the sane?]

I mean, it's not like doors are some radical new technology: you would imagine that the multibillion dollar defense contractor could perfect them by now.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Sure, but then they also had to figure out how to cut corners to save a few bucks. The door more or less works, and that still counts, right?

 

[Axaday]

I mean, it's not like doors are some radical new technology: you would imagine that the multibillion dollar defense contractor could perfect them by now.

I feel like we're getting really close.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Good enough for space travel and submarines!

 

[Axaday]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/science/boeing-starliner-astronaut-mission-return-delay-scn/index.html

It must be pretty scary to be in space and know that Boeing is your ride home.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Everyone knew this was a bad idea before the launch. Whoever was the final check, the last person who said "Yeah, we should still go ahead with the Boeing Starliner" should pay a severe price even if everyone makes it home safely.

Space is no joke. If we're ever going to get off this rock they need to take safety a lot more seriously than this.

 

[wonko the sane?]

No they don't. They just need to get enough trips, companies, launches and people up there that failure becomes statistically unlikely. Hell, as it stands: space travel is STILL safer than logging, oil drilling and roofing. NASA could significantly bump up the death chance and still not break the top 10 most dangerous jobs.

 

[Caldwin]

It's space travel, would you rather "too hard to open" or "too hard to keep closed"?

Well, I mean, Apollo 1 was a thing.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

No they don't. They just need to get enough trips, companies, launches and people up there that failure becomes statistically unlikely. Hell, as it stands: space travel is STILL safer than logging, oil drilling and roofing. NASA could significantly bump up the death chance and still not break the top 10 most dangerous jobs.

That way lies complacency. And when they get complacent, they will get another crew killed, and we will lose out on another decade or two of progress. Space already doesn't get enough funding. A spectacular accident at this point would be devastating.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Depends entirely on the accident. There is MASSIVE, and I mean MASSIVE profit to be had in space itself and the associated technology. The First NGO that gets a proper toe hold in low earth orbit, the moon or, (god forbid.) mars, will make the current crop of super rich look like midevil paupers. If the supposed accident could be spun in such a way that it was the governments fault, and not the technology or people: they will absolutely push for the US government to let space get "privatized".

There is entirely too much money already in for any accident to stop the industry now. By investment alone the space sector falls into "too big to fail".

 

[Axaday]

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5087892/nasa-starliner-astronaut-return-iss-spacex

The people who signed up to travel to space for a couple weeks on Boeing Strainer will be picked up and taken home by SpaceX in February. Nice one, Boeing.

 

[wonko the sane?]

While I'm rightly pissed at boeing for their outright failure... they didn't apollo 1, they didn't apollo 13, and they didn't challenger. For a failure: this is still the best possible outcome.