Oh that brings back memories.

Words to not dissolve by.

Yeah, always with the windows down.  Of course, we kids would be left in the car like that too sometimes.  :-P  This was before the days when that would get CPS called.

The weird thing is that leaving your dog in the car was considered perfectly normal back in the days before people referred to their pets as “fur babies”, and nobody called the cops to bust open the window and charge the owner with neglect for leaving the dog in there. So, I’m not entirely sure the assumptions in this…

After the rocket breaks up, it’s not being mixed completely.

Yeah, I get it’s popular to rag on Boeing right now, but this is not funny. Atlas launches using kerosene and liquid oxygen and is on its last legs before retirement. Starliner has launched a paltry three times, and is likely to fly a maximum of six more times.

Oh dear, that’s how you show us how unemotional your opinion on the matter is? Vulgar name-calling? Well, I think you’ve just demonstrated my point pretty well. I am not interested in this sort of a discourse, so I’m out. Have a nice day.

*shrugs* Well, if you don’t want to appear as if your reactions are driven by emotion, perhaps swear words from the get go aren’t the best way to give that impression. Just a suggestion.

I stand corrected: I thought it didn’t, since Starliner wasn’t expected to be doing any long-duration free-flying operations.  That’s a relief (pun intended).  ;-)

I’m sure that does make you feel vindicated. However, the article really doesn’t add anything new. Just that they’re letting data drive their decision making — something which you are resisting in favor of an emotional response.

Unluckily for him, the name is already taken twice over.  Car-X is an auto repair chain, and CarX is a racing simulator game.

It’s legal, mostly because I think nobody thought anyone would be dumb enough to try and make their car look like the automotive version of Wonder Woman’s airplane on the road.

The point you stated (which I concede may not be the point you intended) was, and I quote, “our fucking helium’s leaking out and we’re FUBAR’d”. At the current rate of loss with all of the identified leaks, they have far more than enough helium to get them home even if they stay well into July. They simply are not…

Accurately put, and much better than the article. There’s no indication yet that Starliner won’t be able to bring them home. The problem is that since Starliner keeps it propulsion in the expendable service module, they can’t study it after the mission. That’s a significant difference from Dragon, which retains all of…

They have far more than enough helium to adequately pressurize the system even with the leaks. They are not going to die because of that. Nothing that has happened so far has changed the risk metrics enough for them to consider abandoning their mission — in other words, they do have substantial risk, but not really mor…

Yeah, I’m with you -- I’ll believe it if we see Moranis signed to it.  ;-)  And he is *comfortable* by all accounts, so good luck with that!

I would absolutely watch that at least once. If it’s good, I’d buy it so I could watch it repeatedly. :-) The hardest part would be convincing Rick Moranis to return to acting, I suspect. He quit to become a stay-at-home-dad after his wife died and seemed to enjoy that lifestyle so thoroughly it might not actually be…

Actually, that would work.  :-)

And if they’re not, the crew could simply refuse to get in

Exactly the problem.  It’s impossible, so they had to work around it.