Ya know… we live in an age where menopausal old ladies run capital ships aground and into each other. Airplanes fall out of the sky. Are those astronauts still stranded on the ISS? Didn’t the last moon probe fall over on landing? The COVID and environmental scams suggest we can’t do real science anymore…
Oh boy… whadda way to die… but I suppose it’s no different than those guys that went down in that bathysphere to see the titanic when it imploded.
The lesson seems to always be the same. You can have an exceptional school, or you can have diversity. You can have an effective, viable military, or you can have diversity. You can have a space program, or you can have…
Going where the Sun don't shine? Ya don't say.
ReplyDeleteNew suit for "more kinds of people" means what exactly?
2026? They are going to un-strand those 2 on the ISS until 2025 so isn't 2026 just a wee bit ambitious?
"menopausal old ladies" Didn't you mean "crewcut bulldykes" ?
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to the dude that was filming the lander take off from the Moon? I bet 5 bucks and a Wombat they never go to the moon!
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Everyone involved with the Titan were warned by knowledgeable people that the thing wasn't safe. They went anyway, and not surprisingly never came back. The deal with the implosion is that there was no warning whatsoever. The cargo would have simply ceased to exist in literally one tenth or less of one second. Blam! Show's over. Of course there would have to be search efforts, even though everyone in the know could tell you that all you'd find was wreckage, if that. You might not find anything at all.
ReplyDeleteRight afterwards every company even remotely connected with this engineering fiasco washed their hands of the entire affair, which would include a massive paper shredding party, swapping out of hard drives, and selectively deleting backup files.
I'd like to say that this was catastrophic, tragic, and terrible, but when it happened I wasn't surprised. This falls under the same category as the Challenger explosion, the Thresher implosion, and the two people stranded on the space station. It's your decision, and if you decide you want to do something foolish and record breaking - fine. But don't be surprised if the whole thing goes sideways.
As bad as the Titan implosion was, it wasn't anything compared to the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic. Go for a swim and freeze to death, or drown like the rats in steerage.