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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 02:44:09 JST Bread up, Bro
   dun dun DUN, yet another black eye for boeing
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     Peter (mcmlxviiotg@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 04:45:26 JST Peter

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     • WilhelmIII
     >Assuming HAL doesn't close the pod bay doors
     Apparently Boeing is afraid to remotely update their toy, because there's a chance they could brick it. Five more months to go on this ten day mission, LOL.
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     Peter (mcmlxviiotg@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 04:45:27 JST Peter

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     >Someone has to sit in it and do the kamikaze thing
     Can't they just crawl through the hatch while wearing a suit?
     
     [bzzzt] Wrong! Starliner's hatch is way too small for that. You see, Boeing never anticipated that anyone would ever need to wear an actual spacesuit *while out in space*. Fucking tourists.
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     WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 04:45:27 JST WilhelmIII

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     • Peter
     Well, someone is going to have to man up and do that Dave Bowman thing to get aboard Discovery.
     
     Assuming HAL doesn't close the pod bay doors.
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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 04:45:28 JST BroDrillard

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     With the original (pajeet?) software that Boeing spacecraftjunk cannot be undocked remotely. Someone has to sit in it and do the kamikaze thing. So it's permanently blocking one of the ISSs docking ports. They're trying to implement a feature allowing remote undocking and upload/install it in the Boeing while it's docked at the ISS...

     They basically sent up the Starliner lacking key features and without it ever completing a successful unmanned mission first. /golfclap

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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 04:47:53 JST BroDrillard

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     Oof. Someone had to okay that plan. How was this ever considered acceptable for a design they were (supposedly) planning for long-term use.
     
     Sounds like a prime example of imperial decline and corruption. "Boeing paid us politicians to give it gubmint monies. Lets have them build a trashcan and launch it into space. It doesn't have to actually do the thing."
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 04:47:53 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @BroDrillard @MCMLXVIIOTG this seems crazy, but it seems like some groups just are not good at engineering. European peoples all joke about flaws in the way each other make cars, but I keep coming back to it as a simple example. China can't even produce luxury cars to the standards to get them into the EU.