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Re:The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight by doctor_eval on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @06:51PM (#28386513)
Anyone can win if they are allowed to break the rules. You get my respect by completing the mission within the rules.
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Re:The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight by Sebb767 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @10:40PM (#28388124)
To be fair, the rules they are really up against are those of physics and they naturally can't break those. FAA rules are rather pale in comparison.
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Re:The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight by doctor_eval on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:23AM (#28388631)
The rules I'm referring to are the ones that say "if this light goes red, abort the mission instead of potentially crashing into other people or killing everyone aboard".
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Re:The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight by bumby on Thursday September 02, 2021 @09:25AM (#28391711)
This is unfortunately common. Even NASA regularly ignores their own standards and procedures due to schedule and budget pressures.
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