Virgin Galactic flights grounded over Branson spaceflight 'mishap'

Re:Virgin Galactic flights grounded over Branson spaceflight... by AnthonyMouse on Friday September 03, 2021 @02:15AM (#28400981)

> That honor system didn't seem to work very well on Boeing.

This logic is how everything gets ruined.

You have a system which has caused air travel to have two orders of magnitude fewer fatalities than ground travel despite operating at much higher speeds, but the system doesn't prevent 100.0% of the evil.

Then the instance it didn't prevent is used to justify tightening the screws, even if that makes things less rather than more safe for the reasons discussed.

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Re:Virgin Galactic flights grounded over Branson spaceflight... by chii on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:01AM (#28401578)

Because people have recency bias, and using this as an anchor, argue their point of view (aka, their political beliefs), rather than argue for the truth.

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Re:Virgin Galactic flights grounded over Branson spaceflight... by ElFitz on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:59AM (#28402610)

I wouldn’t advocate getting rid of the honour system; it has proven to work for operating aircrafts.

But like [1], I am still utterly confused about the whole self-certification deal.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28399487

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