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Re:NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth ... by makerdiety on Saturday August 24, 2024 @06:03PM (#41342047)
Excellent question. And the answer is, of course, very simple: Being American (or, more generally, a liberal-democracy subordinated entity), you should expect even Elon Musk's SpaceX to be a bad bet. SpaceX will display its inherent inability too, eventually.
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Re:NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth ... by zorak8me on Saturday August 24, 2024 @06:16PM (#41342170)
That's a convenient wave of the hand, isn't it? "Oh it will eventually break" is just entropy, and can be applied to anything.
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Re:NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth ... by makerdiety on Saturday August 24, 2024 @06:26PM (#41342239)
I'm only minimizing the value of the Enlightenment's liberty proposition (liberalism) as a result of the scientific observation that entropy most definitely accelerates through liberal-democratic ideas and enterprises. Don't propose liberalism and then I won't appear aloof when I'm actually watching the situation very closely.
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