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I hope you're right, but at the same time it would be quite sad if this is all theatrics to preserve the feelings of Boeing fanboys (how do those still exist?)
by lupusreal 2y ago
I hope you're right, but at the same time it would be quite sad if this is all theatrics to preserve the feelings of Boeing fanboys (how do those still exist?)
- Hinermad 2y ago> Boeing fanboys (how do those still exist?) There are still fans of Boeing's ability to make money, no matter how bad they are at making aerospace products.
- hotstickyballs 2y agoThey exist because Boeing gives their voters jobs.
- adamsb6 2y agoI doubt Boeing fanboys are part of the equation. NASA is an executive agency, the President doesn’t like the head of SpaceX, and it’s an election year.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> NASA is an executive agency, the President doesn’t like the head of SpaceX NASA is a huge fan of SpaceX. Look at the Artemis programme and the amount of technology risk concentrated with them. They’d similarly defer to SpaceX if Crew Dragon had an issue.
- adamsb6 2y agoNASA certainly is deeply entwined with SpaceX, but that relationship predates the Biden/Elon animosity. Biden has the authority to say that he’s not going to give Elon this gloating opportunity ahead of the election. Biden also has the authority to make SpaceX catch a seal, strap it to a board, and make it listen to rocket noise through headphones to see if it becomes distressed.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoBiden can also fire every right-leaning defence contractor. SpaceX is the darling child of American aerospace. If your media diet is saying anything to the contrary that’s the carrier signal.
- renewiltord 2y agoThey exist because “real engineering” is something people think ex-software people can’t do. And because some people have a reflexive dislike of Elon Musk. This is real engineering, folks. By the experienced real engineers at Boeing. Not the idiots at SpaceX whose stuff keeps blowing up.