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Its very sad but inevitable. At this cutting edge of technology and human endeavour, accidents are bound to happen.
by arjn 12y ago
Its very sad but inevitable. At this cutting edge of technology and human endeavour, accidents are bound to happen.
- sp332 12y agoIt's not inevitable, as evidenced by all the other accidents that have been... evited. You just don't hear about those. (Yes, evited is a word, it's just weird.)
- sejje 12y agoMaybe it's inevitable in the sense that all the accidents can't be evited. Eventually you'll have one. ( Chrome doesn't think evited is a word. )
- DubiousPusher 12y agoI believe the OP here meant not that this specific incident was inevitable but rather that the death of a private astronaut at some point was statistically inevitable.
- joshstrange 12y agoAs zepolud said elsewhere in this thread: > current spaceplanes have the capability to fly and land autonomously--Boeing X-37, Dream Chaser, even Buran was fully autonomous and that was 25 years ago. There is simply no excuse for Virgin for being sloppy. The point being there shouldn't have been human pilots in those seats in the first place.
- zepolud 12y agoIt is demonstrably avoidable, there is zero need to risk human lives when doing testing these days. This is why Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser has the capability to land autonomously and is precisely why when it had an accident in 2013[1] nobody was hurt. [1]http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1310/26dreamchaser/ http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1310/26dreamchaser/