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They better hurry up, or the ~~mental patients~~ astronauts scheduled to fly on it might finally come to their senses and realize that NASA is sending them into space in a capsule made by Boeing.
Come on, it's not like they'd forget to make sure they put all the bolts on everything or anything like that. Right? Right...?
Or verify O-rings and insulation were installed correctly.
I have it direct from the CEO of Boeing, it's just a minor "quality escape". nothing to worry about, we have them all the time.
When questioned further on what exactly is a "quality escape" he got confused, and failed to give a coherent answer.
But apparently Boeing does not recognize faults, because faults are bad, instead they have occasional quality escapes, which are OK, and not a big deal.
Corporate euphemisms are out of control
Corporations are out of control.
Honestly, I find it contemptible, it's always an attempt to spin something, either to tone it down or to sound clever or something, sometimes it's even decidedly misleading. It's sickening IMO.
"Quality escape" isn't a euphemism. It's the term for a defect being missed in inspection.
Seems like that response from the CEO was a bit of a quality escape
He needs a quality wrangler
North American Aviation (NAA) made a better command module out of 1960s technology than what Boeing could ever dream of.
Sadly NAA (later Rockwell) was bought out by Boeing.
They're like the Microsoft of aerospace. Buy out competition and then kill what they just aquired.
I understand the sentiment, and I’m definitely not a Boeing apologist. But the first version of the Apollo command module killed three astronauts. They had growing pains, too.
How much money have these crooks bilked the taxpayer for so far?
The Lunacy of Artemis: https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm
Why should we attend to the words of an ex-painter edgelord?
I had to check if that was actually there because at first I just couldn’t believe. It’s actually there. The author of this piece just casually put a section titled “Threat” under their contact details, as if that’s a normal thing you include when you share your writing.
Based, unless the article is also bad in which case I'll change my answer to cringe.
It's cringe no matter how you slice it.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
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