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Indian food week in the ISS?They're now drinking their own urine.
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Recycling urine is probably standard for space operations. Reading the article, looks like nutrition is the real problem here, with significant weight loss on the astronauts.They're now drinking their own urine.
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I think they usually bring enough for a normal operation, which this isn't. It would not have been feasible to bring that much water when they expected to be there eight days. I'm pretty sure every facility that has extended visits (and specifically the ISS) has the capacity to do it, though I'm not sure how often they do or if it's always for human consumption.Recycling urine is probably standard for space operations.
Team "They aren't stranded" on life supportRecycling urine is probably standard for space operations. Reading the article, looks like nutrition is the real problem here, with significant weight loss on the astronauts.
So... who's eating who? It would be racist to not eat the white guy first.Recycling urine is probably standard for space operations. Reading the article, looks like nutrition is the real problem here, with significant weight loss on the astronauts.
Maybe they should stop relying on quasi slave labor that’s sub par and pay qualified workers a living wage.Forgive me if I'm late of if its already been covered, but the doorplug blowout is such a morbidly hilarious scenario.
The TL;DR of what happened is said door/door area needed to be repainted. Boeing of course had this done at an outsourced plant. None of the people who performed the painting spoke a lick of English whatsoever (which was found upon investigation). The missing bolts were actually found to be missing by an inspector, and the ticket said inspector wrote up was still open at the time the plane was released.
In short we have
1. People who couldnt speaking english (and thus could not read the manual, which is the greatest sin to commit in aviation maintenance)
2. Said people left their job critically incomplete
3. An inspector who noted the issue of being incomplete, and his ticket went ignored.
4. Q/C obviously not catching the open ticket
How you reach this level of a comedy of errors is baffling, especially in a day and age where the biggest buzzword that gets you the most good boy points is "safety"
That's an aviation industry problem, not just a Boeing problem.Maybe they should stop relying on quasi slave labor that’s sub par and pay qualified workers a living wage.
A lot of industries are resisting inflation by relying on their already established work force. For instance I know a guy who owns a house on 50k a year and still has money to spend on a boat, so he doesn't mind. He already has a home loan in place so who cares.That's an aviation industry problem, not just a Boeing problem.
This summer I worked at one of the largest MROs in the country, and they only just recently started certified mechanics at $24 an hour (previously it was $20 an hour, and non certified people at $18 an hour)
For context, average mechanic starting pay is around $25-$27 an hour (and you can of course, to work for amazon fulfillment at $22 an hour starting)
There are just a lot of issues surrounding the aviation maintenance industry right now when it comes to pay and people.
I could go into more detail for any interested, but rest assured, this problem expands well beyond just Boeing
I still suggest going to college just for a different perspective on life, I know people who despise reading in public school because they were exclusively taught by 70 year old women who were strict and only taught in the most boring way the most boring novels.. You don't need to go to college
If you can afford the time and money, sure, great idea. Pants on head retarded if you're just coming out of high school, and not going in for medicine/law.I still suggest going to college just for a different perspective on life
Even those are a tough sell too. The legal profession is notoriously over saturated, with a ruinous cost of entry. Most lawyers barely break even unless they work like a fucking dog trying to rack up as many billable hours as possible. Most of them have to wage slave as associate attorneys doing menial paperwork. Its a vision of hell.If you can afford the time and money, sure, great idea. Pants on head retarded if you're just coming out of high school, and not going in for medicine/law.
The worst part is, especially for aviation, that you can make stupid money if you work for the airlines as a mechanicIf you can afford the time and money, sure, great idea. Pants on head retarded if you're just coming out of high school, and not going in for medicine/law.
No doubt, but at least a qualification actually IS required for lawyers and doctors. Everywhere it's not required, it's "required" as part of the racket.Even those are a tough sell too.
A Boeing plea deal intended to resolve a case related to two fatal crashes of its planes has been rejected by a US judge.
The plane maker had originally agreed with the US government in July to plead guilty to one count of criminal fraud, face independent monitoring, and pay a $243m (£191m) fine.
However, Judge Reed O'Connor struck down the agreement on Thursday, saying it gave the court too little power over the monitoring process.
Family members of the 346 people killed in the crashes welcomed the ruling, describing the plea deal as a "get-out-of-jail-free card for Boeing".
The Department of Justice said it was reviewing the decision. Boeing did not immediately comment.
In his decision, Judge O'Connor said the government's previous years of overseeing the firm had "failed".
"At this point, the public interest requires the Court to step in," he wrote.
He said the proposed agreement did not require Boeing to comply with the monitor's recommendations and gave the company a say in selecting a candidate.
Those issues had also been raised by some families of those killed on the flights, who had criticised it as a "sweetheart" arrangement that did not properly hold the firm to account for the deaths.
Judge O'Connor's also focused on the deal's requirements that race be considered when hiring the monitor, which he said would undermine confidence in the pick.
He said he was concerned with the "shifting and contradictory explanations of how the plea agreement's diversity-and-inclusion provision will... operate".
"In a case of this magnitude, it is in the utmost interest of justice that the public is confident this monitor selection is done based solely on competency," he wrote.
"The parties' DEI efforts only serve to undermine this confidence in the government and Boeing's ethics and anti-fraud efforts."
Ike and Susan Riffel of California, who lost their two sons, Melvin and Bennett, said the judge had done "the right thing" in rejecting the proposed agreement.
"This deal didn't hold anyone accountable for the deaths of 346 people and did nothing to protect the flying public," they said , externalin a statement supplied by their lawyer.
They said they hoped the ruling would pave the way for "real justice".