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Huh. Even Boeing doesn’t want to be associated with Boeing:

Boeing executives have repeatedly sought to make clear that the Starliner program operates independently from the company’s other units — including the commercial aircraft division that has been at the center of scandals for years.

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Are they independent from the cancerous management though?

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The classic rebranding ala facebook -> meta / insta, or food companies with their thousands of differently named subsidiaries.

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it would be so funny if russia or china manage rescue them first

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Mr. Xi,

Our astronauts yearn for freedom!

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if they d!e upon reentry, will someone pick up them cursing boeing on amateur radio?

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  • The good’ol cursing seemed to work without radio or someone actually listening
  • it seems boeing was already cursed with parasites in high positions. not sure if additional cursing could actually increase a long painful death curse by anything other than its duration.
  • The “pick them up” they’ld rather want, does not work through radio yet, rescue missions for biological personnel sadly still need to be made of/by solids.
  • unfortunately radio is a bit flawed during the plasma phase of reentry, while i think the plasma phase ‘is’ the reentry, before is only getting closer, after its basically flying or gliding/falling down, maybe parachuting. the plasma is a bit of a barrier for radio signals they said long ago. however i was quite surprised to see a new "documentation’ lately about the columbia shuttle during reentry where i was sure the original documentation said that they were in the no-radio phase due to plasma while the new ‘documentation’ said they could communicate through radio even seconds before the destruction of the shuttle, the new documentation even showed they had sensor metrics about first sensors to measure high temp while afaik those sensors were initially later installed only “because” of the aftermath for this very nasa failure … so could be that also the informations we got from tha liers about the plasma phase is also a bit “flawed”.
  • last, i’ld guess that they don’t have equipment for amateur radio frequencies on board, all involved are picky about overall rather “deadly” leaking of informations important for the public.

so to answer your question: my guess is no one will.

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Thanks, Obama. Really glad you privatized space travel. It’s going great. Our space program now consists of Guy who wants space apartheid, and company whose name is synonymous with planes that crash for no reason.

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I mean, private companies have been responsible for every launch since the Soviet Union fell (unless China is fully state owned, I don’t know)

NASA modifies equipment sometimes but they were always buying launch vehicles from private industry.

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