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[–] [email protected] 92 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I know people have spent longer on the ISS but at some point, I’d come back in a Home Depot bucket wearing a spacesuit with some scuba gear.

And for those who want to argue about the heat shielding on a Home Depot bucket, I’d be responsible about it. I’d glue all kinds of shit to it. Steal a parachute from the Roscosmos side. I’d be fine.

β€œYou’d land in the Indian Ocean."

This isn’t rocket science. It’s the opposite. I’ll land where I want. I’d aim for your mom’s house and land in her bedroom. Injuries would include a crushed pelvis and not from the fall. That’s just what happens when I visit your mom.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Reads like a Mark Watney diary entry

[–] Einstein 13 points 5 days ago

Death by snu snu. Nice.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"For the love of god don't cut that corner or some one will die"
-Man who shot himself in the back of the head twice.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Modern day Gilligan’s Island reboot time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It was a ship and not a space station but same idea. Cancelled after 2 seasons though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_5

[–] TheEEEdiot 1 points 3 days ago

That was a good show too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

An excellent idea, with each season finale being another failed return trip that gets delayed, and then the next season all their conditions are significantly worse until they resort to canabalism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

No, we keep rebooting it every 3 seasons like Power Rangers or something.

In the end we will have 15 or so astronaut teams on different space stations.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

A 3 month tour. 🎢

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Gilligan's Planet was an underrated gem.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

That will teach them to fly Boeing.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Holy shit; planned to spend 10 days, stuck there for almost a year... (if they finally manage this schedule)

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

fwiw, they both may never go back to space again so their time in space has been extended much beyond what they thought they could do and have repeatedly said they are trying to make the most of it. The real problem is just the scheduling bumps and resource allocations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Also health problems increase when in space longer. Specifically drastic increased risk of cancer due to lack of sufficient radiation shielding.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I don't think the radiation should be too big of a problem, they are in a very low earth orbit, well inside of the Earth's magnetosphere. Not to say there are no health risks, they lose a lot of bone and muscle mass, but radiation shouldn't be a big concern

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago

Looks like the fear of a Boeing suicide ain't bringing the morale as much as needed to execute this.

Another example of US corporate culture yielding yuge results. Epic.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What if this whole thing was a ruse and they're keeping them up there because they know they're dangerous aliens wearing human skin?

But if they realise that we know this they'll send a signal to their mother ship and kill us all.

So we're holding them up there while we come up with a plan...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Looks like you're 100% correct. They're gearing up to take those fuckers out:

[–] mindbleach 1 points 4 days ago

Explorers We.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,

A tale of a fateful trip

That started from this tropic port

Aboard this tiny ship...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I wonder which one gets to be "and the rest" this time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Those poor bastards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I wonder how much money they are getting paid while stuck, I'd imagine it's gotta be pretty significant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They will probably owe Boeing money in all honesty.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 4 days ago

When Saint Peter calls me, tell him I can't go, our asses are stuck here in LEO.

[–] threelonmusketeers 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I assumed that the NASA astronaut corps have a standard salary whether the astronauts get to fly or not. Are they only paid while in space?

[–] AwesomeLowlander 4 points 4 days ago

Getting paid full 24/7 overtime, perhaps. Not that they don't deserve it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

A two week expendition has turned into 10 months. -Capitalism, baby!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What does that have to do with capitalism?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

What does the privatization of space flight, and it's subsequent technical failures resulting in a 2-week expedition turning into a 10-month expedition have to do with capitalism? Is that a serious question?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I'm new to lemmy world. I'm noticing every top comment is something negative about capitalism. Either the clueless reddit communists came over or it's just Russian trolls. It could be a stubbed toe, "CAPITALISM FOR YA!!" I picked to post here because this is 8 out of 10 posts now. It's pretty much equivalent to "THANKS OBAMA!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Check where they're from lemmy.ml is literally just a bunch of fucking tankies and russian/ccp apologist. They're idiots who blame everything on capitalism and think communism has never been tried and that everything would be great under communism, so long as they were running the show. It's pretty much just people with no life experience shouting off these things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

This is just an interesting artifact of internet communities at work. They are stuck there because Boeing's design was unsafe, Boeing has been suffering from engineering culture decline due to MBAs seeking to maximize profit. Maximizing profit is the end state of late stage capitalism. Thus this is Capitalism's fault.

People are frustrated thus they amplify these posts and ideas. You can notice the effects everywhere once you start looking. However it leads to a boring discussion. I can already see doomer questions flooding Ask Lemmy. While I may agree, it can't all be based on that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I think capitalism is ruining earth, and is at the heart of most of the problems and challenges, AMA (jk, I don't care). It doesn't mean that I can suggest a good alternative, but observations are what they are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah, I really hope at least most of them are trolls...

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