Boeing Starliner: Two astronauts wait to come home amid spacecraft issues

[@LordBrittish]

Next project: Boeing is making a submersible to go down and visit the Titanic.

[@Raytracer96024]

Boeing will call it 'Titan'

[@NathanMaltba]

​@@Raytracer96024 you mean Titan Max 😂

[@EatYourPancakesDummie]

We can only hope

[@jonharson]

Boeing submarines are actually pretty cool, but you do not need meatbags in them to fuck with your ennemies pipelines, fibers and sheit

[@jonharson]

@@NathanMaltba No it's called the Orca acktually, and the one then armed by Lockheed the LXUUV, see Echo Voyager

[@ant305tone]

At this point, I wouldn't even ride a Boeing bicycle 🤷

[@raptor87peak]

Well, certainly not without training wheels and a massive helmet and padded clothing, what a joke.

[@Dirte_Woods]

I wouldn't walk in Boeing shoes.

[@TinkletitsMcGee]

I wouldn’t drink boeing coffee

[@steveo601]

Good effing lord. If I’m them I’m paying personally to have Russia get me back down. Thing is supposed to use air bag balloon’s to land on? 😆😆. Holy f&@k.😬😬🫣

[@PlanetaryDefenseFoundation]

Lol

[@HuskyOwner-bl1jf]

Boeing is just another example of a large corporation coasting on its past accomplishments and letting quality go down the drain

[@RichardQuaid]

It was taken over by greed.

[@FunHog69]

while stealing American tax payer dollars with the help of our own government...

[@Schwarzie10]

It happens all the time safly. Thats the problem with todays corporate america. New executives every few years destroys any culture there once was and allows one person to come in and do some detrimental things.

[@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

Yep.

[@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

What do they call this phenomenon, whether it’s an airline or a pizza company…it’s def a thing

[@johnwalsh3790]

If it's Boeing, you ain't going

[@paintawaytheday420]

You can go, just not come back.

[@Rasupubegasu]

@@paintawaytheday420One way ticket to the pearly gates.

[@AiRPasternak]

One way ticket to the afterlife.

[@Feral_Turd]

@@paintawaytheday420 well, not in the same number of pieces anyway.

[@fatdoi003]

boeing should switch to funeral business....

[@chris5201]

those astronauts must've been whistle blowers

[@ajkulac9895]

In space no one can hear your whistle

[@jams_toast1]

@@ajkulac9895I love this

[@stevenwest000]

😂

[@jimhorn4691]

Put Boeing CEO up there on ISS, you don't have to bring him down, but the company might improve without him.

[@Aerospace_Education]

He's "retiring" so he is going to try and take the heat for the company since he is leaving anyways. We need to keep the focus on Boeing and not let them get off easy by putting it just on the CEO. It's a culture issue that was built that now needs to changed across the board.

[@jesse89625]

Chinese astronauts laugh loudly on the Chinese space station🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@caiocc12]

won't work. CEO is the symptom, not the disease. The disease are shareholders - and the demand for short-term and ever growing profits. There is nothing wrong with stable, non-increasing profits - this "mandatory growth" culture is gonna end humanity

[@andywomack3414]

@@Aerospace_Education I am sure that he will not have so sacrifice a single trophy resort property.

[@pdoylemi]

At least their doors did not fall off!

[@marcolazatin7789]

Boeing misunderstood the contract. They thought 4.2 billion dollars doesn't include a return trip.

[@RT-mm8rq]

1.2 billion went to the program. The rest to pay for shareholder dividends, corporate salaries and bonuses.

[@uWr.Ppel112]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@musamusa2961]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@aboutwhat1930]

Pay them another billion and they'll be months if not years late on all deadlines to get them home.

[@52Quantum]

"What? You want to come back? Hmmm I'll pass that on to the design team. Is there anything else I can help you with today, sir?"

[@Zonker66]

The CEO makes $33 million a year and the company is inefficient? Shocked, shocked I am!

[@bobroberts2371]

Well, here is your chance to convince share holders to hire YOU to be the CEO. Would you work for $ 1 mill?

[@alpinecenter]

They cut the Quality Assurance staff by $33 million a year to pay the new CEO.

[@Zonker66]

@@bobroberts2371 After he raped Boeing and utterly destroyed its global reputation and demoralized the workforce? Hard pass.

[@raylopez99]

@@bobroberts2371 Elon Musk wouldn't work for $1M, or $33M for that matter. Maybe $33B tho.

[@la7dfa]

@@raylopez99 I am not a Musk fanboy, and hate his right wing conspiracies and racism, but he has changed the space industry by advancing it by a couple of decades. And as always you have to be born at the right time make quantum leaps. Just like Einstein had his former peers as a basis for the photo electric effect and relativity , the reuse of rockets needed good enough computers to make landings possible.

[@hellxsco]

1 week from now: Boeing Starliner fucking explodes. CEO Gives himself a $10 million dollar raise.

[@ambermchugh9381]

Wonder of space ships are insured

[@icare7151]

SpaceX only received 2.5 billion to build Dragon space craft, was on time and on budget. Boeing received 4.6 billion then need another 1.3 billion to complete the StarLiner and is still plagued with defects, bad engineering and unacceptable quality control. Of course it’s Boeing.

[@octaviondeminicolas1941]

And they get a ton of hate from anti spaceX propaganda anyway.

[@michaelkevinmirasol8256]

That's government bureaucracy for ya

[@mikethomas860]

​@@michaelkevinmirasol8256Don't think that is on the government. The government relied on Boeing to produce a spacecraft. A name that used to stand for excellence. The tough choice will be can the Government walk away from a bad design.

[@DCresident123]

@@michaelkevinmirasol8256 Bureaucracy? How naive are you wow...

[@chucksneed5405]

@@mikethomas860 Boeing is basically a federal government aerospace department at this point. Over the years they have become intertwined with government to the point it isn't really accurate to call them a private enterprise.

[@EJWash57]

Saying: "What goes up, must come down!" Boeing: "Hold my beer and watch this."

[@SUBASHKUMAR-wz8zx]

😀

[@michaelwan4268]

Best comments ever

[@andreamckinney7500]

😂😂😂

[@ICanDigIt0907]

Too soon? NAH! 😂

[@7scientist]

New ad slogan: "Boeing: An otherworldly level of incompetence"

[@la7dfa]

The CEO is 33 Million Dollar smart. He should fix it in a day or two.

[@Kenobi_Cowboy]

@@la7dfa I hear he graduated High School yesterday.

[@rajmathew6220]

Meanwhile, the CEO is getting 30 million a year

[@Travlinmo]

Your taxpayer dollars hard at work.

[@EinsteinsHair]

A board of directors determines the CEO's compensation. I have long suspected that there are "star struck" board members, who serve on multiple boards, that all have struggling companies with overpaid CEOs. Some business reporting expert should dig into it, and start publicly shaming bad board members. Either a top ten list, or the bad one of the week / month.

[@Travlinmo]

@@EinsteinsHair That story does get done periodically and little changes. I do not necessarily agree with the reason but you could be correct. My thought is always flat out greed. That if they over pay the CEO, they also can get excessive income for doing very little on the many boards they sit on. My current CEO makes about 8M per year and doesn’t do a bad job but definitely isn’t worth 10% of that pay. (Had to relook that up as that is 100% bump in the poor man’s pay from about 2 years ago… I guess inflation really helps a CEO.)

[@cagedtigersteve]

@@Travlinmo The Boeing CEO isn't paid by the government. Biden is. So let's blame Biden for it.

[@al28854]

once again, Boeing is proving they are at least 5 years behind what SpaceX can do.

[@cagedtigersteve]

So funny that NASA had something that was way more capable than anything today--yet they gave it up for commercial transport.

[@michaelkupfer3723]

You mean blowing up rockets and calling that "successful"? 😅

[@johnc3525]

SpaceX is at least 50 years behind what NASA can do.

[@mikethomas860]

​@@cagedtigersteveLOL! NASA had something way more capable. I needed a laugh.

[@zhongxina9420]

@@michaelkupfer3723 how many falcon 9's blew up since 2016? none! 362 consecutive launches without fail 🤭

[@DylanSemerau]

I think they should send the space x dragon capsule and have the boeing starliner capsule return unmanned. That seems like such an unnecessary risk to send them home in such an unsafe vehicle.

[@kennethng8346]

Boeing would be a laughing stock if SpaceX has to go up and rescue them.

[@thesoundsmith]

_Would_ be? Are you unaware of their recent track record?

[@thaphreak]

@didyuknow *Shartliner (ftfy) :)

[@firminorules]

that's hilarious lol

[@elfietube]

This what happens when these arrogant CEOs sit on their high thrones and have no idea what is happening to the company or does but choose to ignore it for the sake of profit. Case in point, just look at Bozo and his tiny toy rocket that barely makes it into space and doesn't even work every time. Another buffoon that have no idea on what it takes to design and build a rocket that works.

[@hnlmike3589]

How else are they going to get spare parts up to the ISS to fix the Boeing thing…. bring on Spacex yet again to show them how it’s done .🚀👍👍

[@midnightorchid9731]

Boeing can't even understand airplanes, WTF did people expect?!

[@matteofalduto766]

Airplanes? Bolted doors!

[@combatepistemologist8382]

It's run by bean counters and MBAs now, not engineers and scientists.

[@Nola50]

Send men to space to live in a Boeing made space station, they said. What could go wrong, they said.

[@trumpet12345]

no, they uderstand them too well. hence cutting costs until burned

[@11x]

These shitty reporters who can't come up with anything better love people like you who eat these headlines up, they already have re-entry & touchdown times😂

[@t.r.campbell6585]

This thing should never have been launched in the first place because of all of the engineering and operational difficulties that were known. The decision to launch was a political and public relations decision rather than an engineering decision.

[@BitcoinfunforBoomers]

Just like what happened with the space shuttle Challenger. Launched when they knew they probably shouldn't.

[@skyking6989]

As an engineer myself seeing the problems and they decided to launch anyway turns my stomach. As an engineer safety comes before everything. Boeing knew it should have never went into orbit but they did it anyway. Absolutely disgusting

[@alanjenkins1508]

This is like saying Chuck Jeager should never have flown the Bell X-1at Mach 1 becaue of the very high risk he would be killed.

[@sauronthegreat5799]

The USA wanted to impress the Chinese with their technological prowess. That’s why they launched without resolving all the problems.

[@brandenstangle320]

Boeing tennis shoes? Nah I’ll go barefoot

[@viksra]

He was originally correct when he said 15 billion miles away, not when he revised it to 50 million.

[@willong1000]

Indeed, I was scrolling down here to see if anyone else noticed. It is yet another example of politically motivated decisions overriding logic, such as those made to launch in freezing temperatures that doomed the crew of Challenger, that a former "astronaut" can't even get the distance correct within several orders of magnitude! I don't care what color the skin, hair, or eyes, what genitals reside below their beltline, or the slope of an astronaut's eyes as long as they understand WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE DOING! But decisions and personnel placements motivated by DEI considerations are killing the reason, the ethics, and the traditional morality of the USA! Sadly, "the right stuff" appears to be an archaic and abandoned concept.

[@dnmdch]

don't bother, it was just meant to side track the starliner issue. 😂

[@parrotbrand2782]

50 million miles cannot even get you to Mars

[@robertsonsid]

Why ask an astronaut about a space probe?

[@cagedtigersteve]

@@parrotbrand2782 Wrong, the distance could be as little as 34 million miles. You've been fact checked.

[@WessyD123]

Imagine being stuck on the space station and the only craft thats available to rescue you is a boeing 🤪

[@MADmosche]

Nothing is “stuck” at all, this video is misinformation. NASA and Boeing confirmed that there are no new issues and no major issues, but they decided to extend the time on orbit to gather data about the service module performance. That’s because the service module is jettisoned and burns up in the atmosphere when the Starliner capsule returns. So this brief time on orbit is the last chance to gather data about the service module and thruster performance.

[@Rubyzyx]

⁠@@MADmoscheok 👍 but stop yapping 🤫 🧏‍♂️

[@RogueWraith909]

I'd rather base jump from the station than "fly" home in that thing.

[@wildniscamper7276]

it's more or less falling not flying😉😂

[@LoneHawk]

@@MADmoschethis isn’t misinformation. It’s stuck while they work on issues. What about that is misleading at all

[@papito2lindo]

Boeing “now offering 1st class ticket to the afterlife”

[@steveo601]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣

[@Ban7tan744]

🤣🤣😭😭😭

[@HunterKutz]

"Not even the Pharaohs of old had a send off this luxurious" -says Forbes

[@curtisgreen2097]

​@@HunterKutz lol 😂

[@TheChampionofEnki]

The plane to the afterlife would probably malfunction too 😂

[@jaysoncarter5093]

What a mess. I'm forced to fly 737s Domestically because of lack of aircraft available... I've been flying long haul since 1974. I've NEVER been afraid of flying until now.

[@RottieMom12]

Yes sir! I feel the same way and I've never been afraid of flying. Road trips from now on.

[@nemesiswes426]

As many issues as Boeing has, there still very safe planes. Even with everything that's happened, I have no issue flying on any Boeing jet.

[@RottieMom12]

@@nemesiswes426 That's understandable. 🙂

[@smark1180]

You're not "forced" to do any such thing.

[@smark1180]

@@nemesiswes426 Agreed. These people are hysterical lemmings.

[@mathewwright4129]

Bet Boeing was relieved to find out "that whistle blowing sound" was just a hydrogen leak.

[@PunchBuggyDreams]

The news reporter was right. Voyager 1 is 15.1 billion miles away, not 50 million as the Starliner guy said. Huge difference since Mars at it's farthest from Earth is 140 million miles.

[@willong1000]

Indeed, I was scrolling down here to see if anyone else noticed. It is yet another example of politically motivated decisions overriding logic, such as those made to launch in freezing temperatures that doomed the crew of Challenger, that a former "astronaut" can't even get the distance correct within several orders of magnitude! I don't care what color the skin, hair, or eyes, what genitals reside below their beltline, or the slope of an astronaut's eyes as long as they understand WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE DOING! But decisions and personnel placements motivated by DEI considerations are killing the reason, the ethics, and the traditional morality of the USA! Sadly, "the right stuff" appears to be an archaic and abandoned concept.

[@dnmdch]

don't bother, it was just meant to side track the starliner issue. 😂

[@michaelkevinmirasol8256]

And mind you, Voyager 1 and 2 are still functioning and transmitting data more than 50 years later!

[@davemitchell6281]

NASA bought a lemon.

[@paulobembe7742]

A very expensive lemon!

[@KonradTheWizzard]

Don't you dare insult the brave and heroic citrus fruit! A lemon is far better than this cr*p. 😜 (SCNR)

[@tringuyen7519]

SpaceX has flown over 20 missions to & from ISS without incident. Boeing Starliner is having problems just being docked to the ISS. Imagine the re-entry.

[@ImpendingJoker]

NASA hasn't bought anything. Like the SpaceX capsule this is owned by Boeing. The two astronauts are Boeing test pilots. NASA isn't fitting the bill for the capsule Boeing is.

[@BassRck50-xv8iz]

An EXPENSIVE lemon!

[@jsb331]

That tin can is an embarrassment to the legacy of the Boeing corporation.

[@SledDog5678]

Current Boeing is an embarrassment to the Boeing Corp. legacy!

[@mazimadu]

😆I wouldn't really call it a tin can (that's what Sputnik was) But at this point, even YOU can make a better craft than Boeing

[@11x]

These shitty reporters who can't come up with anything better love people like you who eat these headlines up, they already have re-entry & touchdown times😂

[@11x]

Media loves gullible ppl who eat this up, minor issue and touchdown is June 26th😂

[@raclark2730]

🎶This is major Tom to ground control🎶

[@CloneShockTrooper]

I wouldn`t even carry a Boeing keychain

[@zachelton7734]

The fact they ever went in the first place is astounding.. I mean seriously.. EVERYONE saw something like this coming..

[@MrP4v]

I think I’d wait for a ride on the next SpaceX shuttle myself.

[@ZeitGeist_TV]

I wouldn't go in that thing either, let it go home uncrewed and return on a Dragon capsule.

[@markforcyth2445]

When the heads of Boeing decided to run the company like an econo-car manufacturer, you start producing vehicles that are neither airworthy nor space-worthy.

[@RichardQuaid]

It would have been nice if they had put that much thought into it. It was only about making cash, nothing else.

[@DanielSimone-wg8op]

That is an unjustified insult to car manufacturers who value quality far more then Boeing does. Car makers produce millions times more vehicles then aircraft makers do. Cars come off assembly lines every 3 to 4 minutes.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

Econo-Car manufaturers have to pass the same Crash and Emissions Tests as luxury or high valued brands. NASA pushed SpaceX to do real tests, but allowed Boeing to use Test Simulations. SpaceX expended a perfectly good booster to make sure the Crew In-Flight Abort system worked flawlessly. Boeing was allowed to do theirs in a computer simulation. Just as ALL car manufacturers have to pass Safety and Emissions tests, ALL space technology providers should be completing the same physical real world tests.

[@rebelroar78]

They didn’t even run it like a proper Econo-car company. They wanted to become Toyota or Mitsubishi and they ended up becoming Hyundai. Emulating Japanese/Korean companies was a terrible idea.

[@cherokee43v6]

Interesting isn't it that the Starliner Commander, Butch Wilmore's most quoted line, amidst the delays prior to the launch... "I'd rather be down here wanting to be up there than up there wanting to be down here,"

[@sageakporherhe783]

Well well well 😂

[@Nothinglefttosay]

Well this is awkward… I’m glad they didn’t design the PEZ dispenser 😂

[@tuttt99]

If it's Boeing, I'm not going.

[@sliperysid]

"2 more weeks" that aged well!

[@herthadynasty4160]

no New Updates the last 14 days!!! this is so duscusting !!!

[@CanadianSmoke]

The one sentence from Earth you don't want to hear while in orbit, "We're working on it."

[@blackout07blue]

And “it’s a Boeing”. Lol

[@jackroberts416]

​@@blackout07blue Terrifying words if you are stuck on the ISS. "Boeing is working in it."

[@CanadianSmoke]

@@jackroberts416 Indeed.... followed closely by, "Keep that door shut!"

[@lawrenceleverton7426]

I like "Ill get right on" it myself.

[@lawrenceleverton7426]

@@jackroberts416 They don't have to leave for awhile. Just bring supplies. I'm sure the Rations will be implemented soon.

[@hyun-shik7327]

You know, getting stranded in space is a situation so terrible we make movies and video games based on that premise.

[@Filthy_Larry]

They gonna open the airlock. Just you wait.

[@roger_welco]

maneuvering thrusters not working isn't a 'minor' issue.

[@steveo601]

Those thrusters fail and your either burning up or skipping off the atmosphere on a one way trip to Jupiter😂

[@heyaisdabomb]

@@SayWhut276 They have to toe the line or risk their career.

[@williampiniarski1702]

only 4-5 thrusters- what are you kidding me! Yeah its no problem until u drift out into space or come in on a bad angle.

[@tringuyen7519]

@@heyaisdabombThey’re not risking their careers. They’re risking their lives!

[@hrysivjt67]

It’s the thrusters on the attachment that will jettisoned once they disembark. The capsule is fine.

[@kowabonga1263]

Imagine the loss of reputation if the first man to be lost in space EVER was from the boeing failure

[@Filthy_Larry]

I’m betting someone going to go crazy and open the airlock.

[@LesserAndrew]

"Hopefully they come back safely" is not what you want to hear in a news report about a spacecraft

[@DanaOredson]

NASA should not contract with Boeing ever again. The writing has been on the wall for years.

[@kellystiburk4385]

But we don't have any good companies left that are competent!!

[@DanaOredson]

@@kellystiburk4385 SpaceX and the up-and-comers that seem to be doing good things. Like Rocket Lab, Stoke Space. They can’t do a capsule yet, but they’ll get there.

[@chucksneed5405]

@@kellystiburk4385 that's the price you pay for DEI and thinking that getting government contracts is a tenable business model lol

[@Trekari]

Who could've predicted that a company which can't build safe airplanes anymore might not be the best company to build a spaceship. I'm shocked!

[@seanwelch007]

The astronauts aren’t stuck, Starliner is stuck. Dragon Capsule can do the job

[@alphagt62]

My thoughts, I bet Space X could get it done in no time at all.

[@m.theresa1385]

* _embarrasing_ *

[@jacksons1010]

Bottom line is we _need_ competition and redundancy. Competition to end the price gouging (it’s a fact) and redundancy to prevent the USA ever again being in the situation of needing to buy rides on foreign spacecraft.

[@11x]

They are not stuck, but the shitty media reporters love ppl like you... the re-entry time and date on the 26th

[@hermeticxhaote4723]

Starliner isn't stuck, it could literally leave now, but facts are irrelevant these days. They want to study the service module as its jettisoned on re-entry. The actual 2 people flying the thing are more competent and intelligent than anyone on earth and aren't worried as this is typical sensationalized news BS created by and for morons.

[@Anatoli50]

Boeing builds a Yugo for $ 5 Billion dollars.

[@ontopoftheroof]

Stuck up there and then Netflix wouldn't let you log in because your IP address is not from you home planet.

[@Zonker66]

Before this launched, I mentioned (mostly in jest) that the astronauts were brave to fly Boeing.

[@netstatmint8639]

truly brave

[@DanielDanielsen]

Same

[@origamicrane685]

I've never seen people so happy to get off a spacecraft.

[@the_omg3242]

She's probably yelling "I flew Boeing and didn't die!!!"

[@afroabroad]

@didyuknowIt’s a coffin not a museum piece.

[@ryanvaldezotto7338]

There was music playing and that’s why she was dancing haha. It’s a test flight. These things are meant to check for things. I’m happy they found little glitches. Gives data points for Boeing engineers to take a look. I also like that they are being conservative, as opposed to a Columbia type incident

[@larryalesi6356]

Boeing's new AD campaign: We got the doors.

[@gorak9000]

But not the bolts that hold them on...

[@Jimmy_Jones]

The engines on the other hand appear to be malfunctioning

[@craigmackay4909]

60% of the time it works every time.

[@naturesbest7977]

I showed up for the Boeing jokes.

[@misterfunnybones]

Pay the executive team more money & you'll get better results. Repeat until insolvent.

[@jgilchristmusic]

Time to scrap the Starliner forever. I would wait for a ride on Dragon.

[@westleywest7259]

It would even cost less.

[@enox3547]

Just send up a dragon craft. They can launch and return it successfully for less than Boeings hourly rate.

[@ScribeHolder]

Pretty much my thoughts

[@johndemeritt3460]

Isn't there a Crew Dragon up there? If it is, the Starliner crew could hitch a ride home . . . .

[@tarmaque]

@@johndemeritt3460 There is, and technically a Dragon can carry seven passengers. However it supposedly has to be configured on the ground to do so. It would be easier for SpaceX to fly up an uncrewed Dragon to "rescue" them. If I'm not mistaken SpaceX has a backup Dragon prepped and ready for just such an emergency. They just have to stack it and go.

[@SimontheDog-v1h]

not great that your choices are those two companies lmao, bleak!

[@jtjames79]

​@@tarmaque That's the NASA answer. The real answer: there's nothing stopping anyone riding home naked on a pile of the dirty laundry if they really wanted to.

[@jsb331]

They used thrusters and manifolds from Wish.

[@kennedykihara3800]

Hope they come back safely

[@robertrizzi4915]

SpaceX is probably talking internationally at this point. Should only cost around $90M, which is cheap compared to others.

[@mattrinker2947]

The fact that this capsule launched at all is shocking.

[@neototem4110]

I heard Boeing is going to start making condoms

[@matteofalduto766]

Good. At least they’ll do something to combat the low fertility rate in the developed countries.

[@BBBrasil]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MelioraCogito]

@@matteofalduto766 _“Good. At least they’ll do something to combat the low fertility rate in the developed countries.”_ 🤦🤦‍♂🤦‍♀ Almost 8.1 billion people on the planet… and you think that's not enough? (That's 2.7× more people than there were, the year I was born.) The idea that we, in the developed countries, need to keep making babies is absurd (especially if you have more than the two needed to replace you and your spouse).

[@matteofalduto766]

@@MelioraCogito that is not just my opinion. It’s a common matter of concern and debate. Low fertility rates in developed countries are worrying because they lead to an aging population, which puts a strain on social welfare and reduces the workforce. With fewer young people entering the job market, economic growth will likely slow, and there will be fewer taxpayers to support pensions and healthcare for the elderly. In some European countries, the share of population aged 65+ is well above 20%, while it was less 10% in the 50s. Our current economic systems are not designed for such a big share of economically “passive” population. Hopefully automation and ai will help on that aspect, but we don’t know for sure. The replacement rate, accounting for modern child mortality rates and other factors, is about 2.1 children per woman. That is to keep the population constant. In my country (Italy) the current fertility rate is 1.3. In South Corea it is 0.9. Fortunately we still have some good immigration rates that keep the system going, at least for now…

[@MelioraCogito]

@@matteofalduto766 _“Low fertility rates in developed countries are worrying because they lead to an aging population, which puts a strain on social welfare and reduces the workforce…”_ All those issues can be resolved through immigration, rather than increasing the overall global population, which only taxes demand for global resources (increasing the risk of regional/global conflicts). We're at the point, in the developed economies, where the Boomer generation is now smaller than the individual generations that followed it, reducing their demand for social services (pensions, old age security benefits and the like). In Canada and the U.S., the largest age demographic are Millennials (b. 1981-1996). As the population demographics in the older age groups decline through natural attrition, so too will their demand for social services (notwithstanding the need to index such benefits to account for inflation). We've been raised on a myth that infinite growth on a finite planet is attainable… **NEWSFLASH** it isn't. The sooner we address unsustainable growth, the sooner our descendants will be better able to create robust, sustainable economies that can support everyone.

[@DemoEvolvedGaming]

Being stuck in the sky is not a problem I expected of a Boeing craft

[@TornadoCAN99]

Think of all the extra air-miles they are racking up!

[@1331bigbossdog]

They are in a pool. Lol space is fake.

[@TornadoCAN99]

@@1331bigbossdog Says someone who obviously has never been in a pool.....

[@saintsalieri]

@@TornadoCAN99 what are you talking about? he knows everyone in his gene pool personally.

[@MADmosche]

Nothing is “stuck” at all, this video is misinformation. NASA and Boeing confirmed that there are no new issues and no major issues, but they decided to extend the time on orbit to gather data about the service module performance. That’s because the service module is jettisoned and burns up in the atmosphere when the Starliner capsule returns. So this brief time on orbit is the last chance to gather data about the service module and thruster performance.

[@amintchocookie]

Boeing, or companies have similar situations/issues, is the perfect reflection of this country - declining day by day without shame, one day it will be diminished from human history.

[@bcxii9684]

Just waiting for an asian employee at NASA to say "Oh yeah, I just remembered my uncle in china has a spare space rocket that they could lend us for the summer"

[@ewenchan1239]

"...as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues" This is what happens when you have bean counters running a tech company. It happens. ALL. THE. TIME.

[@scootypuffjr.]

And DEI

[@ewenchan1239]

@@scootypuffjr. Why would Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have to do with the fact that there are bolts missing where bolts are supposed to be??? (What a fucking dumbass response.)

[@ajkulac9895]

This happened to so many AAA game companies. Money people take over, don't get it, ruin it.

[@chucksneed5405]

is "bean counters" some kind of ethnic slur now?

[@ewenchan1239]

@@chucksneed5405 "is "bean counters" some kind of ethnic slur now?" No. It's the term that's given for accountants. (Historically speaking, they would trade in beans, and/or use them as a form of currency under a barter-based economic system.) Have you LITERALLY never READ the story of Jack and The Beanstalk??? (where the protagonist traded a cow for beans???)

[@bobpourri9647]

I am saddened anew that this problem solving scenario never happened for Columbia. May these astronauts have a safe and uneventful return home!

[@christinacody8653]

Truth!!!

[@zackari]

All dead for sure or SpaceX is gonna have to rescue them

[@thethirdman225]

@@zackari You didn’t listen to what he said, did you?

[@kandle54]

@@thethirdman225 he's not gonna listen, he's on sinorussia payroll blaming everything American.

[@planetsec9]

Columbia didn't go to the ISS on that mission, if they did they would have spotted the damage to the wing from the station, unfortunately they were on a different orbit

[@johna5563]

What if they went up on the Boeing Starliner… and have to be rescued by a SpaceX Dragon…! What a absolute testament that’d be to what SpaceX is capable of- making spacecraft that are really reliable, reusable and able to be used at a moments notice, even for rescue missions!

[@Sagesnoke]

A technical company should be lead by a person who is an engineering expert and not a Account.

[@HighTopHigher]

I don’t believe anything they say. They downplayed every tragic incident before it happened.

[@starship2023]

You don't have anything to worry unless they get back on that capsule

[@AidenSShin]

Boeing. End of discussion.

[@kbiswhoib]

If the leaks aren't that bad, why haven't they brought it home?

[@amooreperiod]

@kbiswh the service module where the leak and thrusters are, will be jettisoned and burn up in the atmosphere. So it’s better to stay docked a bit longer to troubleshoot and gather data to make adjustments on the next flight module.

[@Paiadakine]

@@amooreperiodso if everything was working perfectly would they still be delayed? I don’t get this excuse. So what if the part if gonna be jettisoned. It’s messed up and Boeing needs more time to fix it if they can.

[@amooreperiod]

⁠@@Paiadakineto be honest I am not sure why you are so invested in a failure or a conspiracy . Its a shake down flight. All new space vehicles have one to work out bugs and its not out of the ordinary to have things that needs to be worked on for the next flight. Similar flights have happened for Mercury, Apollo, Space Shuttle, Spacex, Blue Origin which have had their own full test flights and later issue to resolve

[@Paiadakine]

@@amooreperiod Shake down cruise is ok for a boat that can be towed back to port.

[@amooreperiod]

@@PaiadakineS As I noted, they do them for spacecraft too, it’s fairly normal.

[@TheConsciousMachine]

It's even dangerous to say the word Boeing out loud 😮📣

[@fschiller4189]

If you say it three times in a row, a plane crashes in your backyard.

[@WalaNehLabala]

​@@fschiller4189 😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂😮😮😅😅😅😅

[@rtqii]

@@fschiller4189 You know what happens to Boeing whistleblowers... It's safer to bad mouth Putin in Russia.

[@CaptApril123]

I just did and my windscreen fell out.

[@kchilz32]

The Astronaut must have been a whistleblower

[@robertcox5896]

That goes to show you how brilliant the engineers were back when they built voyager 1.

[@nolandfpv]

SpaceX received half the budget Boeing did and has delivered far more in less time and now they'll need to rescue the Starliner astronauts from the space station. The irony is thick for anyone paying attention.

[@FunHog69]

Sad how Boeing steals American tax payer dollars with the help of our own government...

[@BlackVulpes]

SpaceX is a failure of a company that has spent billions trying to repeat the success we already had back in the first moonlanding being tanked by its manchild CEO. The irony is thicker for anyone who actually knows anything.

[@mariomario1462]

Uh their rocket exploded

[@ThatOpalGuy]

give them time....

[@HomesteadDNA]

@@mariomario1462 Tell us you know nothing about anything without telling us. You saw a test rocket explode? But havent seen the 200+ consecutively successful Falcon 9 launches including flights to the ISS?

[@trandyz2521]

So Boeing decided to extend their problems to space😢😢.. as an engineer, this is not funny

[@egoruderico3038]

If the issue ends up being screws not secured properly, they should just close the company.

[@xeroterragoth1866]

Everyone wants to bag on Boeing as if they're the problem, but they're just a SYMPTOM of the problem. Corporations are pushing for higher profit margins for less pay for their employees and care more about keeping their shareholders happy than being a good company. Instead of doing what's been working, they keep changing things internally to try and save costs and increase revenue, usually at the cost of their employees time and money. You need to treat your employees better and focus on quality of your product rather than what your numbers are and if the stock is good or shareholders are happy. Open your eyes, it's not just Boeing, they're just the most obvious example. If you work one of these jobs, you definitely know what I mean.

[@malacca1951]

I can't figure out why an experienced and experienced NASA Astronaut says, 'You know' so many times! Clearly WE don't know and we are watching him to find out information. (If 'we know', we don't need to watch!)

[@TerryB751]

The ISS has turned into the Hotel California with that famous line, You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

[@JamesWitte]

lol

[@billholt7860]

We are all just prisoners here , of our own device . - The comment section

[@yummysatay]

Good one. As Eagles' Don Henley sang: "All she (Sunni) wants to do is dance" upon arrival on ISS.😂

[@ThePresentFuture]

It's leaking helium and 5 (of 12) maneuvering thrusters failed. Thrusters required to get to Earth without burning up. And Leroy says, *"this is a light problem."* I trust him about as far as I could throw the Starliner.

[@joshmaday1462]

Four of those five came back online when they rebooted them. They think it’s just a bad reading of the sensor data. So, for starters, it’s 1, not 5. Then it’s not 12, it’s 28. They have three full redundant sets.

[@LasVegas68]

Way go go NASA. You knew that Boeing spacecraft was crap and you still launched. So much for safety after after the Challenger disaster.

[@davemitchell6281]

@@brimstonesulfur5013 *👎

[@superkoopatrooper4879]

Ya, they should of hired you, a rocket science engineer or armchair expert... samething, right?

[@LasVegas68]

@@superkoopatrooper4879 When they tell you there's problems you don't have to be, genius!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@LasVegas68 Yes, you do, but you're still not.

[@LasVegas68]

@@RideAcrossTheRiverNever said I was either!

[@acf2802]

Further proof that they should swap the E and the I in DEI.

[@kwokmingng4548]

According to the U.S. Law - Chinese are not allow to go near NASA spaceship....Chinese can not help

[@DagNeb_It]

Time to send in the “Space Cowboys!” Am I the only one who remembers that movie?

[@gordonbergslien30]

Nope! Love that movie! Some of it was filmed at the museum where I volunteer.

[@elmobrandao9849]

RIP Donald Sutherland

[@westleywest7259]

James Garner! Rockford in space!

[@richardstrobbe8890]

The female astronaut drank the cool aid for sure

[@Scooty_jr]

How’s Kansas City?

[@jimhanty8149]

What women won’t do for attention… put somthing on that damn hair…like the other girl did… how did she ever get to be an astronaut with that attitude…that’s just rude..

[@jimmipadge]

Voyager 1 is about 15.1 *_BILLION_* miles away, Voyager 2 is about 12.7 *_billion_* just sayin’….

[@Dirte_Woods]

Exactly... Did I catch him say it's 50 million miles away? The sun is over 93million miles away right?

[@jimmipadge]

@@Dirte_Woods Yes, which makes me think the dude doesn’t know anything and just jumbled his “facts” that he read 30 seconds before going live. This is exactly why people don’t trust what they see on the “news”… I’m not a “fake news” kinda guy, but things like this make me furious, because it only weakens the credibility of “news television”….

[@BassRck50-xv8iz]

They don't have to come back...

[@jimmipadge]

@@BassRck50-xv8iz *_lol_* Nor did anybody ever expect them to!?!

[@combatepistemologist8382]

That so pisses me off. Innumerate news readers who cannot tell a million from a billion. But this happens when you hire only English & Communcations majors.

[@eatfastnoodle]

this is such a PR move by NASA, not saying there is an actual risk the second guy literally said there is no risk to the astronauts then next sentence saying all of these is about if the spacecraft could be steered like steering itself back to earth, I was like "you serious", you can't be sure you can steer this thing you call it "not a risk to the astronauts?" what if they missed the earth? what are they supposed to do? this ain't like driving on freeway you miss one exit you can go for another, you miss earth, you're DEAD, and DEAD in a very bad way

[@officialVertYT]

So here’s the update on these 2 astronauts haven’t seen any

[@herthadynasty4160]

😭😭😭😭

[@davidanderson6100]

Send up some dish washing liquid, that'll fix the problem.

[@YK-fw8nt]

And Duct Tape

[@adambarnes8797]

All the retired astronaut did was repeat the anchors intro So complete waste of time and added nothing

[@youngfossil]

Soyuz, a spacecraft that has been flying since the 60s, can rescue them.

[@darkguardian1314]

There's nothing to understand. Boeing is racing to save their reputation. It would be embarassing for the Starliner crew to ride back in a SpaceX Dragon at Boeing's expense. They have been using basically duct tape on an inferiour thruster design to complete the minimum flight requirements of their contract with NASA. Afterwards, Boeing will dump Starliner as costing them too much money and walking away from the project after ten years. It's over for Starliner. It will be a decade before all the issues with Boeing can be resolved. Time to back Sierra Dream Chaser spaceplane.

[@ob15027]

😂the dude's unit of measurements for Voyager!😂😂

[@cueball93]

Dude corrected himself from billions to millions…. When it’s in fact billions. That dude was losing his mind.

[@jrersinghaus]

The sun has been incredibly patient with them.

[@davemitchell6281]

as we spin closer and closer

[@thegoodguy44]

Best comment on earth

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@davemitchell6281 What? In July, Earth is farthest from the sun.

[@PeterHonig.]

Better call SpaceX and book a ticket on a rescue flight.

[@14rs2]

May as well send SpaceX up to get the astronauts, the starliner isn’t coming back with people on it

[@joannekemp4834]

If they can't come home from their scheduled time,why are they saying it's not a emergency situation?

[@kingarchnyc]

After all of Boeing’s history in the past several years… if u r still brave enough to go into anything related to Boeing, u really only have yourself to blame for imho…

[@stringercorrales6627]

I Guess astronauts have dirt on Boeing too.

[@joeb2955]

I wouldn’t even ride in their planes, why would you take their spaceships

[@zandvoort8616]

I certainly wouldn't want to attempt a re-entry back to Earth in the Starliner! 🤣

[@unholy7324]

you cant make this shit up. we are seriously in a clown world.

[@johnwest7993]

Just check to make sure the doors stay on the Starliner.