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.
“You’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.
Reads like a Mark Watney diary entry
Death by snu snu. Nice.
Glorious build up to a “fucked yo mama” joke. Excellent pacing!
“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.That will teach them to fly Boeing.
Holy shit; planned to spend 10 days, stuck there for almost a year… (if they finally manage this schedule)
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.
Also health problems increase when in space longer. Specifically drastic increased risk of cancer due to lack of sufficient radiation shielding.
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.
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…
Looks like you’re 100% correct. They’re gearing up to take those fuckers out:
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…
I wonder which one gets to be “and the rest” this time.
Those poor bastards.
I wonder how much money they are getting paid while stuck, I’d imagine it’s gotta be pretty significant.
They will probably owe Boeing money in all honesty.
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?
Getting paid full 24/7 overtime, perhaps. Not that they don’t deserve it.
It feels like we’re just watching them slowly die up there. Maybe one of the billionaires is trying to discredit public space programs for good and their deaths are intended to be that final bell.
Edit: Thanks for the down votes guys! I guess my concerns are unfounded.
They’re astronauts, they’re loving this, they’ve said so in Interviews and it’s pretty obvious they’ve not just been told to say that. That’s not to mention that Starliner is a private spacecraft (just as much as Dragon is) and that’s the only thing being discredited here.
I love a gym or a sauna but I’m not gonna love it after 20x my normal planned time has passed and I can’t leave.
Also: we’ve got NO idea what they REALLY think or feel privately, of COURSE they’d be forced to pretend it’s what they want in a public interview (I mean, cmon.)
I can guarantee you that all the landlocked astronauts are very jealous of them right now.
Oof. Upvoted as hell. That is EXACTLY how capitalism works. Except that said billionaire would have to be planning on profiting from their own private space program instead…
