Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

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    3 days ago

    There is an exorbitant of fluff in there though. Expertly so, it’s no ai slop, but someone very cleverly writing, getting payed by the word and rolling it out.

    ‘Thrusters failed, they turned off and on again, during that time the pilot had to manually fly it. Ironically thanks God afterwards.’

    Is the gist of it, but there’s a lot of introspection, retrospection, repeating, rehashing and rephrasing. Reminded me of this Mitchell and Webb scetch

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      repeating, rehashing and rephrasing

      Remember when writing was Prose and poetry had rhythm?

      It’s okay to say words, a few times and in different order, for effect.

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      There was a lot more to the article than this. I’ve sat on console during launches,and reading their exchange gave me some anxiety. Trying to live troubleshoot thrusters issues would be a nightmare on an unscrewed satellite, let a lone one where it’s human rated, and the people flying it could die if you are unable to recover fast enough.

      You train for this crap excessively, so everyone knows what to do, but that doesn’t make it any less nerve wracking in the moment.

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        I know I overstated it a bit, and there was more to it, but I’ve read the same story thrice at some point.

        I want trying to downplay the astronauts archievement either, though I found them thanking the Lord over criticizing the company that made a bird so prone to failure a bit strange.

        The writing style I found very curious, though it was skillfully written I think there’s art in being succinct, and that art was lacking it was almost literary edging.