Originally set to return in mid-June, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams may be on the station until February, 2025.
During a press conference today, NASA representatives confirmed they have a contingency plan to bring astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams home from the International Space Station (ISS) early next year. If they’re unable to leave sooner aboard the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that brought them there
Tests conducted at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility pointed to deformed Teflon seals being a potential cause of the Starliner’s thrusters failing, but the agency isn’t expected to make a final decision on whether or not Williams and Wilmore will return using Boeing’s spacecraft until mid-August.
It’s easy to hate on Boeing. Yea, they done f-ed up a few times and upper management made some very poor decisions, but there are 10s of thousands of people who work there and it’s a good manufacturing job in a country that used to pride itself on manufacturing. We can’t all be service workers, and I’d venture that, given the way you present yourself online, you’re probably not someone who is resting on their laurels either.
Now, back to stocks. It’s also quite simple to throw a slick quip about how the big bad shareholder bogeyman is ruining our country, but, unless you’re among the minority in this country, you likely own some stock in some company, somehow. The shareholders are us.
But therein gives us a lot of power. Many shares are voting shares. We could, if we all chose to, enact the corporate change we wish to see. And coincidentally enough, there are people precisely doing that kind of good work. Look up the philosophy behind ESG, it is becoming a thing. Or certified B corps. Likewise, many countries require unions to have a seat on their board; unfortunately for now, the US isn’t one of them, but that could change.
Or, ya know, we could just be dismissive and scapegoat our problems. That’s life, we get to choose our own adventure.
Next you are going to tell us that we can save the planet by recycling harder…
Not sure if you are delusional or just trolling
I take it you don’t recycle then eh? Paper and cans just aren’t worth your time.
It’s all the corporations fault, we’re totally not complicit in the degradation process as well.
And y’all call me deluded…
I do recycle and do what I can… I just hold no delusions that I’ll save the planet by doing that while corporations literally pollute per day 100x over what I can recycle in a lifetime.
If 1000 of us were to die tomorrow, dropping out pollution to zero, I would not make up for a single Kardashian private flight to spare her from 40 mins traffic
But you and me and sunzu up there and the rest of us combined on this thread do make a difference. You matter.
Don’t allow perfect to be the enemy of the good.
Which is why I do recycle and do other stuff… But we cannot reverse the damage, we cannot even slow it down by ourselves. We must be realistic about that
It’s like washing your hands after pooping, it’s not going to cure cancer but it definitely would prevent some bouts of illness for yourself and others
Or perhaps it’s like wastewater treatment, where we collectively realized we all poop and somehow we need to clean up the waste to still have clean water.
In that case, what’s the proper solution?
A treatment plant or putting a cork up all butts?
That’s exactly the point and not the one I think you think you are making.
Of course if we all reduce, reuse, recycle we can help… But we will never stop the damage, let along reverse it, if we do not hold corporations to account
Um WE’RE recycling. It’s the recyclers that are not recycling. Consumers are often called on to save the planet when only corporations can do it. They are the ones causing the damage, they should be the ones fixing it. Some things are just too big for citizens to handle, that’s what governments are supposed to be for. And because governments are just corporations in disguise they should handle this problem. You know what happens when I stop eating red meat to save the planet? I get no red meat and the planet dies anyway. Producing red meat should be legislated into becoming more environmentally friendly instead of blaming the consumer for eating food. You can follow this logic with pretty much any industry.
Also, from your post further up, I doubt anyone is actually blaming the guy installing parts on Boeing planes for Boeing’s problems. Slamming Boeing for the crap they do falls fully on the shoulders of the people controlling it, you know, the ones profiting from it.
Look up your numbers muhh booma. Jfc
Take your blinders off please. https://www.fool.com/research/how-many-americans-own-stock/
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