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NASA freezes Starliner missions

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269 points rntn | 3 comments | 17 Oct 24 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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WalterBright ◴[20 Oct 24 03:44 UTC] No.41892704[source]▶
It's too bad that Elon Musk and Kelly Johnson never met. Both are engineers' engineers doing impossible things, and I bet they would have had a blast.
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defrost ◴[20 Oct 24 04:00 UTC] No.41892758[source]▶
One is a qualified engineer with a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Aeronautical Engineering and demonstrated hands on ability designing and building complex new designs, the other manages Engineers with a "Physics for Business Majors" unit and a Homer Simpson approach to practicality.

Hats off to the Engineers Engineers that Engineered the chopsticks catch, there were quite a few getting into the technical weeds:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F2...

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1. fallingknife ◴[20 Oct 24 09:29 UTC] No.41894172[source]▶
Nobody deserving of the name "engineer," or more generally anybody who is actually mentally capable of any kind of creativity or innovation, gives the slightest shit about those worthless credentials and bureaucracy other than to be irritated by having to waste time obtaining them.
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2. defrost ◴[20 Oct 24 10:28 UTC] No.41894405[source]▶
They do care about the ability to calculate loads across truss configurations, develop inverted pedulum feedback controls, etc.

One of the people metioned was good at that kind of work, the other .. not so much.

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3. fallingknife ◴[20 Oct 24 12:14 UTC] No.41894840[source]▶
OK, now you're talking about actual skills and not what credentials you have. I do respect those skills. It's just that if I took the time to learn those things, the odds that I could do it are close to 100%. On the other hand, if you asked me to:

1. hire and retain the top performing aerospace engineering team in the world 2. make suggestions for major engineering decisions that that team actually ends up using

I think my odds would be 0.00001% or less.