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August 24th, 2024 at 6:09:15 PM permalink
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 158 Posts: 5472	Will this tragi-comedy never end? https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2024/08/nasa-wont-use-boeings-starliner-to-bring-astronauts-home-yet-another-setback-for-the-company.html Those poor astronauts, and those poor saps holding big portfolios of Boeing stock... This is emblematic of the rapid descent of Modern America down the slippery slope to mediocrity. Apt.

August 25th, 2024 at 5:37:24 AM permalink

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Quote: missedhervee
Will this tragi-comedy never end?

https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2024/08/nasa-wont-use-boeings-starliner-to-bring-astronauts-home-yet-another-setback-for-the-company.html

Those poor astronauts, and those poor saps holding big portfolios of Boeing stock...

This is emblematic of the rapid descent of Modern America down the slippery slope to mediocrity.

Apt.

The latest I heard the two astronauts now won't be coming back until February. Nothing like eight months in space when you were planning on eight days.

At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent.

August 25th, 2024 at 3:35:18 PM permalink
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 158 Posts: 5472	Elon must be smiling like the cat that got the canary: as well he should be. How is it that he can do it yet Boeing, a much bigger outfit, fails so miserably? Boeing never should have left Seattle.

August 25th, 2024 at 3:50:06 PM permalink
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 137 Posts: 21195	Quote: missedhervee Boeing never should have left Seattle. All that left was the HQ. Better to be near their customers and financial centers than out in Seattle. Their real problems started with the MD takeover. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

August 25th, 2024 at 8:11:11 PM permalink
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22933	Quote: missedhervee Elon must be smiling like the cat that got the canary: as well he should be. How is it that he can do it yet Boeing, a much bigger outfit, fails so miserably? Boeing never should have left Seattle. Remember IBM, Sears, …Pan Am, …Bell Telephone… "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP.

August 27th, 2024 at 12:59:22 PM permalink
Tanko Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 0 Posts: 2470	Quote: rxwine Remember IBM, Sears, …Pan Am, …Bell Telephone… IBM is doing very well. Loads of cash. 50% return over the past five years.

August 27th, 2024 at 1:29:16 PM permalink
GenoDRPh Member since: Aug 24, 2023 Threads: 5 Posts: 2828	Quote: Tanko IBM is doing very well. Loads of cash. 50% return over the past five years. IBM was "woke" decades before it was even a term.

August 27th, 2024 at 2:43:04 PM permalink
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 158 Posts: 5472	Hmmm....might Elon be planning to go into the airliner manufacturing business? Could be...

August 27th, 2024 at 5:22:42 PM permalink
JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 1061	Quote: missedhervee Hmmm....might Elon be planning to go into the airliner manufacturing business? Could be... If he announced that he was going to build better fighter jets, freight trains or submarines, who could doubt him? A government of laws and not of men. - John Adam’s

August 27th, 2024 at 5:34:18 PM permalink
GenoDRPh Member since: Aug 24, 2023 Threads: 5 Posts: 2828	Quote: JimRockford If he announced that he was going to build better fighter jets, freight trains or submarines, who could doubt him? He might have a tough time meeting government/Pentagon requirements. That being said, if anyone can, it's him.