Forum Overview :: The Knuckle Shuffle :: Re: Boeing loss of mindshare a possible cause for Columbia blowingthefuckup

[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="Entropy Stew"][quote cite="<a href="http://www.larta.org/pl/NewsArticles/030413_LATIMES.htm">Excerpt</a>"]The decision to move the jobs was highly unpopular among Boeing's workforce, and about 80% of the California engineers refused to relocate, forcing the company to hire workers in Texas and forfeit much of the experience of its California engineering base.[/quote] -/ES/-[/quote] Foam hitting the shuttle was a phenominon that was known to happen more than two years ago. When Discovery was <a href="http://dev.space.com/missionlaunches/sts107_discovery_030414.html">found to have almost exploded from a crack in the wing</a>, that should've been a tipoff no matter how wet-behind-the-ears you are. And the laughable analysis of the foam impact was so awful, even an undergrad could've done better. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/08/01/sprj.colu.shuttle.investigation.ap/index.html">Here's the problem.</a> It's NASA itself. My ham-handed solution: fire everybody, scrap the shuttles and (if necessary) the station, and start over. Fuck all of this nonsense.[/quote]