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A rocket science safety expert on Sunday said Virgin Galactic "ignored" safety warnings in the years leading up to the deadly crash of its spacecraft in California, as investigators hunted for clues to accident's cause.
Carolynne Campbell, a rocket propulsion expert with the Netherlands-based International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, said she could not speculate on the cause of Friday's crash without "all the data." However, she said multiple warnings had been issued to Virgin since 2007, when three engineers died testing a rocket on the ground.
http://news.yahoo.com/probe-virgin-spaceship-crash-may-085338983.html
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Monday November 03 2014, @01:08PM
Branson is just calling out an attention whore using carefully chosen corporate-speak. In standard american english his corporate-speak translates to something like attention whores should STFU at least till the bury the dead guy and/or the scientists have something useful to say.
There's two types of people commenting.
The attention whores who always put their corporate name and full legal name and contact info first all the way down to "gimmie reddit gold". Hey you are here for the dead pilot and the crashed plane, but now that you're here, its all about me me me and did I mention my company and consulting rates and here's my full legal name and a DNA sample and fingerprints and my twitter handle because its all about me me me?
And then there are the folks who are not "all about me" who are at least semi-anonymous or at least not primarily pimping their corporation or themselves or their consultative services in the field.
A good SN car analogy is after Dale Earnhardt died you're gonna get two responses:
1) Yeah tough cookies about that crash but my name is Big Bubba and I work down here at Big Bubbas car repair and donut shop at 1234 BS Street, we can patch that old beater right up and get it back on the road, give us a call at 123-456-7890 and maybe git a paint job too and don't forget to "like" us on facebook and follow twitter hashtag #YeOldeBigBubbasCarRepairShoppeAndDonuts call us soon!
2) Well that sucks, wonder if a .mil ceramic chest plate insert could have saved him from puncture wounds or if it was the acceleration that got him in which case a "break away capsule" kinda device or external airbags or something might be the thing. I wonder if anyone's ever built a small doppler radar and a big air bag into the wall of a road, so if some car is about to hit a wall at 150 MPH it hits the wall mounted deployed airbag instead?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 03 2014, @01:52PM
Speaking of which, Lisa Nowak (one of the love triangle astronauts) seized on the opportunity, and was rewarded by Branson:
http://recode.net/2014/11/01/richard-branson-speaks-after-virgin-galactic-tragedy/ [recode.net]
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Tuesday November 04 2014, @07:13AM
You could be right on, however…
Media deliberately tricks people into saying almost anything that if one had enough context (listened in on the conversation) would be purely innocent but which can easily be misused to create or increase the drama. Doesn't even have to require misquotations, just selective use. Writing that kind of news story isn't much different from social engineering. And $deity help anyone who has unique or non-conformist thoughts.
Few ordinary people would stonewall a “journalist”, they might even get the impression the “journalist” is looking for clarification, detail, correctness, or even knowledge when they ask about specific phrases or opinions.
Next step would be to use it to troll others with so as to continue the drama cycle.
So I wonder; how many “rocket scientists” did they talk to before striking gold? Did they skip over the pond right away in order to save time? Yeah there are some actual rocket scientists in Europe too, people who build and fire rockets and rocket engines, but I'm not aware of any dutch ones (try Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, France, the UK, Ukraine, and Russia and maybe Spain and Italy too as well as a handful of mostly inactive people in Sweden and Norway).
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