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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: 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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