"No one gets out," policy unrolled.https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/3/biden-cancels-elon-musks-adventures-in-space/ …
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Replying to @Outsideness
this article is silly, the delays in the SN9 launch were just standard bureaucratic ass-covering/muscle-flexing and there's no reason to believe they had anything to do with the admin at all
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @Outsideness
Amazingly wrong. It's "standard bureaucratic muscle-flexing because they know they can get away with it and don't fear being humiliated by being overruled. They desperately want revenge for Musk showing them up as incompetent.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Outsideness
FAA is not NASA and is particularly not the booster side of NASA NASA, Huntsville Space Center, Boeing, all might have the reaction you describe FAA doesn't separate orgs, not all that closely related
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @Outsideness
Oh please. They know who friends and enemies are and men who actually accomplish things are the ultimate existential threat to *all* of them - no matter what particular part of the machine they work for. They can always cooperate to sabotage someone showing them up.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Outsideness
this is silly, the Cathedral have all the same problems with internal coordination that any movement has they aren't all on the same page and they don't all take orders from the same source
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FAA benefits from letting things happen (and getting an implicit percentage in the form of their safety inspections and signoffs); they aren't a party to any notional Cathedral ideological beef against spaceflight
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @Outsideness
FAA benefits from having a thriving aerospace industry the same way CDC benefits from preventing disease. FAA and CDC employees don't see the agency's benefit as sufficient reason to do anything.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Outsideness
CDC is responsible for solving a problem and so incentivized to ensure the problem continues (and/or make up new problems) FAA is responsible for providing services to an industry, so is incentivized to increase the demand for their services and thus boost the industry
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(which of course conflicts with their incentive to ensure their jobs remain relevant even if that causes friction, which is why we get stuff like this)
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Aligning interests of employees and employers is an amazingly difficult task and specialists in this field are among the highest paid professionals in the world yet somehow you believe FAA improves on their results with zero effort and with zero ability to even fire people
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Outsideness
FAA is an improvement wrt CDC (one of the worst offenders) or NASA (a direct competitor), not wrt the best in the world (maybe that's UL or someone?) and their staffing is actually pretty good, most of their low-level employees are pilots
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