Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The Warm Equations Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:43:45 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:43:47 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6863d6f3cf6670566e03f9a751d3324c"; logging-data="1085379"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/XRJRYFT67XALTB2ThstX/gUYQy2IOxew=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:oof2xBYYpSuUGradn4KPhguzlbo= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1568 On 6/23/2024 11:37 AM, Ted Nolan wrote: > Interesting to note the way margins of a real-life space venture are run: > > Two astronauts have been stuck at the ISS for an extra two weeks, > so far, because their ride has flat tires, and it's not a crisis, > and nobody has had to volunteer to step out the airlock. Did you notice that the two astronauts that they sent up in the Boeing Starliner are in their late 50s ? In other words, two old people. Luckily, the SpaceX Dragon can hold up to six people. Lynn