Originally Posted by
DC8DRIVER
Yes, I recognize you now, Cardio.
Your posts are not worth responding to.
Apologies to everyone else who knows not to do this and saw me trying to speak common sense to flame bait. I'll remember next time.
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I made a very sizable donation... Should I take it back? Your posts show a completely classless nature, and naiveté that is astounding. Not worth reading, really.
Originally Posted by
CheapTrick
You seem to be totally clueless.
Care to expound about that?
That a large company, headed by a flamboyant billionaire, is soliciting $$$ from the common man instead of making sure he is well taken care of?
That this is manifestation of a further push to "privatize" everything, except when things go wrong, and then it's "oh let's all chip in" from the public and hard-up employees of the company? Private profit, public risk, got it.
This was a project for rich guys like me to take $250,000 joyrides into space, not a scientific mission. Branson and VG should take good care of this pilot and his family. He should have had, as part of the job, a very fine insurance and be well taken care of, not setting up begging webpages. Test pilots risk their lives every day and ABSOLUTELY MUST be treated well.
If one of my employees dies, they are well taken care of. If one of my employees gets a disease on the job (as part of the job), they are well taken care of.
If you want to give your few dollars to assuage your guilt and feel good about yourself, go ahead.
"Safety first" - if you believe that... well... sorry for the reality, buddy. That is for public relations. We'll await the full report on what happened, then judge for yourself if it was "safety first."
I have likely been in corporate america for a more than most of you doe-eyed idealists.
So, does anybody have any insight as to what went wrong? I can not wait to read the technical factors, and as I reflected above, it does seem as though there were warnings to the catastrophe.