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   The Running Man to snidely.too@gmail.com   
   Re: Starliner back at pad   
   31 May 24 23:43:04   
   
   From: runningman@writeable.com   
      
   On 30/05/2024 18:35 Snidely  wrote:   
   > The Running Man  scribbled something on Thursday the 5/30/2024:   
   >> On 30/05/2024 11:17 Snidely  wrote:   
   >>> Starliner is again at SLC-41 ahead of crewed launch, L0 currently June   
   >>> 1st 12:25 pm EDT.   
   >>>   
   >>> /dps   
   >>>   
   >>> --   
   >>> Killing a mouse was hardly a Nobel Prize-worthy exercise, and Lawrence   
   >>> went apopleptic when he learned a lousy rodent had peed away all his   
   >>> precious heavy water.   
   >>> _The Disappearing Spoon_, Sam Kean   
   >>   
   >> AFAIK the Crew Dragon docked at the ISS isn't suitable for a rescue mission   
   >> since it's not modified to perform an EVA. Only the Crew Dragon capsule   
   being   
   >> used for the Polaris Dawn mission is fitted (or being fitted) for EVA.   
   >   
   > Why are you talking about rescue missions?  Starliner's heat shield is   
   > intact.   
   >   
   > /dps   
   >   
   > --   
   > potstickers, Japanese gyoza, Chinese dumplings, let's do it   
      
   Because they said there's about a 0.75% chance that the helium leak could   
   result in a failure to initiate the retro-burn.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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