• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    developing or occurring without apparent external influence, force, cause, or treatment

    Pretty much the definition of spontaneous if you ask me.

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      4 months ago

      In addition to what MotoAsh said, it also has a definite external influence and a well defined force acting upon it. It boiled because it underwent a change in pressure.

      • feannag@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        Without apparent external influence. Relative pressure is something humans have a hard time judging. As well as it just exists everyone in that zone vice something easy to perceive, like a fire under a pot boiling water.

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          4 months ago

          Except that 9 months took place on a space station. There were regular cargo missions to the station. And they could have been brought back at any nearly any point if necessary. Other astronauts literally went up and came back from the Station in that 9 months.

          The timeframe being so long was almost entirely about the Starliner itself and what they were going to do with a known defective and potentially unusable spacecraft, where the only trained pilots were those astronauts, not anything with the astronauts themselves.

          If the station wasn’t an option for whatever reason (despite it literally being part of the planned mission), then other contingencies would have been available or at least planned already. This wasn’t an Apollo 13 situation where not making it back was a serious concern.

  • drath@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Didn’t notice it was a woman at first, but isn’t it an appeal to authority? The fact that someone is an astronaut doesn’t mean they can’t also be a dumb fuck. Just look at Russians - Oleg Artemyev, Tereshkova, Rogozin. I’m not familiar with NASA astronauts but surely some of them were also complete idiots as well?

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      4 months ago

      The fact that someone is an astronaut doesn’t mean they can’t also be a dumb fuck. Just look at Russians

      Did they teach you that in school? The same school where they taught you Sally Ride was the first woman in space?

      I’d say being an astronaut pretty much negates being dumb as fuck, especially in the early days.

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      4 months ago

      The guy is clearly “mansplaining” though.

      Is there a gender neutral version of mansplaining?