Gotta lick it or it's never really yours

Ah yeah, you do quickly learn the areas you shouldn't spread it out

Oh yeah for sure. Get a good sprint going and throw yourself right at it and you'll slide to the end with enough speed left over to send you tumbling through the grass for a few feet more.

Good golly I thought you said you digested another knife for a moment there. Mondays...

Liminal

That'd be a match made in hell

I'm not talking about people who just want Boeing to fail, I'm talking about the ones who think the best path to changing things is if they publicly kill two astronauts. eg. See the "morally gray" comment below

Call me crazy but hoping for two innocent astronauts to die on the off-chance things improve isn't something I would consider morally gray.

Yeah that's right, they've decided to not use one of the 5 again because of performance inconsistencies.

The people in every one of these Starliner threads seemingly hoping for the worst case scenario to occur just so they can dunk on Boeing for it are disturbing

Just saw it and it was very good. Super relatable...

Completely untrue. There are currently only 3 human-rated spacecraft docked to the ISS and none of them are set aside as some sort of emergency capsule. There's no trickery here. The number of astronauts on board is equal to the number of seats available for them to ride back home in. The only reason they aren't stranded is because Starliner is still fully capable of undocking and taking them home whenever necessary. If it wasn't, then they would actually be stranded with no alternative way back beyond straping them to the floor of Dragon.

The Honda Beat is my holy grail. If I could reasonably pull it off, I'd get one without hesitation.

I think it's the NES for me too. It was my dad's, and he kept it in good condition. He mostly only had sports games for it though, and Super Mario Bros. I've heard the NES came with a combo cart for SMB and Duck Hunt, but we don't have Duck Hunt and Mario is on its own cartridge. We also don't have a R.O.B. I have no idea what that says about what time period or in what package combo he might have bought the NES.

Most recently, I got a copy of Super Mario Bros 3 and I've been playing through that. I also still like buying new games for it whenever someone like Limited Run publishes them. When I was there last, I bought Alwas Awakening and it sure feels wild to be playing a game on the NES that's also sold on Steam.

The helium leaks weren't and still aren't an issue for the mission. They are an issue that should be addressed in the future, but they pose no safety risk as things currently stand. While Starliner is docked, it won't even be leaking any helium. The tanks are sealed shut when they aren't in use, and since the leaks aren't on the tanks themselves, they aren't losing any helium as long as they stay docked.

The thruster failures are also not necessarily related to the leaks. They don't know why the the thrusters shut down, but they were shut down in software and not due to some piece of hardware failing. Their current goal is to figure out why the software shut them down, and why 4 of the 5 that shut down were able to be restarted without issue. They aren't just assuming it can maneuver either, they know it can because the thrusters aren't broken. It didn't require any physical repair work to get them firing again, it took a restart.

Remember, this is just a test flight, and nothing that's happening is outside the scope of the test.

They're not stranded because Starliner is capable of reentry and is already cleared to be used in emergency situations. In fact, the two astronauts had to prepare for an emergency undocking earlier this week when a Russian satellite broke up and the station's crew was ordered to take shelter in their respective spacecraft.

The helium leaks are also still not an issue either. The new leaks aren't "new", they're just so much smaller than the first one that they took much longer to be detected.

It's still docked to the ISS, not because it can't leave, but because they don't want it to leave until they collect all the data they need. Part of this data collection process is supposed to involve 2 spacewalks to examine the service module, but those spacewalks haven't been able to happen yet. Technical issues with the EVA suits prevented the first one they had scheduled from happening. The ship is still fully capable of maneuvering too, they are only down one RCS thruster out of 28.

Sometimes I would turn the DS off as a child when he popped up just to try to get a less annoying dialog on the next go-round

No, there's only one Soyuz from the Russian side of things, and its seats are spoken for

They scrubbed, investigated, found it was acceptable, launched, and discovered previously unknown issues. The original leak isn't getting worse, they discovered more, smaller leaks, that still don't pose a danger to the mission.

Discovering the cause of the 5 RCS thrusters shutting down with only 4 of them being able to restart is the current focus of things, because the spacecraft is no where near running out of helium.

It's all still within the scope of this test flight's objectives, so they technically aren't wrong to say things are going well even when they've found issues.