God forbid if a quails nest is disturbed or charred as we attempt to reach the stars.
I'll contemplate the moral dilemma as I head to the grocery store to buy some quail eggs.
I'll contemplate the moral dilemma as I head to the grocery store to buy some quail eggs.
It's even possible that the rocker exploded because they failed to follow those practices
Most outages are caused by engineers shipping code. We still ship code. We try to minimize damage and we still fail. Most times the fail was obviously preventable in insight.
- You might not be allowed to ship code without oversight
- You might have to complete a post mortem and analysis of what went wrong
- If you were negligent (e.g., you skipped protocol to ship on a 4/20 joke), you might be fired
The FAA is basically saying “Something went way outside parameters here and you caused a lot of damage. Take a pause and figure that out”, and the parent poster is mad about that
> Broken concrete — some pieces the size of golf balls, others the size of car engine blocks or larger — was spread out over nearly three-quarters of a mile in some directions.
> Craters from large pieces of concrete were as large as six feet across and a few feet deep. Some pieces hit the ground so hard they were submerged in the sand, leaving only an empty crater with rebar jutting from it.
> If SpaceX starts launching routinely — as it plans to — wildlife may leave the area around the launch site.
> "If these major disturbances, in addition to actual damage to the habitat, happen consistently every month, every week, birds and other other wildlife are not likely to use that habitat," LeClaire said.
> "It sure seemed like the decision to not do these very basic channels or flame protection or systems that you see everywhere else was a matter of convenience," Roesch said.
> SpaceX initially had plans to extend its launch pad facility another 17 acres into the wetlands surrounding Boca Chica Beach. But after the company gave conflicting and insufficient information, the Army Corps of Engineers pulled its permit application for the project.
This is preventable, and should be prevented. I don't care if it's Elon Musk or anyone else. Engineers should not be reckless in their endeavors.