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Comment Re: Mutation is not bad (Score 5, Interesting) 22

The mutations are random, and the ones that help them survive continue. As do others, though, that happened alongside.

There's no guarantee that the mutations are NOT harmful to humans.

Poisonous mushrooms didn't necessarily evolve to be harmful to us. There's no pressure on them to be harmful to us. It just sucks for us that whatever random mutations happened in their evolutionary history that helped them survive happens to kill us.

Whilst the likelihood is low that the mutations are harmful, you cannot assume that they are not.

Comment Re: history (Score 1) 46

I'm pretty sure they brought in some retired experts that were calling them out, brought them through the investigation, the findings, their analysis, and their thoughts for Artimis Ii, and they agreed that, yes, the decision made was sound.

Many others saying there's a problem haven't seen all the data, I wager.

Comment Re: This is rocket science (Score 1) 46

The engineers said that the O-Rings were never tested down to those low temperatures, and didn't want the launch to do ahead.

They were overruled (effectively "by management").

After that disaster things changed drastically, basically putting everyone in a position to abort a flight.

Comment Historic? (Score 1) 46

Why does everything seems to be "historic" these days...? Especially so the stuff that's already been done before.

It's a great mission and I'm looking forward to it and I really hope it all goes well. I'm delighted that man is finally going back to the Moon.

But it's hardly a "historic" thing again. It's been done already. Several times.

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