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Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces (futurism.com)
submitted 1 month ago by shoulderoforion@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wow, Boeing keeps finding new and interesting ways to be incompetent. They seriously need their entire C-suite replaced with engineering types.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The saddest thing about that is they mostly are.

Business majors are the office grunts and middle managers of corporatism. Capital interests are more than aware that business degrees are basically adult daycares, and prefer engineering or law degrees for C-levels in industry.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw an interview with Jack Ma (I think) where he said his job isn’t to be the smartest at the job. His job is to find the smart people and make sure they work together. I think that may be what’s happening here. Leadership is incapable of holding the engineers accountable and making sure they follow all safety protocols. Whether that is incompetence or malice I’m sure we’ll never know for sure.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago

For Boeing it is absolutely known to be malice. They don't "fail" to hold the engineers accountable. They push out the engineers that want to follow safety protocols and it is well documented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair this satellite was built in 2016.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

That's after the merger.

[–] Toofpic@feddit.dk 2 points 1 month ago

Sorry, I just bought several Boeing stocks at the time they didn't kill anyone yet, and now they have to do all that stuff to not let me out with a profit