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Boaters with Trump flag accused of ‘endangering’ NASA astronauts after splashdown

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Syne Offline
(Aug 3, 2020 04:22 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote:
(Aug 3, 2020 04:00 AM)Syne Wrote:
(Aug 3, 2020 03:01 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: Can we expect, as the election nears, some real good dirt on Biden from Trump supporters?
Other than what we already have? Can't get much better than senility, serial sexual harassment of women and young girls, and pushing for mass incarceration of minorities.

I can only assume that displaying a Trump flag on your boat is far worse thing to do.
Only according to the leftist media.
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(Aug 3, 2020 04:24 AM)Yazata Wrote:
(Aug 2, 2020 11:33 PM)C C Wrote: Boaters gatecrash SpaceX's 1st splashdown with astronauts. 'We need to do better,' NASA chief says
https://www.space.com/boaters-crash-spac...hdown.html

INTRO: It was an unprecedented sight: A SpaceX capsule - the first to carry NASA astronauts  - bobbing in the Gulf of Mexico, surrounded by private boaters, one of them bearing a flag supporting President Donald Trump. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour splashed down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida Sunday (Aug. 2), returning astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to Earth after their historic Demo-2 test flight. But shortly after that splashdown, private boats swarmed the space capsule, apparently hoping for a closer look. "That was not what we were anticipating," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a post-splashdown briefing. "After they landed, the boats just came in. We need to do a better job next time for sure." (MORE)

I posted about this earlier in the Crew Dragon thread, but apparently it doesn't merit any interest until it can be spun against the President of the United States.

In real life a number of small boats, numbering perhaps ten or fifteen, approached the newly arrived Crew Dragon, presumably in search of photographs. Only one of the boats was flying a Trump 2020 banner. There's no evidence that I can see that any of the boats "endangered" anything since they didn't prevent or delay the recovery crew from getting to the capsule. When the boaters were requested to back off to a safe distance, they clearly did. (See the photograph below.) They were certainly better behaved than antifa rioters at the Portland federal building.

Here's what I posted earlier.

12:08 PDT/3:08 EDT - Several local boats are around the capsule with the astronauts still inside, Go Navigator is warning the spectator boats off. SpaceX photo from Go Navigator showing the spectator boats.


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My own view is that flying the Trump 2020 flag was tacky and uncool. It was just an attempt to politicize an event that had the potential to unify people not only all over the United States, but all over the entire world. I certainly wouldn't have liked it if it was a Biden flag or a BLM banner.

Of course that genie is long out of the bottle. Thank Colin Kaepernick and all the athletes who want to politicize sports, all the professors and university administrators who want to politicize higher education and all the celebrities who want to politicize entertainment. SpaceX and NASA are among the last things left in our increasingly fractured and hate-filled society that has the power to draw people together in shared hopes and dreams, rather than drive them apart in violent opposition to each other.

I pray that the idiots don't ruin this too.

There can be a real concern with boaters at the moment in regards to Covid-19. I'm pretty sure NASA's pretty strict about keeping their Astronauts clear of any communicable diseases as if something should happen to them up in space, it would be difficult for them to get treatment (if not impossible). So I'd assume they'd have a quarantine period before launch and they'd likely want to debrief them before allowing them "out into the wild". As while they might not be returning straight away, there is still the potential of NASA ground crew still having to deal with training and interacting with people that need to be cautious of such things.

As for the boats in vicinity, well there could be the concerns of if the trajectory had altered, or if something had failed. Injury to people, photo's of something bad happening or literally people having keepsakes of "Parts" should something have gone wrong could of affected any form of investigation. (Luckily it didn't play out that way, but it's still something that has to be considered).

Next landing I wouldn't be surprised if they have gunboats and Coastguard patrolling. (A good excuse for better funding Coastguard etc)

As for the politics. It could lead people to think of doing such things in the future, for their politics, for their agendas. Don't think of it as "Just a Trump supporter" think of it more like "Hey, that's an idea, we could do that for X" be it a candidate or thing (e.g. BAME, Pride, Communism, Antifa etc).
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