Comment Great. (Score 2, Funny) 123
Out of the frying pan and into the fire?
The funny thing is, I hear over and over again that capitalism is supposed to give the consumer what they want because the consumer is king.
Not any more, the big corporations "fixed" that...
Phillips have a very long history if making things as difficult as possible for everyone else. Going right back to their early TVs and radios.
Philips are very active patent trolls as well. They own patents (that they got by purchasing Color Kinetics some years ago) on technologies as broad as having an LED with a constant current driver (pretty much how all decent LED lighting works). They sue any successful manufacturer of LED lights and actively run a protection racket. Even buying LED modules and drivers from Philips to use in your light fittings doesn't make you imune, you also need to license their 'technologies'.
Bob Behnken, Eric Boe, Doug Hurley and Sunita Williams are veteran test pilots who have flown on the shuttle and the International Space Station.
NASA said the four astronauts will train with both companies and have not yet been assigned to flights. Two-person crews will fly the first test flights by each capsule, after they have completed an orbital test flight without people on board. Company proposals anticipate an all-NASA crew flying SpaceX's Dragon test flight, with Boeing's CST-100 carrying a split NASA-Boeing crew. Boeing has not yet identified its astronaut.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
