Scenario 2024: the ISS is about to be decommissioned/deorbited. You are an astronaut aboard. Your commander wants to stay, stating "a captain goes down with the ship". The crew meets to debate whether to force him to leave. You vote...
As long as he's not forcing anyone else to, there shouldn't be a problem. Except for the control freaks out there who mistake their way of thinking for others.
Nobody who passed the screening process would be that stupid. Whether from exposure to space or some preexisting defect, that “Capitan” is no longer fit to command the “ship”, and should be relieved of duty - making his or her argument moot.
Very reasonable but I wanted to create a moral dilemma which doesn't work if the crew can easily see the commander isn't just eccentric but at least momentarily not of a sound mind 😉
A person of sound mind would never contemplate a meaningless suicide, much less prepare for it. Now if the thing was calculated to be headed into a populated area below, and could be steered the "Captain of the ship" planning to sacrifice himself to protect others could be seen both as a duty and heroic.
Force that crazy asshole off. It's a relic. It's a research station, not a star destroyer. And it is not his to go down with. The ISS belongs to the international community.
Finally a question with no party divide. 😎
I've actually imagined this scenario since 1979 when Skylab was deorbited.
I imagine the shuddering, buffeting, the heat building up.
The creaking and groaning of overstressed structure.
Then, the break 💀
Captain goes down with the ship policy has not been done in decades. Nevertheless, the captain should make sure that everyone is out and safe before debarking.
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