[aredox]

Stupid comment. Several flights had to be diverted because of the break-up, and anyone in flight at that time would be rightly concerned about barely-visible high-speed shrapnel showering a much larger area than where the visible debris are - especially when you are responsible for keeping your hundreds of passengers safe in a very unexpected situation with no rehearsed procedure to follow.

[stouset]

Nobody is saying it wasn’t prudent to divert.

It would have been impossible for the pilot to know if that debris was shortly in front of them and at co-altitude or extremely far in front of them and at a significantly higher altitude.

In this case it was almost certainly the latter. But the uncertainty alone was enough to warrant diverting.

> Stupid comment.

Aim higher on HN.

[javawizard]

Ok, this:

> Stupid comment

got me. There's literally an HN rule about this: [0]

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

I feel like the world would be a better place if people would tone down the ad-hominem in their day-to-day discourse just a little bit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[yellowapple]

> I feel like the world would be a better place if people would tone down the ad-hominem in their day-to-day discourse just a little bit.

    PRAGMA sarcasm = ON;

No, fuck you, I'm going to call you names and shit all over you over a mild disagreement!

    PRAGMA sarcasm = OFF;

But yes, one of the refreshing things about HN is that even when conversations get heated, the participants tend to at least keep to the topic and respect one another / assume good faith. There will of course always be slip-ups on that (I'd be lying if I said I wasn't guilty of that on occasion), but they've managed to be pretty rare (and/or quickly caught by the admins) even as HN has grown in popularity.

[pineaux]

this.