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crazypeltast52 posted:The 50s also had another plan for water, the NAWAPA. It only had two downsides, it involved taking British Columbia's water and would involve damming the biggest free-flowing rivers in the American west, but it would have been an unbelievable amount of water. Thank god that didn't happen. I've never looked at a North American map and said "can we gently caress over the environment Soviet style, so that Palm Springs can have emerald-green lawns?" Speaking of bad ideas with water, in the 90s there was some group of assholes that wanted to drain the great lakes, which is just a catastrophically bad idea, like draining the Mediterranean or giant water cannons sending water aloft at 400 mph.
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Then there was also the opposite, to flood a basin in the Sahara to create arable land. Basically do on purpose what happened by accident to make the Salton Sea.
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More things I found: Another airplane for our Crimson Skies reboot:   B-19:    Canada's Fury:     The Helldiver is pretty big:  If anybody wants to infodump on the careers of the endless variants of the Lockheed Hudson, I'd appreciate it.   Interior, Fw 200. Looks like the forward top turret and radio stations.  Kingfisher flying is a man's job, Torkerio   'Tony'  
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Nebakenezzer posted:Thank god that didn't happen. I've never looked at a North American map and said "can we gently caress over the environment Soviet style, so that Palm Springs can have emerald-green lawns?" It wouldn't have all been bad quote:The engineering of the project and the creation of a large number of new reservoirs — many of them in designated wilderness areas — would have destroyed vast areas of wildlife habitat in Canada and the American West and would have required the relocation of hundreds of thousands of people — including the entire city of Prince George, British Columbia. Gotta admit, a navigable waterway between Alberta and the Great Lakes would have been interesting. We could have used tankers instead of piplelines and trains to move oil! 
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crazypeltast52 posted:The 50s also had another plan for water, the NAWAPA. It only had two downsides, it involved taking British Columbia's water and would involve damming the biggest free-flowing rivers in the American west, but it would have been an unbelievable amount of water. Good god the mid 20th century was a hell of a thing.
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Default Settings posted:We are talking 1950s here - minor technical complications like that can surely be overcome by some device involving raw nuclear power. Dig a canal using nukes. Fallout? What's that?
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Nebakenezzer posted:...which is just a catastrophically bad idea, like draining the Mediterranean... Hey, it’s hard to turn down a hundred thousand megawatts of hydro power.
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vessbot posted:Aquatical Insanity: The Ugg of Italy
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MrYenko posted:Hey, it’s hard to turn down a hundred thousand megawatts of hydro power. Google says the US consumes 10 million MW per day, so that's a cool 15 minutes of power from our perspective.
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That would be megawatt-hours per day, not megawatts. 100k MW times 24h is 2.4 million MWh per day, or a full quarter of our energy consumption, every day. Nothing to sneeze at.
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I will accept my punishment for misusing units and attempt to calculate a fuel check on an E6B.
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:I will accept my punishment for misusing units and attempt to calculate a fuel check on an E6B. You have run out of avgas while fiddling with your slide rule
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tactlessbastard posted:You have run out of avgas while fiddling with your slide rule KPDX Trail
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Travelling back to your home Army heliport isn't easy! You have reached the Big Blue River Crossing. You elect to fly over power lines at the pole or superstructure. You decided to hunt. You kill 700 pounds of deer but can only fit 15 pounds in the aft stowage bay. A thief stole 97 gallons of JET-A from your aircraft! You stop for food at the FBO. Your copilot has dysentery. You have cholera. You need 390 gallons of JET-A to make it home. The general store doesn't have this much. You notice a broken wheel on throughflight but ignore it to continue mission. Your copilot has 0% cell battery. Your copilot has died.
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A neat airplane related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcUJqs37EHE
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:Travelling back to your home Army heliport isn't easy! >pull chute
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Platystemon posted:>pull chute here lies platystemon peperony and chease
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vessbot posted:Aquatical Insanity: On a more serious note, while the concept is pretty cool, the overall change in water depth and salinity would be disastrous for the entire Med biome, not to mention it would probably impact global climate and ocean salt levels in a measurable way.
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https://youtu.be/qi92Va9XuX8 Ground effect in full effect
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R-Type posted:On a more serious note, while the concept is pretty cool, the overall change in water depth and salinity would be disastrous for the entire Med biome, not to mention it would probably impact global climate and ocean salt levels in a measurable way. Yup, pretty much what's going on with the Aral Sea basin  E: actually not exactly, a big part of that is the blowing dust from the concentrated and distilled-out agricultural runoff vessbot fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Dec 12, 2017 |
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Mental Hospitality posted:A neat airplane related video: I'm kinda in a hurry so I jumped to a random point in the middle, and what do I see, glamorous musical pan shots of the... autopilot panel. gently caress this gay earth
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fickle poofterist posted:https://youtu.be/qi92Va9XuX8 Going from a Dash-8 to A380 is quite the shock  Dash 8s are so skinny and that A380, phwoar. 
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I just booked a trip which will include: My first 747, for the main trip out My first non-turboprop non-Boeing/Airbus (Embraer 190, I've been in a Dash-8 once before) for the local leg My first A380, for the main trip back
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fickle poofterist posted:https://youtu.be/qi92Va9XuX8 They built two miles of runway, it'd be a waste not to use it all.
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simplefish posted:I just booked a trip which will include: Yeah, one of my bucket list/just got diagnosed with terminal cancer items is to fly down to DFW, catch a Qantas A380 to Sydney, gently caress around there for a few days (never been to Australia), then catch a pair of Emirates or Ethiad A380s back to Dulles via the Middle East. All business class or better, except the hop to DFW. I could care less flying coach to there.
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Yeah I'm flying cheap seats. Premium Economy would have tripled the price, I shudder to think what Business would have cost.
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simplefish posted:Yeah I'm flying cheap seats. Premium Economy would have tripled the price, I shudder to think what Business would have cost. When I worked out my 'dream' route it came out to ~25 grand all told, *before* lodging in Sydney for a few days' time. Most of the connections from SYD to AUH/DOH to IAD have a ~12-24h layover, so I'd likely have to nap in the business class lounge or get a room at an airport hotel for a fraction of a day. Just round-trip from DFW to SYD and back in business class is ~$9k.
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Probably been posted here before but I would like to fly the $18,000 USD Singapore Airlines suite class flight, from Singapore to NYC. Double bed  vvv lol, no kidding. I want some of that coffee tho. priznat fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Dec 12, 2017 |
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Lol look at the loving poor flying on someone else's plane.
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If I could borrow money from future me, in a time traveling sense, not a hosed credit sense, I'd fly round the world on 1st class as a last airline hurrah, then never fly on holiday again.
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The bleeping on this one alone is a work of art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLyiL7R_Fms
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If I could time travel, I’d time travel to the early sixties, fly Pan-Am to my destination, and then time travel back to the present once I got there. Airline travel sucks bad, now.
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Nah it’s just gotten cheap enough that anyone can afford it. You can still fly in the lap of luxury if you have money.
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MrYenko posted:If I could time travel, I’d time travel to the early sixties, fly Pan-Am to my destination, and then time travel back to the present once I got there. Your Pan Am coach ticket would cost as much as a first class flight now.
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And first-class overseas today is ridiculously better than it would've been "back in the day."
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MrYenko posted:If I could time travel, I’d time travel to the early sixties, fly Pan-Am to my destination, and then time travel back to the present once I got there. No entertainment systems, no full recline, cabin full of cigarette smoke. I think the food may have been pretty good, maybe the wine selection too, but not as ostentatious and overall high quality as today - in first class that is. Oh yeah and:  I suppose you could just time travel away before impact.
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Ola posted:I suppose you could just time travel away before impact. ...and then fall into the ocean in the present day from 10K feet.
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Does time-travel preserve momentum? Wait, first question first, is time-travel geocentric?
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