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Alaan posted:Yeah in any field you want to at least start by looking at the current consensus of experts. The field CAN be collectively wrong but it's less likely than one person or organization going "No I know the real answer!" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence : In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
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Spotted some (fake) airpower in the sidebar.
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# ? Feb 28, 2019 18:35 |
bewbies posted:this is insidious It's a fun class!
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# ? Feb 28, 2019 18:36 |
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Shocking news wrt to used aussie jets (not shocking)quote:OTTAWA -- Parliament's budget watchdog says the Department of National Defence might have deliberately lowballed the cost of buying and flying second-hand fighter jets from Australia by $200 million. I mean it isn’t even surprising at this point.
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# ? Feb 28, 2019 19:06 |
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Here's India's story about the recent kerfuffle in Kashmir. How believable is this tale? https://twitter.com/KashmirIntel/status/1101105653320282114 https://twitter.com/KashmirIntel/status/1101106042690142211 https://twitter.com/KashmirIntel/status/1101106575844925440 https://twitter.com/KashmirIntel/status/1101107725088354304 https://twitter.com/KashmirIntel/status/1101106731910746112 https://twitter.com/KashmirIntel/status/1101108332041891840
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shame on an IGA posted:I've got background in manufacturing QC statistics and what mortabis said is completely reasonable. I don't admit that lightly. Yeah, in my heart of hearts, I know this. I just have a severe distrust of insurance companies and a well-meaning, honest actuary, physician, expert, whoever can be misused by companies in the US health system to generate profits rather than provide better care/compensation. It does not help that "Gulf War Syndrome" is an incredibly vague term given that any number of people were messed up post-war, but it's not like there was some singular Gulf War mist of malaise that caused issues, which makes it a double edged sword. Suspicion when any old vet says they have maladies from the war without proper documentation, but also vets who cannot specifically prove that a war where they sucked in any number of awful things had a direct impact on their health. Hence why I called it my bias rather than my evidence/logic/etc. Companies often use good people and their work to do not so good things. See also: militaries/governments!
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That Works posted:I had a quiz question last week that was "Explain why Dr. That Works is a valid authority on the electoral process of Rhode Island." (I am a microbiologist). Only 1 out of 35 students answered "he's not" Critical thinking skills should be taught at every level of education.
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There’s a whole lot of context needed to validate the responses to that kind of question though. I’m going to assume That Works made that kind of message clear in his lessons because he’s mentioned it before but it is extremely easy to see how a student (especially students who don’t pay full attention) could see that in the wrong light or as a loaded question. I don’t know many students who would willingly answer that in the negative in the middle of a test by that same teacher, almost as a element of self-preservation.
Mazz fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Feb 28, 2019 |
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R-73 armed mig 21s? DCS please. I need this.
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# ? Feb 28, 2019 21:13 |
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https://i.imgur.com/RSU6Iwe.mp4
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Captain von Trapp posted:Well, for instance I'm an optical engineer for a huge defense contractor. One of the items on my performance evaluation is explicitly pretty much "how did you contribute to the financial health of the company”, and the answer to that question affects my pay. So I and similarly situated people are in theory way more compromised than an actuary whose company is presumably not involved in the GWS issue. But that doesn't mean I'm not giving my honest opinion when I post. If your evaluation were based on your SA posting, the logic would work. What you're right about is that asking people that question in that situation is dumb as gently caress. Most people are not Ron Swanson. Explosionface posted:He often mentioned being stationed off Da Nang, so yeah, Yankee Station should cover that. I also think he did, in fact, go ashore and even had to do a couple of river patrols. A good time to post Pardo's Push: TLDR is that Pardo's wingman got his F-4 chewed up by AAA near Hanoi and was rapidly lost fuel. He dropped his tail hook, Pardo put his forward windscreen against it, and reduced the loss of altitude. The hook slipped off every 15-30 seconds, and Pardo lost an engine along the way, but 90 miles later they ejected over Laos, evaded capture, and were rescued. Pardo was almost court martialed, but in 1989 both pilots got silver stars. Edit: I don't remember seeing this posted in here: F-15C fires off missiles instead of jettisoning after emergency I haven't heard anything about it besides what this story says, but I'm REALLY interested in how it turns out for that pilot. Godholio fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Feb 28, 2019 |
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Dumping ordnance before making a potentially dangerous landing at a civilian airport seems pretty reasonable to me.
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Godholio posted:
Landing gear problem means it could've turned into a belly landing during which having a wing full of missiles hit the ground seems like a bad idea?
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# ? Feb 28, 2019 22:49 |
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The salient bit is probably accidentally firing them rather than just dumping them. I would strongly suspect that if you're in that situation everyone prefers that you dump your missiles like really oddly shaped bombs someplace that doesn't look like a school or orphanage rather than just having them jet off over yonder. God only knows how/if those arm and how that's affected by jettisoning vs. firing.
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Thanks! Not like I needed to sleep or anything.
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Cyrano4747 posted:The salient bit is probably accidentally firing them rather than just dumping them. I would strongly suspect that if you're in that situation everyone prefers that you dump your missiles like really oddly shaped bombs someplace that doesn't look like a school or orphanage rather than just having them jet off over yonder. I gathered they were intentionally sent ballistic into the ocean to avoid also dumping the pylons and external tanks.
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# ? Feb 28, 2019 23:06 |
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Ah, thought itw as a mistake launch. No idea then.
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# ? Feb 28, 2019 23:08 |
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If the article isn't full of poo poo: quote:The missiles were fired instead of dropped for a number of factors. First, the underwing missiles cannot be jettisoned without also dropping the pylons and the aircraft's wing tanks. Second, hitting the water at high mach speeds damages the missiles severely, if not destroying them altogether. Then it goes on to say that missiles are expensive but I don't think money is saved by jettisoning them. Perhaps jettisoning them over a stack of mattresses, but that was the ANG, not the USMC, they don't think as much outside the box.
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I've thought about it for a bit and I think the likeliest scenario is that there was a problem with the jettison system. Video of the landing shows him carrying his drop tanks, and my understanding is you can't drop missiles without dropping tanks. So if for whatever reason the tanks won't drop and you don't want to carry explosives back with you, you're gonna have to shoot the missiles. Now, the more important question is if he got to call "splash!" over the radio when they hit the water.
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# ? Mar 1, 2019 00:19 |
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“Mad dog”
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# ? Mar 1, 2019 00:20 |
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Just as long as he doesn't have to call "broken arrow"
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mlmp08 posted:“Mad dog” ...And the frequency got oddly silent.
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A.o.D. posted:Just as long as he doesn't have to call "broken arrow" Nuclear AMRAAMs would be loving awesome.
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Godholio posted:Nuclear AMRAAMs would be loving awesome. Bring back the Genie.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Bring back the Genie. India could use it. I remember it being quite effective against F-16s.
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https://news.usni.org/2019/02/28/navy-declares-initial-operational-capability-for-f-35c-joint-strike-fighterquote:The Navy declared today that its F-35C Joint Strike Fighter was operationally ready to deploy and conduct missions around the world.
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Anyone want to start a betting pool for the first official grounding?
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Godholio posted:Nuclear AMRAAMs would be loving awesome. And the tech is already out there to do it. Just stick a W54 warhead on top...
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Anyone want to start a betting pool for the first official grounding? Its a brand new aircraft. Probably in a few weeks. That type of stuff is expected. Hell look at the number of times the F-14 was grounded in its first year of active service...
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# ? Mar 1, 2019 14:38 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Anyone want to start a betting pool for the first official grounding? What, like on a reef? Plastic_Gargoyle posted:"Boeing tanker jets grounded due to tools and debris left during manufacturing" Tanker woes crosspost. mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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Aperture Science Turret AI v.011a (NO LIVE FIRE TESTING) posted:are you still there
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# ? Mar 2, 2019 01:17 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Anyone want to start a betting pool for the first official grounding? I wouldn't bet on anything serious. If anything the number of mishaps (crashes etc) in the F-35 program has been astonishingly low.
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Hauldren Collider posted:I wouldn't bet on anything serious. If anything the number of mishaps (crashes etc) in the F-35 program has been astonishingly low.
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This got posted in the scale model thread and I must repost it here:FrozenVent posted:The quality of shipyard models [IE the models shipyards make of ships they are constructing] is... uneven, by the way. It’s been my anecdotal experience that the better the display model, the longer lasting the ship is. Midjack posted:This sounds like the foundation of a modern superstition that you can really turn into something. Or some Dorian Gray thing. FrozenVent posted:Nah it’s pure economics - cheap rear end shipyards turn out cheap rear end ships and skimp on the models too. I think Davos, Irving, and Seaspan need a sneaky assessment of their ship models ASAP
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Wedding Crashers 2 looking good.
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You joke but there's only been one airframe loss iirc in the entire program, and it was last year. The caution has paid off.
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mlmp08 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpJ8EoGmLuE Video presenters gushing on and on about how this is the coolest footage they've ever gotten is intrinsically annoying. It's just that in this case it's objectively true, they're never shooting anything as awesome as this.
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mllaneza posted:Video presenters gushing on and on about how this is the coolest footage they've ever gotten is intrinsically annoying. It's just that in this case it's objectively true, they're never shooting anything as awesome as this. I hate that channel but like that video. I'd love a supercut of their videos that's just the actual thing happening with a title card saying what it is. I don't need you babbling for 10 minutes about throwing a pound of lithium in a swimming pool. Just tell me what the spectacle is then do it.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I hate that channel but like that video. Yeah. This is very of me, but I swear video game hints/tips/tutorials used to be waaaaay better. Say you're playing some RPG in 2001 and don't know where the gently caress the McGuffin is, you could Netscape search and find a basic-rear end site with a few sentences and maybe a screencap showing you where the hidden chest is. Nowadays the first 60 seconds of any video is "Hey, guys, L33tZor 24/7 69 here with another video for all my L33tZoners, today we're gonna talk about finding an item that's a lot of trouble for players to find. Here's what I'm talking about [smash-cut of people complaining they can't find it] *two minutes later* Anyway, you exit the tavern and take two rights and a left, please feel free to comment like and subscribe" JUST loving SHOW ME THE THING It occurs to me after I posted that Cyrano almost described this as his ideal for videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pboWjatSdWg
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Cyrano4747 posted:I hate that channel but like that video. At the University of Central Florida there's a pretty big fountain/reflecting pool out in front of the library which is a pretty high traffic area of the campus. Apparently like a decade or so before I went there it was popular for the science students to abscond with some sodium or lithium from the lab and toss it in the pool. Try that nowadays and you'd probably be arrested and expelled.
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