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My cyberpunk nightmare isn’t garage rocketry. It’s garage virology, and that was true before December thirty‐first of last year.
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Platystemon posted:My cyberpunk nightmare isn’t garage rocketry. I know we're veering off topic but I knew a guy who would order bacteriophages from the Czech Republic for amateur virology experiments. Weird weird dude, I would not trust any food he prepared.
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Jul 23, 2020 16:45
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A friend's hangar neighbor got a MiG-15. On the one hand, I had the rare opportunity to make the joke, on the other, the joke has been pretty tasteless for at least a decade now.
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Jul 23, 2020 19:02
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:A friend's hangar neighbor got a MiG-15. On the one hand, I had the rare opportunity to make the joke, on the other, the joke has been pretty tasteless for at least a decade now. Type 14? yes I know what the reporting name is
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Jul 23, 2020 19:04
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Midjack posted:Type 14? yes I know what the reporting name is Sometimes a cigar is just a... uh, ciagrette? wait that doesn't work.
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Jul 23, 2020 19:22
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I remember some article a long time ago on the subtleties of telling a 17 from a 14, subtitled "Don't call me a Fagot."
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Jul 23, 2020 19:26
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Platystemon posted:My cyberpunk nightmare isn’t garage rocketry. You too? Discovering that smallpox could be reconstituted with mail-order DNA, an undergrad in microbiology, and about $100,000 messed me up a bit Though then discovering that the US government spent money developing a modern smallpox vaccine when this was discovered and this was done at the direction of George W Bush of all goddamn people was a shock in of itself
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Jul 23, 2020 19:29
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The vaccine was Counter-Bioterrorism so it makes sense that it got funded in the post 9/11 GWOT $$$ boom
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Jul 23, 2020 19:33
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Never knew about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl1tzsLlUAo A Coast Guard bizjet with an afterburner.
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Jul 24, 2020 06:44
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Warbird posted:You’re a coward of you don’t fly the wings off and just catch the fuselage as it falls.
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Jul 24, 2020 12:23
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https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1286416104051609601?s=20 Some rough flying during an F-15C intercept of the airliner in the vicinity of Al Tanf Garrison.
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Jul 24, 2020 12:26
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mlmp08 posted:https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1286416104051609601?s=20 The Avherald report makes it sound like the Iranian crew freaked out at a more or less normal intercept. And the passenger photos included do seem to show an F-15 at a safe looking distance.
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Jul 24, 2020 14:10
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evil_bunnY posted:That'd be awesome but in the real world you always get one wing back with the center pod. A fair point. I’ll also accept “catch the motherfucker at speed”.
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Jul 24, 2020 14:12
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A climb of a few hundred feet followed by a return to assigned altitude just sounds like a TCAS RA to me.
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Jul 24, 2020 14:28
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Reports that Garmin got randomwared and their connected wearables are offline, but also including their FlyGarmin service for flight nav. Anyone know if that’s true?
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Jul 24, 2020 17:00
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That's what BBC is reporting. Garmin hasn't confirmed it. I can tell you I can't access my smart watch.
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Jul 24, 2020 17:39
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`Nemesis posted:Reports that Garmin got randomwared and their connected wearables are offline, but also including their FlyGarmin service for flight nav. Anyone know if that’s true? Oh jeebus. I alluded to that in some other Garmin-affected thread yesterday, it would be really bad for them if their high-$ aviation stuff got hit.
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Jul 24, 2020 18:54
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Surprise, Elon's going to ruin stargazing! https://geekologie.com/2020/07/photo-of-neowise-comet-photobombed-by-el.php
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Jul 24, 2020 21:27
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Surprise, Elon's going to ruin stargazing! Already is loving up a lot of Real Science astronomy with the garbage satellites that only exist to create artificial demand for SpaceX launches and don’t even do what they claim to. It’s appalling, and for that more than anything else he’s done I wish him ill.
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Jul 24, 2020 21:33
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https://twitter.com/petemuntean/status/1286618600091131904 whoops, turns out even all taped up properly a bleed air valve in 737 engines corrodes open and causes a compressor stall if they've been in storage for two months
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Jul 25, 2020 00:14
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Kinda makes you wonder what they are going to find on MAXs grounded for 2+ years.
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Jul 25, 2020 00:29
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`Nemesis posted:Reports that Garmin got randomwared and their connected wearables are offline, but also including their FlyGarmin service for flight nav. Anyone know if that’s true? I can log into the area on fly.garmin.com where I would normally download nav databases with no issue.
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Jul 25, 2020 01:10
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:I can log into the area on fly.garmin.com where I would normally download nav databases with no issue. quote:Update - We are currently experiencing an outage that affects flyGarmin and as a result, the flyGarmin website and mobile app are down at this time. This outage also affects our call centers, and we are currently unavailable to receive any emails or chats, but do have limited availability for calls. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and apologize for this inconvenience. I can tell you the consumer (exercise watch) stuff is still down.
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Jul 25, 2020 01:45
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bull3964 posted:Kinda makes you wonder what they are going to find on MAXs grounded for 2+ years. "Yeah that awful FAA made our plane sit for too long and now the software has gone all buggy."
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Jul 25, 2020 08:46
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HookedOnChthonics posted:https://twitter.com/petemuntean/status/1286618600091131904 All 737s? How had this not been noticed before? I mean owners like to turn the planes around and generate revenue as much as they can, but surely some small number of 737s had been parked for a few months before.
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Jul 25, 2020 09:34
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Platystemon posted:All 737s? If they’re unsure which combination of equipment causes the issue then the safest thing to do is to order all of them inspected.
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Jul 25, 2020 16:14
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Airplanes are strange beasts. You can either use them or not use them and they're fine. If you take an airplane that's used a lot and then not use it for a while, strange things break in mysterious ways. If you take an airplane that hasn't been used much and then use it a lot everything seems to break all at once.
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Jul 25, 2020 16:27
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This is basically same with pretty much any highly engineered machinery tbh
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Jul 25, 2020 17:07
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Never knew about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl1tzsLlUAo I just watched this video, and a couple of others by this guy and two things stand out - first, holy poo poo his delivery is awful, and second, they are really very poorly researched, quoting things that are misleading or just flat out wrong.
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Jul 25, 2020 22:27
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Also at least 2 pics of the wrong plane, 1 of which was the wrong manufacturer!
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Jul 25, 2020 22:54
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hobbesmaster posted:If they’re unsure which combination of equipment causes the issue then the safest thing to do is to order all of them inspected. Ya, the FAA orders inspection ADs pretty frequently. You don’t generally hear about them because they’re relatively cheap and don’t impact operations at a fleet level. Recurring inspections or required part change ADs are a lot less frequent.
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Jul 25, 2020 22:55
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MrChips posted:I just watched this video, and a couple of others by this guy and two things stand out - first, holy poo poo his delivery is awful, and second, they are really very poorly researched, quoting things that are misleading or just flat out wrong. Hey, maybe two people on Earth find emotionless flat-affect delivery sexy! Also, American Airlines has a "Deez Nuts" problem: https://onemileatatime.com/american-airlines-nut-surplus/ BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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Jul 25, 2020 23:38
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MrChips posted:I just watched this video, and a couple of others by this guy and two things stand out - first, holy poo poo his delivery is awful, and second, they are really very poorly researched, quoting things that are misleading or just flat out wrong. I quite like his videos but you are so right on his delivery and lack of researching. Now Curious Droid is like the opposite.
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Jul 26, 2020 05:14
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Saint Helena’s airport has firefighters standing by at all times. Interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-QejUTDCWw&t=1575s
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Jul 26, 2020 05:20
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That is interesting because they only have one flight a week.
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Jul 26, 2020 05:47
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Don't they act as the fire department for the whole community?
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Jul 26, 2020 13:22
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Lou Takki posted:Don't they act as the fire department for the whole community? Maybe. But the airport is a 15km mountain road from the main town on the island. I'd imagine its like in a lot of smaller European airports the fire department also dual role the police/customs too.
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Jul 26, 2020 13:49
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The fireman are also baggage handlers. 
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Jul 26, 2020 13:50
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I went to St. Helena once, a long time ago, and the shocking thing is that there's even less there than you could possibly expect.
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Mortabis posted:That is interesting because they only have one flight a week. One scheduled, but due to location it could be a possible diversion point I guess, especially since the Ascension airport is a RAF base.
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