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Deptfordx posted:Warbird of Theseus Nah fam, I’m from Bama
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ausgezeichnet posted:Sad news for space fans. Michael Collins died today. He lived about 800 feet from me, but I never got to meet him and tell him how his biography was funny as hell and easily the most honest of all the Apollo astronauts'. Apparently, he worked out at the local YMCA and if I hadn't let myself go to hell the past five years I could have annoyed him with questions while on the Stairmaster. Sad. Also, forgotten? The least famous of the three Apollo 11 astronauts, there's a difference. I made a special effort to remember his name.
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Apr 29, 2021 02:03
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Nebakenezzer posted:Sad. Also, forgotten? The least famous of the three Apollo 11 astronauts, there's a difference. I made a special effort to remember his name. If you are interested in that stuff, yeah you will know who he is, but the majority of people will only know the names of the two who landed on the moon.
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Apr 29, 2021 02:19
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Sir that is considered pornography in Australia
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Apr 29, 2021 03:29
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PT6A posted:He does have a very special distinction though: of the photo taken of the lunar lander, with earth in the background, he is the one singular human, living or dead, since the beginning of time itself, who is not included somewhere in that photo. I was also not in that photo 
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Apr 29, 2021 06:04
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ausgezeichnet posted:Hey. There are three or four of us who aren't chud-fucks. Major Kong seems pretty dece too.
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Apr 29, 2021 06:22
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ok whats the weirdest thing a passenger has tried to steal from a plane you were on?
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Apr 29, 2021 08:04
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:ok whats the weirdest thing a passenger has tried to steal from a plane you were on? My heart
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Apr 29, 2021 10:57
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:ok whats the weirdest thing a passenger has tried to steal from a plane you were on? It's me, I'm the weird thief. When I was 12 I stole a life jacket from a Lufthansa 747. I wanted to take it into the swimming pool, but I never did because I was worried there was an ELT attached.
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Apr 29, 2021 15:34
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Safety Dance posted:It's me, I'm the weird thief. When I was 12 I stole a life jacket from a Lufthansa 747. I wanted to take it into the swimming pool, but I never did because I was worried there was an ELT attached. Joke's on whoever was sitting in that seat after you when the plane went down in the ocean.
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Apr 29, 2021 15:42
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Zero One posted:I was also not in that photo Unconstituted parts of you were
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Apr 29, 2021 15:51
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Phanatic posted:Joke's on whoever was sitting in that seat after you when the plane went down in the ocean. you wouldn't believe how many life jackets get stolen from our airplanes. people will take anything not bolted down at any time. So much so that it's a preflight check for the flight attendants. Shocker: it's a huge pain in the rear end when one goes missing!
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Apr 29, 2021 16:58
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:ok whats the weirdest thing a passenger has tried to steal from a plane you were on? A plastic garbage bag full of miniature bags of Cheez-It's. I'm 99% sure someone stole an exit sign (a plastic cover for some lightbulbs about the size of a stick of butter with EXIT printed on it), and since we can't legally dispatch the airplane without that, the flight cancelled and we had to ferry the airplane instead.
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Apr 29, 2021 17:19
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Arson Daily posted:you wouldn't believe how many life jackets get stolen from our airplanes. people will take anything not bolted down at any time. So much so that it's a preflight check for the flight attendants. Shocker: it's a huge pain in the rear end when one goes missing! Used to make those super-nice first class suites that cost 40k per ticket. The middle eastern airlines ALWAYS want a bunch of gold trim on everything. They're our most replaced parts because people who can afford 40k tickets for a loving airline flight while pry that poo poo off with the dinnerware and steal it.
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Apr 29, 2021 18:05
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rich people didn't get that way by not being greedy and stingy
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Apr 29, 2021 18:50
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ApathyGifted posted:Used to make those super-nice first class suites that cost 40k per ticket. The middle eastern airlines ALWAYS want a bunch of gold trim on everything. They're our most replaced parts because people who can afford 40k tickets for a loving airline flight while pry that poo poo off with the dinnerware and steal it. Is it actual gold? Would be hilarious if they were stealing gold spray painted plastic or something.
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Apr 29, 2021 19:02
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ApathyGifted posted:Used to make those super-nice first class suites that cost 40k per ticket. The middle eastern airlines ALWAYS want a bunch of gold trim on everything. They're our most replaced parts because people who can afford 40k tickets for a loving airline flight while pry that poo poo off with the dinnerware and steal it. I once had a co-worker who worked in a five star hotel in Thailand. He said it was stupidly common for the ultra-richers to work hard to try and find a conceivable flaw in something so they could stay for free. Interestingly, he also said the one time he did something where that might have been justified. He accidentally spilled some drinks on some guests. However these guests were very nice Americans who laughed it off.
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Apr 29, 2021 19:28
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I would like to know more.
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Cojawfee posted:Is it actual gold? Would be hilarious if they were stealing gold spray painted plastic or something. We tried anodizing with a gold color but it didn't look gold enough, so it ended up being gold-leaf plated aluminum with some sort of clear protective coating, which apparently looked gold enough for people who literally own piles of gold bars.
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Apr 29, 2021 20:21
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ApathyGifted posted:Used to make those super-nice first class suites that cost 40k per ticket. The middle eastern airlines ALWAYS want a bunch of gold trim on everything. They're our most replaced parts because people who can afford 40k tickets for a loving airline flight while pry that poo poo off with the dinnerware and steal it. I feel like the thing to do here is engrave "You absolute donkey, did you think this was real gold?" in English and Arabic on the inside of each piece.
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Apr 29, 2021 23:16
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ApathyGifted posted:We tried anodizing with a gold color but it didn't look gold enough, so it ended up being gold-leaf plated aluminum with some sort of clear protective coating, which apparently looked gold enough for people who literally own piles of gold bars. Huh we had a customer who 3d printed then gold anodized light fixtures for those little cabins on some Arab airline.
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Apr 29, 2021 23:55
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Wombot posted:I would like to know more. It's Flight Simulator 2020
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Apr 30, 2021 00:07
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azflyboy posted:I'm 99% sure someone stole an exit sign (a plastic cover for some lightbulbs about the size of a stick of butter with EXIT printed on it), and since we can't legally dispatch the airplane without that, the flight cancelled and we had to ferry the airplane instead. That plastic cover usually has tritium inside it so it glows. They're spendy pieces of garbo plastic. Couple hundred bucks per. There's a whole section in the US Code about the properties of the light it gives off. WTF is a millilambert, United States?
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ApathyGifted posted:We tried anodizing with a gold color but it didn't look gold enough, so it ended up being gold-leaf plated aluminum with some sort of clear protective coating, which apparently looked gold enough for people who literally own piles of gold bars. What this teaches me is that gold-pressed latinum was invented by Ferengi who wanted to keep their passengers from stealing the fittings.
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Apr 30, 2021 02:06
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:That plastic cover usually has tritium inside it so it glows. They're spendy pieces of garbo plastic. Couple hundred bucks per. There's a whole section in the US Code about the properties of the light it gives off. WTF is a millilambert, United States? Not much, what’s millilambert with you?
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:WTF is a millilambert, United States? 1/(1000pi) candela per square cm yeah that's right we're making our own new bizzaro units out of proper SI units now
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Apr 30, 2021 02:17
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I was thinking it was 1/1000 of a Christopher Lambert
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Apr 30, 2021 02:46
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Kilonum posted:I was thinking it was 1/1000 of a Christopher Lambert No, I won’t take a loving check!
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HAHAH! Love it!
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azflyboy posted:A plastic garbage bag full of miniature bags of Cheez-It's. I flew a Falcon 7X for an owner who had it on a 135 certificate for tax purposes. One day while in flight, I noticed that the cup-holder ash tray ABSOLUTELY required to be located by the aft lav was missing. It was a circular thing that fit in a cup holder and had a big placard on it saying DO NOT REMOVE FROM AIRCRAFT. Being a team player (lol), I didn't squeal on myself until we got back to home base and started surveying the other Pilots and Mechanics as to when the loving thing might have disappeared. Turns out the Boss' delinquent grandson took it off the aircraft a few weeks before and nobody noticed it. I put almost 2500 hours on that aircraft and not one single passenger ever smoked on it, but the lav was supposed to be MEL'd if the friggin ash tray was missing. We had a couple of spare ashtrays in stock, so we didn't have to tell the boss he had to use the horribly tiny crew lav up front.
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shame on an IGA posted:1/(1000pi) candela per square cm Tit for tat, the French took perfectly good American units and turned them Metric, with an SI multiple. Sieverts I'm looking at you.
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shame on an IGA posted:proper SI units now The candela is a hosed up unit to begin with. At least they fixed the ampere.
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Man takes a ride across the Atlantic in a Cubana Il-96, business class. Recently those have been passing through Gander; apparently the Cuban government has been using them to fetch medical supplies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLkWRAg-Av4 Also: shake a tail feather 
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Apr 30, 2021 14:11
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Phanatic posted:The candela is a hosed up unit to begin with. I've always enjoyed how the Curie is just over in the corner YOLOing like "If you have a real use for this unit without a prefix, you are already dead"
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shame on an IGA posted:I've always enjoyed how the Curie is just over in the corner YOLOing like "If you have a real use for this unit without a prefix, you are already dead" I looked this up and holy jesus
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Volkova III posted:I looked this up and holy jesus I'm not sure I understand aside from the Coulomb being a stonk-ingly gigantic unit for electricity
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shame on an IGA posted:I've always enjoyed how the Curie is just over in the corner YOLOing like "If you have a real use for this unit without a prefix, you are already dead" The Curie/Meter/REM relationship is so useful for estimating dose though. (One Cutie Co-60 yields 1 REM dose at about 3 feet)
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Nebakenezzer posted:I'm not sure I understand aside from the Coulomb being a stonk-ingly gigantic unit for electricity The curie is a unit that measures how radioactive something is, in atomic disintegrations per second. One becquerel, the SI unit, is one atom decaying per second. One curie is 37 billion decays per second. It is equivalent to the radioactivity of one gram of pure radium, which is an extremely dangerous thing to be around. Any "safe" level of radioactivity is going to be on the order of microcuries or nanocuries; any time you're measuring something in whole curies, look out. Reportedly they were going to define the unit as the radioactivity of 10 nanograms of radium, which would put it in the same order of magnitude as the becquerel, but Marie herself was upset at her name being associated with anything so small and made them change it to one gram. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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