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Warbird posted:Mildly fun aside: I once got paid in pizza to go hang out in a stadium bathroom with umpteen hundred other people and coordinate flushing to make sure the associated systems could handle it. Well, did they?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Well, did they? Their posts are here, so evidently.
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mobby_6kl posted:
What a confusing sentence. What does the plane hitting runway lights have to do with the flooding?
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BonoMan posted:What a confusing sentence. What does the plane hitting runway lights have to do with the flooding? it never rains, but it pours
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It's a little known fact New Zealand runs on high pressure water lines. Every light has a little paddle wheel inside to generate electricity.
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Pablo Bluth posted:It's a little known fact New Zealand runs on high pressure water lines. Every light has a little paddle wheel inside to generate electricity. Thats the definition of steampunk right there.
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Jan 27, 2023 18:49
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Correction: Waterpunk. There's no steam involved — do you think they're crazy?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Well, did they? Iirc one of the older sections of the stadium had some mild flooding but they apparently fixed it pretty quickly.
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BonoMan posted:What a confusing sentence. What does the plane hitting runway lights have to do with the flooding? Journalists aren't trained to write anymore and copy editors no longer exist.
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Pablo Bluth posted:It's a little known fact New Zealand runs on high pressure water lines. Every light has a little paddle wheel inside to generate electricity. Suck it fusion.
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slidebite posted:Genius. The paddle wheels generate electricity which power the pumps which increase the water pressure which generate more electricity... the excess would be gargantuan and solve the carbon problem once and for all All the heat from all the paddles mechanical action and compressing the water can be used to heat other pipes and make steam which pumps pistons to push even more water through the pipes. You've done it! A perpetual motion free energy machine. I expect an honorable mention in your Nobel speech.
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BonoMan posted:What a confusing sentence. What does the plane hitting runway lights have to do with the flooding? Yeah it's not the best explanation, I just copied it from imgur or wherever I found it
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mobby_6kl posted:Those were floodlights. i will fight u
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Pablo Bluth posted:It's a little known fact New Zealand runs on high pressure water lines. Every light has a little paddle wheel inside to generate electricity. That’s district hydraulic power, and it existed in some cities into the space age. London at its peak had three hundred kilometres of pipes holding water under fifty atmospheres of pressure.
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mobby_6kl posted:"Auckland International Airport has been closed by flooding, hours after a landing plane hit and damaged several runway lights causing major delays to flights" We'll be making a water landing, but that's OK because this is a seaplane.
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So I flew Delta for the first time since.... At least 2000, possibly the mid 1990s I always thought that's because Delta is a tiny dying airline simply because I hadn't ever flown it, that I could remember Close calls... 2015 Flew dfw -> Gothenburg via Delta code share but clearly KLM marked/service 2019 flew SFO -> sea via compass airlines (dba Delta), return via Alaska 2019 flew SFO -> Guadalajara, actually on Delta, apparently? But via ATL wtf 2022 CLT to WAW, but code shares with endeavor, air France and again klm Finally flew Delta again in January SFO to CLT via ATL Anyways what the gently caress, I fly like, I dunno at least 4 times a year, probably double that. how did I manage to avoid flying Delta so long 2000-2015 I was in Dallas which is an American hub and then 15-22 I was mostly flying in and out of SFO which has large presence by AA and United. Really surprised that in all my flights that one wacky flight to Guadalajara was the only other actual Delta flight in 22 years. Do they mostly exclusively fly north south routes along the east coast and up through the great lakes area or what
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It is both aeronautic and insanity related.
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how did I manage to avoid flying Delta so long Statistically if all three big carriers have roughly the same flight coverage it seems outrageously unlikely for me to never fly Delta
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Because coverage is not evenly distributed.
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Hadlock posted:how did I manage to avoid flying Delta so long They don't, and you forgot Southwest. Capacity is market-based.
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Like, what does Delta as a name even mean man
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Arson Daily posted:Like, what does Delta as a name even mean man Delta stuck me in Salt Lake last night after a fuel diversion. We landed, fueled, they told us to stay on board. They then told us to deplane so they could clean the jet. Then they reboarded us, had the doors closed and the tug hooked up, and dispatch told the captain that there weren’t enough gates at KJAC to accept us before the crew timed out, so they just postponed the flight to 8am the next day. They then took FIVE HOURS to get our bags off the airplane, by which time every restaurant and bar in the area was closed. We missed the big group snowmobile trip that our entire vacation was kinda centered around, and we’re presently once again sitting in SLC wishing death on the widget. gently caress Delta Airlines.
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MrYenko posted:gently caress Delta Airlines. It’s Delta Air Lines.
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They should rename themselves to AtlantAir, honestly.
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MrYenko posted:Delta stuck me in Salt Lake last night after a fuel diversion. We landed, fueled, they told us to stay on board. They then told us to deplane so they could clean the jet. Then they reboarded us, had the doors closed and the tug hooked up, and dispatch told the captain that there weren’t enough gates at KJAC to accept us before the crew timed out, so they just postponed the flight to 8am the next day. Delta once left our luggage out in the rain at jfk and them sent it half way around the world before returning it to our doorstep 3 weeks later covered in mold.
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Preoptopus posted:Delta once left our luggage out in the rain at jfk and them sent it half way around the world before returning it to our doorstep 3 weeks later covered in mold. could be worse: https://www.blogto.com/travel/2023/01/ontario-couple-tracking-lost-baggage-shocked-air-canada-gave-it-charity/
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Jonny Nox posted:could be worse: Aw gently caress I think I'm flying air Canada this year for a leg of a trip
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Preoptopus posted:Aw gently caress I think I'm flying air Canada this year for a leg of a trip If it’s within Canada there probably isn’t a better option. BIG HEADLINE posted:They should rename themselves to AtlantAir, honestly. And Detroit. It keeps looking like they’re going to bring more flights through MSP but then not really. MSP still has a good amount of empty space, though I suppose much of that is the A/B regional concourses that have been forgotten to time.
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I reckon that's a mock plane used for training by the airport fire service
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That makes sense, given the amount of rust it's certainly been wet a lot.
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I've never seen one painted before. On USAF bases they're just airplane-shaped RUST. They're also not next to buildings.
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Weirdy all planes at Heathrow have been cloned out on google maps, including the green one in question. I spent ages trying to locate it before I twigged. Google Street view actually included the road shown in that image so you can see it through th we gate gap in the wall.
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Jonny Nox posted:could be worse: Judges will sometimes put a very dim view on a company that totally abuses the power differential when it slips towards gross negligence and incompetence.
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I've had good luck with Delta, but you can't trust any airline to not gently caress you over at the worst time
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Indeed, all airlines absolutely will poo poo the bed from time to time. If you're in the middle of it, it sucks.
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Hadlock posted:I always thought that's because Delta is a tiny dying airline simply because I hadn't ever flown it, that I could remember Delta is the world's largest airline by market capitalization, revenue, and assets owned, and had the world's largest schedule by passenger-kilometer (350 billion!) pre-covid. It is also the primary tenant of the world's busiest passenger airport (KATL) that has been ranked as such for at least 20 years. Not sure where you got that idea.
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