This thread is just to post interesting news, thoughts, opinions about climate change.
There is something deeply funny to be about the dude in the NOAA video bringing his wallet up there.
You think him having his wallet is odd but you're completely fine with the Miss Piggy hanging from the rear-view mirror*?
*
Obviously not a rear-view mirror but it makes the joke better.
The plane is called "Miss Piggy." It's twin P-3 is called "Kermit" and they have a modified Gulfstream called "Gonzo."
If the storm forces them to land somewhere other than where they took off from?
This.
This was explicitly in the training I got prior to going on flight test airplanes during my time at Boeing. Take your wallet on flight tests and make sure your ID and corporate credit card were in there in case of diverting to a different airport instead of RTB (return to base).
"Jonman, why do you keep diverting to Honolulu?"
Huh, had no idea. Thought that was th kind of thing you handled on the ground and didn't need your wallet for.
"Jonman, why do you keep diverting to Honolulu?"
As it turns out, Honolulu was the only place where I did get (briefly) stranded when there was a fire in the engine pylon on landing approach and I had to evacuate down the slides after an emergency stop on the runway. The test airplane was stranded there for weeks. I've still got the newspaper clipping about it from the Honolulu Times which I bought the following day in the airport when I was flying home commercial.
To this day, that's probably the closest I've come to death. Had that fire started literally a minute later I probably wouldn't be here telling you about it.
To this day, that's probably the closest I've come to death. Had that fire started literally a minute later I probably wouldn't be here telling you about it.
YIKES.
See, this is why you want to be a desk jockey and avoid field work.
Jonman wrote:To this day, that's probably the closest I've come to death. Had that fire started literally a minute later I probably wouldn't be here telling you about it.
YIKES.
See, this is why you want to be a desk jockey and avoid field work.
Next time you get a bright idea, Jack, put it in a memo.
To this day, that's probably the closest I've come to death. Had that fire started literally a minute later I probably wouldn't be here telling you about it.
This is a great show of how fundamentally irrational we are as human beings, because this scares the shit out of me about planes, and yet every day I get into a metal box where I am, by every statistic, exponentially more likely to be maimed or killed.
In other news, the internet right appears to have moved on to "we should bomb the hurricane" as a response, among other horseshit, enough so that the NOAA now has added a "why these ways to stop a hurricane will not work" part to their website.
Truly, the only thing that has changed is the technology, we still have the same brains of medieval peasants.
I've seen a pretty decent number of Republican lawmakers trying to debunk the insane bullshit their constituents now believe in. It's very "leopards ate my face."
Jonman wrote:To this day, that's probably the closest I've come to death. Had that fire started literally a minute later I probably wouldn't be here telling you about it.
This is a great show of how fundamentally irrational we are as human beings, because this scares the shit out of me about planes, and yet every day I get into a metal box where I am, by every statistic, exponentially more likely to be maimed or killed.
There is, of course, nuance to this event, that shouldn't concern the commercial flyer.
This was a test airplane, not a stock model, so by it's nature was a bit of an engineering hodge-podge. It was an old-ass 747, and had a one-off design engine pylon to fit a massive engine under the wing where a medium sized one normally went. That one-off design had a design flaw it turns out, which allowed a modest amount of leaking hydraulic fluid to pool instead of drain away. Hydraulic fluid is quite flammable.
Why shouldn't this concern the commerical flyer? Because the very strict regulations that ensure the safety of commercial airplanes are relaxed for test aircraft that aren't going to carry the general public, and it's highly unlikely that a design flaw like that would have made it into production.
To give some statistical context, the two very experienced test pilots at the controls that day (with 80+ years of flying experience between them) both said that in their entire careers as military pilots in active war zones and test pilots (i.e. high risk piloting), that was probably the closest they'd come to not going home afterwards.
Which I suppose rather proves your point about irrationality. Being scared of flying commercial on account of this event is like being scared of flying commercial because an F-16 got shot down.
Boeing executive: "hold my beer"
Trump Kept Asking if China Was Shooting Us With a ‘Hurricane Gun’
NEAR THE BEGINNING of Donald Trump’s time in office, the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology — a weapon, even — to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act of war by a foreign power, and could the U.S. retaliate militarily? Then-President Trump repeatedly asked about this, according to two former senior administration officials and a third person briefed on the matter.“It was almost too stupid for words,” said a former Trump official intimately familiar with the then-sitting president’s inquiry. “I did not get the sense he was joking at all.”
And yet the people surrounding him did not flee...
The misinfo online has gotten so insanely bad that Biden's on national TV mentioning it while talking about Milton.
Again, if the Dems win the election, dealing with Elon needs to be near the top of the list of priorities.
Define "dealing with".
What is the statute of limitations on illegal immigration?
Define "dealing with".
"Official dutying"
End all defense contracts with him. Sever the connection between NASA and SpaceX. Remove all government accounts from Xitter. End any and all the reliance on Starlink.
Put him in a rocket to Mars?
Sever the connection between NASA and SpaceX.
That's gonna be challenging - to a certain extent, they're the only game in town.
Severing that connection largely means NASA giving up launching payloads.
Or get the board of SpaceX to remove him or something. Surely treason charges would force him to sell.
Can we not apply laws to rich assholes for once?
Can we not apply laws to rich assholes for once?
Why start now?
I saw someone bring this up today and I think it's a fair question:
How does Kamala plan to govern a nation where 20-30% of the populace has lost their minds?
Anyone else notice the shift from O to 0? It's making my eye twitch.
Phillip Buchanon, who goes by catturd, is always drunk. He was drunk when he backed over his own dog and killed it, and he was drunk when he wrote that. Probably couldn't even see the difference between the 0 and the O.
How does Kamala plan to govern a nation where 20-30% of the populace has lost their minds?
Heh, I wish I shared your optimism that the percentage is that low and that Kamala will even have to worry about it.
Speaking as someone who grew up on the Gulf Coast:
Catturd is clearly a moron who has no lived experience with hurricanes.
0r just wind in general.
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