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Here's a noble thought. If you don't want plastic bags, don't take them. Bring your own bags or go without. Free will without some nanny telling you what you can and cant' have.
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I think we should all agree, given the life span of plastic that maybe we should find an alternative for disposable items like straws, grocery bags, soda bottles, etc. etc. or not, I don't have any kids and never will so screw it. We'll just let "your" kids deal with it. Although maybe it won't be long before another mass extinction event resets the clock. Certainly seems we are headed in that direction and anyone who knows the history of this spinning rock hurtling through space knows it's just a matter of time. I'm going to go get my "the end is near" sandwich board and bell and head to my street corner. |
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Let's... Ugh.
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Cars come from automobile plants.
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I'm Spartacus! I'm Spartacus!
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(You're welcome.)
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buurrpft....
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The President says airplanes are to complicated to fly and that we need to go back to when they were powered by rubber bands!
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Certain senators said they are causing global warming. Hopefully these slackers figure out teleportation. Quick. I heard this guy has a head start
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Reality can be a tricky thing
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These are relatively uncomplicated.
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My kind of airplane!
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Hello ladies...
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I recall a stat from years ago about aviation in WWI. Something like nearly 1/2 of the pilots killed died in crashes during training.
Was it the planes were unforgiving? Or mechanical issues? Crappy training? Curious. |
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Sounds like it is 1) software designed to deal with a stall that needs updating, and 2) more pilot training to fly this airplane that is really a lot different than your typical different version.
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I'm sure 5:1 compression, gasoline that sometimes had a lower octane than whiskey and poor oiling led to a lot of mechanical issues. There was a reason some of the motorcycles then still had peddles.
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Yes, yes, and yes. And then they got to the front, where they had a life expectancy of 2 - yes, 2 - weeks.
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Another was mechanical issues such as cables for ailerons were unreliable. Wire industry had not caught up with aviation and resources for raw materials were an issue. I'll see if I can find the books I have to reference them later tonight.
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Speed of plane was apparently very fast from the moment of take off - from NYT:
Boeing 737 Max Hit Trouble Right Away, Pilot’s Tense Radio Messages Show ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines jetliner faced an emergency almost immediately after takeoff from Addis Ababa, requesting permission in a panicky voice to return after three minutes as the aircraft accelerated to abnormal speed, a person who reviewed air traffic communications said Thursday. “Break break, request back to home,” the captain told air traffic controllers as they scrambled to divert two other flights approaching the airport. “Request vector for landing.” Controllers also observed that the aircraft, a new Boeing 737 Max 8, was oscillating up and down by hundreds of feet — a sign that something was extraordinarily wrong. All contact between air controllers and the aircraft, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 to Nairobi, was lost five minutes after it took off on Sunday, the person said. The new disclosures about the last moments of Flight 302 came as pilots were discussing what they described as the dangerously high speed of the aircraft after it took off from Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport. Pilots were abuzz over publicly available radar data that showed the aircraft had accelerated far beyond what is considered standard practice, for reasons that remain unclear. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/w...gtype=Homepage
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Iridium is more than spark plugs https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iridium...to-go-missing/ |
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It’s the Russians.
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Fire is our friend
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Also the role of Airplanes changed drastically during the war. They started out as inteligence reconnaissance and from there battled enemy recon planes, then bombing sortees.
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Speaking of plastics, to their credit, BMW was way ahead of the recycling curve on that one.
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