Somehow nobody got hurt from this loony tunes scenario.
From the looks of the flight path and the METAR data, there was low visibility at the time and they’d veered off to the left of the approach, and likely didn’t see the pylon in time to avoid it.
The, erm, unplanned interface with transmission equipment happened at about 17:28:00 EST, with the deviation happening about 20 seconds before then.
Yeah, crosswind’s a bigger problem on approach cause you’re intentionally cutting your momentum as much as possible and the wind’s stronger closer to the ground
Once again, getting symptom echoes one-by-one makes clear that I was so wrecked in the first case because Covid must’ve gotten into the motor control and self-conception parts of my brain and fucked up like 30 subroutines each at once
You can have an open mind but a closed fist or a closed mouth but an open butt. You can be totally open minded and totally shut down, or you can think in a totally closed way about a subject for the rest of your life.
fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation
My brother and I trying to piece together our dad’s life based on random info he casually brings up once and then never mentions again
When my great grandpa was on his deathbed my grandpa (his son) was with him and says his last words were “I told them they shouldn’t have hanged that woman. Well by damn they’re paying now” and no one in my family knows what the fuck that means
My grandmother was harassing me about the dangers of online dating, and my grandpa was like, “Oh fer crying out loud, leave her alone. My parents met online, she’ll be fine.” Apparenly my great grandparents were both telegraph operators who would chat over the line in between messages and fell in love and my great grandma moved halfway across the country to marry a dude she met over the telegraph.
No one alive in the family had ever heard this story until like 70+ years later when I happened to start seeing a dude from OK Cupid.
Thinking about how after 9/11 there was a brief burst of interest around “escape” parachutes but the Lower Manhattan Financial District is probably one of the worst places on earth to try and land a parachute in
Many sciences of the past claimed to be able to transmute lead into gold. Then nuclear physics came around. And a particle collider was constructed that could actually do so. There were many, many failed flying machines before kitty hawk. Many, many more inadequate or useless cures for smallpox, before we invented the vaccine. One-dimensional pattern recognition of the sort you’ve offered so far would put you on the wrong side of all three.
Thinking about the way airplanes had been a thing for a while before anyone figured out how to recover from a stall
(You drop the nose and put throttle in, which I could see being counterintuitive, it’s kinda like recovering a skid)
When I was taking flying lessons at like age 13 it was with whoever from the charter company was on duty at the time, so they sometimes misjudged my progress
I kept being taught slow flight over and over, and then one guy overcorrected and decided to teach me stalls
The Cessna 150/152 is a popular training aircraft cause it’s so hard to render unstable, at that age I wasn’t strong enough to pull the yoke back enough to stall it so he said he’d do it
He somehow did it wrong (which rudder pedal you stomp on varies from plane model to model, that was probably it) and we ended up in a tailspin pointing straight down for like 5 seconds
Another part of why the 150/152 is such a popular training aircraft is that an experienced instructor can recover from any instability but whoo boy.
oh hey reminder that AT (“Absolute Terror”) fields are themed from the same source as “terror management theory”
reminder that that concept is about the defenses we erect to protect us from awareness of our own inevitable mortality
so the Unit-02/Mass Production Unit fight in End of Evangelion where Asuka goes balls out and channels all her perfectionist neurosis into beating them all before her power supply ends, but then they just rise up again and break through her AT field and impale her mother/avatar/self through the face to be cannibalized
the very moment where their spears, forcing their way through the field, turn into a Lance of Longinus - the very tool by which his inferiors killed God - and she exclaims in astonishment, that second when she realizes that no matter how perfect she is she’ll die anyway
that’s also a metaphor for realizing that no matter how perfect you are you’ll die anyway
No. Immortality has been “just a few improvements on the current state of the art” away for approximately ever.
Don’t tell the most recent immortality cult about this. It would break their clichéd little hearts.
Yeah the funny thing is how the “state of the art” consistently refers to whatever field’s particularly prominent and cutting-edge at the time.
It’s been alchemy in medieval Europe and ancient China, electricity in Revolutionary France, extremely low-temperature liquid circulation in the rocket age, data storage in the computer age, now it’s biotech because of course it is.
In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography.
“In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography” holy shit this is 100% right
This post was one of the ones that “made me” early on
Incredibly stupid to equate biotech with any of these other things but go off I guess.
the current thing is different, you see
Kontext, you’re an idiot. An entertaining one! But you are a clown and nothing you say is worth taking seriously.
“How on earth could the field working on developing a mechanistic understanding of biological systems be different in it’s contribution to how we manipulate those systems than fucking alchemy”
If humanity does make meaningful advances in extending the human lifespan beyond where it is currently, it will absolutely be attributable to advances in medicine, biotechnology, and molecular biology.
Establishing your prior from base rates is important, but you do then have to actually look beyond the base rates.
Like, I assure you, alchemy, 19th century electricity, post-war physics and computronics were all master life sciences of their day, understood as the keys to understanding life, and our world and lives today heavily rely on insights and innovations derived from all of them.
And yet.
You’re just an idiot
I’ll believe whatever the current hype is about life extension and immortality, when it is actually demonstrated to work - consistently, in real life. Until then it’s all bullshit to me.
Why is the pro-extension/pro-immortality side always the one that gets so angry/emotive in these sorts of debates? I rarely see this level of vitriol from the side of the skeptics.
Almost tempted to make some sort of Beckerian terror-management-theory conjecture here…
If you’re going to ignore the entire premise of the debate to make a sneering comment then you can go fuck yourself.
i put “All I Want for Christmas is You” through a MIDI converter, and then back through an mp3 converter
the result is this garbage
I’m driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don’t know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with modulated MIDI notes, in which case I’m actually impressed with this tire fire of an MP3.
the holiday season is almost upon us and I’d like to bring back this absolute fucking monstrosity of an audio file
You can’t actually hear the vocals; your brain recognizes the pattern and fills in the details.
Like, I only really know the refrain in this song, so those are the only lyrics I can ‘hear’; the rest is just noise.
What’s the difference between a MIDI converter and a Fourier transform?
One of the weirder quirks of Karafuto is as the seasons progress and night comes earlier this view actually stays brighter longer as the leaves clear out
One of the weirdest things I learned in the dojo is to generate momentum behind a strike from a dead stop you can unlock your knees and let the body weight of your torso drop
OK, you convinced me to listen to some Taylor Swift, and yep, the writing is everything you said it was. (Even more so, when I misheard some lyrics.) I probably don't have the stamina to listen to everything she's done, chronologically. So right now I'm mostly picking out popular songs that show up in searches, but apparently this removes context. Do you have any better ideas about how a newcomer should familiarize themselves with her body of work?
Listen to it by album, as it was originally received?
