Interesting reads
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@jegga No idea - I just read it in gollum's link.
Reminds me of the kid I knew growing up who you wouldn't trust to light a firework, who's now an aircraft engineer!
Or Homer Simpson.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
I love it when something that was designed 50 years ago is so soundly designed that with the necessary electronic upgrades its still useful today. Another is the b52 which is supposed to be retired in 2050, 100 years after it first took flight .
That belongs in the "awesome internet stuff" thread. Never heard of the OV10 Bronco until now - seriously ugly but very functional it seems. B52 is still a great machine.
@Chris-B The kid you knew growing up is why I only fly my own aircraft now (and do my own maintenance / engineering).
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@Snowy you fly ? Very cool, is it homebuilt?
The Bronco had a similarly ugly cousin in the Bronco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_OV-1_Mohawk
The successor to all of them is the a10 warthog which the airforce loathe and have been trying to kill off for years, heres John McCain calling them on their bullshit.
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@jegga McCain video is pretty funny. The A10 is definitely substance over style but if it ain't broke don't fix it (and yes, I fly). Not a home built - a composite light sport 2 seater. Retired from commercial aviation earlier this year, but might do it again if I get bored with the fern...
Never heard of the 727 thing. Basically 2 guys decided to steal a large jet. Very cool and hard to get away with I would have thought.
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ESPN is haemorrhaging subscribers:
One of Disney’s most popular brands has investors really worried
Q4 losses included 621k in November 555k in December.
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The Private Heisenberg and the Absent Bomb
Interesting look at how Heisenberg and others may have dissuaded the German military from seriously perusing nuclear weapons.
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@NTA said in Interesting reads:
Some data about human things (poverty, mortality, etc) in the framework of "are things getting better?"
Back to this for a second: probably the single most important statistic for me is infant mortality. Longevity isn't as important because the baby-making years are the crucial ones.
So whenever someone says the population is growing because we're living longer, point out that its a minor part of it, compared to being able to fart out babies that live to adulthood much more often.
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@gollum said in Interesting reads:
Every year Ars Tech does a "tech companies that will go bankrupt this year" list.
Its a good read, given a lot here are in tech.
Hope they are right about twitter , surprised Yahoo has managed to hang in there this long.