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Used to fly in/out of Truckee frequently many years ago. I would take students up there for moutain training in helicopters. Very unforgiving airspace for an airplane in bad weather. Pretty unforgiving for ground vehicles too, as you try to get through Donner Pass. And on foot, as the party after w...

I wonder how much they have to take wind speed and direction into consideration when driving one of those around. I see it's got an anemometer on the tip.

I saw a Tesla Cybertruck in the wild for the first time today. It is Fugly! :-o [-X :-q Also have seen some less than kind reviews as well. I'm sure there will still be plenty of people with a lot of money and without clues that will have to have them. I parked next to one a few weeks ago and that ...

Looks like an Oozlum Worm.

How big a diameter cable do you need for a 1000ton lift? I could probably dust off my school physics and look up tensile strength of steel, but I figure it's easier to ask here first.

That was something I found difficult when I was travelling internationally when different countries changed at different times and airlines didn't change at the same time. Back in 2000, when the US DST change was in April, the weekend after the UK, we went forward an hour in the UK, then flew to Bo...

Is if you never see them, and they never reply to correspondence, and your senators really live in Ottawa, and have people plow their yards in winter to pretend they are (as they are legally required to be) actually residents. How do you manage that in winter in Canada? With a pneumatic drill or ex...

I have been following https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ Kennedy seems to be the topic of the week. Every side seems to think Kennedy will hurt Biden more than Trump. Indeed, any Third party candidates in any elections will hurt the Dems more than the Republicans. There are assorted attempts across...

One of my previous employers has a fancy solution for tool tracking on production lines. Mostly cars, but I think they've got pictures of an aircraft line too. For cars, it's possible to set things up so that as a car comes into the area, the system wirelessly programs the torque wrench to the corre...

The remaining question, given the recent information about the ship having serious electrical problems in port, is do the crew get several thousand Brownie Points for doing everything possible when the crisis happened, but lose several million BPs for setting sail with an unsafe ship in the first p...

I looked at that picture and wondered which bridge of the three you were asking about.

G~Man wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:26 pm

Well I know it is in Penzanze from my days on Nimrods at St. Mawgan, but no clue who he is......

Think miners' safety lamps.

Pilot didn't make it. A man who died after a private plane crashed at a well-known airfield has been named by friends and colleagues as pilot Simon Riggs. Emergency services were called to Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford, Cambridgeshire, at about 13:41 GMT on Tuesday. The victim, aged in his 50s a...

Inevitably the local media started talking about how safe the Bay Area bridges are, and we are reassured that they're much safer than the one that collapsed, being designed to withstand earthquakes and similar major upsets. They also pointed out that a lot of the bridge supports are in relatively sh...

Morning all, currently sunny out after an earlier shower. Last night around 19:30 the power glitched for 5-10 seconds. Then a bit later it glitched again and then went out completely. Came back on just after midnight. The power brick I bought for the van came in handy, provided power for lights and ...

There are 10 types of people, those who know binary, those who don't, and those who didn't expect this joke to be in ternary.

Opsboi wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:02 pm

Show it to the gnomes and give them a set of Scrabble letters

"What do you get if you multiply six by nine"

Alan Titchmarsh gains street cred! North Korea's state television channel has censored a BBC gardening programme - by blurring out presenter Alan Titchmarsh's trousers. Central TV aired a 2010 edition of Alan Titchmarsh's Garden Secrets for its morning audience, but made sure that viewers could not ...

Looks very Netherlands, but not Amsterdam.

Well, apparently they did, but according to Sly News, Russia's ambassador to Poland did not attend the foreign ministry in Warsaw today despite being summoned to do so. Arrogance personified. A diplomatic note will be sent by another means, the foreign ministry said. So if Poland stationed some ant...