srmadscience.bsky.social
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Hmmm “on sale” also applies to #tesla FSD. Which you can buy but not use.
“Flying car” usually means non roadworthy vehicle that doubles as a marginally airworthy aircraft with an experimental certification at best.
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#servicemodel by @aptshadow.bsky.social nails it IMHO.
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Well, I assume it’s a smart, professional sandal that marks you for promotion… no. … that won’t work…
Sandals are OK in certain branches of the software industry though. And religion. And also skydiving….
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Does it say how many times you can wear these in the office before needing to find another office?
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Anyone taking bets on Sebastian Gorka getting it? 😀
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Wouldn’t want to be the next redneck who checks a gun in his luggage and is discovered on arrival in the EU…
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And consider your employees- all their stock options would be underwater…
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I’d happily pay money to see the Vasa sail again . But from a vantage point on shore. As a business proposal it’s a great idea - no problems with turnover…
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100% confident? You've seen his ideas recently? Do they look like they weren't sourced from the abyss of the internet? I wish I could share your confidence...
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Already been proposed:
www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/myst...
A gloriously stupid idea...
Please #dontencourageelon...
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"the planes will fly in straight lines" means that at major airports incoming flights will approach from every possible direction at the same time, instead of lining up on 3 or 4 airways. If this were easy to do....
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This is what happens when you wake at 7am (my TZ!) and grab your phone before coffee...
The only logical explanation I can think of is that he's trying to undermine faith in the current system so his crew of 19 year old script kiddies can have a go at 'fixing' it 😱
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I misread it. I thought he said it “it shouldn’t be”.
Something is very, very wrong with him..
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… the VORs (beacons used for navigation) are not in a straight line between you and your destination, the winds at 35,000 feet vary from place to place so you might want to divert south to get a 150 kt tailwind instead of a 100kt tailwind and so on….
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No it won’t. Because of the way we show maps straight lines show up as curves. Google “great circle routes”. Also the SW US is full of airspace restricted for military use, passenger jets routinely avoid mountains because that’s where the turbulence is, (1/2)
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FYI Elon is actually right on this one - long distance flights don’t go in straight lines due to the shape of the earth, military trains areas, avoiding turbulence etc
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The only Jurassic Park movie I want to see is the one where they spend most of the movie trying to get their public liability insurance renewed. That would be far more entertaining that Yet Another Dinosaur
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Considering that Scott used to work for Pac Bell he ought to know that complexity is unavoidable in large enterprises that need to get things done in reasonable time scales . I worked for pac bell as well, (never met him) and he should know better
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Setting off the alarm is a sure fire way to get a meeting room, especially when you’ve booked it and the previous meeting overran
People who work with me know what it means when I hand out 3M earplugs
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General Jack D Ripper was more balanced and at least had rational expectations of the outcome of his decisions.
Trump is clearly untethered from reality, and has no clue how this will end. The malicious clowns around him think they do, but don’t either…..
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Don’t the Romans have “form” for messing with the calendar for political purposes? Could Biden add a few days (700) between the 19th and 20th?
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Healthcare is not a normal “product”. You don’t walk into a shop and say “I have this problem. Or I think I do. .I don’t actually know. Please sell me something to make it go away. If it exists.”
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How much force can a “pilot” realistically apply with any degree of precision?
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Have you had an MS word attachment for a 2,000 word doc with the school shutdown notice buried at the bottom?
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Remove all the vowels. It’ll be smaller
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We are vastly better off than our ancestors. Both Henry VII and George Washington would have been materially better off working in MacDonalds and living in an 8 person houseshare…
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Looks weird, but avoids asymmetric thrust issues or long cable / pipe runs. The airflow will be a mess, and a lot of energy lost blowing straight into fuselage
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It’s interesting when you compare it to UAP/UFO phenomena this century. In both cases there is a shortage of physical evidence, but a steady drumbeat of ‘awkward’ sightings by “serious” people, that the powers that be wish would go away.
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Let me guess: it was built by an East German company during the soviet era to meet their quota of 10,000kg of mousetraps per year?
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Does anyone in Trump’s circle have a brain? Hopefully not…
For people who don’t know who Jimmy Saville (catchphrase ‘Jim will fix it’) is ffs Google him. Plausibly worst Brit since the 1950’s.
Associating your campaign with him is utterly bonkers..like trying to sell Trump coffee mugs to the LDS
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You left out “usable materials “ . Or have we discovered oil, coal and trees on mars?
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You left out “and then one of his family members will make Elon the proverbial “offer you can’t refuse” “. This is not an original playbook we’re following here.
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I want to see a “Thomas”/“Dr Zhivago” mashup, with angry trains wearing steel rimmed glasses and berets pursuing stavkonite production quotas in a wintry landscape….
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I’ll bite..
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Used to fly a Grumman AA5B out of KLVK. Those were the days… 😢 . Then moved back to Ireland, which is *not* GA friendly….
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What kind of aircraft was it?
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@hushkit.bsky.social
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Don’t know mine name but he came from Llangenach. Was an electrician in mine who went to medical school after WW1 and became village doctor. His dad, in turn, was a manager at the mine who sided with the miners in the General Strike and never worked after.
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My grandad worked in a coal mine near Swansea when he was young. He *hated* coal, and the idea that people would have to go underground to scrabble for it.
200 years from now kids will look on our insane enthusiasm for burning precious, useful hydrocarbons the same we we look at The Empire now
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Don’t stop. You’re good. There is - as far as I can tell - a bottomless abyss of glorious human stupidity when it comes to maritime affairs. You are barely getting started
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Like a weather “forecast” for “good weather with possible rain, heavy in places, temperatures 8 to 16f”. My taxes pay for these eejits