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Private Rudolph's delay to duty is also being delayed due to the necessity of being refitted with TCAS and ADS-B equipment, in accordance with the S.2503 ROTOR act.

London to Calcutta by Bus TBH, this sounds like a pitch for an ep of The Grand Tour . Mike Calcutta wasn’t the terminus. SYDNEY was the terminus. Via Singapore and then Perth. No, for the original article, and Mike's reference, it was to Calcutta. Sydney was just a diversion in the article.

Looking at that photo, I wonder how they'll be meeting their diversity quota. They do have a Klingon, but that's also like bringing a gun-owning white rural Republican to a party. The rest seem fairly bland.

Looking at the North Atlantic data, I'd suspect that there's a rather major problem of data collection bias in there. Prior to 1965, that's understandable and well known. But the whole definition of ACE requires someone to know the wind speed of every tropical storm at each 6 hour increment. That's ...

The most recent thing I saw is that it isn't global warming or climate change. The latest buzzword is Climate Breakdown, as if there's something broken that can be glued together.

No plumbing repair is complete without at least two or three trips to the hardware store. Except on very rare occasions when it can be finished with extra pieces sourced and not used from previous trips resulting from earlier projects.

What's the pricetag difference? How would it compare in effect to the C17, the Kawasaki C-2, and the Airbus A400M?

It seems like the field of medium sized airlift is fairly crowded, and the choice really depends on the specific needs of that country.

So, day after day, I 'volunteered' a couple of hours in our Pod end's 'Diner Utility' area. Then, I 'tagged along' with which-ever off-duty Steward was exploring their Pod's by-ways. First, of course, we back-tracked and documented 'searched' areas. Scanning their 'Non-Diner' boxes and cartons, mos...

The problem with putting a saddle on a pig is that the anatomy is almost entirely the opposite of what is needed for a saddle. A very short neck, a back with a large spiny hump from the spinal processes, and a wide body are all contraindications. The saddle would slip forward or aft easily, the ride...

Indeed ! Snag is that, after the Diner Hack, it is clear an 'informal' approach could go horribly wrong... Remember Anne-Marie had to reject 'Ponic trainees who thought they'd be getting 'extras' ? Um, are you taking sneak-peeks at my 'Edit' buffer ?? The Diner Coders *are* working on a 'weighted' ...

Indeed ! Snag is that, after the Diner Hack, it is clear an 'informal' approach could go horribly wrong... Remember Anne-Marie had to reject 'Ponic trainees who thought they'd be getting 'extras' ? Um, are you taking sneak-peeks at my 'Edit' buffer ?? The Diner Coders *are* working on a 'weighted' ...

Sounds like it's time to implement a bounty system for finding stuff. Report something particularly useful that hasn't previously made it onto the inventory, or find a good use for something on the "we dunno what to do with it" list, and get some privileges like a special meal.

Is it possible for ssns to resupply food and rotate people at sea undetected? I think the Chinese have a sub base in Hainan that has an underwater entrance. Are there other such places? The idea being that an ssn remains undetected for years. If you want to get fancy, then grab a ULCC and build a w...

I think that the question of what made horses rideable is actually the wrong question. It presupposes both domestication and a much later use than the original. The real tipping point is the use of large animals to pull and haul, not rideability. After all, getting a horse, a bullock, or something e...

Belushi TD wrote: ↑Wed Oct 08, 2025 3:34 pm

kdahm wrote: ↑Tue Oct 07, 2025 5:39 pm She must have been on the good stuff.

Or possibly concussed, considering the force necessary to rip the car in half.

Drunk is a third possibility.

Belushi TD

Considering the mentality required to climb back in the car and drive off, I'd say that she was impaired long before the collision.

Yes, doing an image search with google indicates that this particular one was manipulated. Not AI, but the diver was added and the cliff magnified.

For something that's much more realistic, search for images of the Great Blue Hole in the Caribbean.

She must have been on the good stuff.

Very nice. It's been discussed in another couple of videos over the past month.

The positioning of the plate in front of the stone plinth with the words "Korea Communist" is just unfortunate, though.

I looked briefly at Temu, and decided I didn't want them to know I even existed. Based on my brother-in-law, it's subject to extremely wide variability in quality. Sometimes it's decent, sometimes it's good, and sometimes it just needs to be unboxed and dropped in the trash. Until you get it, there'...

Very nice. Is it less effort to carve a temple out of solid rock or to build it from rocks quarried from the same site, for a given level of technology? https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/352/470/1b5.gif If you build up, there needs to be a source of rock nearby to build it out of. If...