Ummm What year is this? Don't Chinese have pretty decent spy sats??

(Written on 02/03/2023)(Permalink)

I strongly oppose Single-pilot flights... Humans are scientifically proven terrible at monitoring things. The bottom line is, we can't even keep planes in the sky with two pilots monitoring autopilots...

(Written on 02/02/2023)(Permalink)

Ah, so that would be what the space left from 747 production line used for

(Written on 02/02/2023)(Permalink)

This looks remarkably like the SUGAR demonstrator back in 2012.

(Written on 01/27/2023)(Permalink)

I saw a video on YouTube, appears several years ago another American Airlines E170 sucked a cone into the Number 1 engine, very similar to this incident. That ground crew was lucky only the cone was sucked in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0E_YrwpAh8

(Written on 01/25/2023)(Permalink)

Not necessary, we have the vaccine and its still effective with the strand. Lots of people have immunity compared to 4 years ago. Everyone is prepared. That shows the downside of prolonged quarantine would eradicate the virus, which Chinese government believed. A common misconception is vaccine "prevents" you from getting the virus, hence no need for mask etc. The vaccine doesn't "prevent" you from getting the virus, not it "prevents" you spread the virus. It helps your body to fight the virus, but you can absolutely spread it to other people even if you have vaccine. Vaccine does help shorten the time period of contingent, meaning you get less sever symptom and you spread it to less amount of people by making you recover faster. Nothing wrong with quarantine, its absolutely necessary to prevent a social collapse when vaccine doesn't exist. but it shows you vaccine alone can't control a virus. After all its a virus, different between strands can still make vaccine unable to

(Written on 01/16/2023)(Permalink)

The sanction was quite unfair anyway. After all, US government backed out of a deal aimed to deescalate the situation there, offering more freedom... Personally, I am fine with sanctions on things can be weaponized, like actual weapons or parts for fighter jets etc. But this particular sanction cut off Iranians to see the world.

(Written on 01/04/2023)(Permalink)

The sanctions are quite unfair anyway. Personally, I am fine with sanctions on things can be weaponized. But this particular sanction cut off Iranian to see the world.

(Written on 01/04/2023)(Permalink)

This woman probably never thought she just hit someone else's kid.

(Written on 12/23/2022)(Permalink)

I believe eventually there will be something like a BCF conversion, but probably not another 4-5 years before someone started to consider that (oldest 747-8i is only 10 years old or so)

(Written on 12/23/2022)(Permalink)