Just because you want to believe it doesn’t make it reality.

https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/Jewish-lightning

What a story!

Top comment, there. NP from me too.

Not just children. People who do pay attention and people who don’t. We protect idiots too. Legislation for EV “engine noise” at low speeds is good.

But a truck renting company is surely not allowed to issue drivers licenses? And surely the drivers license most people possess does not allow them to drive vehicles as large as the one that crashed?

There is a lot we don’t know. What were they assigned, what were they flying. The article mentions that the crew “missed an appointed turn”, so it would seem like pilot error, but who knows.

Sure, the headline is clickbait-y. On the other hand, when a controller has to direct you to expedite climb to avoid terrain... yea. As a passenger that’s “nearly crashed into a mountain”. I don't want it any closer. They were probably seconds from the GPWS going off.

You’re not wrong, but you’re not completely right either. You assume (almost certainly incorrectly) that aliens would have our primitive technology. *We* could detect an earthlike planet every 365 days. The aliens’ Zippy-Qwik Planet Finder could do it much more efficiently.

“We work for URANUS”.

Sounds like decent (ok, middling) Sci fi.

Ah no, I need the beans. For science.

I laughed harder than I should have at this :)

Morons.

Jesus.

Yea. That's why (when I had to do with people wearing helmets) I was being a nag about chin-straps. Otherwise your hard-hat (or helmet) is just decoration.

Wait. You don't need a special license? Surely you are not allowed to drive a truck this heavy on just a normal driver's license?

It’s a car. It’s not worth a human life. Not even an injury. If the only way the cops have to apprehend this criminal mastermind, who boosted a car from the sidewalk, is to give chase like maniacs, we need to rethink the whole concept of police.

Morons.

Sure, but 4k? That’s bordering on f-it money. It’s a car. It’s a convertible. It is in good condition. It will probably last 5 years without major issues. I'd say that warrants a NP. Whether you or I actually want it, well, that's another question.