“If people like it, we’ll do surge pricing.  If people hate it, we’ll do a ‘happy hour’ kinda deal and just say we’re using the new digital menus to advertise it prettier.”

It seems they loaded extra LOX to simulate the mass of a payload. The Saturn I test program used water as ballast for the same purpose. They never had to vent it, though, since they weren’t intending to return to Earth. (Saturn 1 wasn’t carrying an Apollo capsule in those days.) They did release the water on one…

Yeah, a lot of folks seem to think there was nothing more than a few pamphlets, and that is very much not the case. Concrete promises were actually made and then explicitly not delivered upon. The accounts of the actors are quite telling also — they all got the job pretty much as soon as they applied (which is…

Because making up words like that was absolutely something Roald Dahl wasn’t remotely famous for, right?

I don’t see that in their claim. “Hacking” doesn’t necessarily mean “penetrating their proprietary source version control repository”. They’re stretching the term “hacking” way beyond any conventional usage; what they’re accusing is that malicious prompts have been provided to ChatGPT, constructed to force it to…

“this may take the cake for dumbest and most short-sighted corporate decision that I have heard in a LOOONNNNGGGG time...”

Agreed.  When it’s busy, the fast food experience is objectively worse.  Making you pay more for a worse experience is never going to end well.

I mean, you can technically still leave without buying anything, but you’ve just spent 10-15 minutes burning gas and you’re still hungry.

Yay!  Plucky lander!  :-)

Fair, I suppose, but I live in hope of non-nerds joining us.  :-)  Or different kinds of nerds!  Not all nerds are aviation nerds!

Better to burn off the toxic propellants above the atmosphere than risk having them making to the ground inside of surviving spacecraft debris, basically.

It will never return.

WOOHOO!!!!!!!  It is party time!  :-)

757 is a great aircraft -- overpowered, so pilots love flying them.  But they are indeed old.  This one’s almost 30.  Sadly, its days are numbered in any case.

Someone else pointed out that there was an airworthiness directive issued by Boeing about the possibility of this slat delaminating, and giving operators instructions for how to regularly inspect it and detect the condition before it gets bad.  That AD came out in 2005, so that makes it very much something United…

Calling it a wing disintegrating I actually think is fair, since the general public won’t know the difference between the structural part of the wing and its control surfaces, and certainly won’t know the proper terminology. They’ll recognize its one of the moving parts on the wing and not know what to call it, and…

Major oof. United could be in big trouble if it turns out they’ve been ignoring an airworthiness directive from that long ago.

Well, my brother works for FedEx as a ramp agent at MSP (but he’s been sent to California for training enough times that he’s seen how the operation is run there as well). From what he’s told me, this absolutely would not be tolerated at their facilities. When it’s ridiculously hot, workers are cycled in and out of…

The 757-200 has not been manufactured since 2004, so this is exceptionally unlikely to be any fault of Boeing’s. Heck, the entire 757 line is obsolete. (But remains popular in aftermarket sales anyway, because they’re rather peppy. This makes them inefficient, but they’re great for hot, dry climates and for the…

Or maybe he resents the fact that while they helped him buy Twitter, they’ve failed to help him successfully buy out Tesla, and this is his expression of that resentment.