I am really sorry! I didn’t mean to cast aspersions on you! Obviously someone prescribed a drug would know what they were taking, so I’m sure your friend would know. But the prolifers have spread a lot of misinformation about birth control in general, and that’s really muddied the waters, making it harder for people…

“Also, not that it’s his business, but there are many reasons that someone might need these drugs, including a miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy.”

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

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been manufactured since 2004, so this is exceptionally unlikely to be any fault of Boeing’s. Heck, the entire 757 line is obsolete.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.

There are some really terribly tasteless puns in the comments here.

NEVER!!!!

she would “do anything to get a good grade”

That’s what I thought immediately too, but I have been educated in this comment thread. Apparently stainless steel requires atmospheric oxygen to allow it to form the chromium surface layer that inhibits serious rust formation. Rust spots will form anywhere raw iron disrupts the chromium layer, but also anywhere…

This is something I have learned from this thread. You folks have really been an education for the non-metallurgically-educated among us. Thank you!

I wonder how long it will take before they start realizing that the exoskeleton concept was a bad idea, since they’ll all be insta-totalled by the slightest amount of damage.

Maybe they should’ve taken a page out of the classic American Airlines livery and made them out of aircraft aluminum if they wanted the unpainted look.  Would be a hell of a lot more expensive, of course.

Oh wow. So they’ve, ahem, painted themselves into a corner with their design choices?

I’m wondering how those Cybertrucks that went Christmas tree picking are faring.

Truth.