We got our latest dog in 2020, and we keep thinking he’s still the baby of the family. Shocked me when the vet gave us a printout that listed his age.

darthspartan (awesome userid) conveniently gave us the flightradar24 track, which includes the tail number: N916DU. Plugging that into the website airfleets.net gives us the history of the aircraft. This is a Boeing 737-932ER, serial number 64884 LN:7379.  It was delivered January 30, 2019, so it’s about five and a…

Mine too.  I guess we get what we pay for.  ;-)

True, like the Pioneers before them and New Horizons after them. But they will be silent and lost to us, entrusted to the ultimate deep.

The Voyagers are my very favorite spacecraft. ;-) I will be sad when they go. I was a toddler when they launched. My favorite video as a little kid was a video recording of a NOVA special about the Voyager mission. V’Ger was pretty much my introduction to Star Trek.

It’s nailbiting at this point, anytime something goes wrong with one of the Voyagers.  It’s going to be hard when one of them goes.  It was hard enough losing Pioneers 10 and 11, and they didn’t last nearly as long.

It’s probably out of warranty by now. ;-)

Aw, ruining a perfectly good conspiracy theory with reality... ;-)

Spoken like a professional test pilot. I read that as he wishes he could have kept working on Starliner until the situation was well enough understood and they could come home on it, finishing the job he’d set out to do, but the bosses said there was no more time. That has to be frustrating, especially after seeing…

What’s more, Pineda has since discovered that the footage captured by her car in Sentry Mode has reportedly been wiped from the car’s memory, meaning that no footage of her and Ortega attempting to open the car to rescue the child remains.

You’re getting into av geek pedantics

This makes me want to watch “2001" again and think about where we once thought we’d be by now.  :-)  Sort of puts our aspirations into perspective.

And the fact that he won’t comment says a lot more about him than any statement he could make about the incident.

I agree about the runway thing — a lot of people do confuse taxiways and runways, and this occurred on a taxiway. The CRJ was holding short of a runway, and the Airbus was on a taxiway.

Some of them for sure (e.g. the kids with Grimes), but apparently at minimum, his kids with his first wife were conceived in the normal manner. I think it’s a weird efficiency thing for him.

Plus, he has no intention whatsoever of actually going there until the plebes have finished their work of making it suitably livable first.  And that’s not me speculating cynically; he’s actually said that’s his plan.

Bingo.  It’s a variation on the “this woman just needs to bedded in order to become reasonable” line, only with his reproduction fetish thrown on top.

The weird part is he’s not an incel.  He’s fathered a large number of children, some with wives, some with girlfriends, some with subordinates.  And yet in spite of that, he STILL gives off some of the strongest incel vibes I’ve ever seen.

Low-speed is relative; if this was cars, it’d absolutely still be classed as a crash. The Airbus was likely traveling around 20 MPH. That’s a lot slower than its top speed, of course, but it’s still fast enough to do significant damage even in a Toyota Corolla.

The horizontal stabilizer and the vertical stabilizer have swapped functions......  Yikes!