This is the fault of the organizer who didn’t have spotters and didn’t have FLARM on all the planes. They simply count on everyone never making any error and that failed.

Only for the last few seconds; the smaller plane pilot was looking elsewhere having been told to close up to a P-51, so he didn’t look ahead along his own flight path.

The estimate is $1B per year, which is on a company that typically loses $.25B per year, so it’s quite a gap between earnings and debt service.

Good news - shaded parking.

That photo reminded me of how the Saint Louis City tow lot has been essentially stealing cars from owners by making up regulations to prevent them getting the cars back.

Bad for trucks, perhaps good for rail.

It was more than just wind - for a long time suspension bridge designers had increased the aspect ratio - span to width and span to depth. The Tacoma Narrows bridge that failed was nearly twice the previous aspect ratio of previous bridges.

He wasn’t a cave diver and the guy didn’t participate in the rescue. Instead he sat outside and talked to the press while actual engineers, technicians, and rescuers did the work and local people worked to bring food and supplies to support them.

Drain them, clean them, make them into reef material.

Steve Lehto just did a story about a guy who had his 1958 Corvette left to rot for 6 years and did $20k in damages. Boo-hoo for that guy because qualified immunity. It sucks, but getting things back from the cops in working condition is optional.

The sonic boom is from the sudden change in pressure caused by the compression wave formed by shoving an object through the air faster than the speed of sound. To counteract that would require a decompression wave (there isn’t such a thing) that can go faster than the speed of sound to catch up to the compression…

That entire NASA aircraft seats 2 people. To match the slenderness a plane for 20 passengers would be 200-300 feet long.

Just check the season. If it is Fall or Winter, don’t drive, there could be ice.

They should have tire chains on their studded tires just to be sure.

OK - if there is a chance of wet ice, close down all the roads for the day.

The transition might only be 10 minutes from rain or snow to wet ice.

They are prepared for winter - where it can snow and the snow stays put for 2 months. No one is prepared for the transitions where maybe it is wet and maybe it is ice and maybe it is wet ice. The last is the worst as even putting down salt or sand fails as the water and vehicles washes it right into the gutters.

I dunno. Came down a sloped off-ramp going about 10 mph. About 50 feet ahead of me a car started a slow spin. So I let off the gas a little. Bad idea. It lost the little traction that was available where the highway department had directed runoff from an overpass that formed a lubricated ice patch. I did about 270…

Another overpass - which would not so easily freeze before the rest of the road if the highway department would place effective insulation underneath of it.

The biggest effective change would be outlawing high-fructose corn syrup that has been added in large quantities to foods in which it doesn’t belong. People get used to the general level of sweetness and don’t realize it’s an artificially high level. But good luck with that and the HFCS lobbyists buying influencing leg…