In this case it isn’t so much hindsight as that the airline used predictive maintenance software to look for anomalous events and act on them before things went south. In this case the software suggested they immediately look for the cause of the problem and the airline blew off their own recommendation.

The pilots f’d with it. They had a jam condition and could have landed with difficulty but decided to do some percussive maintenance to break it loose. They succeeded and it came completely lose. It’s a general caution to not attempt repairs of failures with unknown causes from the cockpit while in the air. 

Worse than that - they didn’t inspect the actual condition of the nut on the jackscrew and didn’t use the correct tool to measure wear of that nut. What didn’t help was that the redunancy was fictional - the backup nut saw exactly the same wear mechanism and was eroded just the same. All it did was allow the wear to…

Humans win, so far, because they can build models and simulations of the outside world based on previous experience with building models and simulations of the components of that world.

It’s the End of Days. If Mike Johnson gets Raptured I will definitely be ambivalent. 

I needed to re-do the headliner in my car. Step one - remove the seats. 

They cannot. Too many people are making money spreading lies.

My tray table was sticky and the child behind kept kicking my seat. Clearly due to CEO pay. 

Every EV is filled with custom-to-that-model parts. They haven’t had to transition to keeping some item the same from year to year because they can develop an entire new whatever cheaply to use the very latest electronics. Why use a microcontroller this year that cost 50 cents last year when there is an entirely…

AR-15s are for schools and nightclubs and music festivals and other mass murders which, in the US alone, outnumber all other countries combined.

Rarely is anyone doing so in their head. The majority use some device. They will take you down to underwear if necessary to find it, but the most frequent location is small buttons in the shoes to record each card played and some sort of feedback as to the odds for the remainder. If they see you doing a little River…

From the associated article photo it looks like it came loose from the bottom, snagged onto the car and then rolled it’s way up the hood and the other brush caught it and slammed it into the windshield.

I had a semi speed past me in the exit-only lane on the highway and yank it just as the lane ended with half the trailer in front and the other half still behind. Good brakes for the win. Thankfully no one rear-ended me or shoved my car under the trailer tires. 

I think I won’t explain Europe, but the concept that India has an efficient rail system is laughable. It’s a nice country, but very little there would one called efficient. More like, it works. I certainly don’t want to be one of the people camped out on the top of an overcrowded passenger car.

Even the realization that allowing the hijackers access to the cockpit was bad would have stopped the 9/11 attack. Opening the door to have a discussion was the fatal mistake. 

Are you sure? Behold, the Volkswagen Vanagon. Maybe a stretch to call it a tent, but it is certainly for camping. 

Raymond Loewy and Steve Jobs looking at it in disbelief over product design done so poorly.

The wheels are replaced at very short intervals, like 100 landings. That’s against up to 10 flights per day, so a replacement as often as every 10 days of the wheels. The wheel assembly has both wheel bearings in it and slides over the axle with a nut on the outside to stop it sliding back off. If the outer bearing…

More likely is the bearing in the wheel assembly failed and melted the end of the axle off.

I saw a workaround - maybe worth a try. Tie a pool noodle with about 2-3 feet off to the side. Won’t hurt any car and can’t snag, but it looks like it could and gives drivers a motive. Or they begin mirror jousting - trying to hit it with the mirror as they speed by. YMMV. Best of luck.