According to Dr. Quay Snyder, the president of the Aviation Medicine Advisory Service, start by picking flights on larger planes that fly at higher altitudes if possible.

That header image is outstanding. Whoever made should (and likely is) feel very proud of themselves.

This is more than a bit alarmist. My income had gone up 20% a year for several years and all the bank asked for was a 3 sentence letter explaining those were raises. The loan still closed in 28 days. Do not, under any circumstances, delay a raise or promotion. That is throwing away real money for the sake of nothing.

Simple: he wasn’t leading with this head. He was leading with his shoulders. Watch it closely. Just before impact he turns his shoulder into the tackler and head away.

Community sponges? Eww. Just grab a couple of paper towels and some hot water from the tap. Works every time, but I only drink it black.

On the plus side, there’s been fewer tedious dissertations that can be summarized as “Tyler doesn’t understand project management, QC/testing or procurement, so he rants about everything being a scam for 20 paragraphs”.

Umm...nothing. The blade will get stuck in the material. The motor won’t have enough torque to slice through, so it will just not move.

+1. There’s prudence. There’s being financially conservative. There’s being consumer savy. Then there’s “frugality” which I usually refer to as “being a cheapskate” or “tightwaddedness”.

Right, and nobody gives a shit either. If you’re going to be pedantic, provide useful information. Otherwise, STFU.

For those not familiar with HUD symbology, the number just below “SIM”to the left side of the display is the mach number. During the dive this plane reached Mach 1.15, and did so below 10,000ft.

You pedanted wrong. You don’t sound clever by mentioning weather radar. You sound clever by pointing out the existence of ADS-B, which is a P2p GPS-based system for tracking aircraft, and allows airliners to see each other regardless of radar coverage.

Yes...yes we do. To feel nothing is to either be a sociopath, or willfully ignorant of what you’re working on.

Well, cheers for agreeing to agree.

We’re probably not disagreeing. There is probably a point, like say the 6" area, where the extra bulk of a turret makes more sense than a mount. The US Navy apparently used turrets for all 6"+ guns, aside from casement guns used in pre-dreadnoughts. The British used at least one mounted 6" gun, as shown below, during…

Why put “mount” and “turret” in quotes? They’re actual, distinct things. A mount is a aimable gun that’s essentially bolted to the top deck. No part of the below-deck gun mechanism (if it even has one, Phalanx CIWX mount, for example, doesn’t) rotate with the gun.

Side mirrors also increase drag (and therefore fuel consumption) by about 8%. Automakers have to hit their fuel mileage targets, and there is nothing on the on the horizon (save for ditching the gasoline engine completely...which is a much harder problem right now) that’s going to pay off that big.

This is actually going to happen. Not just a few luxury models (which will hit the road within a couple of years, as soon as laws are changed to allow them). Within 10 years expect all new cars to be mirrorless.

Umm...the Microsoft app store is hot, flaming garbage with roughly 19 good, up to date apps in between. Plus Gears of War. Because of course.

Space launch insurance is very much a thing. It’s been one of the stumbling blocks towards SpaceX’s resusable launchers. Only recently has there been enough data to run a risk analysis on such a situation.

True, but there’s always another executive further up the food chain salivating over a feast composed of their redundant underlings.