The article is in error.

Airliners are pressurized from take-off to touchdown for various technical reasons. Even at 10 feet that door isn’t opening.

Airliners are pressurised from the start of the take-off to touchdown. There is no minimum altitude where a random person can open the door, except “on the ground”.

The disarm/arm lever is there to disarm/arm the escape slide. It has nothing to do with locking the door.

Preach...

Only one unmanned mission flew during the program and the orbiter was later crushed in a hanger collapse.

Let them try. I’d be laughing as they try to pull against thousands of lb of force. Yes even at low altitude.

Still not possible. That’s not how pressurization systems work.

We don’t actually arm anything from the cockpit. The “pieces of metal” come out automatically during the door closing process. Typically the flight attendants close and arm the doors. Either way that door isn’t opening in flight.

Very ambiguous statement from Delta.

Delta staff later reported that Hudek did successfully move the handle halfway up, which could have opened at the altitude the plane was flying had it been fully disarmed.

There you go, trying to bring logic into the whole Moller Mess (TM).

Sure, but you’d still have to certify it in the experimental class.

Not disagreeing that women have it harder, but an hour to do hair and makeup? The flight attendants I work with manage it in about a quarter of an hour and given I work for an Asian carrier they are made up and coiffed to perfection.

My brain accepts all that.

Was that... Raul Julia and Ming-Na Wen?!?!?!?!?!!?

Part of the long term outlook would be to have fewer kids, I suppose.

You could argue that if we knew that we would live for 1000 or 10000 years our decisions would be more long term in nature.