There never was interference. None of an aircraft’s instrumentation operates in the same radio spectrum that cell phones use. All of that spectrum is licensed. It was unfounded “fear of interference”, similar to “cell phones cause gas station fires”, both of which were untrue.

Yes, there is cell signal at 35,000 feet. The issue with cell phones on planes isn’t the FAA, but the FCC. A phone at that altitude can see a large number of towers, and you’re traveling hundreds of miles an hour. This can cause problems for the tower handoff process, and it drains your phone battery pretty fast as…

Or the settings from their old Note 7 (including the default SSID) transferred over to their new phone when they restored from backup. I’ve seen multiple reports from other people who replace their Note 7 with an S7 Edge, and the SSID was still the default from their old Note 7.

In fact, the first comment on this reddit thread confirms that the default SSID appears to be named that (with a randomly generated number at the end of it, likely to avoid SSID name collisions with other Note 7 users), and that the SSID is one of the settings backed up to Samsung, so it would follow you when you…

Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

I’m guessing the user previously had a GN7 that was replaced, and the transfer of settings to his new phone including transferring the SSID.

I guess next time there is a pretty sketchy racial stereotype in the original source material, Marvel will just choose to leave it in, then. Maybe they can cast Margaret Cho in the role to make her happy.

Next brilliant idea from this company: neodymium magnet bookends. That will end well.

Except now WBIR is saying they have independently verified the story.

Southwest pilots are great. I once experienced a fairly rough landing during what was probably a high wind situation. We came down pretty hard and bounced a couple times before the landing stuck.

Do you even League, bro?

I spent 15 years traveling mostly internationally for work (around 25-30% away from home, so let’s say 4 calendar years of the 15 that I was out of town), to a total of 30+ countries, most more than once.

“groked”

“But all of this NYC-specific discussion is beside the point.”

You’re a buzzkill.

Manta Ray: Irwin Hunter

You were prescient on this. Good job.

“For a variety of reasons, that sentiment has always rang hollow.”

In the grand scheme of things, a couple decades is “soon”. And it’s not a propulsion system that defies the laws of physics. It’s a real thing where the physics is understood and we just have to execute the engineering.

No, I mean nuclear fission or fusion engines.