In addition to the greed side of the equation, there is also the fear that Andretti might just get it right and make them look bad. They say they are afraid that Andretti will take money out of their pocket, but the only way that happens on a meaningful scale is if Andretti scores a lot of points, ...
Jump to postIn 2018 I flew YYZ-AMS-NBO and from disembarking from the YYZ-AMS flight we could walk into the terminal. On the way back from NBO to AMS we did have to clear security. All flights were on KL. My experience with FRA and MUC I recall going through security when transiting from non-Schengen to non-Sch...
Jump to postRIP to the victims. This looks to be a combination of an Incel and a very mentally ill individual. The perpetrator's father mentions he was Schizophrenic and had no social skills. I suspected a possible Incel when 5 of the 6 victims were women. https://torontosun.com/news/world/sydney-mall-attacker-...
Jump to postI think the "local grid" thing will happen naturally. Infrastructure providers are of course dead against it but politicians will see the light and allow interesting things. Currently in my country it's illegal to be off grid even if you have enough solar+batteries etc. As long as there i...
Jump to postMost of the correspondents referred to the Merc position as being a seat warmer for Kimi, and as above there's not a lot of confidence that Merc is going to turn things around any time soon. Meanwhile we see a clear path to a F1 seat for a guy who hasn't even won a F2 race yet. It's strange how luc...
Jump to postI happened to catch the annular eclipse in San Antonio last October and as partial solar eclipses go that one is the coolest (Ring of Fire was impressive) but it paled in comparison to Monday's celestial experience - totally breathtaking and I'm SO GLAD I got to experience it! Did I have my head un...
Jump to postThe judge gave the defense an amount of leeway in spewing balderdash that made it easy. That is true (although I wish I was older to remember it more). If you are a South Park fan it coined the so called "Chewbacca defense" which is actually a legal strategy and has been attempted at leas...
Jump to postI have seen American Crime Story. However I think the more thoughtful and less sensationalized series is the OJ: Made in America docuseries. I don't fully buy the prosecution was hopelessly incompetent. Darden indeed screwed the pooch and may have indeed been baited by the defense as was suggested ...
Jump to postMeanwhile multiple sources are reporting Alonso has re-signed with AM through the end of '26. Here's a release from BBC: https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/68793179 His recent comments in support of AM were hints that this was coming, IMO. Good news for Kimi Antonelli, IMO, one obstacle removed. Al...
Jump to postSadly his acts of murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Rob Goldman but the failure to criminally convict him due to a number of culture and racial issues, had the money to buy a great defense, terrible mistakes by the Judge and Prosecution, will be what he will be mostly remembered for. Sadly too...
Jump to postAn interesting fact. A lunar eclipse saved Christopher Columbus in 1504. He was stranded on what is now known as Jamaica and the natives were not happy with him and stopped giving him and his crew food. Columbus had astronomical charts and knew of a lunar eclipse coming and said to the natives that...
Jump to postFine, but that doesn't compare to watching Messi or Gretsky making moves and scoring a goal, Bird or Jordan driving the lane and dunking, Brady or Mahomes completing a touchdown pass, etc. F1 strategy doesn't generate highly engaging social media moments. Tires are the least interesting things abou...
Jump to postIt's kind of interesting to imagine how such natural events must have seemed to our very early ancestors. Mind blowing. Then today, in 2024 with all our knowledge, we still have idiots who think the Earth is flat and that weather and things like eclipses are all "fake". :banghead: What is...
Jump to postThe problem I see at the moment is , that the RB is in general a very well rounded car, it is not at a disadvantage on any track. In relation it is not perfect on tracks with slow-medium speed corners between full speed straights while it absolutely dominates high speed corners that need a lot of d...
Jump to postOne question: Did you notice the change in temperatures? Where I was in northern VT there was a very noticeable drop in temperature as the sunlight dimmed, and there was an increase in wind too. This to me added to the primal/visceral aspects of the event. When I left my house it was 30F/-1C then i...
Jump to postAn outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu is currently spreading and some experts say that this is 100 times worse than COVID-19. There is concern that this could become a pandemic, but hopefully this will not be the case. https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/100-times-worse-than-covid-pandemic-experts...
Jump to postI just booked a flight to see it outside of Cleveland. I was going to drive, but it’s about 6.5 hours each way. I understand I got the last nonstop seat from the whole DC area. W00t! Had I known people were going to Dayton, I would have considered that. Cleveland is a good place for it, I think its...
Jump to postAnyone know what happened to AC 794 last night LAX-YYZ red eye? Looks like they diverted to Denver in dead middle of night close to 3AM after taking a southern routing north of Albuquerque. I understand there were severe turbulence reports coming out across the entire southern Rockies mountain rang...
Jump to postI just booked a flight to see it outside of Cleveland. I was going to drive, but it’s about 6.5 hours each way. I understand I got the last nonstop seat from the whole DC area. W00t! Had I known people were going to Dayton, I would have considered that. Cleveland is a good place for it, I think its...
Jump to postCan someone translate this Toto-speak for me? “When I look at the positives, I think we took many potential root causes out of the equation ,” Wolff said of Mercedes addressing the weaknesses of its recent ground-effect creations. “We weren't sure about our suspension. We weren't sure about the sti...
Jump to postI hope they make the main span longer than 1,200' when they build a new bridge. Also, I'm shocked more bridges these days that have piers in the water near navigable channels don't have ***very robust*** protection structures (artificial islands, dolphins, pile-supported systems). And the design of...
Jump to postMaybe tugboats should be required? During the eighties, my Mom and I took a six week cruise on a cargo vessel that also carried twelve fare paying passengers from Port Newark in New Jersey to South America. Baltimore was one of our US ports of call with Philadelphia and Charleston being the other t...
Jump to postFor the folks saying that the piers for bridges need to be hardened against ships accidentally hitting them, at least some engineers believe that no bridge can withstand a direct hit from a ship this size: I think the best we could do would be to having sacrificial false piers before the actual loa...
Jump to postI just read that the US President just said the federal government will pay to replace the entire bridge. I am disappointed. The USG should go after the owners AND the operators of the ship to recover damages. My reading of that is that the decision is just one to expedite replacement of the bridge...
Jump to postJust curious what these issues are. I am a techie and yet I know I am not getting full use out of what my phone can do. Yes, it is a Pixel 8 Pro, but am curious what the Samsung issues are that your mom is having. Thank you. I can't speak for Revelation but I did find when I had a Samsung that thei...
Jump to postI have to ask, what the hell is going on in America these days? X (and I'm sure other social media) is absolutely flooded with endless conspiracy theories about this incident. I've read some of the most ridiculous nonsense masquerading as "facts". The worse was probably one that claimed t...
Jump to postI remember saying as the the lights were going to go out that the only way the race would be interesting was if Max's car crapped out. It did, but the race still wasn't very interesting. Charles couldn't put much pressure on Carlos. Lando inevitably passed Oscar. You know it's a strange race when t...
Jump to postAnd exactly that's how you ruin a company. If a worker thinks he can make himself more worth by knowing more than others instead of sharing this knowledge in the fear of being let go, both the individual and the company have issues that need to be solved, because in the long run both of them will a...
Jump to postIt must be some sort of aerodynamically unstable because it needed MCAS to provide the regulation conformal stick pressure feel approaching a stall. The higher and more forward position of the engines meant the plane was at a risk of stalling at a high angle of attack as the engine nocelles provide...
Jump to postI keep reading about how the MAX is practically Southwest's fault: 1 - Who has concrete examples rather than oft-repeated anecdotes? 2 - Even IF Southwest wanted A, or B, or C on a new plane, Boeing agreed to do it. It's Boeing's fault, not Southwest's. IIRC WN was considering the A320 Neo and one ...
Jump to postI realise this might be an extremely dumb question but with a simple explanation, why doesn't the US government step in to help the commercial division like, like funding a new airliner for example. Is Boeing commercial just not that useful for US to bother having? It's not the responsibility of th...
Jump to post] Boeing is a commercial company. Development costs must be recovered from sold airplanes, and those costs are not insignificant, a few % of sale price. Launching a new model, derivative or clean sheet, is a significant long term financial commitment. On the scale of buying a home for an ordinary p...
Jump to postWhile this is somewhat true, it was said more than once that there were no technology advances that would justify a new narrowbody. Besides, 787 pretty much have shown that clean sheet design was above company capabilities before Dennis times. There are no reasons to believe new narrowbody wouldn't...
Jump to postUpdate As I've been working out I have been getting stronger; doing more reps for workouts, adding workouts to my routines, adding weight, etc... and my weight is still in the same zone. So I've made the decision to go down to one meal a day. I'm a few days in to that and I don't know if this is ho...
Jump to postNot to hijack the thread, but my iPhone 11 pro is starting to show signs that it may need replacing within the next year or two. Has there been anyone that's been tied to Apple (has Mac, iPad, AirPods, etc.) that made a leap to an Android phone and loves it? My last Android phone was a Galaxy S4 an...
Jump to postLet's all watch how FIA dodges this one. 'We didn't check the spam folder' worked last time, why not try that one again?[/quote And the complainant was having an affair with Jos Verstappen, common knowledge at the Red Bull factory. Got this directly from a member of staff Why should the FIA get inv...
Jump to postI advocate for the Pixel 8 for one main reason. Its a clean version of Android with no 3rd party software that Samsung will install (this might have changes as I have had Pixel's since 2018). You will get the updates first and I find that it integrates very well with your Google account.
Jump to postThere is an MBA saying which Boeing apparently missed; Never let a crisis go to waste. Boeing should have used the MAX crisis to up their QA game to make sure they were never in the news again in such fashion... Boeing should have used that crisis to start developing a new narrowbody as well as mak...
Jump to postI thought they banned this or were planning to. I remember Seles starting it and IIRC Maria Sharapova grunted a lot. I wonder how loud it is for fans courtside which is why nothing has been done about it. If it annoyed the chair umpire then it would probably be gone. It's very loud on TV because you...
Jump to postHorner convinced him to leave McLaren and join RB using heaps of money. I’d say he was given free rain to build the team he needed to do what he’s done. I’m sure Horner is very competent manager and I’m sure you could find another one even outside of F1 who could manage the team well. The key engin...
Jump to postBowlingShoeDC9 wrote:Is the smoke from the wheels actually related to the hydraulic failure or could it just be a result of a landing at possibly higher than normal weight?
Dozens of a320/a321neos grounded due to engine issues ATM , not news worthy I guess since it's not Boeing and also not really an airbus problem but it seems at this point no airline is totally immune to fleet reliability issues even those who fly airbus narrowbodies. The media isn't helping things ...
Jump to postPeople always assume that Newey will move to another team. But what about retirement? The guy is already at an age where he can sit back, relax, and smell the roses. His contemporary Ross Brawn & Rory Byrne is no longer on the grid. What else is there for him to prove? I was thinking this too. ...
Jump to postI will ask my GP for wegovy or ozempic. He wants me to get a gastric sleeve surgery but I don't want one. I don't like sport, I would do some to lose weight/feel better/look better however I'm too big for that so first I need to lose some weight. I am not fully trusting of these anti-obesity medica...
Jump to postOne stroke of luck is this happened on the short hop SYD-AKL. The AKL-SCL leg must fly close to Antarctica, a long way from anywhere. It actually doesn't go that close to Antarctica. I am eyeballing here but it barely its 50-55 deg S. I would think an ETOPS 180 would be sufficient for this leg. You...
Jump to postLewis must be feeling gutted now knowing he’s not going to fight for anything. At least if Max had a teammate who could challenge it would be entertaining but he so much quicker its no contest. And RB#2 RIC RIC gets beat both races. Put Liam in the car, that’s what the young driver program is for. ...
Jump to postI lost Christmas 10 by the end of January and got down to 270. Mid way through February I was still l around 270 so I started lifting weights again. Here we are in mid March and the scale still bounces on the 267-271 range and I'm getting frustrated. Not all hope is lost since clothes are starting ...
Jump to postYou are exaggerating the influence/importance of the first driver (and his entourage) on long term decisions/politics of a race team. Fact is Verstappen doesn’t care who’s next to him in the second car. It looks your personal dislike of Verstappen is blurring your opinion. I am not a Max fan but I ...
Jump to postI am doubting it was a wing, more like a stabiliser. 60 minutes Australia recently aired a segment referring to what I presume is this man's story. I don't know how big his fishing boat is but it probably not even close to the size of a 777 wing. Maybe the vertical stabilizer or a component of a wi...
Jump to postIf you feel ill no matter what you have you should not go to work and isolate for at least 2-3 days as symptoms dictate. You don't need the CDC to know that. You have any kids? Having a kid in preschool, I have cold symptoms probably about 25% of the time right now. Totally unworkable to continuall...
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