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slingstone

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  • Airplane seatbelts

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  • Yeah, escape pods have been implemented in some aircraft in the past, but the idea has always ended without wide scale adoption for the reasons so many have stated here.

  • Airplane seatbelts

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  • Honestly, I do understand that ejector seats are not a good idea, but I was thinking something more like this. It's more like a lifeboat and would be equipped as such to address the same sort of concerns a disaster at sea would require to allow folks to survive and be tracked.

    I get that the expense and weight appear prohibitive, but it's insane to me that we put people 30,000 feet in the air with no plan other than prevention and measures that don't completely address all dangers.

    I know nothing will likely ever be done in this vein, and probably rightfully so, but it sure feels like airlines are the ultimate "you pays your money and you takes your chance" experience. Given my own limited experience with flying, it increasingly scares the hell out of me personally. I didn't have occasion to fly until I was in late middle age, and I found the experience thoroughly terrifying.

  • Airplane seatbelts

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  • Stupid question here, I guess, but why isn't there a system to potentially deliver commercial passengers and crew to the ground in case of a crash? Military jets have ejection seats and parachutes, so why don't we have at least something required for commercial aircraft in the same vein?

    Is it the money that it would undoubtedly require?

    Edit: misspelling

  • Even the ones that trick you by starting out cheap

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  • I remember when the game started in the '90s, booster packs were like a buck. I can't afford to stay in standard and most popular formats I enjoy won't let me use cards I like.

  • Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books

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  • I think they might need to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

  • Have Kids They Said

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  • Is Aaron Rodgers the child?

  • What scares you?

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  • Too late, unfortunately.

  • What scares you?

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  • I read somewhere that so much of the Saturn V development wasn't documented properly, or the documentation has been lost, that it's hard to easily build that system anymore. In that sense, I guess, we've forgotten how to do it. Obviously, the math and physics are still understood, so it should be as simple as designing a rocket of equal or greater capacity, and it appears we have.

    Apparently, the Artemis I mission already put an unmanned mission with the Orion spacecraft through to orbit the moon and return safely to the Earth. They're planning a crewed flyby in 2025 and Artemis III is projected to land sometime later this decade.

    It's a crime I didn't know that before looking things up about the Saturn V.

  • What scares you?

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  • I understand thalassophobia. The deep is scary. Funny thing is, though, I can handle being on a ship or flying over water, even though I think about how far down it might be.

  • What scares you?

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  • Grey aliens. Yep, I know they're almost certainly not real. They freak me the frack out. It's undoubtedly all the UFO stuff I read as a kid about abductions and such. A very petite friend once threatened to dress up as one in a realistic costume to scare me in the night. I begged her not to for her personal safety: I'm certain I would not react in a safe or rational way.

    Being alone at night creeps me out because of this. Driving alone in a remote, low population locale? Horrifying.

    Nevertheless, I still read up on stories and other media about the paranormal. Why am I like this? No idea.

    It hasn't ruined my life or anything. I've spent time alone far away from people, when I had to. I can go places at night. It's just something that creeps into my mind sometimes. I function as a grown ass man, but I still get the creeps about it when I'm alone. I don't know that I'll ever completely shake it.

  • Who did you hate the most?

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  • Why is Charly Burke hated? Because she replaced Alara?

  • Debate wrap up: No one has ever so thoroughly dominated Donald Trump

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  • Just like Donald Trump is the "hero" our conservative friends deserve.

  • I just posted Gowron for the glory of the empire!

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  • This invoice must be paid FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

  • I just posted Gowron for the glory of the empire!

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  • I have contacted the Finance Department FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

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  • Didn't gun control ramp up when the Black Panthers started exercising their rights to bear arms? Funny thing is the Panthers seem much more like a "well-regulated militia" than this Wild West, permitless carry, anything goes BS.

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  • People act like their mamas never told 'em to cover their damned mouths when they cough or sneeze. It's the same damned thing, only masks work much better at keeping your filthy germs from infecting other people.

    Common sense ain't common, they say, and this anti-mask nonsense is just proof that it's true.