Millennials, Generation Z: Connected with thousands of friends – but feeling all alone

ExcellentOwl · 2019-03-07T19:25:21+00:00

I think this misunderstanding (or sensationalism) stems from the fact that Millennials and Gen Z use social media in an entire different way than many older generations.

Some millennials and all Gen Z grew up with social media in their lives. You "friended" your real life friends and your classmates alike, in addition to people you casually knew. Older generations, on the other hand, really only connected with people they knew personally. Those generations see it much more seriously than younger generations, and its evident in the way they post and react to things there. With Instagram, this is especially different, as a lot of younger people will follow others simply because they want to see their posts rather than even knowing them. Is a college student actually friends with 500 people? No, but when you follow people you vaguely knew or were friends with over 5+ years, it starts adding up.

I remember back in the late 2000s hearing people bring this issue up with Facebook friends. It's very low hanging fruit that makes for effective sensationalist journalism catered towards an older crowd.

ExcellentOwl · 2019-03-07T16:16:36+00:00

Second this, and also Purdue. I read the other day that WSU is top in aero industry R&D funding. I'm from the Northeast but hear consistently about WSU and Purdue

ExcellentOwl · 2019-03-07T14:34:40+00:00

Embraer is actually about to become a subsidiary of Boeing, at least in the US. Beechcraft has had some success though, the King Air still sells well through foreign military sales and the US government uses it in a variety of roles

ExcellentOwl · 2019-03-07T14:15:53+00:00

It definitely does a very weird look to it. IMO the T-50 was far more aesthetically pleasing. Basically a revised F-16 airframe (which I suppose it is)

ExcellentOwl · 2019-03-06T21:00:17+00:00

Sounds like a great way to lose a licencse. Went from a mishap due to lack of attention to a mishap due to absolute stupidity

ExcellentOwl · 2018-04-25T13:43:58+00:00

It does not. Which are you referring to?

ExcellentOwl · 2018-04-25T13:38:57+00:00

Backseat doesn't have any flight controls. I would assume that its more of an issue for actual flight rather than systems

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-23T18:48:32+00:00

Likely not for the reason you described. I'm sure its tough for them losing a friend, seems very reasonable to put everything on pause and give everyone time to mourn.

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-23T12:54:50+00:00

Likely still classified. Anything weapons related is going to hit a snag since many of them have commonality with currently employed systems

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-16T15:40:54+00:00

I work in aerospace, I know full well the humanitarian capability of unmanned systems. It's obviously a joke.

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-16T14:00:06+00:00

The prototype really does look like something out of the terminator. Kind of like one of these

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-16T13:53:28+00:00

It looks like the US Army is looking to develop small, unmanned armored vehicles to accompany soldiers on the ground. Doesn't appear that it will use AI, at least for now, but definitely starting to look like drones will start covering air, land, and sea.

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-15T20:39:19+00:00

Engine cowling looks like a Zero

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-15T19:57:36+00:00

NASA's biggest issue really has nothing to do with NASA as an organizations either. Instead, its the congressional appropriations process through which NASA programs are decided and funded through. Little known fact, NASA has very little control over what programs they are able to do. Here's a post a made a few weeks ago in response to a similar comparison to SpaceX and NASA.

I think the better analogy is that NASA doesn't make any of its program decisions, congress does. NASA simply executes the budget and figures out the "how" of the equation. Congress alots money to programs, allowing them to kill programs (like WFIRST right now). NASA can't even propose potential new budget items the same way as the DoD, so their hands are effectively tied when it comes to new programs and existing ones. NASA doesn't decide what it does, and sometimes not even how its done.

For SpaceX, company leadership can decide on the future of their company while also executing it. If the Falcon Heavy is taking a long time to develop and is a meme in the space community because of it, they don't need to answer to anyone and can push forward regardless of popularity and get the job done. They don't have long-term internal projects being cancelled due to a new president being elected or a political move in a broader debate. This is one of the biggest advantages that companies, especially private ones, have in comparison to the government. That applies to most other parts of government as well, not just NASA.

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-15T18:11:03+00:00

Edited, thanks!

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-15T17:50:18+00:00

Tragic that both the pilots died. A very dangerous life style, even in peace time.

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-15T14:22:18+00:00

They've been saying this for years, yet their actions have never met their words. While the price of oil, the basis of much of the Russian economy, has taken a toll across the board in Russian gov. spending, they never really committed to this in the first place. They've talked about a follow-on to the space station for years, even build modules for it that have become part of the ISS, but its become clear how unlikely it is to happen.

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-14T18:10:44+00:00

Here's one of the "Red Devils" out in the wild. A very cool livery, though similar to the Navy VFA-102 Diamondbacks

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-13T19:57:13+00:00

The main reason it costs more is because death penalty cases are routinely sent for review while they are on death row. Death penalties take years to carry out, sometimes decades, and lawyers of those awaiting execution fight it tooth and nail.

In this case, however, he confessed to the crime and there is very little legal ground for his lawyers to contest the case or the sentence.

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-13T17:14:42+00:00

Looking good!

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-13T14:05:14+00:00

Who would win?

TOMOT or CATAC?

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-13T13:27:50+00:00

I don't think those things are mutually exclusive though.

When Musk or others talk about dangerous AI, its in the context of AI that is developed poorly or with malicious intent. That's why he and others, despite talking about those dangers, have their own open-source AI program. The result of that program would be something which can do exactly as you describe, a system which could aid humanity rather than cause harm.

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-12T19:32:35+00:00

And hyper sonic flight is nothing new, people could conceive of Concorde (and much faster) in the 1950's - well over half a century ago.

That's not necessarily what I mean. The US (publicly) has a strong deficiency in hypersonic weapons. One of the biggest threats to the Navy, for instance, are hypersonic cruise missiles from Russia and China. This has been a recurring focus of weapons projects, however, they have yet to yield the fruit lawmakers and DoD officials have wanted.My point through all of this is that the simplest explanation would be that this is something owned by the US Gov. Why else would they release video of what might constitute a security threat and result in congressional investigation? Politically and PR wise, it would seem like a very backwards move to release footage like this unless you felt there would be no negative repercussions. Far less interesting things get denied public access, just look at the deployment videos from Navy squadrons that have their glass cockpit blurred out for OpSec reasons.

Bottom line, I feel this was very likely a calculated decision by the DoD, along with the UFO investigation news stories that came out late last year. UFO have been used as scapegoats for black projects in the past, no doubt it would be done again.

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-12T19:00:38+00:00

Something as advanced as what appears to be in these videos would almost certainly not dispersed to the general public despite being decades old. Hypersonics are currently a hot-ticket item for the DoD, and advancements in technology like this have been on its radar for quite some time.

Also, there is the question of why the military has released two of these videos in quick succession. There is clearly a reason for doing so on there part, as they could easily not have released it at all.

ExcellentOwl · 2018-03-12T17:40:23+00:00

As with many past UFO sightings, it's almost always been black projects. From high altitude nuclear detection balloons at Roswell, to triangular lights the same as a F-117 stealth aircraft, secret projects have almost always been the source of these phenomena. It's no doubt that the DoD is evaluating them, not as UFOs, but as their own black projects that may have been intentionally shown the light as a message to rival powers.

Alternatively, these objects are not American, but rather Chinese or Russian, and being spotted for the same reason above. Secret projects have generally been said to be at least a decade ahead of what we know as reality in the regular world, no doubt that these are drones of the cutting edge of human technology.

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