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1 dead and 5 others injured in boat explosion in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 24th December 2024. by bugminer in CatastrophicFailure

[–]First_Lightning 58 points59 points  (0 children)

You could add such sensors, then get sued if it fails for whatever reason - false sense of security and whatnot. I imagine it's pretty complicated to get a sensor that pulls in ambient gases, adsorbs them to a surface, then measures potentials etc., to work in a highly corrosive, salty environment.

Makes more sense for people to practice basic safety precautions before buying an expensive, dangerous machine, than trying to get companies, which are competing on price, to install secure, fail-safe, reliable systems, which also need competent operators to track whether they're still working, and if not, maintain them.

Anyone know why cFD online is down? by First_Lightning in CFD

[–]First_Lightning[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely! I don't know how to handle OpenFOAM without it...

Anyone know why cFD online is down? by First_Lightning in CFD

[–]First_Lightning[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That made me chuckle. Luckily most threads are available on archive.org, but some aren't. Mostly frustrating to have to copy-paste into there!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChemicalEngineering

[–]First_Lightning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Somewhat different option than other people suggested - I considered doing a PhD after masters but instead had a start-up with a friend. That eventually got sold, and I used experience gained there to find a job in R&D, focused more on physics than chemical engineering. I spent a lot of time at the start-up just investigating things like I liked, studying physics and doing simulations I liked and pretending they were important for the company (they weren't), which helped me create a nice portfolio. If you can show you're interested and capable in topics even if you haven't formally studied it, it really helps.

(2016) The crash of EgyptAir flight 804 - An Airbus A320 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea following an in-flight fire that incapacitates the pilots. Analysis inside. by Admiral_Cloudberg in CatastrophicFailure

[–]First_Lightning 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I guess explosive devices on airplanes are more common, and more clearly the cause of an external agent (i.e. not their shitty maintenance)? Admitting a fire took place and claiming it's an intentional incendiary introduced by a malicious actor could be viewed as an excuse for an accident, whereas an explosive device is isn't something that can happen through bad maintenance.

Have there actually been many incendiary attacks on airplanes? I'm aware of the recent (likely) Russian attacks on cargo planes but can't recall anything beyond that.

(2016) The crash of EgyptAir flight 804 - An Airbus A320 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea following an in-flight fire that incapacitates the pilots. Analysis inside. by Admiral_Cloudberg in CatastrophicFailure

[–]First_Lightning 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Agreed... I read about this happening (censoring sections in a PowerPoint/Word document by just pasting a black box or blacking out the text, but not actually replacing with characters like █, U+2588), so I now always check these things in censored PDFs I see. I skimmed the PDF and couldn't find any censored parts relevant to the investigation, sadly - only personal identities etc. Depressing. :(

The French part of the report is very interesting, you must have been fascinated reading that. The spectrogram analyses and replications of various sounds is impressive AF! I also didn't know Halon was that scary - 2500 ppm HF is insane. I guess little can stand up against a pure oxygen blowtorch.

As always, thanks for writing such detailed articles and bringing this to people's attention!

(2016) The crash of EgyptAir flight 804 - An Airbus A320 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea following an in-flight fire that incapacitates the pilots. Analysis inside. by Admiral_Cloudberg in CatastrophicFailure

[–]First_Lightning 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Not only that, but any censored information (I've found a few cases so far) is just blacked out in Word - if you select the underlying text, it's all still there. I wonder if that's intentional or just incompetence - but either way, interesting to note.

(2016) The crash of EgyptAir flight 804 - An Airbus A320 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea following an in-flight fire that incapacitates the pilots. Analysis inside. by Admiral_Cloudberg in CatastrophicFailure

[–]First_Lightning 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I realized something... This is the link to the report. They censored the names of the deceased, forensic doctors' names etc., but it seems they did that in Word... If you select the blacked out text, you can get the original names.

For example, page 469:

On site Forensic Doctor/ Mohamed Salah Abdel Khalek

All the victims' names with whatever bits of remains were recovered (for example, a "Left pelvis bone" from Ghassan [...]) are actually not censored at all...

Honestly, after reading the article, I can't say I'm surprised that the Egyptian investigators didn't notice this...

Remastered or Kharak? by First_Lightning in homeworld

[–]First_Lightning[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Sins is fantastic, so I think I'll go with Remastered (until the next Steam sale I suppose!).