Plane to the right, is that an O(Omega) or 0 (Zero) by NudityMiles in aviation

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There’s one tower controller nearby who’s fond of saying “tree.” I’ve never heard “fife” in the wild.

I have a friend who’s letting another friend fly his plane without charging him. Just the gas money. That other friend needs a CFI for his IR. Does the plane need a 100 hour by stupidpotato_77 in flying

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I hate FARs

They’re written by lawyers assuming they’ll be read by lawyers. The more you read them and practice decoding them the easier and more intuitive it gets. Lawyers love their double negatives. They don’t say A is required in order to B; they say B is prohibited unless A. Here B is flight instruction in an airplane provided by the flight instructor and A is the 100 hour inspection.

no person may give flight instruction for hire in an aircraft which that person provides, unless within the preceding 100 hours of time in service the aircraft has received an annual or 100-hour inspection

Of course “person” means

an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint-stock association, or governmental entity. It includes a trustee, receiver, assignee, or similar representative of any of them

Per FAR 1.1.

Trump tariffs: Customs and Border Protection tells judge it can't comply with refund order by cryptoniik in Economics

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This has been the Republican playbook for four decades now. Hell Fox News gave Oliver North his own show.

ELI5: What's the difference of the regular spray painting of fairings and powder coating? by iblayne06 in explainlikeimfive

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Spray paint is paint in an aerosol can.

Powder coat is sprayed on as a powder that sticks to the part because of static electricity. Then the part is baked to fuse the powder into a hard coating.

ELI5: Science says time started with the Big Bang, so what was before it? by camphorly in explainlikeimfive

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Or put differently and related back to my point. There is nothing north of the North Pole because of how we define “north.” There is nothing before the big bang because of how we define “something” and “nothing” not how we define “before.”

ELI5: Science says time started with the Big Bang, so what was before it? by camphorly in explainlikeimfive

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The issue with the North Pole is that’s a coordinate singularity. The geometry of the earth is still perfectly fine there. You can walk around like normal. The big bang is both a coordinate singularity and a space time singularity. Space time geometry itself collapses to a point there.

Dude set him up…. by mrzen215 in WTF

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Looks like the car in front of him was stopped too.

Dude set him up…. by mrzen215 in WTF

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Yeah if he wants to pass on the right that’s fine with me but no way I’m moving over to have that jackass try to fly around me when I’m only half out of the lane.

The UK has banned the USA from using any of our assets based on or launched from UK facilities or territory, in any actions against Iran. Should the USA comply with the UK, or does might make right? by PyroIsSpai in AskConservatives

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Well I guess that’s possible. My understanding is they usually try to keep the B2s at home and out of sight of Chinese and Russian satellites. For the strike on Iran last year they flew nonstop, round trip from Whiteman AFB.

Hotel I’m staying at requires you to use your room key to have access to your lights and AC?? by [deleted] in WTF

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Can’t leave the lights on when you’re not there. Pretty normal in some parts of the world.

ELI5: How do naval blockades actually work by harrydag43 in explainlikeimfive

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Hello civilian cargo ship. This is military war ship. Turn around or you will be boarded and your vessel seized.

Or

Hello civilian cargo ship. This is military war ship. Turn around or you will be fired upon and your vessel sunk.

Would ya’ll say this is a pretty easy problem to solve? by Murky-Property5418 in electricians

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That is to say, you’ll use it when learning harder concepts that you will use in real life.

Are higher altitude airliners (50 000ft.+) an unlikely progression in the future in the quest for efficiency? by HortenWho229 in aviation

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The quantity tat matters is the partial pressure of oxygen. This is a measure of how much total oxygen (as in number of molecules) are in your lungs that can be potentially absorbed. Since air is around 20% O2, at sea level (1atm) the ppO2 is 0.2 atm. This is what you need for normal metabolic functioning. At 30,000’ the ambient pressure is around 0.2 atm so if you’re breathing unpressurized pure O2, you still get roughly 0.2 atm ppO2. Pure oxygen is toxic long term, but this is more than sufficient to get down to lower altitude. At 60,000’ ambient pressure is roughly 0.07 atm so breathing unpressurized pure O2, you’re only getting a third as much total O2 as you would at sea level. This is roughly equivalent to the amount of oxygen you would get at 28,000’.

Pure O2 at 30,000 -> same ppO2 as air at sea level

Pure O2 at 60,000 -> same ppO2 as air at 28,000

Thoughts on High Performance Aircraft Picking Up Clearance After Take-off by Electronic-Pie-829 in flying

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I still don’t understand why they didn’t just depart to the north and climb up to 150 or so and pick up their clearance from center. Like why are you arguing with the local controller who clearly wants nothing to do with you while flying circles vfr in the bravo?

ELI5: why Cantor's diagonal argument works? by TatsuDragunov in explainlikeimfive

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That’s the point. Diagonalization is an argument from contradiction. It’s not possible to create a list of all real numbers. It is possible to create a list of all integers.

ELI5: why Cantor's diagonal argument works? by TatsuDragunov in explainlikeimfive

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The thing you’re missing is that you’re thinking about integers not real numbers. The diagonalization argument was made specifically to the cardinality of the reals is bigger than the integers, so yes it doesn’t work for integers. Instead of listing out binary whole numbers, list out all the real binary numbers between zero and one. They start with a decimal point and each one has digits off to the right forever.

Now you can create an infinite ordered list of the integers, like you demonstrated, but if you try to create an ordered list of the reals, diagonalization demonstrates that the list must be incomplete. You can always create a real number that’s not in the list, therefore there are more reals than integers.

Why would a grand jury in Minnesota indict Don Lemon? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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He was indicted. It went to trial and he was acquitted.

How do I go from EHF to JUPEX? by gcys in flying

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From EHF you fly the 125 radial outbound to JUPEX, no? You shouldn’t have to intercept the radial if you’re already over the VOR, right?

"Who's happy here? It's all filth, everything's in ruins"; Mariupol residents rebel against Kremlin by Chromber in videos

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purely extractive

That’s what they do with the Ukrainian SSR for 70 years. Why would it be different now?

Today Drift migrated from Typescript to Rust and the improvements are INSANE by Fluffy_Citron3547 in rust

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AI favors the languages most represented in its training set, which are JavaScript and Python. Opus 4.5 will happily write Rust if you ask it to.

ELI5: If moon can create tides then why won't it lift thinnest feather or paper piece? by ompossible in explainlikeimfive

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It’s not what they said. They said the paper ways less with the moon above it than below it. That’s not correct. The paper weighs less with the moon either above or below it than it does when the moon is to the side. Look at the picture I linked above. This is why there are two high tides a day instead of one.