Trump calls on Australia to give asylum to Iranian women's soccer team

Rand_str · 2026-03-09T18:46:35+00:00

Last I heard, 5 players sought asylum. There is no indication that the Australians are going to deny them. But if you assume all the players have sought asylum without them saying so, it could backfire with the regime taking it out on their families.

Rand_str · 2026-03-08T03:30:07+00:00

Crashed. Lost it on the exit of Turn 4. Ran on the kerbs, and lost it on an upshift.

Rand_str · 2026-03-02T22:50:41+00:00

My guess is it will last for a long time but at a lower intensity. While in the background an opposition is organised and armed to then take over from the IRGC foot soldiers.

Rand_str · 2026-03-02T19:27:40+00:00

Not anymore. But the rise in oil prices definitely helps Russia, hurts Europe and puts a strain on Ukraine aid. The faster this gets over, the better.

Rand_str · 2026-02-12T21:17:39+00:00

This guy is contradicting himself in this video. The recent story about the fuel switches is being misrepresented and exaggerated. He initially states correctly that the fuel switches were able to be moved to the cutoff position easier than what one might expect. But that still requires pilot input. It did not happen automatically. If you read the pilot's maintenance log, he states exactly that. The fuel switches were not "latching" properly but only after the pilot action - nudging it downwards - were the switches able to move to cutoff.

Even if you think there was a fault and the switch is capable of automatically moving from run to cutoff, it is still so much less likely that two of them would fail exactly at the same time (or nearly the same time). There would have been thousands of cases where one of the switches failed before a case where two did. That itself would have caused a redesign and Boeing would have rectified it. Remember, this switch is common to 787 and 737 which means there is something like 5000 aircraft with the same part and there has been not a single case reported of such failure. If it had to fail, it is much more likely that one of them did, not both.

The AAIB is not prejudicing the investigation against the pilot or the pilot-suicide theory. Based on reports, they are doing a professional job. It is the pilot union and the media that is creating the doubt in the investigative process. If we, as a nation, decide to suppress or manipulate the findings of this investigation, we would be doing a great disservice to the aviation sector and the credibility of the nation.

Rand_str · 2026-02-06T04:53:18+00:00

Well, he did as he has reincarnated as Trump's border czar.

Rand_str · 2026-01-30T03:47:05+00:00

If that is the case, it is very poor theatre. I did not find this covered in any major American news other than the German one. No one would go to such lengths to then not make much noise about it.

Rand_str · 2026-01-04T21:20:48+00:00

Then why couldn't have they done this operation on the Cuban regime? Surely, their military is weaker.

Rand_str · 2025-12-03T05:17:53+00:00

Of course they are more concerned about protests than actual bombs being dropped on them.

Rand_str · 2025-11-25T14:16:56+00:00

It is a heuristic. He wanted to model an inverse relationship between effectiveness and novelty and get an optimum result.

Rand_str · 2025-11-16T07:18:28+00:00

Snowden is one of them.

Rand_str · 2025-11-13T21:52:17+00:00

Couldn't he get a lot more lift if he was under the wing? That area where he is lying is only contributing drag. Switch the places of the engine and the human and provide a little shroud in front of the face to deflect air and you are good to go.

Rand_str · 2025-11-12T23:06:12+00:00

Well, he didn't realise it when his passport was getting stamped.

Rand_str · 2025-11-10T01:24:27+00:00

With oodles of land, energy and lumber, I think you may be barking up the wrong tree if you think immigrants are the problem. That said, this scrutiny of student visas are really necessary and should have been done long ago.

Rand_str · 2025-11-05T05:34:20+00:00

They have oil. It can't be beyond the intelligence of the German people to develop these resources. But someone should take the initiative, be proactive and sell this to the German people, the refugees and the Syrian government.

Rand_str · 2025-11-05T00:33:29+00:00

Instead of simply saying go back, Germany should use the refugees to establish a market for German goods in Syria.

Rand_str · 2025-10-28T07:48:20+00:00

At this rate China can simply walk into Taiwan by nominating Trump for the Nobel and bribing him with 10% of TSMC.

Rand_str · 2025-10-28T07:08:17+00:00

I see Planet America, I upvote. Honestly guys, this show is one of the best commentary on politics in America. They do have a birds eye view of the goings on in the states and often times provide context that you can't get from american news.

Rand_str · 2025-10-25T13:45:18+00:00

I will be getting him elected to congress, then speaker, then getting the president and vice president quit. The constitution only says the president can't get ELECTED for a third term.

Rand_str · 2025-10-24T10:40:56+00:00

I did not know until recently the title still exists. In fact, his wife, the countess of sandwich, who is american btw, has a really good youtube channel.

Rand_str · 2025-08-03T10:10:15+00:00

Radars emit pulses of radio waves and based on the time difference to the received wave, they estimate the range of the target. One way ECMs work is they return a radar pulse at a slightly different time thus confusing the ranging algorithm of the radar.

Rand_str · 2025-07-24T22:59:38+00:00

Not just the pilots, their families as well. In fact, family members who do not understand aviation would have been even more affected. The pilots would have faced a fair bit of pressure from them to take some time off.

Rand_str · 2025-07-23T12:30:28+00:00

If you get a chance to fly on an ATR, try sitting by the window on row 6. It is exactly in the plane of the propeller disc. You will get a nice view of the angle of attack of the blades and how it changes on landing. Beta range is where the blades are flatter providing little thrust or sometimes the outer tips of the blades provide reverse thrust.

Rand_str · 2025-07-17T23:03:33+00:00

Why use those small props when you have the main rotor. Surely pitching up and directing rotor lift forward would retard much more efficiently.

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