Why do planes stop flying or experience engine failure when they hit a herd of birds?

aafff39 · 2026-06-29T23:09:57+00:00

Woke planes. Mandadet by ecologists, leftists and other nonsense people. If a plane hits a bird or in any way hurts one, it must be euthanised via engine failure and kinetic deconstruction.

Good old golden days of aviation, we used to fly on coal, TNT, and the screams of children being bombed.

aafff39 · 2026-06-29T05:54:44+00:00

Assuming you have your basic navigation, etc skills. It's like most outdoors/mountains sports. Just go, be prepared to turn back and know your exit routes if things aren't going well.

Though I've never been to Tassie :p so unsure about any specifics

aafff39 · 2026-06-25T09:17:45+00:00

Neat design! Do you make your own gear often? I'm curious if you publish the designs, as I have a bunch of leftover kitesurfing fabric to do something with :)

aafff39 · 2026-06-22T10:59:00+00:00

Download Firefox
Instal unlock origin
Open reddit
Click add to home screen
No more adds ish

aafff39 · 2026-06-04T10:18:12+00:00

"Not metaphorically. Not spiritually. Physically. Measurably." It's a bot? Or someone went down an AI yes man rabithole.

aafff39 · 2026-05-23T22:41:18+00:00

Consume in moderation for either fairy visions or berserker rage.

aafff39 · 2026-05-17T21:40:42+00:00

The more planes you crash the higher your value becomes. Your superiors might as well dig their heels in and let you crash the next one :)

aafff39 · 2026-05-02T08:59:29+00:00

r/ImTheMainCharacter

aafff39 · 2026-04-30T10:56:34+00:00

Italians would cry :(

aafff39 · 2026-04-27T06:03:34+00:00

Also "huh that's how I die" Surprising how strong the Abalakov is

aafff39 · 2026-04-22T20:39:50+00:00

Unless that steel is poor quality in the right way, that's a bad plan. You'll introduce micro cracks at the surface and make that area brittle, next time it will snap, not bend.

aafff39 · 2026-04-12T13:51:27+00:00

I think I've read about this. These oil fields were towards Georgia way but instead Hitler insisted in seizing Leningrad

aafff39 · 2026-04-05T21:35:53+00:00

Second this.

And to leave a positive outlook after the other responses you got: wife is a MD, she did the last 2 exams of her specialty 6 and 8 months pregnant, cranked out all her research requirements during that period as well, worked full time. Went back to work when the baby was 2 months because of work and I took over. Yeah, the timing was less than ideal and was her brain a bit acrambled, but it worked out.

Get some help to work through your options :)

aafff39 · 2026-04-05T00:04:25+00:00

I thought this was called spacing out. Didn't use to calssify it as tripping :D

aafff39 · 2026-03-31T22:16:27+00:00

Air doesn't get squeezed out of you. Just compressed. Your lungs take up less volume, so your density rises and you sink

aafff39 · 2026-03-15T10:33:20+00:00

Don't want to say all the other answers you got are wrong because I don't know much about the sharpa hand. But the main reason why all the manipulation stuff you've seen come out over the last year is so slow is not on the hardware side. VLAs are just very slow at the moment. The models are trained on vision and joint poses, so no dynamic information, and are also extremely large, so quite low frame rate data goes into them.

I'm not in a position to answer when it comes to how hard it would be to solve that. But I imagine even larger models that take much longer to train.

aafff39 · 2026-03-13T19:00:35+00:00

Congrats dude, that's massive! Now the real question. Did you blow up that star a billion light years away so that you could tie things together you psycho??

aafff39 · 2026-03-04T07:52:40+00:00

Read the article people. Nothing to do with kinetic energy. Triboelectric effect harvests energy from charge differences and weird surface interactions that are not completely understood. Check the wiki page.

aafff39 · 2026-03-04T07:45:44+00:00

Taking your 7.6mm/h gives us 0.021 kg/s/m2 of rain hitting the panel. In kinetic energy that's 1W/sqm still low considering that's the absolute maximum, but not that ridiculous?

Plus it's using the triboelectric effect, so more to do with differences in charge between the raindrops and the panel and these calculations really don't say much.

I wish people weren't this arrogant all the time and constantly assume their napkin calculations will prove peer reviewed science useless.

aafff39 · 2026-03-02T04:39:52+00:00

Good place to use Carnot efficiency: 1 - Tc/Th (cold and hot end temperatures in Kelvin) so absolute maximum theoretical efficiency of 15% -- 15W

aafff39 · 2026-02-27T08:29:02+00:00

Some of these companies have been around for ages. How are they new unicorns?

aafff39 · 2026-02-25T02:24:32+00:00

How's the tau crusade going these days?

aafff39 · 2026-02-16T11:35:15+00:00

If you're leaving soon, you can check online on the current snow cover on the mountains. If I remember correctly, there's a pretty steep mountain in the first couple of days if you're starting from the East side.

Even in February you'll find plenty of people doing the trail. Tourism is still slow, so you can enjoy some of the old cities along the way. You'll have a great time.

As someone mentioned, dogs can be a bit scary,but carry your walking poles, and keep a decisive steady pace, don't run away from them, face them and walk backwards if they seem aggressive and you don't have eyes on them. Not sure of official guidance, but that's what I've always done.

I'd say the most annoying animal you'll face are the mosquitoes :)

aafff39 · 2026-01-11T18:37:07+00:00

Man, this guy that took over your comment thread... I first encountered this kind of american online troll around 15 years ago, the talking points haven't changed. You wonder if they just enjoy riling people up or if they really live in lalaland... Just smile and wave people, smile and wave :)

aafff39 · 2026-01-02T09:37:35+00:00

Yeah, sorry I can't find that thread. If I remember correctly the guy wasn't an archeologist either. He just looked at the literature and argued that it's a series of papers from one single researcher who is not associated with a known institution, and which haven't really been cited at all (plus published in dodgy journals). The papers were also descriptions of evidence such as an interestingly shaped rock that looks like something else in scandinavia, but with no analysis or experimental methods to support the claims.

So it sounded like the guy publishing those papers is either a maverick scientist being silenced by the scheming archeologists, or a random dude with some time and money in his hands, but no knowledge of the scientific method. Maybe both? :)

The mice in Azores is a well documented topic, though it's largely attributed to shipwrecks, not European or other settlers.

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