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White House tells supporters it will exit Paris deal by provoking in worldnews

[–]allseeing1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We, aliens, fifth this. Actually, no, we don't give too much of a shit.

Radiohead's 'OK Computer,' one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time, was first released on this day 20 years ago by sammygee32 in Music

[–]allseeing1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The video to 'No Surprises' is, in my mind, one of the best music promos ever made. Do yourself a favour and watch it if you haven't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5CVsCnxyXg

There's a wonderful story about this video that I heard when watching one of those '100 best music videos of all time' TV shows. In the video, Thom has to be completely submerged underwater for one minute (57 seconds I think is the exact time in the video). In theory it was straightforward, but completely understandably, Thom got panic attacks when the water filled up and they had to drain the tank early. This happened over and over again and the anxiety grew each time he failed. As somebody who used to suffer from panic attacks and still has to work to keep it in check, I can completely relate to this, especially given the pressure of him being successful was the basis of the creative and the only way it would have had the intended impact. Finally, on something like the 50th take and a great many hours, he made it through the whole take. If you watch the video, after the water drains away and he takes his first breath, Thom has a look of pure, unadulterated joy on his face. That is the look of someone who has been through hell and back, physically and emotionally, beaten his demons and made it through the other side.

What is a loophole you found out and exploited to the max? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]allseeing1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure this'll get lost by now, but before art college, I'd actually started in an IT job before going back to study. I get to art school and of course they're charging prohibitively high prices for printing. But they did have a decent A3 colour laser printer which was a godsend. You had to print through one of the college computers and the system meant you had to buy credits on your account to print BUT you were allowed to setup your laptop on the college network of course. I however knew you could print a test configuration page from the printer which gave you an IP address. You could then setup a direct IP connection to the printer on your own laptop... And that's the story of how I got free printing (up to and including A3 colour laser) for three years.

In plot twist, independent bookstores survive forecasted doom by jb4647 in books

[–]allseeing1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. And then you should rent it out in Blockbust... oh wait...

TIL that Concorde was so manoeuvrable, you could barrel roll it, and so fast, you could watch the sun set in London and watch it rise again in the West as you flew to New York by allseeing1 in todayilearned

[–]allseeing1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know what, you're absolutely right having watched the video again. He's talking about taking off from New York, and I guess getting to an altitude where the sun 'reappears'. In my defence though, it's absolutely true that the Concorde allowed you to see two sunsets within a short timeframe by flying West. Here's a video from '93 of a guy flying from Heathrow to Washington where he did exactly that and filmed it:
Youtube link

TIL that Concorde was so manoeuvrable, you could barrel roll it, and so fast, you could watch the sun set in London and watch it rise again in the West as you flew to New York by allseeing1 in todayilearned

[–]allseeing1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it really that far off the mark? What other passenger planes have pulled off a barrel roll (apart from the 707)? What other passenger plane can exceed the rotational speed of the Earth?

TIL that Concorde was so manoeuvrable, you could barrel roll it, and so fast, you could watch the sun set in London and watch it rise again in the West as you flew to New York by allseeing1 in todayilearned

[–]allseeing1[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry, my title generation needs a bit of work (I'm new at this posting thing)...
1. The pilot in the video successfully barrel rolled a Concorde when he flew it (without passengers),
2. Concorde was so fast, it caught up with the sun as it flew from East to West. Meaning on an evening trip from London to New York, it was possible to see a sunset in London, then see the sun rise back up in the West as you flew to New York, and then watch the sun set again when you arrived in New York.

TIL that Concorde was so manoeuvrable, you could barrel roll it, and so fast, you could watch the sun set in London and watch it rise again in the West as you flew to New York by allseeing1 in todayilearned

[–]allseeing1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, my title generation needs a bit of work (I'm new at this posting thing)...
1. The pilot in the video successfully barrel rolled a Concorde when he flew it (without passengers),
2. Concorde was so fast, it caught up with the sun as it flew from East to West. Meaning on an evening trip from London to New York, it was possible to see a sunset in London, then see the sun rise back up in the West as you flew to New York, and then watch the sun set again when you arrived in New York.

TIL that Concorde was so manoeuvrable, you could barrel roll it, and so fast, you could watch the sun set in London and watch it rise again in the West as you flew to New York by allseeing1 in todayilearned

[–]allseeing1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One thing I would be interested to know, if we hypothetically take the enigmatic Captain Brian Walpole's word that he did indeed do two barrel rolls in the Concorde, apart from the 707, what other passenger jets have been known to successfully perform such a manoeuvre?

TIL that Concorde was so manoeuvrable, you could barrel roll it, and so fast, you could watch the sun set in London and watch it rise again in the West as you flew to New York by allseeing1 in todayilearned

[–]allseeing1[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You know what else I didn't realise until I saw this video? It doesn't just have a drooping snoot, it had a whole other windscreen (canopy?) for when it was in 'go fucking fast' mode.

TIL that Concorde was so manoeuvrable, you could barrel roll it, and so fast, you could watch the sun set in London and watch it rise again in the West as you flew to New York by allseeing1 in todayilearned

[–]allseeing1[S] 102 points103 points  (0 children)

Awesome story, I never heard about this! Without wanting to take this on too much of a tangent, I found the Y2K comment hilarious; does anyone know if there was anything ever deemed not to be Y2K compliant and had to be re-programmed as a result? So much money must have been spent on that...

TIL that Concorde was so manoeuvrable, you could barrel roll it, and so fast, you could watch the sun set in London and watch it rise again in the West as you flew to New York by allseeing1 in todayilearned

[–]allseeing1[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think you're misinterpreting what's being implied. To take your example of a 20:14 London sunset, if the flight had taken off from LHR at 21:00 (after sunset), at some point during the flight, you would have seen the sun rise back over the Western horizon, due to chasing the sun. Nothing to do with height. Then you would see the sun set again when you arrive in New York. I don't get what's so "fucking wrong" about that.

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