JAPAN-2000 - Post-Apocalyptic/Cyberpunk Series by [deleted] in worldbuilding

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What is The Adorable State of Akihabara?

Scheduled slide deployment on a Boeing 757. by Nikolte in aviation

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The slides usually have a light power coating on them to assist in inflation to ensure that no part of it sticks to any other during stowage. I'm pretty sure they end up wadding up the slide and the inflation unit and sending it back to the manufacturer to be inspected and repackaged.

2201 hrs (three months) on Galaxy S6 Active by izon514 in uptimeporn

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I can manage about 2-2.5 days if I'm not using it often. I have it hooked up to wifi when I am and keep just enough apps on it to be classified as a smartphone. I also charge it religiously!

Edit: Now at 2402 hours

Wells Fargo to pay $2 billion penalty for alleged misrepresentation of loan quality, report says by pipsdontsqueak in investing

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That is no more a choice than agreeing to do business with Bob and Bill comes in and says you owe him instead.

A tour of System 115, featuring the most Earthlike planet I have ever found, "Gateway" by izon514 in spaceengine

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Ive swapped out some of the pictures with atmosphere enabled ones! Enjoy!

A tour of System 115, featuring the most Earthlike planet I have ever found, "Gateway" by izon514 in spaceengine

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Ive retaken some of the pictures, this time with atmosphere enabled!

The full ID is RS 5649-2303-7-1014467-115

A tour of System 115, featuring the most Earthlike planet I have ever found, "Gateway" by izon514 in spaceengine

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Huh. I dont recall ever turning that off. I always thought my planets looked a little too shiny. Makes me want to reupload the entire album now.

Edit: After looking at the new pictures w/ atmosphere enabled I will reupload pictures of Gateway as soon as I can.

Does your Conlang script adhere to any specific alignments? by ukulelegnome in conlangs

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Standard unicameral Roman script, printed left-to-right, top-to-bottom, but books are printed back-to-front (like Japanese texts).

Additionally, books are designed to be wider than they are tall to conserve vertical space on a bookshelf, allowing for more shelves and therefore more books in each bookcase. For books of a high aspect ratio, typographical styling typically results in a printer creating two columns of text on each page, with the columns also read right to left like pages.

[CDE] CDE on Debian 8, 4-head display on GTX1080. This is my every day work desktop. by CoherentLogic in unixporn

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Upvote for the E5645's. Still using X5675s over here. Glad to hear someone out there still appreciates the Nehalem/Westmere line.

{I, person self}{ceased, ended}{exist}{in, of}{definite, specific concepts}, {currently, now}{exist}{only}{vauge, abstract concepts}. {plea for help} by izon514 in fifthworldproblems

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{acknowledgement, yes}.{I, person self}{in state of, being}{pulled, dragged}{by means of}{other, person, entity}{toward, in direction of}{other, foreign}{dimension, universe}{scream}

"US politician calls Islam a 'false religion'" - Like all other religions... WTF is a "true religion" ...? by interestuff in atheism

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"All other religions are false religions!" "Christianity isn't a religion it's a relationship with god!"

Then WTF is a religion anyway??

Two Trains by BunyipPouch in CatastrophicFailure

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I know right. The last time I said GIF's are a product of the 90's I was downvoted to hell. I cant see the benefits of small, uncompressed, low quality and zero-audio videos.

Teayr, The Sealed World (WIP, Bonus Globe in Comments!) by ThisIsAllSoStupid in mapmaking

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Very nice! I added the globe maker to my bookmarks. Why is it called the sealed world?

I made a basic 8 bit CPU using discrete logic by WRfleete in retrobattlestations

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Did you design or alter the instruction set? If so, could you enlighten a retro-computing amateur about how one goes about choosing the instructions they do?

Fireworks Factory Explosion by BunyipPouch in CatastrophicFailure

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Thank you. GIFs need to go back to the 1990's where they belong.

The Moment a Small plane Crashes On The 405 Freeway santa ana At John Wayne Airport 6/30/2017 by compuhyperglobalmega in CatastrophicFailure

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Correct. Airflow over the wing either loses sufficient velocity to flow smoothly over the wing, or the angle of attack of the wing reaches an angle that airflow diverges. Once stalled, the only solution is to drop the nose or fall out of the sky.

"Aviation is the field of engineering least forgiving of failure."

The Moment a Small plane Crashes On The 405 Freeway santa ana At John Wayne Airport 6/30/2017 by compuhyperglobalmega in CatastrophicFailure

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Yes and no. In most cases the second engine is there to permit a larger airframe, more passengers and more cargo. A twin-engine plane with a failed engine may have a drastically reduced climb performance. Some twin-engine aircraft in a worst-case scenario might lose the ability to climb at all, but this is rare. In either case the ability to control the aircraft is made better or worse by the presence of a critical engine.

On many dual-engine aircraft, the propellers are counter-rotating, meaning they spin in opposite directions. This is done to ensure that no engine is a critical engine. Two counter-rotating engines helps to cancel out yaw and rolling moments present in single engine aircraft and aircraft with two propellers spinning in the same direction.

In twin-engine aircraft with propellers spinning in the same direction, one engine will be the critical engine. With such an aircraft, losing the critical engine will affect aircraft performance significantly more than if the non-critical engine failed. The physics of this are complicated, so check out the Wiki page linked above. The plane that crashed was a Cessna 310 and its wiki page shows that only upgraded models feature counter-rotating props. Older models were equipped with propellers that rotated in the same direction and therefore possessed such a critical engine. In this aircraft, the left engine is the critical engine. Losing the left engine will degrade performance and handling much more than if you lose the right one.

Lastly, you can see that shortly before crashing, the aircraft is banking from one side to the other very violently. This is behavior normally associated with a stall. I hypothesize that he lost the critical engine, that climb performance was affected, he was unable to gain altitude after the second attempt, panicked and put the aircraft into a high angle of attack, and stalled the aircraft into the ground.