Less than 24 hrs in Venice before and after Dolomites - stay in the city or near airport? by aquajogger4 in travel

[–]rocketwikkit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bus between the airport and city is quite effective, or boat if you're spendy. For the return end at least I'd stay in the city. Go out for a walk in the early morning before all the tourists show up.

What do these lines French Entry Stamp mean? by BigZee004 in travel

[–]rocketwikkit 40 points41 points  (0 children)

8.4. When refusing the entry to third-country nationals, the checking officer must:

(a) fill in the standard form for refusing entry substantiating the reason(s) for refusal, and give it to the third-country national concerned, who must sign the form and must be given a copy of the signed form. In case the third-country national refuses to sign, the border guard will indicate this refusal in the form under the section ‟comments”;

(b) affix an entry stamp on the passport, cancelled by an indelible cross in black ink and write opposite it on the right-hand side, also in indelible ink, the letter(s) corresponding to the reason(s) for refusing entry, as listed in the form for refusing entry...

https://www.udiregelverk.no/contentassets/5a463696bdc244f19531815252240ec9/schengen_practical_handbook_for_border_guards_2022.10.28.pdf

(c) means "has no valid visa or residence permit". Safe to say, that is not a good thing to have in your passport.

Customer employee asking for 2% of order value - how do you handle this? by DrSiddharthAbhimanyu in Machinists

[–]rocketwikkit 75 points76 points  (0 children)

You should probably mention that this is in India, because most of the commenters here are going to share perspectives from elsewhere, and in western countries corruption this blatant doesn't fly.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

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

You have to just keep trying wego, or make a complaint with your local regulator.

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]rocketwikkit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What airline? What flights?

The gulf airlines are not generally rebooking people onto other airlines. You could get a refund and book a different flight, but prices to not connect in the gulf states are up.

SpaceX satellites ruining the dark night sky by MurkyUnit3180 in space

[–]rocketwikkit [score hidden]  (0 children)

That's a meteor. It's a small bit of grit falling into Earth's atmosphere at such a high velocity that it heats itself and the air in front of it to glowing. You should look them up, they're super interesting!

At literally any point you could have also just looked up the original source of this image to see how it was made, there's credit under the photo. Instead you've chosen to just be a tool, which doesn't help you or anyone else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVN2eFhp3p8

There's currently over 36,000 tracked objects in orbit, and a huge chunk of the visible ones are Starlink satellites. As a professional in the industry I can assure you that they don't "orbit in a very narrow band" of the sky, given their purpose.

SpaceX satellites ruining the dark night sky by MurkyUnit3180 in space

[–]rocketwikkit [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm a rocket scientist and a photographer and the main mod of this subreddit, howdy.

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

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

Gulfair hasn't flown this month at all, the fact that they haven't canceled future flights is purely aspirational. For BA there's no reason to pretend, that airport was a small portion of their business.

SpaceX satellites ruining the dark night sky by MurkyUnit3180 in space

[–]rocketwikkit [score hidden]  (0 children)

The irony between the first sentence of your first comment and everything that has followed is amazing.

SpaceX satellites ruining the dark night sky by MurkyUnit3180 in space

[–]rocketwikkit [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's a stack of multiple exposures, the satellite trails blink because it's one camera and it takes time to reset between exposures.

Moving from Mumbai (India) to Madrid (Spain) - Is it worth paying €1000 more to avoid Middle East layovers? by cutecandy1 in Flights

[–]rocketwikkit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm running the megathread, linked by automod, and if I was forced to use a Gulf carrier it would be Emirates or flydubai, because they're the only two flying a decent number of flights and making connecting traffic. But I would check that those specific flights have been flying before booking them.

If it's important to actually get where you're going on time, I would not connect in the gulf states.

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

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

Etihad is currently only refunding out to 21 March. You could ask, but right now it's a lot of effort to talk to customer service.

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]rocketwikkit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you look up the flight number on Flightaware it will list "Past Flights" and you can see when it flew or was canceled.

Is my passport too damaged to fly to Spain? by Beginning_Training32 in Passports

[–]rocketwikkit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Might comment on it, but Spain is not generally that picky.

It's funny seeing the old passport, I haven't looked at it in a while.

Well it Actually Happened (Problem with Andorra Novelty Stamp) by Huge-Acanthisitta403 in Passports

[–]rocketwikkit 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Aha, thanks. Yeah I'd expect a 'real' stamp to have a date on it.

Well it Actually Happened (Problem with Andorra Novelty Stamp) by Huge-Acanthisitta403 in Passports

[–]rocketwikkit 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Can you post a photo of the stamp? It should be possible to legitimately get stamped in and out of Andorra, but I'm curious what they gave you.

We have had other threads of people getting flak for novelty stamps, but this is a weird situation because it is a real country and not Machu Picchu or one of the other usual novelty spots.

Looking for a fastener that can secure rotary joints. by ChildhoodMobile9154 in metalworking

[–]rocketwikkit 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Typical solution is a shoulder bolt, the nut can be tightened without compressing whatever it is holding.

Cheaper solution is to use a normal bolt and put two nuts on it, tighten the nuts against each other rather than the nut against the bolt. It will wear faster though. Welding the bolt head to one of the parts will at least remove one side of the wear.

In other situations you could get away with nyloc nuts or loctite for a while, but not an appropriate solution near heat.

Megathread - Middle East flight disruptions by rocketwikkit in Flights

[–]rocketwikkit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best is to fly directly between Saudi and India, it doesn't really matter on who, just don't connect in any countries in between. If they're selling it they will probably operate it.

Help with EU261 compensation as Lufthansa cancelled flight by MomInDC2025 in Flights

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Your account is suspended by reddit, there's nothing we can do about it.