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I always knew my home country was dark but, geez…

/ Greetings from Sweden.

This is great! Now please make my 900€, 6 year old Sonos speakers work.

I am in no way a Musk apologist but the polish workforce you are refering to is the construction workers.

I find the efficiency angle of his argument to hold some merit but as I scan the article I cannot find anything about how to solve grid fluctuations. In my home country of Sweden, solarpanels are not a viable suloution in the northern part of the country as moste of the energy i used for heating in the winter when the sun don’t shine.

”But everybody dies, and there will always be places and experiences missing from anyone’s life – the world has too much beauty and adventure for one person to see.”

Damn gut punch...

When will we get a Tie-Fighter Remake for any VR headset. Battlefront VR experience showed the viability. I'd fork out 1000€ plus for that game.

Exactly, this is where the strength in numbers and economical power of the EU comes into play. EU commisions should contact the Russian foregin ministry and demand a full response immidiately.

Looking for similar resources for Europe in general and Scandinavia in particular. Anyone know of something similar?

Please elaborate. Genuinely curious.

If Boeing needs a less than average pilot I can surely use the paycheck

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I (an Apple fan) do not consider this a failure. I love it when companies take chances and go all in on pushing the envelope. Great products do emerge from these sorts of products.

Near my house there is what you could call a insect ”sanctuary”. When it was established a few tears ago we kind of shrug our shoulders and did not think much of it. But the amount of new flowers and insects popping up, not only inside but also around the area is astonishing.

I almost see it as a positive feedback loop with more insects, better pollination, more diverse flowers, more insects...

Just as pesticides could create a negative feedback loop.

It is perfectly rational to be scared of flying. Hell, you're sitting in a pressurized cylinder at 30'000 ft flying at 700 mph. But you have to realize that the crew would not do this job if they weren't sure to come home to their families and dogs every night. Most pilots I know aren't thrill seekers but their love of flying are more a drive due to interest in travel and technology.

Lucky bastards, get all the fun features...

Yes, no engines is bad but thrust reverser in flight is a instant killer.

I think the auto shutdown of engines in flight, in case it senses reverse thrust, is a great design.

The 787 is a replacement for my 767 (currently a pilot on the aircraft) and in 1991 a Lauda Air 767 suffered a failure in one of its thrust reverser and it became activated during cruise. The aircraft was destroyed in flight.

The thrust reversers should not activate during flight (a air/ground sensors prevents that) but as it is a catastrophic failure, having the engine shut down automatically seems like a great fail safe device.

In this case it seems that the 787 engines were reversed before the air/ground sensor had sensed ground and it is a potential problem.

At the same time the global oil subsidies was close to a trillion dollars in 2018. If only that was spent else where...

This guy!

You never land with a tailwind and if the wind shifts the airport simply change the runway to the opposite one. If you use a circular runway and landing with a cross wind you would during your landing roll be subjected to a tailwind.

Sure, you could stop using that part of the runway but then we're back at the practical economical argument for this design.

As an airline pilot flying Boeing 757 and 767 I think this concept is really cool but it does overlook some fundamental principles of the unreliability of weather in order to be practical.

This week I have landed in variable winds gusting up to 45 knots and then every inch of wingtip clerance counts, a drawback of this design.

What if the aircraft makes a long landing (floats) and suddely faces a different wind component that subjects it to a tailwind.

Also, the full circle would only be useable on zero wind days which makes me wonder about the economical reality of having a large part of the pavement be unusable most days.

I was reluctant when I removed my fb account about six months ago but it felt like it was what I needed as it intruded on what I really wanted to focus my time and energy on.

A few weeks in I was amazed at how I did not miss the social network at all and surprised that the contacts that previously only contactef me on fb now wrote email and text messages.

I think Tesla is a better contractor than when California tried something similat with Enron in the late 90's.