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News said he radio reported that the engine quit - couldn’t make the airport. What’s the stall speed on that plane? Under 100? just line it up on a road and land that sumbitch. I’m sure any one of us could do it.

Anybody got any educated speculation about that Nashville crash? Everyone died. I could go crash my wife’s SUV at 80 with 5 people in it and I doubt we would all die. No airbags in a plane? Where’s Ralph Nader on this one? Why does a single engine plane with power loss hit the ground so hard? I thought in a power loss you tried to glide that thing down - land it on a road somewhere. If you lose power at 1600 feet (that’s what I got from the news article) - how far can you glide? I’m guessing you pull some Maverick move where you go into a dive to get the speed up and then pull up at the last second and buzz the tower? That’s probably not how they teach it at school but…

I guess it wasn’t her fault that the sound guy couldn’t get her ear cans right, but they wasted some time on that. Add her and Ray Charles to my running list but pretty sure both would be dead weight on my island.

Spoiler alert: My experience is limited to watching the show. After a lot of bullshit and time wasting - some of it necessary and some not so much - they get to blond guy and Steve Perry who deliver the goods. First take, one take. Zero b.s. out of those two. He may be an asshole but that night he was all bidness.

We’re on the island until rescue at some unknown future date. Watching LR and QJ wrangle these people was not too far off from an SNL celebrity jeopardy skit. Lionel telling Lauper to “make a good decision,” was funny. No Stevie Nicks. Yes Diana Ross.

Watched it with my kids and at the end I asked - “if you had to be stuck on an island with 2 or 3 of these people - who would you take?” Willie, Lionel and Diana Ross were all preferred. Honorable mention to Huey Lewis, Quincy, Steve Perry, the blond guy from hall&oates, Kenny Loggins and the Boss. If you put me on an island with Stevie Wonder, Prince, Al Jarreau, Cyndi Lauper and Waylon, I predict it would devolve into violence almost immediately, and then starvation and suffering. Also, can’t rewrite history on Michael Jackson, but it was really cool to watch him work in the studio, to hear him sing unfiltered, and to watch him interact with others. I never appreciated his raw talent. fun show.

Correct. I've learned that kid food consumes a substantial amount of my wife's thoughts. If you listen closely, kids will come around really regularly with the "I'm hungry." If I were a single dad, I would say "you'll find the food in the kitchen, good luck." I think of this as preparing them for the slings and arrows of adult life. I don't remember anyone being all that worried about my feelings when I was a child. I got a lot of "wait until ____." If it worked for me... But that's not how the mind of a modern mother works. These premade things preload for them a "go get an uncrustable out of the fridge." Instead of dropping whatever they're doing and going to make a sandwich which, inevitably turns into some other kid issue, my wife just stays the course and sends kid on a foolproof mission. Kid - go to fridge, unwrap plastic, eat. It's the modern mother version of a polite f.o. you kid. This in turn takes pressure off of my wife which, somehow someway has to benefit me, somehow. Someway.

If this were my hole it would be much shallower and there would be empty beer cans strewn hither and yon.

You gonna call me dumb in the dumb question thread?

Just learned I'm having breakfast tomorrow at Waffle House. It occurred to me that they make a lot of different things and will customize and so I wonder... How do I order migas? I'm going with "Hash scattered and smothered and covered, hold the hash add scramble, add doritos, scratch the raisin toast and slide me a tortilla on the side." unless someone has a better plan.

If you're ever trying to learn to play the guitar, this is an easy song to start on. Maybe that means its garbage. Maybe it means it will not fade from use anytime soon.

Was it that obscure? I kinda thought this was required reading somewhere between Where the Wild Things Are and A Modest Proposal.

No man is an island, Entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, As well as if a promontory were: As well as if a manor of thy friend's Or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. John Donne

I struggle with the concept of "garbage people." The optimist in me wants to think each individual has some redeemable quality and this kind of generalization is lazy. But then I remember that there is a thing called the Juggalos. If ever there was a justification for chemical weapons.

Mixed emotions. He wrote some catchy songs. Politics. He said some stupid things. I'm sure he gave money to charity. I can almost talk myself into forgiving the ousux thing. He grew up in Moore (which is what, 30 minutes from Norman) watching Darrell Royal beat sooner ass. Who was he supposed to cheer for? I land on "any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."

Child - top 2% in herclass. Auto admit - not sure of what she wants to be when she grows up. how do the liberal arts, plan b, honors, etc programs work?

Looks like there is an allegation that someone pooed in someone's hair. Maybe one of our surly lawyers can explain how a jury is going to react to that one.

I don't understand why more of these ladies don't end up with wealthy husbands to buy the Mercedes and pay the pool boy to "clean the pool." It would seem to me like there have to be at least as many 60-80 year old fat lonely dudes with jobs and cash as there are porn starlets that refuse to pursue any course of self-sustenance. Instead, they never get there, and end up in some trailer in Moore snorting fentanyl with some guy that probably is more like Lester Diamond from Casino than anything else. Tragic.

Seamen.

Does a balloon have a terminal velocity? I would think horizontal wind speed would always be zero. Wind blows you blow with it - feels like no wind. But vertical - thermal rising… if you go up too quickly the think inverts or collapses or something sporty like that? what is terminal V?

“We’re going to put this thing in a steep dive and as soon as the skydivers jump, we’ll go up like a ballistic missile. Then we’ll dump a bunch of air until we level off. It’s gonna be great - hold onto your champagne flutes everybody.”

Aha! Informative. Is there an upper limit in ballon ascent velocity? As I understand it - dropping all the skydiver weight causes so much positive ascent that may exceed balloon’s limits. So they start off in rapid descent to ameliorate that, and then start dumping lift as soon as it gets light? More dangerous than I initially thought.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna133898 Ballon, skydivers skydive, and the rest perished. comment. What’s the failure mode for these things? Power lines? Fire? Storm?

Can we get on flight radar and figure out what we have loitering in the neighborhood? Oh, and highly irrelevant but cool nonetheless. The CO of the George Bush is a W.B. Ray high school grad from Corpus Christi. I’m sure he wanted to go to Texas but Navy offered him a ride.

Somebody splain to me what is a Houthi. Yemeni person not with the government? yemeni soldier? Are all Yemeni’s Houthi’s? are they like the Kurds? There but sorta anti establishment? Long established or new visitors to that area?