Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Must be the water."
Ferrari F1 internal meme?[1] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nCoxNLdUSaE
I don't get the joke. Did he pee himself, or the pit stop crew member is being useless?
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#112I'm wondering why these days, when my washing machine has an internet connection, they can't take over control of a plane remotely. I guess it could be considered a security vulnerability, however i'm quite sure it could be done securely.
Like let the pilot eject and you try to land a plane with remote control
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where did they get this 200million figure from? Sounds bogus.
The per plane cost varies a lot depending on what you want to wrap in it: how much of the development costs you amortize, the modernization program, etc. but $200m is in the range. ("Total acquisition costs" vs the marginal cost of the next plane can result in a more than 2x difference in how much you think the plane costs) The flyaway cost of buying one more plane is probably a bit under $100m though.
> The flyaway cost of buying one more plane is probably a bit under $100m though.
$82.5 million https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45039618
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which still makes Greenland safe. If neither side can get off the ground or convince their planes that they're in the air.
You understand that the Danish Airforce is Greenland's Airforce right? The Danish military is the official military of Greenland with an explicit agreement between the home rule parliament and the Danish Defence. Other than that all Greenlanders are danish citizens and are the danish state is obligated to defend them.
I guess the point was that planes are similarly useless/useful in both sides.
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#115> Five engineers participated in the call, including a senior software engineer, a flight safety engineer and three specialists in landing gear systems, the report said. I can't imagine the stress of being on this call as an engineer. It's like a production outage but the consequences are life and death. Of course, the pilot probably felt more stressed.
Fix this bug in 30 min or we loose a USD200M plane and possibly the pilot. I'll stick to building crud apps :D
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#116F-35 is a boondoggle. $200M for one fighter plane is insane. If the USA ever had to go to war with this weapon, a huge number of them would be offline at any given time, and every single airframe loss would cause a huge dent in overall combat power. I don’t understand why our military and political leaders keep trying to buy ridiculously overpriced Swiss Army knife weapons (lots of flexibility but great at nothing) i…
You sure about that? You should look at the F-35's performance in Israeli hands in their recent strikes on Iran.
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#117Re: F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I bet, once the gear malfunctioned, Clippy popped up on the screen and suggested to call support.
At least it wasn't Bonzi Buddy telling jokes to lighten up the mood.
That might explain why the computer thought it was on the ground while it was flying
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#119On most meetings, I wish I was sitting in an ejection seat.
yeah like fuck this shit i'm ejecting
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#120"I ejected from my F35 and all I got was this lousy tie"