What on earth is going on?!
I'm quite sure I have heard about more plane accidents in the last two years than in the entire fourty years of my life before that. This is absurd.
Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
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#702Earlier quoted context omitted.
Japan has an average density of 338 people per sqkm. There’s only 3 US states with a density higher than that (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Jersey) and an additional 2 US states of at least 220 people per sqkm (Maryland and Connecticut). The US isn’t population dense enough for such transportation to make sense.
Nobody’s proposing to build rail in flyover country, but there are many places where high speed rail make sense based on GDP and population density (CAHSR, DC-NYC-Boston maglev, DFW-Houston)
Flyover county was definitely included in my initial response about at grade crossings, but wasn't specific to passenger rail, and why wouldn't it hypothetically be included? There already is rail everywhere, that's why I suggested it's a bit fanciful, it's just mostly freight. Doesn't necessarily need to be bullet trains, but given how bad North America seems to be at building any major rail projects in the modern era, I don't really have high hopes for advancement in this area, just dreams.
I do tend to prefer rail whenever viable, and the cascades route is already halfway decent, just not competitive on any front except ease of access with flying.
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#703Earlier quoted context omitted.
Japan has an average density of 338 people per sqkm. There’s only 3 US states with a density higher than that (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Jersey) and an additional 2 US states of at least 220 people per sqkm (Maryland and Connecticut). The US isn’t population dense enough for such transportation to make sense.
Nobody’s proposing to build rail in flyover country, but there are many places where high speed rail make sense based on GDP and population density (CAHSR, DC-NYC-Boston maglev, DFW-Houston)
There’s only 5 states with density similar to Japan (at least 66%).
People underestimate how spread out US cities are.
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The way we increase the chances that everybody reading this will behave appropriately if they're ever in this situation is by strongly condemning those who did not.
He says, from his comfortable chair, and behind a keyboard, and not having just experienced a horrific plane crash.
If you have the presence of mind during a crash to look for your luggage, you're not in a panic, you're just selfish.
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#706Re: Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
#7071) Descent rate was way too high.
2) No ‘flare’
3) left wing angled upward forced right landing gear to absorb all force, resulting in hard shock to the body and then ground roll, tearing off both wings.
4) If 1-3 are true, landing pilot (could be actual pilot or FO) is incompetent
5) Thank god everyone got out alive
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What? Discord isn’t meant to be a media hot linking service. They’re literally doing it on purpose, to stop people from doing what this person is doing. Christ.
This isn't stopping people from sharing discord media links though. It just means that others who did not share the link and cannot do anything about that will see broken images/etc. in the future.
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#709Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody’s proposing to build rail in flyover country, but there are many places where high speed rail make sense based on GDP and population density (CAHSR, DC-NYC-Boston maglev, DFW-Houston)
There’s only 5 states with density similar to Japan (at least 66%). People underestimate how spread out US cities are.
Density over some wide area is the wrong metric here. An entire state is absurdly large (in most cases). Two dense endpoints can be separated by quite a distance and still be worth connecting.
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All that snow is going to do next to a jet fuel fire is create a lot of steam.
A fire can be extinguished with diesel (jet fuel is pretty much just cleaner diesel / kerosene) in cold conditions, I know because I’ve done it. It takes a fair amount of heat / pressure to ignite jet fuel, easier if it’s vaporised.
Why were you trying to extinguish a fire using diesel?