The Off Topic Topic

[Grey Fox]

Video of that National Air Cargo 747 going down at Bagram Air Base on Monday.

http://youtu.be/vo51Be2jL8c

Looks like it simply stalled and dropped.  7 fatalities.

There's an article on wired, author suspect shifting cargo to explain the crazy angle & what seem to be the pilot inability to rectify it.

[Liep]

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt booed from stage at May 1st rally. I guess taking money from the poor and giving it to companies isn't a popular move among workers.

[Liep]

And also, someone learned that shooting a gun at the PM is a bad idea, even if it just is a water gun.

[Ed Anger]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/29/179879664/mon-dieu-fast-food-now-rules-in-france

Frogs like fast food. USA! USA!

[The Brain]

Snails are fast food?

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Florida? Ugh.

[lustindarkness]

My only problems with FL is:
1) no mountains, no hills, flat flat flat
2) too many damn ricans

[Eddie Teach]

Too many old people and flying insects too. But nowhere's perfect.

[HVC]

And it's backwards. Rednecks are in the north.

[CountDeMoney]

Video of that National Air Cargo 747 going down at Bagram Air Base on Monday.

http://youtu.be/vo51Be2jL8c

Looks like it simply stalled and dropped.  7 fatalities.

There's an article on wired, author suspect shifting cargo to explain the crazy angle & what seem to be the pilot inability to rectify it.

Yeah, that's a very real and distinct possibility, but there were thunderstorms in the area as well.

A thunderstorm with Cumulonimbus clouds was approaching the air base at the time of the accident. A weather report shows winds began shifting from 100 degrees [from the east] at 09:55 UTC to 350 degrees [from the north] at 10:55 UTC. Accident time was about 15:00 LT / 10:30 UTC

That kind of radical change in wind direction and strength could've sucked the air right away from the intakes, forcing a stall.

[Jacob]

[Iormlund]

 

[Josephus]

The Orgasm: Opiate of the masses.

[Jacob]

In 45 minutes the police will be testing the warning system installed in every city in Denmark, as they do every year on the first wednesday in may. Each year the news are running stories about how thousands of people call the police telling them there's a strange loud noise. And each year I'm surprised by how stupid some people are. My memory sucks too.

They only do it once a year? When did that change?

When I was growing up, they tested the air raid sirens every wednesday afternoon (or was it at noon? something like that).

[garbon]

Florida? Ugh.

Florida is shitty. It's like someone wanted to re-create Southern California but left out the good parts and added hurricanes and humidity.