I just thought the rules would have tightened after 9/11.
If for nothing else, they'd probably need the VFR corridors for helicopters.
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DXMachina - Oct 11, 2006 2:29:56 pm PDT #3182 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2006 2:40:25 pm PDT #3183 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
billytea - Oct 11, 2006 2:41:19 pm PDT #3184 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Wikipedia is bananas.
Can't be. I can still get Wikipedia in Melbourne.
tommyrot - Oct 11, 2006 2:51:44 pm PDT #3185 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
No beaming from Teotihuacan.
That sucks. But on the bright side, the Swiss want to send a tiny house to the moon.
Not content with having them dotted all over the countryside, Sweden is now considering putting a little red cottage on the moon. The idea, first conjured up by the artist Mikael Genberg seven years ago, may become reality with the help of the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), according to N24.
The state agency SSC has carried out a technical study showing that it is indeed possible to put a little red cottage on the moon.
"If we manage to do this Sweden will be the third country to occupy the moon", said SSC's Fredrik von Schéele.
A competition has been arranged for students to construct a little red house that is suitably sized for placement by a moon landing device. The construction may not exceed eight square metres and can weigh a maximum of four kilos.
sarameg - Oct 11, 2006 2:52:08 pm PDT #3186 of 10001
Someone please tell my cat that toilet paper is not a toy. Neither are my typing fingers. Nor the laptop screen. Nor is the lamp her lovah. She's got 5 fake mice she's been busy killing all evening, she has plenty of entertainment.
Also, please tell my face to stop threatening to explode.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 11, 2006 3:03:27 pm PDT #3187 of 10001
What is even happening?
They'd still show up. Aircraft flying by visual flight rules (VFR) have a choice. They can request that air traffic control keep track of them, in which case ATC would assign a unique transponder frequency to them for the duration of the plane's time in the controlled area, or else the pilot would set the transponder to a standard transponder frequency. Either way the plane would show up on ATC radar.
Early on after the crash, before they announced it was Lidle's plane (I think; I fell asleep during some of this), CNN had radar that picked up a plane (incidentally, there were lots of planes on it) that was most likely Lidle's given the timing and flight path. The plane ascended rapidly as it crossed the East River and then once over Manhattan (where it shouldn't have been, at least not without permission, the flight corridor is over the river and reportedly pretty narrow), it turned and descended even more rapidly. Once it got below a certain altitude, the radar stopped picking it up, somewhere near the 59th St. Bridge.
(I blame my half-sleeping state on the callous and strange earworm that gave me.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 11, 2006 3:05:12 pm PDT #3188 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
No beaming from Teotihuacan.
Well, crap. Now how will we call the Space Gods back to earth?
Sheryl - Oct 11, 2006 3:06:10 pm PDT #3189 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Is it too much to ask that people using the public pool facilities =not= leave gym bags on the benches in the locker room? There were several on the bench near the locker I was using, and I had to move one to the floor so I could sit down to dry my feet and put my socks/shoes on.
Allyson - Oct 11, 2006 3:07:43 pm PDT #3190 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Ugh. I really wish I owned a heating pad. I never think of these things until I need them, and them I'm too broken down by pain to go out to look for one. By the time I'm in a Target and see a heating pad, I'll feel better and therefore forget that Cramp!Allyson will need one at a future date, but NoCramp!Allyson has no pity for Cramp!Allyson and will tell the whiny bitch that the 40 bucks is better spent on a Shaun of the Dead DVD and a couple of throw pillows.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 11, 2006 3:08:33 pm PDT #3191 of 10001
What is even happening?
Scott and I just watched "The Story So Far," or whatever the little catch-up episode of BSG was, and we're definitely intrigued, possibly hooked.
What season are they on? Is there is a place to get recaps/primers that are (much) shorter than TWoP's? How do people tell all the boys apart?