I feel like I've heard WWII stories about some specific bird flying into plane engines a lot, but I would have thought the machine design now would guard against that....
Lydia: But you are a vampire. Spike: If I'm not, I'm gonna be pissed about drinking all that blood.
'Potential'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Jesse - Jan 15, 2009 11:10:34 am PST #1457 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom Scola - Jan 15, 2009 11:13:45 am PST #1458 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
So far, it sounds like everyone got off the plane OK.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2009 11:13:54 am PST #1459 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
an expert pilot on the air said Canadian geese can do a lot of damage
And American geese are chopped liver?
Steph L. - Jan 15, 2009 11:14:51 am PST #1460 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And American geese are chopped liver?
Mmmm....pate....
Cass - Jan 15, 2009 11:15:30 am PST #1461 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
And American geese are chopped liver?
Among other chopped bits.
Jesse - Jan 15, 2009 11:19:22 am PST #1462 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wow -- the picture on the front page of the Times website is all people standing on the wings of the floating plane. Cool.
Kathy A - Jan 15, 2009 11:19:34 am PST #1463 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Scary stuff about that plane! I was a kid when Flight 191 went down at O'Hare--the photo at that link has been burned in my memory since then.
IObamaN, the Chicago Reader has a collection of stories from their archives, including a profile from 1995, when he was running for his first state senate seat. That 1995 profile is interesting--it mentions the Annenberg project in passing (the one where he met Ayers), as well as his work with ACORN.
Tom Scola - Jan 15, 2009 11:20:15 am PST #1464 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The picture on Gothamist.com is good, too.
Amy - Jan 15, 2009 11:20:47 am PST #1465 of 30000
Because books.
gooses Amy
I see you there.
And American geese are chopped liver?
Mmmm....pate....
This is why I love you people.
Trudy Booth - Jan 15, 2009 11:29:44 am PST #1466 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I went up to our highest floor and tried to look, but there is a building blocking that chunk of the river.
One of the attorneys has an EMT brother on his way to the scene. It's just amazing. Those pilots? Big Damn Heroes.