'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
That crashed plane is an amazing story, all 155 survived. Amazing.
I had heard once that a single bird could take down a plane if it got caught in an engine, which seemed like crazy talk at the time because I thought "Dude! Planes fly in the air. Birds fly in the air. Planes must take out birds ALL THE TIME." But I guess it's true. Seems like a serious design flaw, doesn't it?
There's only so much you can do when you have a big air scoop, basically. The engines are pretty damn tough, and they do simulated bird strikes (with frozen chickens!) to see how well they do and what can be done better.
I'm amused to see that the pilot's name is Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III.
I thought the only thing that would make my day worse was if I were wearing light pants, but I guess a plane crash would do it.
USPS returned my cafepress order because of insufficient address. What the fuck did cafepress do to the address? It was fine when UPS picked it up. Why is UPS contracting out the the fucking USPS, damnit.
I'm just tired.
Oh hey, happy birthday for reals this time, msbelle!
plane has crashed
Not a crash. By all accounts, it was a well-executed emergency landing.
I would have thought the machine design now would guard against that....
Well, yeah. Nowadays the designs are pretty good at limiting the damage to the engine, and not letting it rip off the wing or shred the rest of the aircraft.
Canadian geese can do a lot of damage
Canada geese, not Canadian geese.
I heard that a passenger reported that, given that they ended up in the water, the landing was remarkably soft.
I just ordered pizza. YAY
I didn't like the way the anchor on the Boston Channel I was watching kept emphasizing the Canada in Canada Geese. Dude, if we are going to start taking down Americans, it won't be with geese. They're totally rogue and can't be trusted.
I am stuffed with Ethiopian foodm. Yum, but now so sleepy.
Happy Birthday msbelle!
A (Canadian) friend of mine had an old beater of a car in high school, a chevy nova, I think. It was held together by her father's engineering prayers. Anyway, she used to say that hitting one Canada goose would be all it took to total it & kill her. But she figured the goose would survive.