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This piece continues to bring a tear to my eye.

My problem is I always forget to listen to the in-flight announcements so I never figure out how to put my seatbelt on.

Halfway to Idiocracy

I was about to say 87 years ago but four score and seven highlights my administration’s focus on mathematics.

The infamous Lumberjack Russell Terrier.

I just woke up and read the headline as “highly photogenic bird fly”

The legend of Colonel Sanders.

From the looks of the picture, Joost has no idea why he’s disqualified.

/shrug

Giant ape grabs girl, girl screams at ape, ape climbs Empire State Building, biplanes shoot at ape, ape puts down girl, ape falls to his death, girl cries over dead ape. I’ve seen it a thousand times, Smitty, and it doesn’t get any easier.

We tested Comac parts for FAA certification. When you’ve tested parts for decades you can pretty much nail down the cause of the failure be it design, process, materials, a combination and so forth.

Also the c919 is only certified in China. It can’t fly in the US or Europe.

There is more that goes into an airplane than the people maintaining or assembling it, which can and does go afoul. There is the entire manufacturing process, how materials are sourced, processed, refined, machined/formed, heat treated, stress relieved, coated/plated, assembled, and the list goes on. That is a major factor why aircraft are so safe and if you think China’s material and process controls are as rigorous as someone like Boeing or Airbus, it isn’t. It has taken decades of actual aircraft manufacturing to get the formula right for those respective companies and they continue to evolve as time goes on and new information is learned.

Do we really need to politicize this? It was a scientific study performed in the UK.

…we didn’t have enough fuel to haul your fat ass back to Earth.

My other camel is a boat!

Might find your answer here around the 50,000 year mark.

Not going to happen. We need to be clever and find another solution. I’ve been browsing Far Side comics on Lemmy for answers but haven’t found any.

Gary Larson invented a word!

Etymology

From Anatidae +‎ -phobia. Coined by Gary Larson in 1988 in a Far Side comic.[1]

The way this things reads it either affects everything or nothing that gets pumped into the atmosphere. My guess is nothing because who will ever say their express purpose is to affect the temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight?

Clever and I get the joke and it made me smile. If I recall my biology from 20 years ago I think the cell makes duplicates of its chromosomes then splits apart. So you have two cells inside one membrane that separates, 2 / 1 = 2. The way I first thought about it was one cell splitting in half, so half goes to one cell, the other half with the other, 1 / .5 = 2.

In short, I think the math works out fine, but the language you use to describe it can lead to comedy gold. You could say cells reproduce by division? I don’t know, I’m not a biologist or mathematician. I’m a toilet poster.

I love this line, “…is an asteroid-sized moon orbiting a few thousand miles (or kilometers) above the Martian surface…” A few thousand miles…or kilometers, we don’t care, pick your favorite.