Planes are kept unarmed on the ground because accidents happen with live munitions. It's far safer to maintain both aircraft and munitions when they are not loaded into a plane. The Air National Guard flights in the DC area were initially jets retasked from training acitivities.
The country wasn't on war footing - there was no need to have armed planes on the tarmac. There weren't even regular patols of continental US airspace in that era. What went up were National Guard jets. Good story here where they talk to pilot Heather Penney.
www.history.com/articles/911...
Freedom Williams is still touring as C+C. Saw him perform a few years ago.
The planes that were sent up to intercept that flight were unarmed. There were no domestic armed patrols or alerts in that era. The pilots knew they would have to ram the airliner. There are interviews with the pilots who were sent up discussing this.
It's a good thing the automotive industry doesn't ever do any long-term planning!
There are a few consumer electronics CEOs who have made exactly this prediction.
The entire thing will implode - but they alternative would be to cancel the product.
This IS the market now, due to RAM costs.
A brown-and-white tabby cat and a black-and-white cat sitting side by side
They are different sizes, but they’re best friends
The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.
Criminally overlooked movie.
85% with 4 days left!
I've been avoiding a phone update for 3 months now because of all the horrendous complaints about it from other users.
A POV looking at a photo of a blonde woman and a woman with pink hair. The woman with pink hair is making a face at the camera.
We're a little more than a week away from launching Dead Air, the comic book set at a 90s college radio station that asks 'what if one day a year you could talk to the dead?'
Sign up for the Kickstarter launch at www.deadaircomic.com
The perfect car for people who have no commute.
I think F-150s - I've owned several and they are press fleet staples. Then probably WRXs.
I didn't either, I just remember the game and being obsessed with it in roughly that same period.
Don't forget Commander Keen.
I've been going down this rabbit hole lately. I've been collecting blurays and laserdiscs. I've been resurrecting old phones as disconnected music devices. I canceled all my streaming services last year. I'm cleaning my vinyl by hand. I'm being more intentional in how I interact with media.
That's a good question - You'd want to be careful about putting stress and heat into the gears, I would think.
Because some electric motors are intended to drop in to existing drivetrains when converting ICE vehicles. It works the same way it does with an ICE motor - you interrupt power transmission to select a new gear using a foot clutch.
The framing is wrong: it's not a longing for inconvenience, it's the desire to interact with things that are disconnected from the Internet. It's a desire to not be distracted by the online world when simply listening to music or watching a movie. It's also a desire for ownership.
Yeah it had full range steering. It wasn't one of those reverse to steer models. I can see the steering mechanism has a full range of movement as well when you take it apart, it's just that the steering box motor won't actuate it fully in one direction.
Radio Shack Dash 49 RC truck, in blue, on a table.
Did anyone else have one of these as a kid? Mine still works pretty well, but it will only steer in one direction. I took the steering gearbox apart and it looks like maybe some teeth skipped inside the motor? Is that possible? Because the gears themselves look okay.
They're basically phone-toasters. Plan you snacks accordingly.
Context-free excerpt from a PR pitch I will not be responding to: "Having lived with, worked alongside, and healed from working with a murderer, licensed marriage and family therapist, [REDACTED] offers insight into narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy in personal / workplace environments."
It's incredibly lazy. As I said, when the screen is off, there's nothing there. That's the definition of bad design.
These interiors will age like milk. Massive expanses of black plastic that look horrendous when the vehicle is off. History will judge the hyperscreen harshly.
plus the unique storytelling tools that comics has to offer. Comics essentially replaced novels in my fiction consumption maybe 10 years ago, and since then my story telling leans heavily visual.
I feel like I have no idea how to market a novel. I do know how to market comics, so it's a more appealing way to get my stories into the world. But I also feel like the ideas I have for novels are not the same as the ones for comics. I only tell comic stories that benefit from the visual component