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Check out this video of Boeing flight tests conducted to verify the aircrafts’ ability to withstand extreme crosswind landings. Amazing…
Shaft responded with a link showing a video of a “less than textbook” crosswind landing. The rest of the site is a great source for all kinds of aviation videos.
I’ve decided to get rid of the Archive Calendar in the right sidebar, replacing it with a drop-down Archives Menu. The calendar was annoying to update, and even I didn’t really use it, so I figured it wasn’t worth keeping around. I was inspired by Freshblog’s implentation, but I ended up using code I found at Roveberg.com.
I also switched to a monthly Blogger archive rather than a daily one to keep the drop-down display size within reason. Let me know what you think!
Six Apart has a fun gallery entitled If Bloggers Had Been Around Throughout History that pokes fun at bloggers’ sometimes inflated sense of self-importance.
This video (direct link to QuickTime movie) is pretty damn funny…
If you can ignore the out-of-place religious references, this page has some awesome pictures and videos of Prandtl-Glauert Condensation Clouds (nice associated gallery here), wall-like clouds of condensation formed when aircraft are flying at transonic speeds. Jeff Wilkinson has assembled a good amount of information and links on the subject too, and there are other gallery sites as well. I think this example of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the transonic regime is one of the coolest images, even if it isn’t one of the more classic cloud shapes.
Guardian Unlimited and New Scientist report on a troubling new development affecting the climactic model of Global Warming:
A vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn today.
Researchers who have recently returned from the region found that an area of permafrost spanning a million square kilometres – the size of France and Germany combined – has started to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.
The area, which covers the entire sub-Arctic region of western Siberia, is the world’s largest frozen peat bog and scientists fear that as it thaws, it will release billions of tonnes of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere.
It is a scenario climate scientists have feared since first identifying “tipping points” – delicate thresholds where a slight rise in the Earth’s temperature can cause a dramatic change in the environment that itself triggers a far greater increase in global temperatures.
I hate to make alarmist posts like this, but this kind of story often seems to get glossed over by the mainstream media, and the subject should definitely get more attention than it does by W and his administration.
For those of you who haven’t heard of it, North Korea’s official, and pretty much only, source of news is the KCNA. However, news is probably not the best way to characterize the propaganda issued from the agency, something that web designer Geoff Davis noted: “Their propaganda is often unintentionally hilarious and I couldn’t find an existing searchable database of the KCNA on the Web. Thus, NK News was born.” NK News is
a searchable database of North Korean propaganda. This site contains nearly every article published on the KCNA’s website, in English and Spanish, since Dec 2, 1996–over 50 MB of hard-core Stalinist propaganda! And each article written in that unique and indelible style of the KCNA.
There’s a whole lot to explore here, but definitely visit the Random Insult Generator, “You extra-large warmonger!” 😉
For those of you who haven’t heard of it, North Korea’s official, and pretty much only, source of news is the KCNA. However, news is probably not the best way to characterize the propaganda issued from the agency, something that web designer Geoff Davis noted: “Their propaganda is often unintentionally hilarious and I couldn’t find an existing searchable database of the KCNA on the Web. Thus, NK News was born.” NK News is
a searchable database of North Korean propaganda. This site contains nearly every article published on the KCNA’s website, in English and Spanish, since Dec 2, 1996–over 50 MB of hard-core Stalinist propaganda! And each article written in that unique and indelible style of the KCNA.
There’s a whole lot to explore here, but definitely visit the Random Insult Generator, “You extra-large warmonger!” 😉
The Onion reports on a new theory gaining ground with evangelical scientists looking for an alternative to the “theory of gravity:” Intelligent Falling:
“Traditional scientists admit that they cannot explain how gravitation is supposed to work,” [Intelligent Falling expert Dr. Ellen] Carson said. “What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that ‘gravity waves’ and ‘gravitons’ are just secular words for ‘God can do whatever He wants.’”
Some evangelical physicists propose that Intelligent Falling provides an elegant solution to the central problem of modern physics.
“Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the ‘electromagnetic force,’ the ‘weak nuclear force,’ the ‘strong nuclear force,’ and so-called ‘force of gravity,’” [gravity critic Gabriel] Burdett said. “And they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force. But readers of the Bible have already known for millennia what this one, unified force is: His name is Jesus.”
Food for thought… ;-p
The Onion reports on a new theory gaining ground with evangelical scientists looking for an alternative to the “theory of gravity:” Intelligent Falling:
“Traditional scientists admit that they cannot explain how gravitation is supposed to work,” [Intelligent Falling expert Dr. Ellen] Carson said. “What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that ‘gravity waves’ and ‘gravitons’ are just secular words for ‘God can do whatever He wants.’”
Some evangelical physicists propose that Intelligent Falling provides an elegant solution to the central problem of modern physics.
“Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the ‘electromagnetic force,’ the ‘weak nuclear force,’ the ‘strong nuclear force,’ and so-called ‘force of gravity,’” [gravity critic Gabriel] Burdett said. “And they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force. But readers of the Bible have already known for millennia what this one, unified force is: His name is Jesus.”
Food for thought… ;-p