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A was laughing soo hard 🤣 https://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/t69054368/sad-santa-letter/

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-describes-elon-musk

For all of us who survived endless repetitions of the original......

Charlie, please do not deny this. It's being reported that in On December 1, FlightSim.com will go offline for an unknown period as we begin the next phase of its evolution. This process will likely take months. The domain will be online, and a landing page will display our "under re-construction" status. Folks, this is a sad day. If you read between the lines you can see this is the end of the line for a once great website. A website I've enjoyed since 1995.

Meet the Startup Building the Plane Everyone Else Said Was Impossible - AeroXplorer.com

https://avgeekery.com/breaking-ups-md-11f-crashes-shortly-after-takeoff-in-louisville/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/parts-of-the-internet-just-stopped-working/ar-AA1QF8br?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=691c6a8b4ab94461a1d458f02e25ab63&ei=52

Hi guys, I understand that landings must adhere to the traffic pattern, whether the airport is controlled or uncontrolled. However, there is an exception: when the final approach leg is relatively close to the runway, it is not necessary to enter the pattern (as seen in the image). So, if that's true, at what approximate distance should I align with the runway, and at what angle should I deviate from the approach leg to intercept the point for aligning with the runway? Would that be the pilot's decision? NOTE: In the image, the intention is to land on runway 20, as the winds are coming from the front.

Is just now opening. They moved all of Tutankhamen's Tomb treasures from the old Egyptian Museum to this one. Egypt government sent dozens of prestigious architectural companies invitations to submit possible building plans, and they chose one. The result is a spectacular building in itself. There's many YT videos popping up from the opening 2 weeks ago, including these. Some of these are long, so I used links. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhArwI0BEEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te8kvNeEhi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCqccbewdGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtPdnkQgzCk If you go to Cairo, be sure to take a look. It probably won't be…

Been following his vids since a couple of years... Always excellent !!! Learned a lot from this one!

Beware the initial scenes of him flying are OFC, "manipulated" 🙂 Don't try that at home or you'll end at your "last" home 😉

https://apnews.com/article/edmund-fitzgerald-50-anniversary-gordon-lightfoot-bbe5d3e04024354482ca5ac60f4fa790 I remember when it happened, I was 19. The following year I visited my sister’s family in Milwaukee for Christmas. My brother-in-law and I walked out on Lake Michigan, as it was frozen along the shore and out for quite a ways. It made quite an impression, imagining the helplessness of the crew and the freezing water. This line from the song still gives me goosebumps: ”Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?”

Because they got all those 1850s/60s fashions correct, apparently.

Interesting article about Russian incursion of Estonian airspace over the Baltic Sea: https://themilitaryanalyst.com/2025/11/13/the-real-story-how-nato-ended-russias-estonian-air-incursions/

According to Aaron Parness, Amazon's Director of Robotics, the answer is saltwater. Therefore living by the sea will help if AI robots start running rogue. So, garlic and crucifixes for vampires, and saltwater for robots. https://www.the-express.com/news/science/189112/amazon-robotics-boffin-how-survive-robots-take-over-world

Fighter pilot breaks 45-year silence to reveal bombshell UFO encounter https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15288005/US-fighter-pilot-reveals-close-encounter-50ft-UFO.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

More random data to store in my bottomless mental lint trap. This also reminds me of the myriad things my brain most strenuously chooses not to dwell on, when I am eating........

Look out, world: The Russians are coming! 😱 https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/russias-first-humanoid-robot-falls-on-its-face Uh-oh, Vladimir will not be amused. My advice to the developers? Stay away from 10th story windows.