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Seems they had multiple issues with their radar, Link 16 and IFF systems. https://www.twz.com/air/how-uss-gettysburg-shot-down-a-super-hornet-and-nearly-another

You might post the actual live data to back it up. As of this post, geothermal and hydro are producing far more than coal (not producing anything currently) and gas. https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and-market-data/consolidated-live-data https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and-market-data/generation-fuel-type Looking at the chart showing the past ~6 months in the page below, coal and gas generation has been less than hydro and geothermal. https://app.em6.co.nz/?stackedgwap.filter.gridZone=15&stackedgwap.filter.interval=30minute Now back to electric conversions. https://kindredmotorworks.com/models/kindred-chevy-3100/city-cruiser

Also watch out if you are new to mushroom foraging. https://explorersweb.com/mushroom-foragers-warned-against-ai-generated-guides/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/mushroom-picking-ai-generated-1.7502667

Has it accused you of killing your children yet? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kgydkr516o Be sure to watch out for hallucinations. https://futurism.com/openai-admits-gpt45-hallucinates https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-hallucinations-court-papers-spell-trouble-lawyers-2025-02-18/ These LLMs can be helpful with some things, just be sure to understand how they work and watch for the hallucinations.

Sometimes you just really need a burger. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/military-chopper-lands-for-burgers-1.845750

Those really aren't dire wolves, but grey wolves with a few modified genes to look kind of like a dire wolf. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/de-extinction-company-announces-that-the-dire-wolf-is-back/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dire-wolf-isnt-back-but-heres-what-de-extinction-tech-can-actually-do/

These F-47s are intended to replace the F-22, not the F-35s. Although the development of both of those does go back decades. The F-22 came from the ATF program that originated in the 80s and the F-35 came from the 90's JSF program. F-22s were meant to replace the F-15 as the absolute best air superiority fighter possible, while the F-35 was a multi-role fighter to replace the F-16, F/A-18s and Harriers, as well as be the first stealth aircraft offered for sale to allies.

If you're sharing the same local wifi network with your landlord, you may want to let them know what happened. Or even see if they were also hit.

Do you have a free or paid OneDrive account? The paid plans have a file recovery feature that can help in this situation. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ransomware-detection-and-recovering-your-files-0d90ec50-6bfd-40f4-acc7-b8c12c73637f https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restore-your-onedrive-fa231298-759d-41cf-bcd0-25ac53eb8a15

ATC did ask the heli pilot if they had the CRJ in sight a couple of times, and the heli pilot confirmed they did. They very likely had the wrong aircraft in sight though. It's also sounding like ATC was short staffed at the time too. https://apnews.com/live/dc-plane-crash-reagan-updates#00000194-b8ea-d66a-a1bd-f9fa612b0000

TCAS doesn't give alerts that close to the ground near airports. Listening to the ATC audio, ATC did have an alert come up but it seems to have been too late to do anything.

Sounds like the plane was asked to change runways for landing, and the helicopter was supposed to maintain visual contact and pass behind the plane. https://apnews.com/article/ronald-reagan-national-airport-crash-cebb142d24859ba0c4e0e4fd6c33773f

And the video below has more external footage of the low level flying.

And that's when things go well. https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/378457/Firefighting-aircraft-experiences-engine-failure-makes-forced-landing-near-Cranbrook https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/medias-media/communiques/aviation/2024/a22p0067-20240501.html

He has his own Wikipedia page, as well as the YouTube channel linked above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Manley?useskin=vector

I suspect part of the problem was that the FAA's procedures were based almost entirely on decades of launches out of Florida where the rockets quickly head out over open ocean with far fewer aircraft potentially affected. These launches out of Texas, on the other hand, have the potential to affect far more aircraft, as we saw with this launch, as well as there being islands where debris could potentially fall. As @jon b says, they will likely put out more NOTAMs to better inform the airlines of the risk.

The NOTAMS issued for the launch only closed the air space around the launch site though, and didn't cover the full path out to the Turks and Caicos and beyond. ATC where the debris was falling was scrambling to figure out what was going. At the very least SpaceX or the FAA should be notifying all ATC along the route when a launch is happening.

Or you can use Apple Pay or Google Pay and be far more secure than credit card alone or carrying around hundreds of dollars in your wallet. Doesn't matter who is working the check-out, they never get your card number and any potential credit card skimmer will only get a one time token that is useless for additional payments. https://romanglushach.medium.com/secure-mobile-payments-behind-the-scenes-how-apple-pay-and-google-pay-protect-your-sensitive-card-be7a24ddf392 And as for maps, with Carplay in my car, and many others these days, the maps on the phone are quite easy to use. Android Auto also works well too. You get your option of map app (some work better in different region when travelling), and with power from the car, battery life isn't of much concern.

My understanding is the area of the harbour those float planes use is restricted for aircraft use. https://www.portvancouver.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-05-Web-Friendly-File-Safe-Boating-Guide-2019-Update.pdf

Well, technically it was in production. Much like the F-35, they started manufacturing the production models before the test program was complete. When it was cancelled, there were at least a half dozen, I think, in various stages of production on the assembly line, with a couple essentially flight worthy (or very soon to be). While a modern Arrow would be cool in some ways, it would cost far too much and take so long, we might as well stick with the F-35. A mix of Super Hornets and F-35s may not be a bad mix, although a little more costly than just having one model in the fleet.

For some reference on the size of the fire, check out this article. http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/how-big-is-the-fort-mcmurray-fire/ To give credit where it's due, some, if not all of those WestJet evacuation flights are being paid for by the oil companies. The same companies who cleared out their camps to make room for people evacuating Fort Mac. Not to take away from WestJet contributions, just noting that there are a number of other companies doing more than expected too.

I've had a Seagate SSHD running smoothly in a laptop for a few years now. Although this model was somewhat pricier as it used SLC based flash storage vs the more common and cheaper MLC now used in most SSHDs (and SSDs too). http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_momentus_xt_750gb_review As said above, they are definitely a stop gap measure until pure SSDs come down in price.

Alberta has actually tried to get into manufacturing before (ignoring what is already exists in support of the oil industry), at least half heartedly. And despite having some of the lowest tax rates and minimum wage, though not anymore, in the country it never went anywhere. This is mostly due to the reasons I mentioned above, plus a big one I forgot, which is competition with the oil and gas industry in a relatively limited labour market. When oil and gas booms, wages go up way up and take a little while to drop when it goes bust. This pushes costs up significantly for companies, and also makes it hard to forecast. Which in turn just leads to manufacturers looking elsewhere for a more stable environment. The construction industry already struggles with this, but as people need houses to live in, and offices etc to work in, the construction costs just go up and things get built. On the other hand, if your company doesn't need to be here, why would you bother? I still think the areas I highlighted previously are better ways forward as they can directly draw from what's here and don't need a lot of capital to kick start. Oil and gas demand worldwide hasn't gone away, and sooner or later prices will come back, and will push up costs again when it does.

Except that this time Ontario will be competing against Mexico. A good deal of the auto business has already moved there. Increasing automation and 3D printing will also mean fewer people are needed for what does come back too. So while some manufacturing will come back, it will take a while and may not return to the levels it was once at. As far as Alberta getting into manufacturing, I don't see that happening any time soon. The entire supply chain would have to built up just to get started, and then there is still the issue of geographic location. Alberta isn't exactly close to any major customer base, which is a big part of the problem with oil already. People love to talk about refineries being the silver bullet to increase revenue from oil, except that one would still have to get all of the refined products to markets thousands of kilometres away (anyone notice how many pipelines are not being built recently?). So why would someone set up manufacturing here when there are already places like SE Asia, Mexico and Ontario with the infrastructure and supply chain in place? R&D for solar and geothermal power, other green/environmental technologies, tourism, software and other service based industries would be much better suited. Basically something more like Denver.

How many cameras would be required to fully cover the cargo hold of something like a 777, 747 or A380? It would probably take a camera, or more likely two, every 10-15' to make sure there aren't any hidden areas and allow enough overlap to cover for a failed camera. Not to mention enough external cameras to properly cover all engines, landing gear, flight controls, cargo doors etc. while remaining ice and debris free. Seems like a system that would become very complicated (read expensive) on its own. Landing at the first sign of fire seems like a cheaper option to me.