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  1. 4 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:


    It’s nothing cool I assure you. The shortest way to tell it is a passenger had a medical episode, and the first person to “help” was a crackpot nurse that was nuttier than a shithouse rat and was demanding we make an emergency landing immediately. A flight attendant requested anyone with medical experience report to the back of the plane. I overrode the nutjob and the captain said he would continue to our original destination only if I stayed with the passenger and kept in contact with Medlink? for the duration of the flight.

    Medlink is who you call if there’s any medical issue in the back and they assume responsibility and liability for the flight diverting or continuing on.

    You get a patch to a doctor on call after the FA’s  hand you a report on the passenger, dispatch listens in, and the doctor makes the decision. 

    99 times out of 100 they tell you to give pax some orange juice and continue to destination. 

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  2. 3 hours ago, DaysOff said:

    There's blowout panels in the door to equalize pressure during a rapid or explosive decompression. The door flying open seems improbable and certainly isn't in the flight manual. Of course, the fact that MCAS existed wasn't initially in the manual either. Frankly, if I can't control it, don't add shit my brain has to remember.

    The bus has pressurization sensors on the overhead panel that will unlock the door during a depressurization.  It’s the two pencil sized holes next to the five yellow lights (3 strike plates, Channel A/B).  Simply blowing on them is enough to trigger it. The door is no longer locked, but is it latched securely enough to withstand a sudden depressurization? I hope to never find out. 

  3. 2 hours ago, hullabelew said:

    I like this idea.  Put it on the Red River by I35, or in Wilbarger County where those bastards are still pushing BLM to take that stretch of land south of the Red River.  Fucking thieves.  

    Honestly, they can have the stretch from Electra to Quanah imo. 

  4. 51 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

    I can be cheap.  I am not Uber wealthy.  But there have been times in my life where the cheapest provider of a particular service is not the best choice.  Airplanes and submarines fall under that category.

    Having some experience with the former category and Uber wealthy people I can assure you that your commoner common sense ways are far from universal with those with at least high 7 zero bank accounts and up. 

    And, as I mentioned up thread a time or three, having that kind of money makes a lot of people think they are invulnerable and the world operates at their pleasure. 

    Having dollars doesn’t mean you have sense. 

  5. 17 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

    Not a very good batting average.  If you were a billionaire with a Titanic obsession, why don’t you just call the people who got James Cameron down and back 30+ times?  Or Paul Allen’s people finding all of the WWII ships in the Pacific.  Let’s say it’s $1.5M  vs $250k to get proven equipment, that’s a no-brainer for a billionaire. I do not have the cash to go down to the Titanic, but if I did, I would not hire the Spirit Airlines of the submarine industry.

    You’d be surprised how cheap the uber wealthy can be. 

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  6. 39 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

    I suspected.

    57 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    To All My Surly Friends:
    It is with great pleasure that I proudly announce the birth of my new GoFundMe project - the formation of an innovative, science-driven undersea engineering company, whose mission it is to develop and implement a deep sea diving vessel for the commercial purpose of exploring the wreck of the late submersible Titan.
    This is your opportunity to join me in funding this historic project. Details to follow soon. 
     

    Allow me to offer a tube of gorilla glue warrantied up to 2.3 dives. I can also provide some flex seal for a partners share.

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  7. 23 minutes ago, BillyGoatHill said:

    I'm still going with an implosion, which to me would be better than just waiting out the lack of power and O2.

    But to you other point about hypothermia, they would most likely be lacking in water (irony) to drink. 3days without is no bueno.

    Either way, we'll be hearing the switch to a recovery phase later tomorrow (not that they'll be found). SAR has been for the families, News outlets, just for training, & show.

    I think it would have been heard. Most likely by the mother ship to begin with. Sound travels very quickly underwater and it would be easy to time stamp it to match the time the sub was lost  

    Also, they were only 15 minutes from finishing their dive and navigating the entire way. I bet it won’t take long to actually locate them once they get assets on hand to search with ROV’s. I would suspect that they had a plan on where to approach the debris field and wreck from, and they’re not far from it. 
     

    The fact that it didn’t surface on its own with the tethers to the ballast suggests it’s either stuck in the mud, perhaps snagged on debris or the wreck itself or, and this is highly possible, Oceangate’s system failed or they pencil whipped the dissolving attachments. 
     

    I’d think w very wealthy families involved will foot the bill to find and recover them if the assets currently on hand fail or are called off. The thing will surface in its own if it’s still buoyant and an ROV can snip the ties to its ballast bags.

    Lack of water is very valid. They surely had something onboard to drink. It’s they were going to be down for hours on end and probably had several bottles of water per person on hand or the equivalent. It’s not live on it for a month stuff, but maybe enough to last more than the standard three days.

    It would be merciful if it did implode.  
     

     

     

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  8. You have to think that it would be well known if they imploded. I don’t know if the SOSUS nets are still maintained, but I’d bet there were more than a few vessels capable of detecting the sound  in the relative vicinity, and that they could correlate the time stamp and calculate if such a noise would match up with the bearing and distance to the wreck site. 
     

    I suspect they get to go the asphyxiation route. I’d also bet that everyone on that thing has their cell phone on them, and I d be morbidly curious to see if they left videos or notes once their plight became very certain or their batteries were almost done. Something else to consider…it’s got to be very, very cold in that tub and they may die of hypothermia before they suffocate. 

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  9. 5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    If I'm spending any decent sum of money (decent in my view, or $250,000 if I was rich) to be stuck in a confined space with 4 or 5 other people for 16 hours or more, they better be cheerleaders.

    You’d get the same amount of ass either way. 

    5 hours ago, 'stache said:

    If it cost me 25 cents to float in a tube to crush depth to view the Titanic on a screen, which you can do right now by pulling up fucking YouTube, I'd still say no. 

    You forgot the part where you think you’re invulnerable because you have money. Seen waaaayy to many of these MF’s completely lose their shit because someone wouldn’t fly them through a blizzard between rocks they can’t see and into a box canyon. 

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  10. 6 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Seriously, what the af? What is the point? To feel water pressure inside a tube? I don't get it. It looks like a billionaire and another prominent business person were on board. Any chance they were caught up with Epstein or something else and used this to disappear themselves and live out their days in Argentina?

    1. We all flippantly throw small sums of money about. $250k was chump change to these cats.

    2. The ultra wealthy tend to believe they are invulnerable, and behave accordingly. Seen the BS movie too many times. 

  11. Emergency exit doors are designed as plugs fhat are pressed into the fuselage so that they cannot be opened when pressurized. Like pushing a cork further into the bottle. That’s why most open inward before being placed on the arm rests or thrown outside.  They cannot physically open outward. There are new emergency exit style doors that open by hinging upward on both Airbus and Boeing products. I always wondered how much use they would be if the airframe were twisted and the door was stuck in place, but I guess that could be an issue for the plug doors too. 

    Planes land unpressurized so that there is less stress on the cabin and also so there is not a pressure bump for the skin bags within as the valves controlling the cabin altitude fully open on landing  better for the planes. Better for the people.


     

     

     

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  12. 4 hours ago, Exposition said:

    Anyone else doing a double-take hearing the ATP students using their new callsign "Career Track"? Is it common for big box flight schools to create a callsign? Thrust does it here at Addison but I hadn't heard any other schools in the area doing it. Always wondered if they have it placarded or how else they remember their flight #. 

    Hadn’t heard that yet, but I’ve heard several schools that do it. Usually their flight number coincides with a tail number or something similarly easy to remember. The fractionals do the same thing. Their tail number is always their flight number. 

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  13. 13 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:


    Not saying you shouldn’t have an opinion. Just pointing out that”my rights” has in fact been brought many times.

    Not really, and here’s the rub. “My rights” implies one is worried about the violation of the 2A. It’s a valid concern, but the good folks who are on the opposite end of the spectrum would only use that for starters. As we just witnessed with other “rights” in a national emergency. 

    Every common sense sounding suggestion is backended by unelected activists who have their own agenda quite separate from lawmaking or even reality. 

    It’s the second part of what I suggested above. Neither side can talk, and one side completely distrusts the other. 

     

  14. 15 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:


    Isn’t opposition to a registry a my rights argument?

    Doesn’t everything kinda come down on one’s right to do something? In that sense yes. 

    I don’t want to speak for others, but the abject abuse of any leeway given on the subject to the good people who directed the “for your safety” BS of the last few years is more than enough to be leery of how such a registry will be used. 

    It’s ideal use would be one thing. It’s probable use would be quite another. 

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  15. 10 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    I am doing my regular dad club Dropoff duty in the morning.  Ranges from crosswalks to helping prevent mass shootings.  I am so goddamn proud I can preserve your rights man.  You fucking child.  

    “Muh Rights!!!” hasn’t been brought up in the discussion at any point. Keep trying to frame arguments for the others while deriding them. That’ll definitely bring people to the table for consensus. 

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  16. We had a program at my children’s elementary school where dad’s could sign up to be “Watch Dogs.” Essentially, the fathers would walk the halls, help a bit at lunch, look intimidating I guess and hopefully be helpful to the kids while deterring an attack. It was ended during Covid. A resource officer was hired and he is very visible in the mornings and afternoons as is his patrol car. But he can’t be everywhere at once, and it would be very easy to do a lot of damage if you timed it right and and did something during recess. 
     

    It does appear that the local police have taken to parking their vehicles in the school lots in very noticeable positions while they have lunch or just wait for a call. It can’t hurt, but they’re not always there. 

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