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  1. She was actually found in a life raft by a passing ship.  Captain asked her what was wrong and she told him "nothing" so he drove off.

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  2. 4 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    Basically that your options for retaliation aren't great. One, you can hit the Shi'ite militias that are fairly disposable to Iran and that Iran can just regenerate with minimal effort. Two, you can hit facilities in Iran that likely only further Iran's resolve to continue escalations. We also likely cant hit stuff thats overly critical. Three, you can hit them economically. It'll hurt Iran and China most of all, but also hurts your allies and economy by pushing up energy prices (Europe).

    Nuke college station to send a message 

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  3. 1 hour ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

     

    The Iranians have given them missile AA systems, and I don't think we have any convenient airbases nearby. With the carrier closer to the Gulf, ship launched cruise missiles were probably the efficient choice.

    Yeesh if we are being bitches about flying F-18s against a bunch of amateurs then that definitely means we don't have the resolve to launch airstrikes against Iran.  If we are being that big of bitches.  Just bring everyone home

  4. 1 minute ago, DixonHur said:

    Honestly I'm a lot less bothered by Taylor Swift than I am Travis Kelce.  

    That dude annoys the fuck out of me.

    I didn't like him until I started watching the new heights podcast.  He's pretty funny and seems like a good dude.

  5. 6 hours ago, Chopper said:

    Over at Leeham News, a blog about developments in aerospace, in the comments section to their article about the unplanned separation of the door panel, an anon claiming to be a Boeing employee posted and seems to have them convinced they're the real deal. It's more than a little jaw dropping.

    https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installation-inspection-procedure-at-boeing/#comment-509962

     

    I completely believe that report.  100 percent.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Oh there's absolutely culpability on Alaskan Airlines - it seems that their maintenance procedure for the pressurization errors was to clear the error and keep on flying. They've been known to have poor maintenance practices too.

    But the airframe in question was delivered to them as an airworthy certified plane in November 2023. A plane that new should NEVER have those sort of problems that early on. A lazy, or more likely, undermanned maintenance and inspection team could definitely skip this every now and then, because "it's not like they'd deliver us a broken plane right?" Alaska is lucky as hell that nobody was seriously injured, because their ass was in the wind on this one. 

    Boeing however is fuggity fucked. Ain't no """pilot error""" causing bolts to be missing and under torqued coming off the Boeing lines to customers. The fact that multiple airlines have found the same errors on their airframes is STRONG evidence of deep and systemic issues in Boeing

    Yeah.  Boeing already knows their QA program is messed up.  But that part of the delivery is "welcome to the world of acceptance testing and warranty period"

     

    Customer is behind.  Company really wants the product.  There is a hey take it as is.  If anything breaks in a year we fix it.  It's so standard across all industries right now it's pretty laughable 

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  7. 1 hour ago, Captainant said:

    An interesting theory I've seen kicked around a bit is that since Spirit delivers the 737 fuselage to Boeing with the plug door in place, but not fully affixed/fastened so that Boeing can have easier access for final assembly, but that planes were worked on without removing the door, so they never got re-inspected and properly torqued before passed onto customers. 

    A couple of loose or even missing bolts, and a simple static pressure test may not turn anything up or find failures. But put some dynamic stresses on that airframe and send it through a storm front to give it a good shake, and I could see the sort of "clean" failure that the door plug seems to have had

    Didn't that plane have over 150 successful flights before the plug blew off?  Was it not already in Alaska's ownership when the pressure warning lights came on?  I mean a good surly lawyer might argue that it was a helluva over designed airframe and Alaska should have properly investigated the warning lights.

  8. 2 hours ago, Chopper said:

    As I understand there's a split at the top of gov't. Netanyahu wants to annihilate Gaza and conduct Entebbe-style raids to try to get the hostages. Others at the top of Isreaeli government are saying it's time to negotiate and for Netanyahu to face the electorate.

    The IDF has said it's killed 9,000 hamas soldiers and I believe they had ~20k to start with. Many are believed injured or to have escaped Gaza.

    It's really quite something that Egypt, Jordan and Syria have not become involved.

    It's because of Jordan and Egypt get involved.  The Israelis after they beat the shit out of them will force the Palestinians out into either Jordan or Egypt.  Whichever one fought them.  Jordan and Egypt don't want Palestinians just as much as Israel doesn't want them.  

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