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| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: ebastler on December 19, 2022, 11:00:56 am ---This thread is good for months of idle speculation, until the insurance experts release their actual assessment of the fault. Has anyone looked into the position of the planets yet, or the effect of 5G networks? :horse: --- End quote --- We cant rule out a directed beam energy weapon. Or aliens. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 20, 2022, 02:30:44 am ---We cant rule out a directed beam energy weapon. Or aliens. --- End quote --- That might not be quite as absurd as it first sounds, well, the first part anyway. I have some small diode lasers that are capable of >1W of optical power output and can be run from batteries. I really doubt it is what happened here, but an invisible IR diode laser of a few watts might be enough to damage the acrylic, they certainly will set cardboard on fire from across the room. I'm not seriously suggesting that's what happened but it is technically plausible. |
| Sal Ammoniac:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on December 16, 2022, 10:18:37 pm --- --- Quote from: tom66 on December 16, 2022, 06:39:45 pm ---That's a good point. Also a lot of that water will have gone into sewers and underground. It could easily corrode parts of the structure for the hotel and adjacent buildings if it is not cleaned up promptly. --- End quote --- I've heard too much sodium chloride can create other problems in the treatment plant, as the microbes used aren't the right type to deal with it. --- End quote --- I don't think that's too much of a problem. My water softener uses about 50 pounds of salt a week and all of that goes into a septic tank and it doesn't seem to have any effect on the bacteria that break down the waste. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on December 19, 2022, 11:59:13 pm ---This is exactly why I refuse to fly in an airplane. --- End quote --- Well I’m sorry to be so blunt, but that attitude is just stupid. --- Quote from: bigfoot22 on December 19, 2022, 11:59:13 pm ---Most failure modes of an aircraft is to fall out of the sky and bury itself into the ground. --- End quote --- Nope, absolutely incorrect. Most failure modes result in “the passengers didn’t even realize anything went wrong because the 3-4 layers of safety design completely prevented a failure from causing a catastrophe.” Commercial aviation is THE model of how to perform safety engineering, with every incident being thoroughly analyzed and effective countermeasures taken by actually doing skilled root cause analysis. I don’t know of any other industry that even comes close to commercial aviation’s level of safety engineering. (No, it’s not perfect in the Boolean sense. Do not list exceptions to “educate” me, folks, I am well versed in this industry.) And on the other hand, by design, airplanes want to fly. Things have to go insanely wrong for a plane to literally fall (i.e. complete unrecoverable aerodynamic stall) from the sky. It’s possible to glide a jumbo jet to the ground unpowered, and it’s been done more than once. I highly urge you to deep dive into the YouTube channel called “Mentour Pilot”. He, a commercial airline pilot and trainer, goes into the hows and whys of aviation, including doing FAR more in-depth explanations of aviation incidents, but with the explanations of an aviation insider needed to give the proper context to what happened. --- Quote from: bigfoot22 on December 19, 2022, 11:59:13 pm ---You cannot do that to a wasp, a ground mechanic thousands of kms away who decided to be incompetent that day, or a design flaw. --- End quote --- And this is the root problem with skeptical flyers: loss of control. We know from research that a) people are insanely bad at weighing risk, and b) vastly underestimate risk when they’re in control (and overestimate it when they’re not). You need to be honest and recognize that this psychological bias is why you don’t fly, and not facts. --- Quote from: bigfoot22 on December 19, 2022, 11:59:13 pm ---Some things were just not meant to be built, the commercial aircraft is one such thing. --- End quote --- What an obnoxiously arrogant thing to say. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 20, 2022, 02:30:44 am --- --- Quote from: ebastler on December 19, 2022, 11:00:56 am ---This thread is good for months of idle speculation, until the insurance experts release their actual assessment of the fault. Has anyone looked into the position of the planets yet, or the effect of 5G networks? :horse: --- End quote --- We cant rule out a directed beam energy weapon. Or aliens. --- End quote --- Or maybe it's Elon's fault too. Who knows! |
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