Fun facts - to secure it to the barge for the trip back to port, instead of bolts, straps, tiedowns, or anything like that, they just weld the landing feet and stabilizers to the deck.
I'm still surprised they don't just use a big cable net to grab it at touchdown so even if it does start to tip on landing it has retention. Aircraft carriers been doing that for ever...
I mean there's usually a dude there, but isn't a lot of it pretty automated nowadays like with planes?
These suggests no.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/13/us/amtrak-derailment-possible-causes/ "A sleep-deprived engineer nodded off at the controls of a commuter train just before taking a 30 mph curve at 82 mph, causing a derailment last year that killed four people and injured more than 70, federal regulators said Tuesday."
"New York commuter train engineer William Rockefeller Jr. admitted falling asleep before derailing in a 2013 Bronx crash that left four dead and 67 injured, and investigators found that a 2009 trolley crash in Boston that injured more than 60 occurred because the operator was texting his girlfriend. "
Planes have autopilot but they are very far from flying themselves autonomously. While it is not unreasonable to believe that the technology is available even now to do so, the systems as it is now, a crew on a modern 737 or 777 is still doing a considerable amount of pilotage, and for sure are capable of at any time flying every step with zero help from autopilot or even the enhanced nav features. The auto systems help increase economy, reduce fatigue on the crew, and enhance safety through a variety of means. But they aren't going to save you if the flight deck crew were to all go unconscious.
A train is on rails but it needs people keeping up with things and regulating speed. That too should be automated to where an engineer is superfluous, but it currently isnt. And even if it is, they should have operators ensuring everything is up and up.
So as it is, an automated bus is interesting because that would have a lot more variables than a train. But it also is a simpler vehicle than some huge train.
I'm assuming tho, that by automated bus it can go on normal streets and roads and isn't on tracks. So definitely not a train.
Edit: So I posted that partway through watching it. I gotta add that I love the Nunavut joke. "You know how much of this land is livable up here? None of it. That's why they call it Nunavut."
My university cafeteria only had Lucky Charms every few weeks, but when they did, students got multiple bowls of cereal. Because of this they claimed they couldn't afford to keep it around all the time, but students only got so much when it was around because of its scarcity.
I ranked cereal very differently as a kid, when I ate it regularly.
I don't eat cereal at all anymore.
I do, occationally, when I have that rare middling amount of time that's enough for a sit-down breakfast but not enough for bacon, eggs, pancakes, etc. 90% of my enjoyment of cereal is the texture, too. That's why I find CTC, for example, to be an inferior cereal to Life, which has an amazing texture.
Is that cereal list satire on the idea that people have these lists that are attempting to be difinitive while being often just some rando's, like, option, man?
Because that list is objectively wrong. IDGAF. Fight me. Unless it's trolling: than, well, well meme'd.
Is that cereal list satire on the idea that people have these lists that are attempting to be difinitive while being often just some rando's, like, option, man?
Because that list is objectively wrong. IDGAF. Fight me. Unless it's trolling: than, well, well meme'd.
According to the source of where I got it, this was an actual list that the cinnamon toast crunch account tweeted to the public.
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Video includes a lot of nerds loosing their shit in the background, and it's a really amazing video.
EDIT: Drone ship's name is "Of course I still love you". Adorable and seems like a step towards Culture.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/13/us/amtrak-derailment-possible-causes/
"A sleep-deprived engineer nodded off at the controls of a commuter train just before taking a 30 mph curve at 82 mph, causing a derailment last year that killed four people and injured more than 70, federal regulators said Tuesday."
"New York commuter train engineer William Rockefeller Jr. admitted falling asleep before derailing in a 2013 Bronx crash that left four dead and 67 injured, and investigators found that a 2009 trolley crash in Boston that injured more than 60 occurred because the operator was texting his girlfriend. "
A train is on rails but it needs people keeping up with things and regulating speed. That too should be automated to where an engineer is superfluous, but it currently isnt. And even if it is, they should have operators ensuring everything is up and up.
So as it is, an automated bus is interesting because that would have a lot more variables than a train. But it also is a simpler vehicle than some huge train.
I'm assuming tho, that by automated bus it can go on normal streets and roads and isn't on tracks. So definitely not a train.
I took it for a test spin. It's so freaking cool!
Edit: So I posted that partway through watching it. I gotta add that I love the Nunavut joke. "You know how much of this land is livable up here? None of it. That's why they call it Nunavut."
(Raisin Bran is Low Tier at best, and Apple Jacks shouldn't be lower than Mid Tier unless you're the worst kind of human that isn't a murderer).
I don't eat cereal at all anymore.
Because that list is objectively wrong. IDGAF. Fight me. Unless it's trolling: than, well, well meme'd.
Also I agree with you this list is way off.
This world we live in.