Interesting reads
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
That 9/11 call at the start
150 Minutes of Hell: Death and survival in California’s fire tornado
California’s 2018 fire season brought a cascade of tragedies, from Mendocino County to Malibu to the now-ruined town of Paradise. But when a massive tornado of fire ripped through Redding in July, firefighters and residents experienced a singular horror that gave a clear view of just how dangerous...
That's a powerful read. Seeing firestorms is one thing, but one so powerful it creates its own tornado - the sound itself was chilling.
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@antipodean said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
That 9/11 call at the start
150 Minutes of Hell: Death and survival in California’s fire tornado
California’s 2018 fire season brought a cascade of tragedies, from Mendocino County to Malibu to the now-ruined town of Paradise. But when a massive tornado of fire ripped through Redding in July, firefighters and residents experienced a singular horror that gave a clear view of just how dangerous...
That's a powerful read. Seeing firestorms is one thing, but one so powerful it creates its own tornado - the sound itself was chilling.
My neighbors a fireman and I showed him , he’d never heard of a fire tornado before seeing that.
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@jegga That is a pretty big finding if it is true, and opens up some new possibilities for genetic manipulation if it can be converted from theoretical to physical.
It will be funny if in a couple of years, those theoretical physicists win the Nobel price for biology (well, physiology and medicine actually)
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Its safe for work
Oregon Zoo otter, known for slam dunking and self-pleasuring, dies at age 20
“At nearly 21,” a press release from the Oregon Zoo read, “Eddie was considered one of the oldest -- and most talented -- sea otters on the planet.”
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Le Viandier (often called Le Viandier de Taillevent, pronounced [lə vjɑ̃dje də tajvɑ̃]) is a recipe collection generally credited to Guillaume Tirel, alias Taillevent. However, the earliest version of the work was written around 1300, about 10 years before Tirel's birth. The original author is unknown, but it was common for medieval recipe collections to be plagiarized, complemented with additional material and presented as the work of later authors.
Le Viandier is one of the earliest and best-known recipe collections of the Middle Ages, along with the Latin Liber de Coquina (early 14th century) and the English Forme of Cury (c. 1390). Among other things, it contains the first detailed description of an entremet.
The English one (1390) mentions olive oil.
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@jegga Quite a storied life indeed.
Still amazes me how they trained guys in tiger moths, said "right, you are now a pilot" and then strapped them into a spitfire. Its like teaching someone to drive in a mini then pointing at an F1 car and saying "right now go and drive that, oh, and other people in F1 cars are are going to be chasing you, oh, and shooting at you".
He had 146 operational hours when he got his DFC, not even enough for a commercial licence. I'm not too far shy of 20,000 hours (depending on how you log them in various countries) and I still don't feel like I know much.
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@Machpants said in Interesting reads:
Yeah, flying training hours were very situation dependant in WW2. At the worst in BoB RAF pilots could have as little a 50, Soviets post invasion a dozen!
Most soviet flying was done at lower altitudes too, so less margin for error. The upside was they were able to use p40s and p39s too their strengths which the allies struggled to do .
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@Snowy said in Interesting reads:
@jegga Quite a storied life indeed.
Still amazes me how they trained guys in tiger moths, said "right, you are now a pilot" and then strapped them into a spitfire. Its like teaching someone to drive in a mini then pointing at an F1 car and saying "right now go and drive that, oh, and other people in F1 cars are are going to be chasing you, oh, and shooting at you".
He had 146 operational hours when he got his DFC, not even enough for a commercial licence. I'm not too far shy of 20,000 hours (depending on how you log them in various countries) and I still don't feel like I know much.
No OSH back then either!
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@canefan No, but wars kind of trump OSH anywyay.
On the topic of OSH - this was the opening of a recent CAA newsletter:
What is the most dangerous occupation in NZ – in terms of worker fatality rate? No, it’s not forestry, or construction, or agriculture. Sadly, civil aviation can claim the title and the correct answer is ‘commercial helicopter pilot’. Based upon 2011 to 2017 figures, the fatality rate for commercial helicopter pilots (per 1000 workers on an annual basis) is 75 times the national average for all workplaces – compared with 44 times the average for forestry, which is the next worst workplace.
Small sample size, and it really shouldn't be like that anymore, quite interesting though.
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Some interesting discussion of the Sydney Opal Tower crack and evacuation:
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His way: The Pat Vincent story
He was an All Black captain, a jazz crooner and an inspiration to generations of young Americans. He was also probably gay - and until now his full story has never been told.
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@Tim said in Interesting reads:
Some interesting discussion of the Sydney Opal Tower crack and evacuation:
The pre-cast concrete has apparently been ruled out which leaves 'how it was installed or problems in the design or construction of the building.'
Having lived for a year in a building constructed by the same builder, Icon, I can't say the issues at Opal Tower surprise me in the slightest.
Le Viandier - Wikipedia
Sydney Opal Tower: Thousands evacuated after 'crack' | Hacker News