I think work on such buildings probably needs revamping, with practices like in aviation where all tools must me accounted for, every action that will cause heat needs a plan, supervision, heat sensors after the work... Maybe also install fire suppression as part of the scaffolding.
Jump to postCupertino is in the Bay Area but it isn't on the Bay itself, nor exactly near SF. Without going into high rises (which are inefficient and environmentally unfriendly, also not a smart move in a place with seismic activity) low rise apartment buildings should be more common and encouraged. Wow sorry...
Jump to postIn France they tried to solve this by providing inmates with old school landlines in their cells (obviously not drug bosses etc.). It failed, they still wanted mobile phones or smartphones and did what was needed to get them.
Jump to postI think the "local grid" thing will happen naturally. Infrastructure providers are of course dead against it but politicians will see the light and allow interesting things. Currently in my country it's illegal to be off grid even if you have enough solar+batteries etc. As long as there is...
Jump to postParis has been mentioned, there is only one 200m building there and it's hated by all (the Montparnasse tower, not talking about the Eiffel tower). Tall buildings don't make a city important.
Tell me about interesting companies moving to that city, or better, being created in that city.
Cupertino is in the Bay Area but it isn't on the Bay itself, nor exactly near SF.
Without going into high rises (which are inefficient and environmentally unfriendly, also not a smart move in a place with seismic activity) low rise apartment buildings should be more common and encouraged.
Wild guess but the house is getting bulldozed and a McMansion built in its place.
Jump to postjohns624 wrote:Aesma wrote:Much better looking bird than the original 360 Dauphin.Sud-Aviation SA365 Dauphin
I wonder if they used shells with timed fuses or proximity fuses : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTO_Melara_76_mm
Reading about this, I'm wondering if there is a cannon that can program timed fuses in real time, taking into account distance, trajectory and speed of the target and the shell.
You can see Eiffel's work in plenty of places around the world.
People at the time thought the tower was an eyesore and couldn't wait for it to be taken down, how ironic.
Watched President Biden's briefing. Glad to see that help is coming from the Federal government but did he mention anything about the responsible party paying for the damages? The dust has barely settled and no accident investigation has been conducted so it’s far too early to determine ‘responsibl...
Jump to postDocLightning wrote:They seem to be fashionable lately. I wonder why they have supplanted more traditional suspension bridges.
Today the French navy intercepted 3 ballistic missiles with Aster 30 missiles: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/03/french-navy-air-defense-fremm-intercepts-3-ballistic-missiles/ It's still not clear to me how an area seeing ballistic missiles being shot down at whatever altitude by Asters ...
Jump to postDoes it make sense to replace the bridge then ? Maybe make a tunnel ? It will be interesting to see where they go. I read that the fastest (and thus most economical) thing to do is to rebuild the bridge since it can reuse all the land approaches and the elevated sections that didn't collapse, but t...
Jump to postDoes it make sense to replace the bridge then ? Maybe make a tunnel ?
Jump to postThere was a claim early on that the suspects had fled in a white Renault. The 4 caught were in a white Renault. So at least it seems plausible.
Jump to postI would suggest relocating to a country without an extradition deal with the US...
Jump to postIf all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Jump to postAbout the motors are we talking about pods (common on commercial vessels) or are shafts still used (not really new either, the SS Normandie did that in 1935).
Jump to postAs a non doctor I was thinking about this too, as they initially operated without thinking about cancer (without ruling it out either I'm sure) so it probably appeared as cysts on an ovary or something like that. Would that operation lead to three months recovery though ?
Jump to postThe people that handle the PR for the royal family need to spend some time in the tower. If they had come out and said "during a surgery doctors discovered the princess of Wales also has cancer, at this time we ask that her privacy is respected" the country would have gotten behind her, i...
Jump to postFrom the audio it was probably a sharpshooter, he talks about "shouldering" his weapon.
Jump to postSo maybe a security concern although there is an embassy in London for such considerations.
Jump to postSo my simple observation, to me the switch is a convenience, so if safety people were involved, the switch would have been recessed with a spring loaded cover which had to be opened / lifted to activate the switch, with the spring cover down (spring ensures it is always down) leaning on the cover d...
Jump to postWas he drunk ? I tried to do this once. Well I knocked on the door. The F/A were resting/minding their business on the other side of the upper deck (it was a 747) and didn't see me until after the fact. It was in 2002 so things were a bit different even if it was after 9/11, I had no idea the door w...
Jump to postAnd then you cross the border to a neighboring country and they do the opposite. It's nuts. I hate complicated, multi-lane roundabouts but the simple ones are great. If you ever want to see something crazy, visit the Arc de Triomphe and pay to go on the observation deck. The roundabout is absolutel...
Jump to postI will ask my GP for wegovy or ozempic. He wants me to get a gastric sleeve surgery but I don't want one. I don't like sport, I would do some to lose weight/feel better/look better however I'm too big for that so first I need to lose some weight.
Jump to postA not so nice reminder to always buckle up.
Jump to postExperienced or not, if you can't see you can't see, so single piston at night adds risk in case of the engine quitting.
Is there a software/device that could show you on a 3D moving map the best places to put it down ?
Speaking of trustworthy partners: Macron said that the EU's promise to allocate 1 million shells to Ukraine was a lie from the beginning "It has to be said that we did not have this one million shells. It was certainly a reckless commitment. The reality is that in the very short term, you can ...
Jump to postWhat's the difference between 0 say and 49% say ? I'm in favor of child support being linked to the father having participated in the project "having a baby". And by that I mean more than by procuring sperm. Sign a contract. I know, it's called marriage, but if for some reason people don't...
Jump to postThat limitation is for all pregnancies and I've never heard of someone having an issue with it. If at a later stage the fetus is found to be abnormal, a medical abortion is still possible (and common in the case of Down syndrome or worst problems). With the advances in testing I think it will be com...
Jump to postThe article talks about events in June, then I assume in the present but it's unclear. Journalism these days... Has he been in jail for 9 months ?
11C wrote:God, Jägermeister, that is sad.
Same in France.
Also used and abused by politicians, I live near the Vélizy air base used by the French AF1 and other government aircraft so I often see them and sometimes have to let them pass (president, prime minister, minister of the interior and defense, probably not lower ones).
If it's passed with 91% for, it's not really political is it ?
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/fr ... 024-03-04/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_to_the_right Driving on a "main road" doesn't mean you have priority unless there is a sign making it clear. My house is on a Boulevard, when I get out from the back street at the back of my house to the Boulevard, I have priority and cars and busses ...
Jump to postSome time ago it was revealed that since the apparition of electronic price tags in supermarkets it was easy to change prices and thus it was done, for example on the week-ends the prices were higher than during the week.
Jump to post4,7 billion for F-35s (super cheap) then 3 billion for 5 years of parts and services (probably not including the mechanics you need to pay), super expensive. Do you need to pay 3 billion every 5 years after that ?
Jump to postSo we still don't know what he has? That's...troubling. Why is that troubling? What business is it of ours (the general public) to know anybody’s personal health information? The palace has said he’s got an unspecified cancer, he’ll be limited in his public appearances for a while, other royals wil...
Jump to postEveryone is fine so the pilots seem to have done the right thing after having done the initial wrong thing, however you have to wonder what was happening in the cockpit when they overran the runway and still pushed back on the yoke and took off, how many pilots would have done that instead of trying...
Jump to postApprently 5 or more "kills" in combat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_ace Depends if a drone counts as an aircraft. I think there's at least a little bit of precedent for them counting - balloons counted in World War I. Luke AFB is named after a "balloon ace." Weren't thes...
Jump to postThe conventional wisdom would be to buy protection from the US, not real defense capabilities.
Now does that still works if Trump comes back, who knows.
But you won't lose 1 billion and dozens of millions of yearly maintenance with a TV tower.
Jump to postThere is a big issue with commercial real estate right now, no bank will touch this.
I'm not sure why rich people buy flats in tall buildings in NYC, it seems it's not to live in them. So I don't see why they would buy one in OKC.
Greece has already bought 24 Rafale, that's what I'm talking about.
Jump to postCan anyone elighten me as to how preventing civilians crossing into the US from Mexico, killing just about no-one, is linked to preventing soldiers, drones, missiles and aircraft crossing into Ukraine from Russia, killing tens of thousands of people? Its politics as unusual in America where defeati...
Jump to postIt seems like it could hug the coast significantly more without making much of a difference in flight time.
Jump to postOr someone else is paying and beggars can't be choosers.
Jump to postCan Greece afford F-35 ? No.
Why do they need F-35 ? To fight Turkey.
That's a bit crazy.