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Quote from: Uncle Duke on September 20, 2020, 04:17:50 PM
Using the a/c as an ejection seat test bed. The seat shown on the slide being ejected is a Russian K-36. The fighter forebody on the tail of the TU-154 is probably not an F-5, more likely it's one of the "indigenous" fighters Iran developed based on the F-5. If the Iranians put a K-36 in that a/c, the cockpit must have been redesigned/enlarged. No way you could integrate the very large K-36 into the small F-5 cockpit.
Quote from: Roswells, Art on September 10, 2020, 05:18:36 PMNovember 19.
Anyway, here's one of the trailers for Cyberpunk 2077. It's coming out in September:
Quote from: albrecht on September 04, 2020, 06:44:19 PM
Down there are liquor stores etc deemed "essential?" Here they are. Apparently reasoning -besides deep pockets from the industry and political connections- is that public health might be worsened if folks can't get booze, wine, and beer. And that the natives might get even more restless.
Quote from: Uncle Duke on September 04, 2020, 02:32:40 PM
It's a function of distance and runways at his destination.
Quote from: Uncle Duke on September 04, 2020, 08:55:25 AMI feel like that would be a messy landing for a KC-135 even with the signs set up like that. We've got stretches of remote highway that are deliberately wider and equipped with airstrip markings (eg piano keys) to allow air ambulances to use them, but they're PC-12/King Air sized.
When the US Interstate Highway System was initiated in the mid/late 50s, there were originally specifications as to the height of signs within x number of feet from the edges of the road. These dimensions corresponded with the ground clearance and wingspan of KC-135 tankers. The idea was, in the event of all out war, the tankers would give SAC bombers all but a few minutes flying time's fuel and the tankers would land on whatever stretch of highway available.
Quote from: Jackstar on September 04, 2020, 04:24:46 AM
Still, I'll be honest--if it came down to a choice between an all-night Battlefield: Earth watchparty and a Clinton "presidency," well... I'd have to sit right down on the spot and think it over. Can't I just read the book instead? Or just beat me about the head and shoulders with it. I'm game.
Quote from: Asuka Langley on September 02, 2020, 03:39:26 PM
Pregnent Australian woman arrested for anti covid-19 facebook post
Quote from: Taaroa on August 27, 2020, 11:30:41 PM
This is week 3 of a 6 week 'hard lockdown' (plus 3 weeks before that of a softer lockdown) where you're not allowed to travel more than 5km from home, can only exercise for an hour a day, are required to wear masks whenever you leave home (which is being enforced by the police), most shops are closed and food outlets are takeaway only, only one person can do shopping at a time, state and international borders are effectively closed to everyone, and there's a curfew between 8pm and 5am.
As if that alone wasn't bad enough, the drinking water for a large area (ie 88 suburbs) was contaminated because of storms last night.
QuoteUpdate: The headline and article have been amended to better reflect what the scientists said. It was not our intention to cause offence.
Quote...the containment of Turkey’s increasingly expansive foreign policy...Now there's a term I've not heard in a long, long time.
QuoteUpon approach of a train, a giant neon sign lit up with the words "Stop-DEATH-Stop" beneath a lighted skull and crossbones. Flashing neon arrows indicated the direction of oncoming trains and an air raid siren in lieu of bells provided aural warning.
QuoteThe major clinical symptoms are fever, vomiting, diarrhea, multiple organ failure, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), leucopenia (low white blood cell count), and elevated liver enzyme levels.
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The virus is a tick-borne disease, but can also spread person to person "via blood or mucous".
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The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control says the novel bunyavirus has a fatality rate of about 10 per cent.
QuoteThe U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has declassified its Project Aquiline on Jul. 30. The secretive program from the late 1960s was to build a bird-like unmanned air vehicle that can collect photographic and electronic intelligence plus emplacing sensors in denied environments.Source: http://alert5.com/2020/07/31/cia-declassifies-project-aquiline/
Prime contractor was McDonnell Douglas and the vehicle’s dimensions are 5ft length with a wing span of 7.5ft. Powered by a silent engine with 3 1/3 horsepower, the mechanical bird has an endurance of at least 50 hours and a range of 1200 miles. It was proposed in the research study to add a radioisotope engine for it to stay airborne for up to 30 days or 36 000 miles range.
