The entire luminosity of Andromeda will be dispersed over a much wider angle. It'll be much less spectacular than one might think. It won't be brighter than what we see today.

Yeah, that was meant to be a joke. Even if we were to collide, it wouldn't happen for a few billion years. Our sun will be a red giant by then. Earth will no longer exist.

It's CSU, of course it is.

Not that other parties are better...

You can't know whether the plane responds correctly to your inputs under instrument conditions when you can't trust the instruments.

The "small screen" the article is talking about that was still functional is likely a backup PFD, or at the VERY LEAST an attitude indicator. Validating that an attitude indicator is working is not particularly hard, especially if the flight controls are still working.

Ejecting over a populated area at a low altitude is a dangerous decision in its own right, and the unfortunate truth here is that if the choice is between "the life of the pilot" and "the lives of people on the ground" then the pilot is obligated to fly the jet until a crash is assured. Obviously I don't have all the details, but the article itself doesn't say that required instruments were unavailable.

Part of the issue here, too, is that pilots and aviation in general is an "old boys club" and this extends to giving long-tenured pilots extraordinary leeway for mistakes they made that newer or less popular people would have been crucified for. I was left wondering if that's what the first two flight reviews did, and the third one didn't.

There are seismometers on the moon, though.

We had a rather smallish cat who loved killing rats.

> You can buy this knife, but you can't carry it home.

How can otherwise reasonable people come to believe nonsense like this just because it fits their worldviews will always remain a mystery for me.

Not in the EU anymore, but this was a consistent issue in the UK - at least in London with kitchen knives.

Of course you can carry it home…

Contracts for thee, but not for me.

I converted all of our stuff to Mint when Windows 7 went out of support. Went smoothly for all family members.

A 10% increase per year is exponential.

yes, ok, but it’s far from e. Let’s say “exponential” is a shitty term, it can mean very different things.

But 10%/y is still a doubling within 8 years, so maybe not so bad – if my memory is correct.

[edit] see other comment, it is indeed very much linear, not exponential at all.

I wouldn't go that far. It's not offensive, just really weird in a lot of contexts.

I use UberEats in Japan and usually tip.