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Same, same...

It seems to happen quite often, at airshows and test flights: one second, it's an F-18 hornet. The next second, it's a ball of flame, along with four others that were flying along with it. My chemistry teacher literally saw a deHavilland Dragonfly plow into a lake as it tried to pitch up from a dive. And yet, when that happens, no one gives a crap about the pilots. Videos of the event are usually formatted as fail compilations, or just "so this happened" events. The news doesn't really mention names. When a Tu-144 folded in half in an airshow in Paris, the pilots were probably in complete agony, and yet I couldn't find any info on them. Or take a look at any video that displays a small error-gone-wild in an airshow; the pilots there are (were) what, 30 years old? They probably were extremely frantic as they were trying to stabilise their plane, and were utterly conscious in the moments before the crash, and yet, they ended up being pulverised, or turned into meat jerky, or worse- getting thrown out of the canopy, arms flailing and screaming for their lives. So what's up with this nonchalant attitude towards them? Why does no one make an effort to at least remember these pilots?

Have you ever tried to eat a clock? It's very time consuming.

... , allegiant to four different warring states.

Floor 2007: a slide with little kids climbing up the stairs, about to use it. You discreetly fasten the cheesegrater to the slide and wait.

Wait... where are the air intakes?

Yes. I am a firm believer that there is life outside earth. I believe that the probability of there being life outside Earth exceeds 99.99%. However, I have two answers to the Fermi paradox that I can dig the most: 1. Great Filter - something that prevents civilisations from evolving past a certain point. There are multiple candidates in our world that I can perceive to be a great filter: a) The Chicxulub asteroid impact. An instant event that wiped out most of the species on Earth. The reason why we are not royally screwed (or at least incapacitated) is that it happened at the wrong time. b) The Bubonic Plague. I'd say this was a crazy near-miss. If the outbreak that wiped out half of Europe would have happened in, say, the 1800s or 1700s, it would have been spread across the globe and inflicted even more havoc. The only difference is that it happened right before that, just 400 or so years. c) MOST PROBABLE FILTER: Nuclear weaponry. Logically, the nuclear weapon is the first step any civilisation can take to develop something with which it can commit suicide. For the latter half of the 20th century, our nuclear forces were fastened in place by crappy systems: old computers and unreliable satellites, as well as politicians who didn't manage to extrapolate by a few decades to determine the future capabilities of these weapons. Glitches actually happened, and there were tens of events that could have led to the whole Northern Hemisphere being ignited less than 24 hours later. Yet, there was always this one thing that happened, this one event of sheer luck: people who didn't push the button, voices over the radio that shouted to cancel the order mere split-seconds before the switch on a submarine was flicked, et al. We rolled sixes every time, and we're still not done with nukes. I believe that I may be witnessing a great filter event, or that we have just been incredibly lucky to pass one. The former is more likely. 2. Physical limitations - perhaps there are limits to how fast we can travel? Maybe, the space outside the Oort cloud is a hellscape of debris, space rocks, and radiation from Sagittarius A*?

DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!... I have an idea though. If you want to keep up the speed, use fairings as the bottom of your rover capsule. Layer these fairings, something like ten of them, so that when one blows up you end up with another behind it to further break the fall. Also, it will remove drag, allowing your aircraft to get past the souposphere with a good speed up.

Looking at this challenge, this is quite a crazy canyon run. I'm thinking it should take a little longer for others to respond, so be a little more patient.

@ShadowGoat that will be a challenge. No one ever gets the proportions correct.

I googled "zombie"...

If you can use the attachment node in front of the goliath, you can have an "intake" that circles the plane fully. Kind of like an intake-fuselage integration:

Who called me? Wait- @Vanamonde

"There's absolutely nothing beautiful about these hideous killing machi-" "Such crude, horrible things-" "Absolutely no grace-"

"Everything just became a runway": best way to describe a VTOL.

I would like to add to my above post by saying that the aforementioned "paranoid moms" are exactly the types of people who believe that world conflicts can just be hugged out, and that we can talk acceptance of belief into terrorists without having our heads lopped off in a YouTube stream within the next hour. These people are part of the reason why groups such as ISIL are spreading, and why 1st world superpowers can't get down in the dirt and simply go to work, you know, infantry, surrounding them, pushing the line back, being proactive, not feeding them stinger MANPADS because the Russians are in the country, not giving them RPG-7s because the Americans are in the house, etc...

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Questions get you killed.

I googled GAU-8 https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/

*Pulls out handgun and stands up* "IF ANYONE MENTIONS PLUTO AGAIN I'LL BLOW ALL YOUR MOTHER____ING HEADS OFF!" *Freeze frame* *Pulp Fiction theme starts playing*

Well... we can squeeze freshly grilled meat over a bowl of water, if you don't want any vegetables, etc... are you sure you want it "clear"? Waiter! Are you Joe!? JOE! REMEMBER ME!? REMEMBER YOUR OL' GUNNER BACK IN THE DAYS OF 'NAM!?!?

And that, of course, removes the most important aspect of rocket design: structural integrity.

Goes to show that we need a better version of FAR, in which travelling this fast creates pressure that can peel metal.

I'll share something from a year ago: I had a test, and finished it with something like an hour left (I had extra time, due to ADD). After sitting bored for somewhere around thirty minutes, I made a rough detailed sketch of an AK-47, along with its full firing mechanism. Somewhere around a week later, my parents (who were really indifferent to the situation) were called due to a single teacher suggesting that I may be violent. The above incident is an extreme example of naivete. More specifically, the fear of the mention or thought of violence, because some paranoid moms clearly think that, if someone so much as knows what an AK-47 is, he must obviously be unstable and can blow over any moment in a psychotic frenzy. There were numerous times in grade school, where I was prevented from discussing any weapons/violent situations (i.e. "so the V2's engine works like this..." or "The anomalous aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is...", etc) simply because they had to do with violence. Apparently, there was once an incident in which students were suspended for mentioning that a cloud looked like a gun (not sure if true, but it is totally feasible). And yet, even though I dared to do all that, I am not a violent psycho, or a school shooter, or anything of the type. I believe that the first step to showing children that war/violence is an actual tragedy is to keep it in discussion, and actually show them real life, rather than doing your best to do the opposite. The first time I watched Saving Private Ryan, I was somewhere around 9-10 years old, for example. If children are shown these films, and read books such as A Long Way Gone (about a Sierra Leonean child soldier) or The Things They Carried (about the war in Vietnam and the following PTSD/suicide), et al, they would know what war actually does to a person. If we teach children about the downright insane bloodletting that occured in Stalingrad, the ways in which children were mutilated, executed, etc in the Sierra Leone civil war, then maybe the average teenager wouldn't view war with the idiotic views that are portrayed by COD, Battlefield, the Rambo series, and their naive and scared teachers. Hope I wasn't ranting. Sorry for going on such a length.

I'm not. I'd rather have my life set, thankyouverymuch.