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British Airways certainly made a profit from Concorde, which was operated by a separate division of the company.

I don't know if (then state-owned) Air France did.


In the extended edition of Two Towers they show him in a flashback of Gondor retaking Osgiliath.

It's not a particularly flattering portrayal- the military success is shown as belonging to Boromir more than Denethor- but at least it shows him sane.


FEHB plans would also have this incentive. I think at least historically Federal employees didn't switch employers as much (though job-hopping between agencies happens), but more importantly if you retire from the Federal government you keep your health insurance.


My favorite diner is just off an Interstate exit in Connecticut. I'm pretty sure it opened after the Interstate highway was built.

Whenever I'm in there, it seems busy. Part of the USP is that it's open 24/7 (something increasingly rare)...


Tell me it's Blue Colony, because that's also one of my favorites. Packed at all times, but the food is perfect for a road trip break.


Got it in one!



That looked very British. Apparently it was made for an advert for a 1980s high speed train.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_37


As opposed to the story about the person who leaves their unwanted furniture outside with a sign reading "Free- Please Take". It sits there undisturbed for a week.

Then they replace the sign with one that reads "$10- put cash in letterbox"

Within an hour, the furniture is gone, though of course there's no cash!


AIUI a Catholic monk who is also an ordained priest is addressed as Father not Brother (certainly this is true of the Dominicans I've met).

I think this is also true for Orthodox monks.

I'm not sure if there's a Christian denomination that has pastors who aren't priests, and also has monks. So this sounds to me more like a situation where all fellow members of the church are addressed as Brother/Sister.


Why would a flock of birds large enough to be ingested by both engines of a two-engined plane not also be large enough to be ingested by all four engines of a four-engined plane?


Good point. We should be discussing eight-engine planes.


Like the b 52 bomber. I always liked them. We could convert them for passenger flights. Airlines could develop luggage pods that hang from the wings and the planes support mid air refuelling so that could help with turnarounds. They also have tail guns for even more safety. Also huge bay doors which will make getting on and off the plane much faster.


Make the cabin a cartridge that clicks into the bottom. Give the cabin wheels and propulsion.


Thunderbird 2 was always the best one. Even if those stubby forward-swept wings don't really seem like what you need for the normal mission profiles!


Door to door international service. I like it.


This is where some of the E-Plane concepts really shine. Let's see a flock of birds take out every engine on this NASA demonstrator:

https://sacd.larc.nasa.gov/asab/asab-projects-2/x57maxwell/


We should be discussing no-engine planes, since they are obviously safer in such situations.


Yes, why would we put those polluting and noisy engines on the plane?

The passengers could just take turns going out and pushing.


Bicycle pedals at every seat. Maybe with a deadman interlock so that if you stop pedalling your seat falls out of the plane.


What's with these comments


¿Por qué no los ocho?


>Why don’t all four tires on a car blow out at the same time?


They do if you drive over a stinger (or perhaps a sufficiently large number of nails or other sharp objects).


They also do if you go around the car with a knife and you stab them.

But it is somehow implied that the context of the comment is normal driving conditions.

Perhaps that comment could be reworded like:

>When driving on a highway, while not being pursued by the police, on planet Earth, with a road temperature below 200C, and not driving behind a van transporting nails with an open door that's dropping them on the road, why don’t all four tires on a car blow out at the same time?

That way people could get a better sense of what it is about.


The kid would have to have a pretty large glass milk bottle hidden under his coat for that to happen.


Of course William Tell was a crossbowman so could hold his bow at full draw for as long as he liked.


Reminds me of the Catholic friend who once told me that he had done IT support for every Catholic religious order with a presence in the city where he lived, except two.

The Carthusians didn't use computers, and the Jesuits didn't need his help.


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