Article title seems AI generated. Makes it sound like the whole of Alaska Airlines was barred.
Due to this, Alaska Airlines opted to limit the aircraft from extended flights over water to ensure that the plane “could return very quickly to an airport” if the warning light reappeared, according to Jennifer Homendy, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chair.
Looks like Alaska knew about the previous warnings and voluntarily pulled it from international flights.
This sounds like one of those sciency bullshit articles where
a) the study was on a subcategory of proteins that in some very boring and specific cases influence the aging of a certain type of cell in a minor way
b) the study was a miniscule pilot study with 10 participants
c) it explicitly said that it's results are more than shaky and need further testing to prove anything
d) it didn't mention humans aging at all
e) the participants were some kind of worm
but some journalist read half the excerpt, misunderstood it completely and did a catchy article about what he hallucinated into the study.
I’m extremely curious what those weapon systems look like. A missile? Maybe two? 10 bricks? 5,000 ball bearings? Any object hitting anything at ~4,000 mph would do a fuckton of damage.
This new plane is a hypersonic weapon delivery drone, barely related to the SR-71 aside from the speed it can travel.
As to the sixty years thing, satellites made spyplanes nearly entirely obsolete and traditional aircraft with stealth technology covered the remaining cases well enough that there wasn’t a need for more speed. Research went into making missiles better instead, and this is designed to be a launch platform for those missiles.
Then why do we still operate the U2? SR-71 was operated all the way until 1999. Hubble was launched in 1990 so the large mirrors for spy telescopes had to have been in use well before that.
This is a fantastic idea, here in the UK we’ve just been dumping raw sewage in the rivers and poisoning the coast because it’d cut into water companies record profits to treat it (also Brexit chemical shortages or something)- if we can turn the poop into something useful that can sell then the won’t let a drop off that precious filth go to waste.
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