You're right. Americans ARE ignorant. I'm sick and tired of seeing some blow-dried idiot on CNN ramble on about the anthrax "virus" and about how there's a "cutaneous strain" and an "inhaled strain" and how "weapons grade" anthrax has "smaller spores", etc., etc, etc. Isn't biology a requirement for journalism majors? I'd like to think that an editor would never let crap like that get through, but something is definitely wrong.
So how exactly are we being served by consuming unfiltered news? Sure, there's less bias, but how is the average citizen supposed to filter out the truth from the endless mounds of horseshit being shoveled at them?
The "doughnuts-on-a-rope" description describes what the contrail would look like at low speeds. When it's really moving it would look more like the other reader described it.
I'm a little skeptical of the 5 second horizon-to-horizon claim though, especially at the altitude they've been flying these things at. Nothing could move that fast without burning.
> Structural failure is one of the rarest causes of military aircraft loss(fuel and propulsion systems are the big problems), and is not usually a high priority on increasing aircraft damage tolerance.
But remember that in military aircraft, as a rule, only the cockpits are pressurized (if that), and the cockpits are also pretty well hardened to protect the crew, so decompression due to penetration would be pretty unlikely.
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You're right. Americans ARE ignorant. I'm sick and tired of seeing some blow-dried idiot on CNN ramble on about the anthrax "virus" and about how there's a "cutaneous strain" and an "inhaled strain" and how "weapons grade" anthrax has "smaller spores", etc., etc, etc. Isn't biology a requirement for journalism majors? I'd like to think that an editor would never let crap like that get through, but something is definitely wrong.
So how exactly are we being served by consuming unfiltered news? Sure, there's less bias, but how is the average citizen supposed to filter out the truth from the endless mounds of horseshit being shoveled at them?
The "doughnuts-on-a-rope" description describes what the contrail would look like at low speeds. When it's really moving it would look more like the other reader described it.
I'm a little skeptical of the 5 second horizon-to-horizon claim though, especially at the altitude they've been flying these things at. Nothing could move that fast without burning.
> Structural failure is one of the rarest causes of military aircraft loss(fuel and propulsion systems are the big problems), and is not usually a high priority on increasing aircraft damage tolerance. But remember that in military aircraft, as a rule, only the cockpits are pressurized (if that), and the cockpits are also pretty well hardened to protect the crew, so decompression due to penetration would be pretty unlikely.