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  1. An Engine has come off before (on Oct. 4, 1992) on Another Plane Down in New York · · Score: 2, Informative

    Holland has had it's share of planes falling from the sky.

    Details about todays crash are hard to find but it reminds me of the 1992 bijlmer crash. A cargo plain lost 2 engines and crashed into a building.

    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/intl/article/0 ,9 171,1107990322-22329,00.html
    From the link above:

    The basic facts surrounding the Oct. 4, 1992 accident are not in dispute. The Boeing 747-200F, carrying three crew, one non-commercial passenger and 114 tons of freight, took off from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport at 6:21 p.m. en route to Tel Aviv. Seven minutes later, both starboard engines ripped loose from the wing. The pilot circled back toward the airport to attempt an emergency landing, but the crippled craft came down in the predominantly immigrant neighborhood of Bijlmer, 13 km east of Schiphol. In an October 1994 report, the Netherlands Aviation Safety Board blamed the crash on mechanical failure due to faulty engine mountings.

  2. Smell like a man on Nostrildamus · · Score: 1

    Somewhere on the long checklist of over one milion items, this man smells the astronauts before they can enter the shuttle.

    "Wow, you smell like a man, ummm well, the others don't smell any better, you may enter"

  3. Watt reduction on AnandTech Peeks At The Athlon 4 · · Score: 1

    20% reduction on the chip powerconsumption, does that give me a lot to think about when using a 350 Watt power supply? I know powerreduction on the cpu is interesting to know when looking at the heat production/cooling and stuff but Kilowatt's are getting expensive in Europe. Just curious.