Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

DONALD TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON. CASE CLOSED.

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- Trump

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

Karma may sometimes be late to arrive.
But it never loses an address.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Seven Minutes

That's pretty much about how long it took to ruin four jet engines by inadvertently flying through a volcanic ash cloud that was diffuse enough that the pilots could not see it.

A NASA DC-8 did that ten years ago. The study is here (27 page PDF).

(Somebody tell Volcano Booby about this.)

4 comments:

Nangleator said...

Freakin' terrifying. I wonder how dangerous it is to recips? Could we develop a whole fleet of trans-oceanic recips with shutterable windscreens?

Comrade Misfit said...

There are not enough large recips left to do that. We'd have to get the Coast Guard back in the "ocean station rescue" business. There isn't the fuel infrastructure to support them. The airports would all have to put back the large run-up pads that they used to have. The environmentalists would go nuts about the big jump in the use of leaded fuels. And you'd have to filter the living shit out of the incoming air, for the ash would do a number on the cylinders, the valve seats, the turbochargers and the "parts recovery" turbines.

Nangleator said...

Then it's Zeppelins!

Or this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_tunnel

Comrade Misfit said...

You mean this one?