I voted for Pele because he is the only one I heard of, and then I removed my vote because I didn’t think that was fair to the other people.
Isnt Pele the hawaiian goddess of volcanoes and fire?
What’s a Yamal?
Spent the afternoon at the pub with a bunch of folks cheering for England, Damn.
Yes, Pele is the Hawai’ian goddess of volcanos. And entirely coincidentally, Pelée is the name of a volcano on Martinique whose 1902 eruption killed 30,000 people.
But of the purpose of the poll, Pele is a very famous soccer player. He is also the only one on that list I knew, so I didn’t vote.
Regarding the attempted assassination poll - I initially felt a bit of regret that it didn’t succeed. Then I felt ashamed for allowing that feeling. Then I felt angry that I am the kind of person who felt that way because of one man.
Don’t know what was going on in Vegas during the 4th of July weekend, but I saw 4 Cybertrucks on the 15South that Sunday morning. First I’ve ever seen in the wild, and there were 4 of them about 10 miles apart or so. 3 were stainless steel. The other one looked like they’d laid a thin coat of Candy Black over the steel. Looked cool (the paint, not the vehicle.)
I’ve seen at least one Cybertruck in my town. I’m guessing I most likely just saw the same truck multiple times, but it is possible I saw multiple trucks.
I saw several on the freeway in the LA area when I was there over the 4th, including one with a purple wrap instead of the standard stainless steel finish.
Nobody ought to be going around taking shots at people, presidential candidates or not.
But when I think about how very close we were to a world without Donald Trump, I become actively angry that the guy wasn’t a better shot. There, I said it.
I tried not to feel that way, and I tried to feel guilty about feeling that way, and I failed at both attempts. So I’m owning it.
I’m afraid I was even darker than @Wheelz in my response to the Trump assassination poll. I voted disapproval that it happened, and sad that they failed, and did not feel guilty for such.
It’s bad that as a nation, this happened, because it is terrible for the rule of law, and aids him in his efforts to seek retribution for ills real (to him) and imagined.
But, if you spend all your time demanding hate and extrajudicial violence, you get no sympathy when it is applied to you. The only regret I have is that people outside of Trump were killed and injured, and even then… most (though granted, not all) of the people who attend such events are equally willing to speak happily of the violence they wish to happen to “others” who they disagree with and get minimal sympathy from me as well when they are consumed by violence.
Settling political disputes by assassination is a really really bad idea and I wish it hadn’t happened.
There is nevertheless a tiny bit of my head that says ‘but since somebody took a shot at him anyway, couldn’t they have had better aim?’
I don’t usually make tacos. I have eaten tacos made various ways, none of them falling neatly into the categories described. I liked them.
I’ve only seen a Tesla Cybertruck in pictures.
I feel a bit better about myself knowing there are others who share my thoughts
Aircraft “go arounds” seemed a lot more common in SE Alaska in the old days when the weather was bad (it’s still bad, but the instruments are better). The pilots keep descending until they got to the point where they really needed to see the runway. If they couldn’t, they’d pull up and either try again or divert.
I was a passenger on a flight (prob 737) landing in San Jose, CA. I’d done this landing a zillion times and could totally tell the craft was not on the landing path – it was too high. Then the pilot apparently realized this and dove toward the airport, a ridiculous maneuver. Me and several of the passengers noticed this was amiss. The plane skimmed the airport at about 3-400 feet going far too fast and did a go-around. The pilot came on the radio in his best Yeager voice to say something had been blocking the runaway. Chyeah, right. I excited the aircraft and muttered “nice landing” to the flight crew, who didn’t react but no buh bye! smiles either.
I’m from San Diego. Pilots miss the approach to Lindbergh Field all the time, because it’s so steep.
So I just went out to run a quick errand over my lunch break, and I passed two Cybertrucks in the ~4 mile trip. One was white, either painted or a wrap. The other was the standard stainless steel, possibly the same one I’ve seen around here before but I can’t confirm that.
I checked the box saying I was on a “small private plane” that did a go around, but really it was a 50 seat ERJ-145. But it was being used as a corporate jet, so it was technically a private plane, not a commercial flight. The company I used to work for had a small fleet of jets that they used as shuttles between a few of their bigger sites. Any employee who had a need to travel could reserve a seat on one of these shuttle flights. And no, it wasn’t the luxurious private jet experience you might be imagining; the cabin was fitted with 50 seats exactly like the ones on a commercial regional jet. Although they used private terminals and you didn’t have to go through TSA screening, so that part was nicer than flying commercial.
Anyway, one day I was flying up to Oregon on the company shuttle. It was a foggy morning, and one of the pilots announced the visibility at the airport was just barely above minimums, but they would attempt an approach. Partway through the approach they did a go around, and told us the visibility had worsened. Normally they would land at PDX when it was too foggy at HIO, but on this day the visibility was just as bad there. So we circled for a while, occasionally watching Alaska Airlines planes descend below the clouds (they were equipped for full CAT III instrument landings, unlike our plane), and eventually diverted to Redmond, Oregon, were we were basically stuck for the rest of the day.
This. It would be expensive, and there are some shirts i would be very sad to lose. But i hate buying clothing, and having to buy a whole wardrobe would be sheer misery. Yes, I’d be very unhappy.
I was once on an ordinary commercial jet making an ordinary descent into Indianapolis airport, when a stray gust of wind grabbed the plane and flipped us several degrees to the side. The pilot aborted the landing, rose steeply, circled around and then made a normal landing. We were quite close to the ground when the plane tipped, and i thought we were going to crash. I didn’t realize there was a name for that maneuver.
Same. I’ve had several sightings around here but it could have been the same one. Horrible looking things.
For the landing question I marked I’ve never been on and airplane that aborted a landing.
I also marked “something else.” Back when I was in Army Aviation I did the helicopter equivalent of many touch and go landings. When it was was my turn to fly I aborted several landings because I sucked and I had the angle wrong.
I experienced my first touch and go landing a few weeks ago at Las Vegas airport. It was an Airbus A320 or 321. The pilot explained it as “wake turbulence”. At least I think that was the term he used. The second landing was textbook smooth.
I did my first go around less than a year ago, flying into SFO during a driving storm.