Stephen Bateson

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@RealEmirHan Carrie. No Jada until sequels.

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@richardgordon22 Yeah, that diagram is quite misleading.

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As a kid I was in the Army cadets. (Australia) Early teens I guess. On one of the camps we had the opportunity to take a ride in an Iroquois helicopter. I was lucky enough to be seated in one of the the outward facing seats, with the doors off. (Or just open, I forget exactly.) we weren’t briefed on he flight, but it turned out that it was low level with many tight turns. Tight enough the there were times when either only sky or only ground was visible. Even though the seat I was in had excellent visibility. I was quite surprised when I realised that we were, eventually, approaching the takeoff/landing field from the direction opposite to our departure. It felt like, to my very untrained vestibular system that we were still heading away from the field.

I had already started to feel the nascent love of aviation before that. But I think that experience, which was never mentioned until we were at the camp, really reinforced it for me. I eventually earned a private pilot license. Never learned to fly a helicopter though.

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Haha! I never knew that. I’ve been taking credit for this for a while now. Quite a few years ago, flying a C172 from Archerfield to Hervey Bay (Australia) I had a particularly challenging flight due to weather. A lot of cloud, rain and turbulence, flying VFR. In the distance I see just a wall of grey surrounding Hervey Bay. So divert to Maryborough. In the circuit feeling a bit fatigued but flying a standard pattern. I guess I was not really expecting a smooth touchdown. But as it turned out it was the best touchdown I had done up to then. Super smooth. There was 1 or 2 seconds where I knew I should be on the ground but I felt nothing. Then just rolled out. I felt pretty pleased with myself.

Looking back now, yes, the runway was very wet. I’ll continue to take credit though.

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@Skogerr @dom_lucre General purpose, humanoid style robots are only one type. There are many more narrowly focussed robots in use or in development. They just don’t capture public interest, so you don’t see much of them.

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@FTFEofficial Not for holding an altitude. But yes for navigation.

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@klara_sjo The thickness of the floor made all the difference there.

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@BastardGrimm @CuriosityonX Calves of steel.

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@matseng Nice tarball visual.

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@elonmusk Does anyone agree that it would have been a great side story if one of the characters in The Expanse discovers the roadster. Perhaps Alex sets out to find it “for some reason”.

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@sgqjqwh @Adams_Tech_AI Don’t rock the boat. That things on the edge of losing buoyancy. Or at least wind the window up.

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@spaceandtech_ Even with the serious limitations, I’d say about $200,000 US. For very cashed up buyers. My estimate is based on similar offerings. Pivotal, Jetson Aero etc.

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@InfectiousMasc1 @klara_sjo For sure. As kidding goes it’s a cracker. All those guys are just a barrel of laughs.

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@Kristinartz The Martian

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@elonmusk I’m about 80% through reading Iliad. It does feel a bit like that.

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@DJSnM @Dotdotdash7 Welcome to X.

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@klara_sjo That’s 100% true. Don’t try to go there. Really. You’ll just fly around the south west pacific and get lost forever. Don’t go. We’re not real. Honest.

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@lamourjaime1 @klara_sjo 😂

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My take: There are two kinds of people. There is the kind that understands failure is normal. These people celebrate the successes. The failures or losses they treat as inevitable lessons. The other kind of person does not understand that failures are inevitable and do not understand the value derived from them. These people often celebrate the failures. I think partially because it allows them a brief moment of legitimately believing that they are smarter, more realistic, or whatever way they imagine that they are better than the person who fails publicly. I guess it makes them happy.

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@DJSnM Hazing the new guy.