Anyone here watch South Park? There's an episode where people from the year 3045 travel back in time to find work (everything in the future is sh*t).
Because all races mixed and borders disappeared, the future humans all share a uniform, ugly-yellowish-brownish appearance and speak a single puked up blended language.
Each city in the meme is already the video on the right, as we watch more and more fall each year.
For three and a half minutes, an Airbus A330 fell straight down into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. The co-pilot at the controls kept pulling back on his stick. The alarm telling him to push forward instead sounded 75 times. He never did. Today, 17 years later, a Paris court called that manslaughter and fined Airbus and Air France €225,000 each.
The fine is the maximum French law allows for a company killing people through carelessness. Airbus is worth $154 billion. The penalty works out to about two minutes of its revenue. A 2023 court had cleared both companies. Today’s verdict reverses that, and Airbus is already appealing again.
On June 1, 2009, AF447 was crossing the Atlantic from Rio to Paris when it flew into a thunderstorm over the equator. Storm clouds there reach 50,000 feet, higher than any passenger jet flies. Ice packed into three small tubes on the plane’s nose. Those tubes are how the plane knows how fast it’s flying. The speed readings vanished.
The autopilot shut off. The computer that flies the plane dropped into a backup mode the pilots had barely practiced. The captain was on a scheduled break in the back. The pilot flying was Pierre-Cédric Bonin, the least experienced of the three. He pulled the stick back.
A plane flies because air flows smoothly over its wings. Pull the nose up too sharply and that smooth flow breaks. The wings stop pushing the plane up. The plane falls. Pilots call this a stall. To recover, push the nose down and let the wings catch air again.
Bonin did the opposite. He kept the stick back, climbing into the stall. The A330 reached 38,000 feet, ran out of climb, and started falling at almost 125 miles per hour straight down. The alarm screamed “STALL” for 54 straight seconds. Neither pilot mentioned it. Near the end, Bonin asks “But what’s happening?” Then the plane hit the ocean.
The tubes that iced up were a known problem. Airbus A330s and A340s had 32 of these icing incidents in the six years before AF447. In the two months before the crash, the rate climbed to roughly one a week. Europe’s aviation regulator had known for years. Air France had ordered the upgrade, but AF447 was still flying with the old part.
The black boxes lay deeper than the Titanic, almost two and a half miles under the Atlantic. Finding them took two years and €31 million. The crash rewrote pilot training worldwide. Pilots now practice hand-flying a big jet at cruise altitude, pulling out of a stall five miles up, and handling cockpits where every speed gauge is lying.
France’s official investigation found six things contributing to the crash, including how the crew responded. The appeals court today said the two companies were “solely and entirely responsible.” Both can’t be right. The next appeal will fight over which one is.
97% of iPhone users never touch Camera settings.
Which means 97% are shooting with settings that make photos look worse than they should.
I changed 5 of them last week.
My photos instantly looked more professional.
Here is what I changed: