David Shannon

Software Developer and avid hiker.

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@airmainengineer Let’s you know when it’s safe to dump the lavatory holding tanks

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@LloydLegalist A lot of my worst ideas have begun with K, so.

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@TomcatJunkie Easy, anteater nation

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@airmainengineer Drop testing maybe

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@Spamsammich69 @TomcatJunkie And food porn.

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@SciGuySpace The image of wile e coyote floating through the space station with an Acme tool bag came to my mind as I read this.

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@Combat_learjet Someone found my emotional support pipe bomb.

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Once I have the UI built I'll add the ability to convert the units from Kelvin to both Celsius and Fahrenheit. I also plan on making it capable of building visualizations for more complicated data in the data set.

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Got my little side project building charts now. It reads the PDS3 LBL and TAB files and uses vega-lite to generate SVG files with the axis labels for the x and y axes coming from the name and units defined in the files. Next step is some kind of UI frontend.

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D05T1 shows temperature data in seconds starting at point when the heat shield detached. I believe that explains the initially high temperature which quickly dropped as the temperature probe got exposed to the upper atmosphere.

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@pete_porcupine Tried and the guy read it off using the nato phonetic alphabet

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@AlexHollings52 Exactly, I’m happy that at least some of those time over target practice sessions happen over a stadium instead of some isolated bomb range in Nevada

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@F111Driver It’s one thing to do that in DCS, but it takes a special set of nerves to do that IRL

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@thenewarea51 I learned to fly near McDill afb. I remember one lesson we needed to be back on the ground by a certain time because the TFR for the air show was going to include the airspace over TPF. Watched the airshow from the parking lot. Fun day.

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Next step is to get it read the table files and then build some visualizations.

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As an exercise in pointlessness I decided to use node.js to parse PDS3 data from the Galileo probe. The temp data is interesting. The first 20 seconds or so is swing around wildly before settling in at around 130 K. The final reading 58 minutes later was 425.12 K.

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Dec 7th 1995 at 22:04:31.907 things were about to get a little spicy for this intrepid prob over the next hour. Right now I've got it parsing the Object Description Language files into something I can work with in JavaScript.

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@UpdatingOnRome @uncledoomer @GoodAmericanMan He was wrong when he decided to attend the meeting with the senate on the ides of March 😂

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Awww she’s a sleepy 787

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Front landing gear of a Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 collapses while parked at the gate at Frankfurt Airport.