@nut_history Clearly Babe Ruth wanted to come back and play baseball again, but chose to reincarnate as a Japanese man to make it less obvious. The gambling addiction is the final tell.
Your 6-hour flight from LA to New York is about to become a 3-hour flight. And it's legal because engineers figured out how to bend sound.
Since 1973 it's been a federal crime for any passenger plane to fly faster than the speed of sound over American soil. That's why your cross-country flight takes the same 6 hours it took your parents in the 80s. Planes got safer and more efficient. They never got faster. The law made faster illegal.
The original reason was real. In the 60s the government flew supersonic jets over Oklahoma City 8 times a day for 6 months to test public reaction. The booms cracked plaster, broke windows, and generated nearly 10,000 complaints. So the FAA banned the speed itself.
Here's what changed. The speed of sound isn't constant. It shifts with air temperature, which shifts with altitude. Fly high enough and fast enough in the right conditions and the shockwave physically bends, curving back up into the sky before it reaches the ground. The boom still happens. It just never lands.
NASA measured what people underneath actually hear: a faint rumble about as loud as normal street noise. No crack. No broken windows.
So the FAA's new rule flips the logic. Instead of banning the speed, it caps the sound allowed to hit the ground. Stay quiet and you can fly as fast as the plane will go. Boom already proved the tech works in a real test flight last year.
The last time you could fly supersonic, a Concorde ticket cost about $12,000 round trip and only crossed the ocean. The next version flies over land, over your house, and you'll never hear it coming.
The gamification of warfare continues in Ukraine. This is really crazy if true. Ukraine's military is using virtual servers to allow people from anywhere in the world to connect to and control FPV drones on the battlefield, with money rewards for hitting targets.
Best point differential in NBA Playoff history:
2025-26 New York Knicks (+283)
2016-17 Golden State Warriors (+230)
2013-14 San Antonio Spurs (+214)
2017-18 Golden State Warriors (+210)
1986-87 Los Angeles Lakers (+205)
According to ESPN Analytics, in the 4 games the Spurs lost in the NBA Finals, they had a...
— 91.6% chance of winning Game 1 up 13 points midway thru the 3rd
— 72.8% chance of winning Game 2 up 2 points with 1 minute left in the 4th
— 99.6% chance of winning Game 4 up 20 points with 9:33 left in the 4th
— 95.4% chance of winning Game 5 up 10 points with 7:54 left in the 4th
Bc of these ratings the NBA is going to do everything they can to make sure this goes back to MSG for Game 6
Knicks need to rise above the incoming ref nonsense and end this tomorrow
Knicks are two wins away. 53 years. I remember Charles Smith. I remember starks 2-18. I remember Miller 8 pts in 9 sec’s. I remember Ewings missed layup. I remember the spurs in 99. I remember Van Horn. I remember Eddy Curry. I remember Linsanity. This week its time to forget.