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swope

@swope@kbin.social

Aerospace engineer working to make aircraft greener & safer.

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Recently I saw a meme showing some poor crewman with his window facing the red glow of a warp nacelle, but I've lost it now.

Does anyone know where I can find it?

FAA Adopts Carbon Limits For Airliners (www.avweb.com)

The FAA has issued a final rule that will require most larger aircraft built after Jan. 1, 2028, to meet new efficiency standards designed to reduce their carbon emissions per passenger mile. The new rule will cover all subsonic jets with a maximum takeoff weight of more than 12,500 pounds and turboprops with an MTOW of 19,000...

Air freighter taking off.
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The state of Missouri has a lot of towns named for American ideals, like Liberty, Independence, Peculiar, and Tightwad.

Muometric navigation system - GPS alternative that penetrates underground, indoors, and underwater (www.nature.com)

While satellite-based global navigation systems have become essential tools in our daily lives, their effectiveness is often hampered by the fact that the signals cannot be accessed in underground, indoor, or underwater environments. Recently, a novel navigation system has been invented to address this issue by utilizing the...

The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts (journals.plos.org)

The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological research has questioned this paradigm with evidence that females hunted (and went to war) throughout the Homo sapiens lineage, though many of these authors...

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Mars is named for a god of war because it is red. Red is associated with war because blood is red. Mars is red because of iron oxide on the surface. Blood is red because hemoglobin contains iron that oxidizes when it's exposed to air.

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