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That is terrible, I hope no lingering effects for you. How often does that kind of thing happen?
Me too, thanks.

I think I saw a stat that said there were about 10 laser vs airplane events a day in the US. It’s happened to me twice flying airliners in the last year.

Back in the day, I had a few bad guys on the ground shooting at me doing it too. :)
 
Me too, thanks.

I think I saw a stat that said there were about 10 laser vs airplane events a day in the US. It’s happened to me twice flying airliners in the last year.

Back in the day, I had a few bad guys on the ground shooting at me doing it too. :)
Too bad you cant just pop a beam rider off the rails and let it follow the laser back to its source, that would make idiots think twice about lasing aircraft.

Todays non rocketry project is the culmination of several days work. Custon countertop in the laundry room. How custom? It started as sheets and sticks.
 

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There seems to be a theme developing on this thread!

Continuing laundry renovation. My wife yesterday put together, under supervision, the base cabinet for the sink. Today I dug around in the garage and found the tiles for floor and wall that were left over from the build back in '98. I have a couple of small locations I need to patch. I dug the wet saw out while I was at it.
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Considering I am stuck in isolation for two weeks I seem to be able to find just about anything I need at home! :)
 
Too bad you cant just pop a beam rider off the rails and let it follow the laser back to its source, that would make idiots think twice about lasing aircraft.
Shoot, just lazing them back would probably give a few heart attacks.
 
Me too, thanks.

I think I saw a stat that said there were about 10 laser vs airplane events a day in the US. It’s happened to me twice flying airliners in the last year.

Back in the day, I had a few bad guys on the ground shooting at me doing it too. :)

I’m pretty hippie, but lasing aircraft is one of the few times when I’d go with extreme prejudice. There was a time a few years ago when the Coast Guard had to stop flying SAR off of Florida because people kept lasing the helicopters. I hope someone went to prison for it but they probably got away with it.
 
I’m pretty hippie, but lasing aircraft is one of the few times when I’d go with extreme prejudice. There was a time a few years ago when the Coast Guard had to stop flying SAR off of Florida because people kept lasing the helicopters. I hope someone went to prison for it but they probably got away with it.
It’s has to be pretty much impossible to find people who do it. Our report probably will just end up on a PowerPoint slide somewhere.
 
I’m pretty hippie, but lasing aircraft is one of the few times when I’d go with extreme prejudice.

Yep. Endangering aircraft is moronic in the extreme. Dangerous to people on the ground as well as in the air.

BTW, I'm pretty hippie too. Currently wearing a tie-dye sarong...
 
Having all that automation is great. Even I can land one of the airliners. Where the pilots earn their money is when things are off-nominal.

I had a fly in a real sim a few years back. Really good fun. My brother inlaw, controlling the 757 simulator gave me a failed engine on about the third takeoff. I was still able to get the plane in the air and trimmed. Landing, using the FCS and ILS was even achieved first shot. It is amazing that the systems are in place to allow a neophyte pilot, with a grand total of 11 minutes of stick time like me, get it down. As I said, that was with everything nominal and good weather. Thank goodness real pilots have so much training and skills to rely on to get real, not simulated passengers safely from end to end.

BTW, that 11 minutes was flying aerobatics (me on the stick) in an L-39. Great fun :cool:
 
What is the intended processing horsepower intended for?
Some automation learning for myself, some work related testing, fleshing out some rocketry related ideas... (Is it possible to run OR as an online service?)

Compute cluster will only have 28 compute cores with an option to quadruple that and 24 control cores available so nothing crazy. Work cluster is 20k cores.
 
Got pulled over by FLA police... Apparently ANY livestock coming into Florida has to stop at an “inspection” station... 🤗
 
No, that was an idea that I was going to flesh out. Try to tweak it and repackage it as a WAR and see if I could run it via one of the AWS services.
@wolsen was also looking into the idea of repackaging OR as an on-line service; suggest contacting him if you're going to pursue this. There are a lot of issues to resolve and a lot of code to (re)write.
 
Well, if you can pull it off it would be great. Thanks just for trying.

Maybe someone could resume work on OR for Android. Which is easy for me to say, since I'm not stepping forward to do it.
Back in the day, I had a few bad guys on the ground shooting at me doing it too. :)
In military conflict, I hope. (Which is a damn weird thing to say.) It's bad enough pointing a laser at a plane, and it takes a real idiot and a-hole in one. I can believe that the idiot thinks it's harmless fun*. But plinking at an airplane would be beyond misguided fun and into downright evil.

* "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." My mother taught me that, and for a long time I thought she coined it. I found out long after her death that she didn't. I don't remember who it is that did.
 
in response to the 'laser pointer vs. airplanes':

I remember seeing a documentary on the Empire State building: the tour guide made a comment that many 'believe' if you toss a penny from the observatory / top of the building, it will kill someone on the ground. She commented on how many pennies are found on the 'step' just a few floors down.. "I'm amazed at how many people do this!!"
 
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