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meowitzer | 2 years ago | on: Ghost ship floating off Yemen with 1M barrels of oil

Article mentions there will be an attempt to salvage the oil worth 75MM. Is this possible? Totally ignorant how oil is stored and if it is "shelf stable". Is there some sort of cleaning process involved or is crude oil just that, crude?

meowitzer | 2 years ago | on: Experience how contrails impact the climate

Unfortunately due to Poe's Law [1] and the fact that "contrails are the government spreading chemicals" is a prevailing conspiracy, I cannot take this seriously. Can someone knowledgeable on the subject weigh in?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

meowitzer | 2 years ago | on: Highway to Ruin: The crash of Southern Airways flight 242 (2022)

1. aviate, 2. navigate, 3. communicate.

There's a reason they come in this order, because in a total loss of power situation your best bet is to preserve your gliding ability as much as possible (for which any maneuver could compromise) until you know for sure where you want to touch down.

meowitzer | 2 years ago | on: Alaska Airlines does away with check-in kiosks

Still waiting on the mobile app to at least remember my reservation so I don't have to spend 3 minutes at the kiosk searching through emails.