I'm surprised this isn't sponsored by the anti-climate change groups:
"Yes, you may have read that 50% of the great barrier reef is dead, but even if that were the case, it's fine... we can just repopulate it with better stronger coral."

I don't know if I'm joking or not.

maybe he was afraid of heights....

or part of an OSHA class on the proper use of step ladders...
I mean, face it - he didn't have a harness, he didn't have rope to tie off and secure the ladder, he didn't have the proper barriers to keep pedestrians from walking under the ladder. If OSHA caught him using the ladder without the proper safety equipment, they could have shut down the whole facility and fined them $100,000.

From the large thumbnail you can see two posts and a chain as a barrier. Seems they didn't have them in place. I'd think they would have the loading area outlined and a big painted warning on the ground. I'm guessing they will after this.

I love how she still had her priorities in order after the crash. They were on a mission and no crash would keep them from there candle supply's.

No one thought that maybe there should be a barrier here?

The hockey puck glow was a bit weird, but actually pretty good for a few scenarios:

It is rather difficult for people who haven't seen much hockey to follow the puck. As you watch more of the sport, you figure out cues that help you track it, but I think that is a legitimate barrier that presents some difficulty in getting new fans of the sport. I think the blue glow helped a lot with that; would be nice if individual viewers could opt in our out of it on the fly. That would have been impossible (or prohibitively expensive) before, but with streaming video looking like the future rather than set channels it will be more workable.

When the puck travels close to the boards on the near side of the rink, it gets obscured and out of sight. The blue glow clipped right through that, so you could still figure out where the puck was. If two or more players were in a scrum for a puck stuck along the boards, you could see if it was moving and therefore know if a ref/linesman was going to whistle the play dead. That was quite a handy feature also.

Overall, the implementation / resolution of the puck highlighting in hockey was a bit non ideal, but it did have some real upsides. I don't think it deserved *quite* as much flak as it got...

*quality project there, mates. Good on ya, break down those barriers to progress with some hard core regression, that'll confuse those annoying hippies.

Sounds like I better get my ass to the great barrier reef if I want to see it.

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My understanding is that the main barrier to achieving fusion sooner is funding. Unlike fission breeder reactors, there are few weapon applications - so military funding from the US doesn't go there.

The bevel on the median barrier saved his car.

That looks horrific

No guardrails or any type of barrier around the poll

...if he went the other way, he'd break the sound barrier.

Gun control laws have always been about making sure a militia doesn't form to overthrow the duly elected secretariat. It has nothing to do with public safety.

If someone wants to go around killing a bunch of people with a gun, they will do that. Period. It happens up here in Canada and we have higher barriers to gun ownership than even what US gun control advocates are asking for. I can go out and buy a fully automatic AK-47 within minutes and I'm in sleepy old Victoria. I've met the people who have access, and they don't care if you're a whack job.

What we don't have is routine legal gun deaths from people who merely get pissed off. THAT is the US problem. Emotions, not insanity.

Without wishing to bang on about it - that happens a LOT on the internet. I think it's less about tone of voice and more about people being so offended by inequality that they are over aggressive in their pursuit of equality. They attack the argument before fully understanding it or allowing it to be fully expressed.

It's a really tight line to walk and I know this because I have in the past offended respectful, honest people in my crusade which was against abuse of power and authority. I hated being mistreated by people in authority so much that I became prejudiced against people in authority. The reason I behaved like that is because of how I was treated by authority figures in my formative years and the defence mechanisms I developed because of it. And in the same way, some women who are very poorly treated by men may develop barriers, prejudices and coping mechanisms in response.

(... and that's why I make a dozen edits to my posts. Sometimes I get carried away and detract entirely from what I was trying to achieve.)

I'm not saying that's the underlying cause of the misunderstanding here, but the point I'm trying to make is that there may be good reasons why someone just said something you thought was sexist. Problems arise, I think, when we deal in absolutes; this person is definitely chauvinist because he's ignorant and rude, this person is definitely a man-hater because she is ignorant and rude - both may be unfair to the other.

Congrats on breaking the barrier!

I think the X-1 is the first that could pass the speed of sound in normal level flight, without needing to dive to gain speed. That's my understanding at least. It ll depends how the record is stated though, it's almost certainly not the first manned craft to pass the sound barrier as you point out.

About the X-1 being the first manned vehicle to break the sound barrier: there are records of Bf 109Fs surpassing 950km/h TAS in a dive when they tried to solve the issue of elevator and aileron lock-ups at very high speeds. I wouldn't call it far-fetched to assume that both G10 and K4 could surpass Mach 1 in a high-altitude dive without the wings shearing off. Alas, no proof. Just an interesting bit of aviation.