[–] 5 points 1 week ago

Y'all should go watch Fires of Kuwait which is about how the world mobilized to help extinguish the oil field fires. Using novel machines like these and dynamite to extinguish and cap burning well heads.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Director Young Kim,

    "That was a hasty judgment on my part. Unless AI takes one more leap and reaches a point where no one can tell the difference, what I believed was still closer to an ideal than a reality. I expected some of you would be disappointed by our use of AI. I did not expect it to become this big."

    "I'm sorry we got caught this time. We'll try to dupe you again later."

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    And they function normally in this sandbox? I'm assuming sandbox is just compartmentalization. I'm interested in these mainly because when I use an app, browser, whatever... I want it seeing only what I give it with regular use, I don't want it digging through my contacts, messages, location, microphone, other programs, yada yada. Instagram should only see what I'm scrolling. The play store should only see what I choose to download.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    A lot of comments on here didn't read the article and/or simply don't know how aviation or military aviation works.
    Some blaming the current administration even though the article notes a slightly higher accident rate in 2024. The current model Helicopter was fielded in 2011, and the article doesn't mention when the transmission issues began.
    This could be a maintenance problem, a Boeing problem. Is Boeing or an army subcontractor rebuilding the transmissions?
    I just did inspections on some gearboxes because the incorrect self-locking nuts were used. I've seen a series of accidents caused by o-rings made out of spec internal to hydraulic servos. I remember NASA killing a crew due to o-ring issues. I remember a few decades ago Airbus had a series of helicopter accidents where the main rotors detached due to a gear in the main transmissions being hardened incorrectly. Before all that De Haviland Comets were coming apart in air due to metal fatigue.

    We should be concerned with the reaction to and correction of the issues. The Army has grounded training flights, which they should. Not long ago the V-22 fleet was grounded for like a year while clutch failures were investigated.

    Just because YOU'VE only just heard of an issue doesn't mean it hasn't been a long standing issue nor that it's the fault of whoever is in charge right now. We need more information before we start finger pointing.

    Though Boeing has been on a downhill trend since the McDonald Douglas takeover.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    The novel is more clear. Dave has evolved, literally. The monoliths are mile markers set out by ethereal aliens; the first teaching apes how to use tools, the other monitoring our progress to becoming space-faring.
    Aliens ushering us into a next plane of evolution is a recurring them with Clark. Childhood's End has the extraterrestrials taking a much more deliberate role in our species transition.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    2001 is one of the rare movies where the book isn't better but it is important. The movie and book were written at the same time with Clark and Kubrick working together. The book provides additional insights that are difficult to convey in a movie.

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