Non-IT News Thread
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Kintetsu Railway in Japan installs 42 Tesla Powerpacks as backup electricity
The installation will be Tesla's fourth largest in the Asia-Pacific region.
The electric railway encompasses 311 miles of track powered by overhead lines and third rails. In its "disaster preparedness" capacity, the Tesla batteries will provide emergency backup power in the event of a blackout, providing a short burst of electricity to move any trains that might be stalled in tunnels or under bridges to safety.
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Monsters from another dimension invade Earth in cosmic thriller Starfish
The film grew out of director A.T. White's own experiences with grief and loss.
A grieving young woman finds herself grappling with monsters from another dimension on what may well be the end of the world in Starfish, an atmospheric new film from UK director A.T. White. Can she work through her grief to piece together the elements of a mysterious signal that may be the key to averting the apocalypse?
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Lion Air 737 MAX crew had seconds to react, Boeing simulation finds
Boeing test pilots determine crash was unavoidable if MCAS wasn't shut down in 40 seconds.
In testing performed in a simulator, Boeing test pilots recreated the conditions aboard Lion Air Flight 610 when it went down in the Java Sea in October, killing 189 people. The tests showed that the crew of the 737 MAX 8 would have only had 40 seconds to respond to the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System’s (MCAS’s) attempts to correct a stall that wasn’t happening before the aircraft went into an unrecoverable dive, according to a report by The New York Times.
Not exactly, the full story. The plane was going up and down for minutes prior and the crew had requested return to the airport.
Yes, the final fight may have been 40 seconds. But it was certainly not normal, then 40 seconds later, crashed.
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BBC News - This man wants to get rid of the office for good
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BBC News - Two killed in 'senseless act' after gunman opens fire on Seattle street
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BBC News - Mission Shakti: Space debris warning after India destroys satellite
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Today, WarCraft 1 & 2 get their first-ever digital launch—and it’s on GOG
Bundle arrives three weeks after Diablo 1's surprise GOG launch. We go hands-on.
When we last spoke with Blizzard Entertainment about one of its biggest classics, the original Diablo, the chat came with a surprise announcement: the original PC game was now for sale online for the first time, and not on Battle.net. The game's launch on GOG prompted many technical and logistical questions, and after answering those, Blizzard confirmed an intriguing "one more thing" about the first two WarCraft RTS games also coming to GOG. At the time, these had no release date.
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@mlnews That sounds cool!
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@scottalanmiller Me too, they were good
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Wow Air has failed.
BBC News - Wow Air failure: 'They gave us pizza - then cancelled our flight'
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wow Air has failed.
BBC News - Wow Air failure: 'They gave us pizza - then cancelled our flight'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47731043Wow!
Sorry, can't help myself.
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller Me too, they were good
Hope it was stuffed crust as well....
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And it is Brexit day.
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@scottalanmiller hahaah...non Brexit Day...
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Got Amazon Prime? You just got 12 months of Nintendo Switch Online for free
One-time offer runs out in September 2019, includes one hoop to jump through.
As Amazon Prime's annual cost has grown over the years, so has its spread of perks, and that's particularly true for video game fans who claim its attached "Twitch Prime" subscription bonus. Weirdly, paying Amazon's subscription fee sometimes results in vouchers for other services' subscription fees, primarily in the form of free-trial offers to paid MMOs.
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BBC News - Zuzana Caputova becomes Slovakia's first female president
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BBC News - Saudi Arabia 'hacked Amazon boss's phone', says investigator
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Florida utility to close natural gas plants, build massive solar-powered battery
The battery bank will be significantly larger than the world's current biggest battery.
On Thursday, Florida Power and Light (FPL) announced that it would retire two natural gas plants and replace those plants with what is likely to be the world's largest solar-powered battery bank when it's completed in 2021.
