Airbus pilot...

"Damn, my 1,000,000th Pokeman 10 feet to my left, banking left

Co-pilot...

You stupid bar..................

Port wing clips ground - Boom!

Far-fetched?

Maybe...

Airbus pilot...

"Damn, my 1,000,000th Pokeman 10 feet to my left, banking left

Co-pilot...

You stupid bar..................

Port wing clips ground - Boom!

Far-fetched?

Maybe...

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/10/unplugging-the-selfie-generation-national-parks/

“Young people,” Jonathan Jarvis, director of the National Park Service, told me, “are more separated from the natural world than perhaps any generation before them.” That’s quite an accusation. Jarvis has been saying this for a couple of years, in different forums in the run-up to this year’s Park Service centennial. “There are times when it seems as if the national parks have never been more passé than in the age of the iPhone,” he warned in one speech. “The national parks risk obsolescence in the eyes of an increasingly diverse and distracted demographic.”
...
“If we were a business, we’d be out of business in the long term,” Jarvis said. He pointed to a framed picture hanging in his office, one of the iconic views of Grand Teton National Park, bathed in glorious evening light. I’d seen the photo before, had hiked among those very peaks, and still it made me marvel. But when a similar lovely picture was shown to inner-city kids, growing up without a tradition of national park visits, Jarvis had an epiphany.

“It looked scary to them. Empty. Forbidding. Not welcoming. They said, ‘Where are all the people?’ We had the same experience when we brought a group of students from Los Angeles to Death Valley. They wouldn’t get out of the van. The quiet, the pure darkness, unnerved them and threatened them.”

A generation lost in video screen

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A generation lost in video screen

Move forward a couple of generations...

...All Air Force pilots retired from flight duties & in command of squadrons of video screen drone kiddies...

...Drone Control, a drone just crashed barely missing a squad of Marines...

...Air Force Commander "WTH happened?"

Drone Kiddie "sorry Cap, Windows Update"

It may already have happened.

Russia said at least 62 Syrian personnel were killed in the Deir al-Zour strikes on Saturday.

The MoD said it would "not intentionally target Syrian military units".

The US has already expressed "regret" for the "unintentional loss of life".

The British aircraft that took part in the operation was an unmanned remotely piloted Reaper drone.

(source: BBC)

Well it was Patch Tuesday last week so maybe it broke something that didn't need fixing.

{sorry, at times, got a wicked sense of humour}.

More problems for the new Routemaster

Fortunately, no passengers on board & the driver got out in time.

Where safety is concerned, nothing can be done about those who have a desire to win a Darwin Award

What happens if-
1 You're overloaded
2 You don't load the truck correctly
3 You don't use the rear stabilisers when unloading

Bingo! We have a winner.
Truck falls into pit at Chandler rubbish dump.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I find it interesting that people pay more attention to the Sat-nav system than they do to posted road signs.
I think one of the classics from a year or 2 ago were the people that drove of the end of a bridge that was closed, because their car navigation system said it was the way to go- in spite of the "Bridge closed" signs and barricades.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I find it interesting that people pay more attention to the Sat-nav system than they do to posted road signs.
I think one of the classics from a year or 2 ago were the people that drove of the end of a bridge that was closed, because their car navigation system said it was the way to go- in spite of the "Bridge closed" signs and barricades.

Same here.

I drove 4800 miles across the USA.
My wife sometimes told me you took the wrong way the nav said so.
I just ignored it because i wanted to take the route i checked at home and continue on I70 west.
I found all places we wanted to visit.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

I find it interesting that people pay more attention to the Sat-nav system than they do to posted road signs.
I think one of the classics from a year or 2 ago were the people that drove of the end of a bridge that was closed, because their car navigation system said it was the way to go- in spite of the "Bridge closed" signs and barricades.

Same here.

I drove 4800 miles across the USA.
My wife sometimes told me you took the wrong way the nav said so.
I just ignored it because i wanted to take the route i checked at home and continue on I70 west.
I found all places we wanted to visit.

There are two types of drivers.

Those who don't need and don't use GPS 99% of time.
Those for who it is absolutely necessary to use GPS to go more that half a kilometer off a frequently used route.

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A former colleague would spend some time setting up at least three different GPS for just about any journey. On one occasion he entered the same, wrong, address on all three thus arriving at the wrong place, and not knowing where he was, or (worse) where he should be. Needless to say this amused the rest of us who had just followed the directions we had been sent by the people we were visiting.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Oh the GPS idiots. Nice Freeway that runs from Pasadena to Los Angeles. Nice for cars. On and off ramps will jack knife an HGV. All the bridges are low clearance, but not quite low enough to get the point across. It has been marked no vehicles over 6000lbs GVW for at least 75 years. Now with sat nav I see a lot of HGV on it.

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I'll use GPS to go somewhere I haven't been before (or not recently enough to remember), especially if I'm in a hurry and don't want to bother with finding my own way. However, sometimes I just use the app to explore the map and decide on my own routes. If I have the right one handy, I still prefer a paper map. In any case, I'm not so slaved to it that I ignore signs.

Here in town, we're having a marathon and half marathon this weekend, and the press release says they've uploaded the route to Waze and will keep the app updated as the rolling road closures start and end.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Oh the GPS idiots. Nice Freeway that runs from Pasadena to Los Angeles. Nice for cars. On and off ramps will jack knife an HGV. All the bridges are low clearance, but not quite low enough to get the point across. It has been marked no vehicles over 6000lbs GVW for at least 75 years. Now with sat nav I see a lot of HGV on it.

Yeah that's the i110 pkwy from the i10 northward(which is designated NO Semi-trucks, or anything above 6,000gvw), and is nice and twisty, sharp turns on the exits and entrances, that are notoriously short(Catapult launch anyone?), south of the i10(aka: the Santa Monica fwy) the i110 fwy is more modern.

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Savoir-Faire is everywhere!
The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST

American Airlines 767 catches fire during takeoff at Chicago O'Hare, 9 minor injuries during evacuation.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Italian bridge collapses on busy road in Lecco

One man has been killed and five other people have been injured in Italy after a bridge collapsed over a busy road.

The bridge, in Lecco province near Milan, fell when a heavy goods vehicle was crossing, crushing cars below.

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Ouch!

Obviously a new bridge is needed, hopefully a taller one, the local overpass at
Ghost Town Rd and i15 fwy has a clearance height of 14'7". Yeah that at times
has not been enough, since the overpass above Ghost Town Rd has had the concrete
patched with new concrete sometime in the recent past.

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Savoir-Faire is everywhere!
The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST

This is not a case of bridge being too low, but not constructed for the load that was crossing it - the lorry going OVER the bridge was in excess of 100 tonnes, and looking at the photos one can see the re-enforcing bar was rather thin and sparse, both in the deck structure and the arch which supports part of the deck load.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?