mercano

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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He was teased in the post-credits scene in the first movie.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Specifically, this is on the Fredric Douglas Tunnel project in Baltimore, an attempt to replace an 150 year old tunnel that’s become a major bottleneck on the Northeast Corridor.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Yes and no. I think the big issue was Biden stayed in the race too late to hold a competitive primary, so we got whoever the leadership chose, rather than who the voters thought was best.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Similar to what happened in 1958, when a Taiwanese F-86 fired an American-made AIM-9 Sidewinder at a Chinese MiG-17. The missile hit the MiG, but failed to detonate. The MiG landed with the Sidewinder still lodged in it. The USSR was able to buy it off of the Chinese and reverse engineer it, putting their version into production as the K-13.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

“Weyoun 5 was a great man, a true patriot” —Weyoun 7

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Don’t speak their name, or it’ll be wall-to-wall TNG “Cause and Effect” memes for three days.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Those Hogwarts Days

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 64 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Police say the matter is civil unless he fails to pay. He is now banned from returning to the library.

Pretty sure Destruction of Public Property is a crime in most jurisdictions.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance* has been petitioning the Patrician for months trying to get a vampire onto the City Watch. The Campaign for Equal Heights and the Fresh Start Club have already gotten dwarves and zombies onto the force, so it’s only a matter of time.

* They’ve sworn off the red sticky stuff, oh deary me, yes.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The procedure when doing a carrier landing is to go to full throttle as you touch down. It may seem counterintuitive, but the idea is if you miss all the wires, you have enough thrust to get back into the air to go around and try again. If you catch a wire, they’re designed to stop the plane at full power. I’m curious what went wrong here to leave the plane short of the necessary power to get airborne again.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It’s an LCARS system, I know this!

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