When I worked at Heathrow in the late 1980s, I vaguely remember a B747 (Air Canada?) losing a wheel, it bouncing over our office, and demolishing several parked cars in the long-stay car park…
I salvaged this photo from an office which was being demolished at Heathrow, showing the Lufthansa B720 after its nosegear mishap in ’62…
Didn’t realise bird droppings could reach ballistic velocities. 😉
Your certainty makes you sound like a minimalist scientist type. 🙂
Wish I could be so certain about reality. Apart from modern scientists of the only other group of people who show such absolute certainty about reality is the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It must be just cluckin’ to have a true belief. If I had that I’d not have to think for myself at all, sweeeet, as the Cartman says! (If you don’t know who Cartman is you must be one of those sensible, grown-ups I am always criticised by. :))
I suspect the majority of us chickens have some uncertainty about stuff, and are forced to remain more open minded about phenomena we don’t yet understand. 😉
I would suggest that it is through the cracks in the current scientific paradigm that we glimpse the new scientific paradigm to come in the future. I am not so bright though, so I might be wrong. 😉
Ballistics is just projectile dynamics – doesn’t have to be a particular velocity.;)
My job title used to be scientist, but it was dropped when Tony Blair made all sorts of government departments ‘agencies’ to save money!
Oh, I’m by no means a disbeliever – I once saw a tall guy in a luminescent spacesuit in the middle of a forest I was driving through on the way to a night shift. Memorable, you would think, but it only came back to me when I read in the newspaper a few days later that two girls had seen exactly the same thing nearly 200 miles away on the same night.
This famous photo taken in 1964 always gives me the creeps, as the mysterious figure is very similar to what I saw. A Carlisle fireman took the photo of his daughter picking flowers, and the spaceman only appeared when he got the film developed.
Apparently he was interviewed by ‘men from the ministry’ as test firing of the Blue Streak missile in Woomera, Australia, had to be postponed when technicians monitoring video cameras saw two tall space-suited figures watching the launch…
Here’s a comparison photo I took for a Harley-Davidson forum…
1 – From a 1974 Harley-Davidson 1,207cc
2 – Rolls Royce Merlin X 27,000cc
3 – Rolls Royce Griffon 57 37,000cc
4 – Pratt & Whitney R-2800 46,000cc
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