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They're probably pretty busy trying to save Ryan Day from drowning...#GoBlue

Jesus dude, this isn't hard. There are currently 449 cases in that hospital system with 226 of those shown as being in the ICU. They are reporting that they are currently 70% full. In other words, 70% of their total capacity is 449. In math, that is 0.70*X=449. Divide 449 by 0.70 to get the...

Alright, 7th grade math. 70% of X is 226. Solve for X. 70% of X is 449, solve for X.

I fully understand the concept of flattening the curve. I have no personal opinion on where the goalposts are though. I have no education nor expertise in epidemiology so I prefer to let those who do do their jobs. We are locked down because people who actually do have said expertise have judged...

Well, given that a hair over 37,300 people have died nationally excepting those 4 metropolitan areas, I'd say some other places have it bad. I am genuinely curious what your solution is. Free the herd entirely? Wall off the cities? How do we keep the economy from being cornholed by the inflated...

Still part of America brother, and definitely a part that has a big impact on that economy you profess to care so much about. Like it or not, concentrated urban areas getting shellacked by this thing will have a huge impact on those isolated rural areas that don't have a high viral caseload.

Care to provide data backing this up? I have some that disagrees. Current Michigan Hospital COVID Snapshot. We are past peak cases. Beaumont hospital shows 449 CV19 cases, 226 of whom are in the ICU. That equates to 70% capacity (and infers a total bed capacity of 641, 323 of which are ICU)...

Seems like a good argument for what we've done thus far no? Whether we as a society have the intestinal fortitude to keep the safe escape going until GPWS stops screaming at us is another question however.

Flattening the curve applies to the number of cases, not the total number of deaths. The curve we're trying to flatten is total cases. You are correct that the area under the total cases curve remains the same regardless of flatness. That area represents total cases though, not total deaths. If...

Dude, totally agree. I don't know why she spelled out those four things when in reality they are only a few of many areas of those stores prone to browsers (fuck you dollar section!). That said, I still don't have a better solution. You can't just outright say "stay home unless your...

She didn't. She enacted an executive order to limit the number of people milling around in Lowe's boredom shopping and spreading the virus. Read the EO here The actual, non-Fox News spun EO and you can see the section referring to closing carpet, furniture, paint, and garden centers is part of...

Sam, sorry brother, I did not intend that to be a faceshot at you in any way. I am just very tired of the conspiracy theories, especially when combined with the false narrative of "it's just the flu" being pushed by the Fox crowd. Now more than ever we need to approach things with science...

It's bullshit. This kind of baseless misinformation from pundits and political extremists is exceptionally dangerous right now. Read this link from someone who actually is an expert in genomics and epidemiology and not some political hack on Fox News. Pretty clearly refutes Sam's post...

Anyone who has anything to do with Lemoore knows the pop-up bollards get more than their fair share of work every day. The fact that they weren't triggered in time for this incident boggles the mind...completely ridiculous.

Those were the three that jumped out to you even after this abomination?

Uh, yeah...not even close.

Yep, we've got 949. It looks much better without the orange and white paint job;).

Nope, no NACWS on any of ours. We've had lots of rumors about picking up more airplanes once Corpus throws in the towel but I'm not holding my breath...

Mostly it's for Paddles to make sure their hair looks good. That and it blows away all the boat food farts that tend to linger on the platform...

Great picture! Really nice work hiding the stick holding it up!

God...I feel like a hinge all of the sudden. Barf.

The contact lens waiver went away in April/May of 2007 I believe. According to the NAMI waiver guide, contact wear is allowed for "aviation personnel" as long as they've had an eye exam with them to preclude any sort of issues (see excerpt below). You'll still have to meet the uncorrected vision...

For fuck's sake, why is there this much wankery about what is, for all intents, the latest manifestation of the Gerber Gouge? Dudes have been living by the gouge/dying by the gouge since Eugene Ely was around. For some of us, it doesn't work so well and we have to study the actual shit. For...

Trick question! They're all blind so they can't EVER see the plane! I keed, I keed. Thanks for keeping me safe Paddles!

Honestly, we get ours from Vanguard. The name tags come from Vanguard with only the squadron logo and then there are a few local places (Sasser Specialties, FTG Embroidery, Morrison's) that can do the name/callsign embroidery.

Honestly, as a jet dude, I seriously doubt you'll be over 750 hours within the next two years. Hours don't come that quickly when they're coming 1.3 at a time. I didn't break 750 until probably 2 years into my fleet tour, and that's with a deployment thrown in the mix. Unless you're one of the...

Dude, it's the illustrious Chucky V. They probably just threw the rudder hard over on him as he rolled into the groove and then gave him a "99, ship's in a turn" as he was taxiing out of the LA.

Out here on the Best Coast it's more like 50/50 ballcaps/pisscutters. Maybe it's something to do with the shitty Lemoore heat making your pisscutter look like a fat guy's armpit after a few days...

They still do happen in the Navy. You just have to have a front office that's creative enough to convince the Air Force to pay for your dets. ;-)

We all wonder that.... (Sorry man, that was just a softball. Can't leave low hanging fruit)

Nothing beats doing all the great work to nail your push timing out of the stack and then picking up the dirty COD guys inside the initial as you're approaching it and they snuck in from the starboard D or wherever you sneaky mo-fos hang out. I sure do love spinning it so some shady COD dudes...

Shhhh, nobody tell the Blue Diamonds....their shit is outdated!

You learn something every day. That has got to be confusing for the dudes who've crossed the streams...so to speak.

I've seen some creative interpretation of night time (red ink) but apparently you Marine types take the cake!

Then the dude in the fighter sucks at BFM/energy management?

FTFY.

Did you at least get your 4 color pen of judgment that you could use to crush the souls of SFWT candidates with a flick of your wrist?

There's also a heavy ass helmet/umbilical that moves the CG of your head around pretty substantially.

You'd get a pistol qual if you dirty east coast guys ever deployed... :D in effect.

Day Case I recoveries are generally zip lip with cut lights being used as "Roger Ball". It's definitely not an EMCON launch and recovery because the Mini needs to be able to constantly yell at everyone to either climb or not cross the bow...

The worst thing about the -135 lights IMHO is the fvcking giant spotlight they have on the lower left side of that beast. It's a great way to find them at night when the radar shits the bed but wow is it terrible trying to keep any semblance of night vision with that thing seared into your...

Aside from scary ass night strafe, I've never seen anyone hanging out down low in a Hornet on goggles. Some of the old crusty dudes may have done it but I figure, what's the point in ruining something as cool as low levels with something as crappy as flying on goggles?

A huge part of me wanted that cop to start clubbing the little douche with a nightstick the minute he started citing esoteric law cases...

You know you're supposed to throw those ove...errr...dispose of those in an approved manner instead of keeping them for mementos right.

Sure about that Sparky? Last time I checked, temperature went down with increasing altitude and so did the speed of sound.

It was probably some O-4 shooting a Mode 1...slackers.

Agree with all. However, I don't agree with Mr Blonde's implication that we should expect our jets to fail constantly because they're older and just accept that. That's just no way to live life.

There are legacy Charlies and even A+ Hornets performing "as advertised" every day flying actual combat missions. Just because they're legacy jets doesn't mean they're not capable of performing day in and day out. You'd be amazed what a quality maintenance department can do to jets that are well...

Congrats man. I was just getting ready to be jealous that you'd get to spend a football season or two in Ann Arbor before I realized you're doing the remote campus thing. At least you can still revel in being superior to all the people at that "school" down south. Go Blue!