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[Urwumpe]

A target plane not equipped with ejection seats?
What kind of "practice" was that?

It is usual to use civilian service providers for target practice. Often those planes even tow missile targets.

Thats the company that owned the LearJet.

http://www.gfd-hohn.de/

The practise was to intercept a hijacked plane (or similar) and escort it to an airport. Usual since the Eurofighters in question had been part of a Quick Reaction Alert wing. The Eurofighter had been part of the tactical air group "Richthofen", which received its first Eurofighters last year, after retiring its Phantoms in October 2013

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The local university rocket team has had a launch failure:

http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/st...udenten-landet-in-kinderzimmer-a-976974.html#

Crashed into the childrens room, while the owners of the house had been away.

 

[Pipcard]

I started to get worried about my mental state when I realized that I prefer orions arm to Star Trek...

Well, the former does have, among other things:

- planet-sized supercomputers/hyper-intelligent AIs (Jupiter brains) - a Dyson swarm is in the background

- "paraterraformed worlds" covered by "worldroofs"

- a system with 300 identical, artificial planets, "each with a different experimental biosphere"

- giant "genetically modified space-adapted plants which are used as habitats" (Dyson trees)

So, don't worry about your mental state.

 

[Ghostrider]

The local university rocket team has had a launch failure:

http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/st...udenten-landet-in-kinderzimmer-a-976974.html#

Crashed into the childrens room, while the owners of the house had been away.

35% mission success. They still have to work out how to safely land in the children room and get back safely.

Gonna be hard because of the environment and extremely hostile lifeforms present.

 

[Pipcard]

This "Apollo Simulator" costs 27 US dollars!

(more like Appalling Simulator)

 

[MattBaker]

This "Apollo Simulator" costs 27 US dollars!

This Apollo Simulator is 0 US dollars!

 

[DanM]

 

[fsci123]

This "Apollo Simulator" costs 27 US dollars!

(more like Appalling Simulator)

The type of ultra cool, top secret, military, moon simulation tool gifted to you by a wealthy Nigerian prince for an $8000 qualification fee.

 

[Urwumpe]

Trois, deux, un, allumage

 

[Pipcard]

How about a brown dwarf surrounded by an artificial shell, on which people use waste heat generated by a virtual world?

 

[MattBaker]

How about infinite energy? Hey, it's equally logical and probable.

 

[Fabri91]

A target plane not equipped with ejection seats?
What kind of "practice" was that?

BIG misunderstanding: target as in "plane used to simulate an airliner which, due to many possible causes, does not respond to ATC requests anymore" and thus needs to be visually identified/escorted by military aircraft.

In real situations this can happen due to radio malfunction, other malfunction which may require escort, or, well, hijacking.

It happens a couple of times a month, and it is not unheard of to read in newspapers of people scared by sonic booms on the rare times the intercptors need to go supersonic.

Relatively related events are also the probings of western Europe's defenses by Russian bombers and other aircraft, but then at least we get to see pretty pictures:
http://theaviationist.com/2014/06/18/typhoon-intercept-su-27/

 

[fsci123]

How about a brown dwarf surrounded by an artificial shell, on which people use waste heat generated by a virtual world?

I'm detecting sarcasm...

 

[Pipcard]

It's not sarcasm. I actually find it interesting.

 

[mojoey]

How about infinite energy? Hey, it's equally logical and probable.

'I mean technically...' -Thermodynamicist

 

[MattBaker]

'I mean technically...' -Thermodynamicist

'Theoretically...' - Cosmologist

 

[mojoey]

 

[kamaz]

How about a brown dwarf surrounded by an artificial shell, on which people use waste heat generated by a virtual world?

I see your VR software and raise you suitable hardware.

 

[fsci123]

It's not sarcasm. I actually find it interesting.

Ok. Cool... Your username kinda made me doubt your intentions.

 

[Pipcard]

I don't really watch Trek anymore, but I don't hate it either.

 

[MattBaker]

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej"]Nai Luang[/ame] laughs about her. When he became King literally no part of my country had a constitution.