I'm thinking this kind of mocking actually just increases their sales, judging by the quality displayed in this thread that I randomly found by searching for the manufacturer in question. After reading that, in case everyone here aren't already furiously headdesking, here's a quote from the main page: "I'm not a big fan of blind listening tests."

That's rather odd. I can see how a recycler might want the material to be already cleaned, but surely they can't rely on that and have to clean it anyway? Where I live, cleaning the recyclables means that e.g. jars are empty and given a quick rinse, not that you actually have to go in there with detergent and a steel brush. Basically they don't want big chunks of food complicating the cleaning process.

Are you paying them to sort the thrash? If yes, all is well. If not, you can pay the higher fee for the added service or sort it yourself.

I'd say the opposite: anything that is a few hundred bucks but not a full DSLR. That level of technical sophistication is wasted unless you know why it is needed in some situations, and even then it's not mandatory just capture an image. Hence it's better for a novice to go with a pocket camera. In fact, it can be better for advanced and novice users alike:

• Easy to carry anywhere: more opportunities to take photos
• Less expensive/lighter weight: fewer worries about the hardware
• Fewer functions to fiddle with: fewer distractions from the goal of taking a picture

There are many good pocket cameras that take good quality pictures, in general it should be enough just to pick a price point, and go with recent models from known brands: Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Panasonic, Olympus, and a few others.

I should point out that the size of the camera is very important. If you ever have to think "should I take the camera or not", your camera is not the right size for the job.

You are talking about the immediate context, but there's more than one layer to consider. More importantly: nobody gets to decide what is offensive to somebody else.

The magnet in question is a MRI magnet, the word "weak" simply does not apply.

That's not the back of envelope calculation I was thinking of. Here's what I see as a simpler one: "Q: Would they use an antenna to transmit radio signals through unknown atmosphere in order to figure out the timing of an unrelated relativistic event to a precision of nanoseconds? A: That's a lot of complication, use atomic clocks instead!"

Antenna? Over the horizon? Please, do some back-of-the-envelope calculations. Furthermore, 18m is an absolutely enormous distance for today's positioning tools. It was an enormous distance 100 years ago!

I do this every day using organically grown Eyeball technology, in fact.

Good point, didn't think of that. IANAP, but it seems the P-51 has trim tabs on both sides, based on photos.

That applies to all aircraft incidents these days. Multiple reasons is the norm..

Well that's all the same thing, really. If the trim is level with the surface, the plane will tend to climb or descend depending on airspeed/power setting, and introducing a bias compensates. And I meant that when the trim tab is ripped out on just one side for whatever reason, that would make the controls unstable.

Obvious: take the picture first, and then help the man screaming for help!

But seriously, people screaming for help are not drowning (yet). People who are actually drowning, on the contrary, are quietly fighting for their life. The lungs are used for breathing, and when you can't get enough air to stay alive, as an automatic response none of it will be spent on speech or other vocalisation.

It's a small elevator on the large elevator. The elevator control surface is the horizontal tail which controls pitch (up-down), and the trim tab is a strip of separately controllable surface on the tail edge of the elevator (or other control surface), which gives the pilot the ability to semi-permanently give the plane an up/down bias (or left/right roll or rudder bias). Since it's part of the surface, if the trim tab disappears, the surface won't work as designed any more, and might be more unstable. In particular, only the left-hand side tab seems to have gone, which might mean that the trim setting would be unbalanced, possibly giving the left elevator more lift than the right, and so possibly causing the plane to roll right (among other things).

The plane banked to the right very suddenly, but with a kind of jerking motion, and continued until it was inverted. This put it in a position to go over the stands. However, a second later it went into a steep inverted nosedive towards the stands, and then going all the way into a half loop so that the plane was (barely) right side up again when it hit the ground right at the front of the crowd, probably because the pilot was pulling up to avoid the crowd. If the pilot had managed a fraction of a second more flight time, there would probably have been few casualties, since the crash was literally within meters of the crowd front, and people just meters to the sides escaped seemingly unharmed (at least according to some videos).

IANADoctor but I can't think of a medical emergency that causes that sort of erratic manoeuvring, passing out certainly doesn't. Moreover, the plane was already in trouble, since the pilot called in a mayday and started to pull up according to protocol when the fatal problems happened. Mechanical failure is simply more likely at this point: video showing the sequence of events