Maybe they'll find life on Mars and the Lochness Monster while there.

Addendum: it will play and send back recorded radio waves to Earth when on the near side of the moon, so it's a cycle of scoop-n-spew.

It will probably only listen when on the far side and wait out the rest.

Aliens should play some Pink Floyd to mess with us.

Human behavior is unpredictable under such circumstances. The instinct may be to cover it up.

there is a mechanical block requiring you to lift the switches before operating them.

I thought some believe the lift-lock was missing on some planes due to a factory snafu or something. Boeing sent a bulletin out about it, but it was perhaps ignored.

Illegals are the New Jews for bigots like you

Locusts, Plague, Orange-Anti-Christ

Yip, most the "winning" in the USA trickles up, while N. Europe has better safety nets & health, better college funding, and more vacation.

Both Denmark and France are socialist-leaning countries. I didn't think the gov't would get away with increasing the retirement age.

Right-wing parties have been winning in EU of late, often fueled by anti-Muslim boogymanning, perhaps borrowing rhetoric from our Tinted One by exaggerating and highlighting crime or terrorist events*. I wonder when the anti-Muslim fervor eventually dies down if the leftist parties will adjust the retirement age back down.

* EU desperately need immigrants to keep their population from declining too quickly. They should help Muslims assimilate instead of demonizing them by cherry-picking events.

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It's mostly to warn campers and tall empty trucks, since they are vulnerable to wind.

...why can't it sort it for us at the processing site?

More Tariffs!

Amen, I did the same; WTF am I going to do about a lost child or Alzheimer patient 20 miles away at 3am? And then "wind advisories" did similar: it's always windy here, tell us when it's NOT windy.

They need level threshold: those who want only "major" issues should be able to shut off small potato alerts. Unless Dorothy has an 80% of flying by, I don't want a wind advisory.

That being said, major-event alarms need to be tested at least yearly using our actual phones. There is no substitute for live testing.