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Comment Re:Terminal velocity. (Score 1) 76

I wonder if Apple can get a GPS route for the phone. It was in airplane mode so it wasn't uploading data to Apple servers, but maybe it caches it locally?
Obviously it didn't hit a hard surface, but considering that it fell out of a flying plane, it also had a considerable lateral velocity vector at the beginning, although that started to dissipate the moment it left the aircraft. It might have still preserved enough to hit the ground diagonally.
Wind is also a factor, it might have been caught in the engine exhaust, and given its shape, it might have been able to glide for a portion of its fall.

I really wish the phone was filming when it flew out!

Comment Re: The correct response (Score 1) 414

Intifada just means "rebellion" and it's been used to describe large uprising movements or Palestinians against Israel since 1987. Before then, it was used to describe uprisings in the Arab world that were often completely unrelated.
The term is not a political manifesto. Even in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, it simply means to rise against the Israeli occupation. It has no racial connotation, no specific territorial claim, and it certainly doesn't imply genocide.
Even the Hamas charter was modified in 2017 to support the concept of a transitional Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, instead of calling for the destruction of the State of Israel.

Comment Re:I nominate Elon for first explorer (Score 5, Insightful) 125

Uhh so edgy.
Don't get me wrong: I don't like Musk and I like what he says even less. But at least he's one billionaire who invests his fortune in technological advancement, and not stock market speculation.
That's so rare these days, that basically pushed Tesla and SpaceX decades ahead from competitors. That should tell you something on how inefficient our investments are.

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