You'd think that having done wing design on Airbus aircraft for 7 years I would have heard of this wing fuse concept, but I haven't.
You're talking out of your arse. And it's shear, not sheer. There is no separation of flammables because that would result in the inner fuel tanks draining all over and around the aircraft. There is only one crash criterion for wings and that is no fracturing of the wing box under moderate crash accelerations, so that fuel doesn't piss out everywhere in an otherwise minor crash.

Having also been an aviation buff for my whole life and recently a glider pilot, I also have no idea about these steep and fast landings that you speak of. Airliners follow what's almost always a 3 to 4 deg glide path. That's a shallow approach which requires thrust to follow in the landing configuration. Deliberately steep approaches beyond the glideslope do not exist in airliner operations. Find me an example of these high volume airports which prefer riskier approaches.

I see you arguing a lot here on /. and I've wondered whether you really know what you're talking about. I think I have my answer.

Wow, that's as bad speculative bullshit as I've even seen in Youtube and Facebook comments. I didn't think I'd see it on /.

As an aside, AoA indicators would make such an error fairly obvious. I still can't figure out why it's not a standard instrument.

Bzzzt. You need to go back to geography class and learn your map projections if you think it's twice the distance. The longest great circle distance I can measure within Canada is 5160 km (NW Yukon to Newfoundland), and from SFO to JFK it's 4130 km.
FWIW, the longest distance I can find in the contiguous USA is NW Washington to the Florida Keys: 4630 km. Tell me again how Canada is soooo big.

Yeah, because you have so much more privacy when it's a paper tag assigned to you going through the baggage system. WTF are you on about you loony?

Then you're (not you personally) an idiot that's ignored Excel's suggestion of "there is adjacent data. Would you like to extend your selection?".
Seriously, I figured out sorting back in school when I started using spreadsheets, so it doesn't take that much experience.

Sick of bloody programmers getting all high and mighty about how I should do engineering.

"...this may herald the biggest revolution in civil aviation since Wilbur Wright won the coin toss at Kitty Hawk in 1903."
What hyperbolic bullshit. Not only have standard piloted planes been remotely controlled for decades (as opposed to specially designed UAVs), but I'd say that reliable flight in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) was a bigger revolution.
This is merely a small stepping stone to remote flight that's reliable enough for regular public transport. It's not a fucking revolution. But noooooo, we need page clicks.

While I fucked up and meant 1 Mbps, I'd hope you'd consider 1 MBps fast because hardly anyone gets that in our (Aus and USA) technologically advanced countries. Go on, cherry pick your bullshit examples; I've lived in Seattle for 6 months and seen the options and how much they cost.

Who cares how bad the rest of the world is? Hundreds of GB at 1 MBps up is not a solution.

I suspect that's why travelling and meeting disimilar people is good. It makes them real people in one's mind and you get used to the fact that there are differences between parts of the world which aren't necessarily "wrong". I've just moved to the US and have met a person that is opinionated and has never been outside the US... It has been a very interesting experience seeing how that forms a person.