This is the best explanation for what happened to that Learjet 60 in Florida:
A terrible tragedy. It’s hard to tell in the video, but it looks like the horizontal stabilizer of the plane is indeed gone before impact. They were doomed inevitably in a plane that small the moment that stopped generating lift (as the commenter points out).
Crater footage of today's Learjet 60 crash near Greenacres, Florida.
The plane (likely) iced up suddenly, couldn’t deice. I listened to the cockpit audio. It’s harrowing. At the end, the pilot reported they were descending at 22,000 feet per minute (which is insane).
The pilot did nothing wrong. She was completely fucked over by weather conditions. A control surface likely stuck (due to ice) and caused the plane to nose down. There’s literally nothing you can do then.
There is no gore, but still somewhat disturbing. Here is a video of that plane hitting the ground at nearly Mach 1. (Normies probably should not listen to the cockpit audio.)
My brain was like, “Certainly it has not been 25 years.”
It’s been 25 years.
The truck did start slowing down about one second before impact.
Texting and driving. Idiot.
I know he is attempting to be funny, but I posit that something like this is extremely likely.
NTSB Issues Investigative Update on B-767 Runway Excursion Accident in Miami.
That CVR transcript is damning. It shows a entire series of easily-preventable mistakes and aircraft mismanagement. It’s amazing something worse didn’t happen.
Deciding to go around and then not following through? Clownish. They knew they were way above the glide slope and still attempted to land, came in far too fast and could not slow down.
Pilot error all the way.
Correct.
Using standard fluid dynamics equations (Bernoulli) to determine inrush velocity, water would accelerate into the void of the submersible at approximately 260 meters per second. Given the approximate size of the sub, the time to close the void would be around 2.7ms.
Standard minimum neural response time for any stimuli to register consciously is ~100ms.
Those people were all dead (converted to goo, essentially) long before they even realized anything had occurred.
I had this fucked up dream where my own hand grabbed me from another hell dimension or something and I could feel my own hand from the hell dimension as well as my other two hands and it really was not great.
Do not recommend. My clones in the hell dimension should stay there, dammit. Y’all probably deserve it.
My dad lost $20,000; are we doomed?
Probably so, because it turns out your dad is an enormous dumbass.
Hope it’s not genetic.
That freeway was collapsed by an earthquake. People got smooshed.
Maiquetía Airport in Venezuela during the quake.
Damn. That is wayyyyyy scarier than it’s presented in any film. Just utter chaos.
My biggest intellectual embarrassment is that I used to be a degrowther. Damn, that was mad stupid.
Ok, I let myself get a bit too tired as I just forgot how many minutes were in an hour. Oof. Time for bed.
The more I read, the more it becomes clear: America has problems, but Europe is absolutely fucked on many different axes with almost no possible escape.
That is not going to be pretty.
I agree with Noah Smith that the real risk of AI is bioterrorism, not any nebulous superintelligence. It allows people who prior to AI would not have possessed enough skills nor knowledge to create and iterate on novel viral lines that could prove quite deadly.
Within the next decade, I’d put the odds at about 15% that someone designs and releases some virus or bacterium with AI that kills more than 100,000 people.
If I cared to do such a thing with AI, I could already do it. And I’m not nearly the smartest person around. Just depending on people not feeling like doing such a thing is not a great defense.