believe me, darling, the stars were made for falling. amor fati with fierce grace⋆˙⟡♡
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toria ⟡ retweeted
(Realizing i zoned out for 15 years and have a family now without noticing) (Realizing I never committed my beautiful child's name to memory) You - (forgetting if we have hogs or not but going with my gut feeling) Feed them hogs
toria ⟡ retweeted
There is no knight in shining armor coming to rescue you from the dragons in your own mind. if you want deliverance you will have to become your own hero, the only one that will fight for you to the bitter end because they have no other choice but to win. its your skin in the game, nobody elses, and that means embracing the weight of it, the responsibility for it, taking the sword in your own hand and saying i might die today but at least i will die mine.
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Oak trees have evolved a smart way to overwhelm the animals that eat acorns.
Every few years, across hundreds of miles, they drop a massive number of acorns all at once. The year before, almost nothing. The year after, almost nothing again.
It's called masting, and the strategy is brilliant. Squirrels, deer, blue jays, turkeys, and bears all eat acorns. If oaks produced a steady crop every year, the animals would maintain populations sized exactly to eat most of it. By producing almost nothing for several years and then flooding the forest floor all at once, the trees overwhelm the predators.
There are simply too many acorns for the animals to eat, and the surplus germinates into the next generation of oak trees. The ones that hoard and forget, squirrels especially, become inadvertent planters.
What's harder to explain is the synchrony. How do oaks across 700 kilometers coordinate the same decision in the same year?
The leading explanations involve shared weather cues, a specific temperature pattern in spring that acts as a trigger across the whole region, and possibly pollen coupling, where trees that need pollen from other trees synchronize flowering and, by extension, fruiting. Chemical signaling through the air or soil is a third hypothesis still being investigated.
None of these fully accounts for the scale. The trees aren't talking in any way we can intercept and understand. They're responding to the same world and arriving at the same answer, simultaneously, across a landscape larger than most countries.
toria ⟡ retweeted
Reminder that flying in a chartered jet is 9x more deadly than flying in a commercial aircraft and flying in a privately owned jet can be as 50x more deadly than a commercial aircraft.
General aviation pistons (ie Cessna) are 200x more deadly that commercial aircraft and are as risky as motorcycles.
There are 2-3 fatal accidents involving an airplane every single week.
I’m a pilot and know that I am taking a substantial risk every time I go up. Almost every pilot I know with more than a few hundred hours has a story of a close call that almost ended it all. It’s a risk we all are aware of and accept.
The most common cause for fatal accidents involves weather.
Unfortunately, there is nothing unusual about the accident.
It involved icing + thunderstorms, a deadly combo.
toria ⟡ retweeted
Minha vida artística mudou no momento em que, ainda criança, observei um zootrópio pela primeira vez. Lembro de ficar sem palavras e em choque imaginando que aquilo só poderia ser magia, que nada na minha concepção de mundo explicava a existência daquilo. Hoje com mais noção de mundo finalmente percebi que em parte estava certo, a arte continua sendo a magia viva em nosso mundo.
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Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if I thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
toria ⟡ retweeted
As someone who is kinda obsessed with crashes, that girl was one of the most composed pilots I’ve ever seen given their exact circumstance. People just sit behind their phones & chat nonsense.
Comparing random ‘Maydays’ to literally falling out of the sky, I have audios of Delta 1141, Western Airlines 265, JAL 123 etc on my IG, the pilots could barely communicate, shrieking till impact.
AirFrance 2009 pilots barely kept their cool & gave each other conflicting commands that ended up literally crashing the plane.
Clowns piling on a girl who had more balls, skill-set & achieved more in her 20 years of living than they ever will.
toria ⟡ retweeted
The CVR recording in this one has one of the greatest of all time black humor in the face of impending disaster bangers:
Went through a binge like a decade ago after a different plane crash. There’s a wealth of great articles, UA 232 is one of my favorites. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United…
toria ⟡ retweeted
She was falling 27,000 feet in a minute in an iced-up jet. In about 35 seconds she declared a mayday, gave her tail number, descent rate, overspeed and a 60-degree bank. That's the job. Then she died with eight other people, and you're grading her tone. Fuck you.
A pilot should not:
🔘become hysterical
🔘speak too quickly to be intelligible
🔘say, "We're going to crash into the ground!"
🔘scream like a little girl
🔘hyperventilate
🔘scream like a little girl again
A pilot needs a certain disposition. This is not it. That's the reality.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The aircraft was in an uncontrolled overspeed dive exceeding 20,000 ft/min from cruising altitude. Expecting calm is unrealistic; male pilots have screamed in CVRs facing death, e.g. Western 2605.
fox13news.com/news/were-gonn…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_A…
toria ⟡ retweeted
I’ve never been in a plane crash, but my buddy slid the car I was riding in off the road at 100 mph and I remember thinking very clearly, “I can’t believe this is about to happen” right before we hit the ditch and rolled. I couldn’t imagine 45 seconds of that feeling.
