How do you know it isn’t running away from home?

This piece continues to bring a tear to my eye.

My problem is I always forget to listen to the in-flight announcements so I never figure out how to put my seatbelt on.

I’m almost 50 years old and I’ve been hearing about this for almost 50 years.

From the species that brought you the airplane, the atomic bomb, landing on the moon, and gator daycare - introducing swamp side luxury dining next to a fucking congregation of alligators…

Just like Kyle to slack off when a world record is on the line. Thanks, Kyle!

The title does say “very safe” so that’s good enough for me.

Gas be damned, I gotta get my steps in!

Straight to jail.

Hey guys…I don’t think that picture’s to scale…

From the looks of the picture, Joost has no idea why he’s disqualified.

/shrug

I have nothing to contribute to this conversation. Just wanted to say that was a horribly written article.

Oh boy I just turned into one of those “well actually” guys. I wasn’t trying to prove anything wrong. It got me interested in the 1906 eclipse and when I started looking into it things didn’t quite line up. This post spurred my curiosity!

Do we really need to politicize this? It was a scientific study performed in the UK.

I actually think the year is wrong? I found this image of the August 30, 1905 eclipse path which would have been seen over Egypt. There was an eclipse on August 20, 1906 but no where near Egypt.

You can go to this FAA Link and view "Records of Accidents and Incidents. Takes a bit to learn to interpret the data but there are a lot of incidents. If I recall it includes both commercial and general aviation.

Edited because I can’t English properly.

I was lead to believe we would get Ant Man.

BROTHER MAYNARD: Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses Nine to Twenty-One.

SECOND BROTHER: And Saint Attila raised the Hand Grenade up on high, saying, “O Lord, bless this Thy Hand Grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy.” And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu—

MAYNARD: Skip a bit, Brother.

Whatever your opinion on the subject is, I thought this was pretty incredible for aviation in general:

That’s a safety record of about one or two passenger fatalities per light-year traveled.

Might find your answer here around the 50,000 year mark.