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The first British built Concorde[^] made its first test flight 50 years ago today (the French one did it on the 2nd March)
And now today, we can cross the atlantic in just under three hours!
Oh. No, that's what we used to be able to do it in. It's twice that nowadays. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not just Concorde but, jets in general are slightly slower nowadays than they were some 20+ years ago, from what I understand it's to do with fuel economy and probably man made global warming - although Munchies_Matt knows much more about that than I do 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Munchies_Matt knows much more about that than I do
Now we have to move it to the Soapbox. 
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We do seem to be going backwards.
I mean, we had a Moonbase in 1999[^], we went to Jupiter in 2001[^], and I'm worried we might not have warp drive by2063[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: we had a Moonbase in 1999
Thanks for reminding me! I still have my 3D printed parts[^] for something that needs some paint and assembly.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yeah but Spock has a beard in the universe where all those things happened!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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He wrote the first edition of his book in 1946, and we are still waiting for essential parts of it to be accepted by US culture.
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It is because of fuel economy and hence running costs..
Modern jets use turbo fan engines which are a lot more economical but are a larger diameter than tradition jet engine of yesteryear. You just need to look at the diameter of an engine from a old photo of a Boeing 707 compared to a modern jet.
The large diameter engine is vastly superior on fuel and hence running cost, but are bit more of a drag. Thus reduced speed.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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I don't want to brag, but 1944 we already had flight times to London under 23 minutes, but did not make it over the pond yet. The service aboard was said to be nonexistant and the landings were very rough.
Back to the topic: The Concorde was the last dinosaur of the 'at all cost or nothing' way of thinking. It sipped away too much fuel and needed too much maintainance for too few passengers to be anywhere near economic. And let's not forget the safety problems the aging birds were developing.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Read the link: both Quote: British Airways and Air France were able to operate Concorde at a profit, in spite of very high maintenance costs, because the aircraft was able to sustain a high ticket price.
In fact, they became profitable by asking passengers (mostly corporate bigwigs) how much they thought their company paid for the flight, and then putting the price up to that! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, of course. A prestige object like that still is only sustainable for a time. Taking a step back and making flights generally more economic and sustainable (not that we are good enough to go on like that forever) is progress, while not being so spectacular.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Also 50 years since we first walked on the moon.
Where's my low-gravity retirement home?
Where's my flying car?
Where's my personal jet-pack?
Where's my personal communication device that doubles as a computer? ...oh, never mind that one.
What else haven't we got?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Man, this is not 'lost and found'.
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Why be so negative and focus on what we haven't got?
Let's take a look at some of the exciting things that we have got:
0) Cat videos - we've got actual videos of actual cats, goddammit, how cool is that?!?!?!
1) Er, okay, I'm struggling a bit now ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Forogar wrote: Where's my flying car?
My response to that question is always the same:
How well does your lazy neighborhood 18 year old look after his current vehicle?
Now do you want him flying it over your house? 
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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That is the main reason, death tolls would at least double if grow exponentially
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Only if I've also got roof-mounted deflector shields.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Please note I said "Where's my flying car?"
A minimum age requirement would obviously be necessary (at least 55 to stop my son or wife borrowing it). 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Way back in the day, MySpace used to have custom pages that you could do with coding. I actually learned a lot of coding playing around with the MySpace theme websites which no longer exist.
But I made a page so great when I was 13 years old that most would not even be sure it was even MySpace anymore.
I was so proud of that work and then they removed the HTML editor from MySpace when it sold and now all that code is gone.
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These are not the droids we are looking for.
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How long before he realises not to write in
Code tags? Could a bot pick up the different styles button and go for the forth one?
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I am starting to thing it is a troll copying the same message over several online platforms. Here with the "paste" is not taking care and the system is just getting the "paste as code" as default
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That paste menu is the only thing on this entire site that I absolutely hate. I wish we had a profile option to remove it entirely. It is interesting that no other site I have been to has it. Probably because no one else thinks it is a good idea either. BTW - I have previously made suggestions in the appropriate place regarding this.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Raise it in the B&S Forum... I personally like it, but eventually more users agree with you. It could be a check box in the personal settings "()disable paste selection" or so.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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My first article ever, targetting Delphi at the time. Found here[^].
The two main competing languages in the Office were VB4/D3 and later VB6/D7. Where VB showed you an error including a linenumber, Delphi merely showed a memory pointer. So, created an app that read the debug-symbols, set the pointer to the correct offset, and made Delphi show on which linenumber in which ".pas" file the exception occured.
Helped a lot in finding Acces Violations, and the only alternative at the time was "Exceptional Magic for Delphi", which did the same (for a certain price).
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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