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Submission + - Garmin Emergency Autoland deployed for the first time (flightradar24.com)

Submitted by alanw
alanw writes: On Saturday, 20 December 2025, the Garmin’s Emergency Autoland was used for the first time in a real world emergency situation. The Emergency Autoland system is designed to take control of an aircraft in the event of pilot incapacitation and safely land at a nearby airfield.

That is precisely what happened on Saturday as the pilot of Beech B200 Super King Air N479BR became incapacitated about 20 minutes after departing Aspen for Denver.

Comment Re:I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the bette (Score 1) 284

by 0xG (#65871385) Attached to: Trump Dismantling National Center For Atmospheric Research In Colorado

Lots of people voted for him the second time around who are clearly in the process of abandoning not just him but the political movement he represents, as the horrors have unfolded in front of them in an unmistakable way.

All of those voters had plenty of time to evaluate trump in his first term, and - obviously - liked what they saw.

Comment IQ drop (Score 2, Insightful) 67

by 0xG (#65864645) Attached to: How We Ingest Plastic Chemicals While Consuming Food

Americans are actually eating when they prepare food in their kitchens. Of those 16,000 chemicals, more than 5,400 are considered hazardous to human health by government and industry standards, while just 161 are classified as not hazardous. ...
A 10-fold increase in maternal levels of brominated flame retardants is associated with a 3.7-point IQ drop in children.

This actually explains a lot of election results.

Comment Re:Conservatives cause this (Score 1) 131

Even back in 2006, yes the university experience was extremely left leaning. Granted that's part and parcel of Portland OR in general -- but pick a university anywhere in the country, being conservative or republican (with or without trump, it matters not) is frowned upon.

That's because universities are full of smart, educated people. The Venn diagram has little overlap with conservatives.

Submission + - Startup discovers hidden abundant, clean energy and did it in an unusual way (cnn.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: It’s a “classic needle in the haystack problem,” said Joel Edwards, co-founder and CTO of Zanskar. “There’s no one type of data that tells you that a system is below you, even if you’re right on top of it.” Instead, there are multiple indicators which are really hard for humans to put together to figure out if a system exists.

That’s where AI comes in.

The AI models Zanskar uses are fed information on where blind systems already exist. This data is plentiful as, over the last century and more, humans have accidentally stumbled on many around the world while drilling for other resources such as oil and gas.

The models then scour huge amounts of data — everything from rock composition to magnetic fields — to find patterns that point to the existence of geothermal reserves. AI models have “gotten really good over the last 10 years at being able to pull those types of signals out of noise,” Hoiland said.

Once a potential location has been found, the next step for the company is to drill down to confirm the reserve exists and is hot enough to produce utility-scale power.

That’s exactly what they did at Big Blind over the summer, drilling wells to depths of around 2,700 feet where they found porous rock at 250 degrees Fahrenheit. They know the site is at least the minimum size needed to support a power plant, but don’t yet have a sense of how big it could be.

There is also work to be done to navigate permitting processes and grid interconnection, but the company estimates the first electricity could be produced here in three to five years’ time.

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