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Four pelicans suspected of being drunk on sea algae were being tested at a Southern California wildlife center Saturday after one of them crashed headlong into a car.
Today the pelicans, tomorrow the flamingos, then the robins and sparrows. That demon domoic acid knows no limits! Where will it all end?
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Pelicans are not small birds - they could probably really mess up a car.
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birds take out airliner...
In the sixties, inhalation of a seagull by a jetliner at Logan airport on takeoff, led to a stall and a slide into the drink...(Boston Harbor)...nobody was killed, but it made a point...they hired cats and dogs to patrol the area.Originally Posted by ToSeek
Today, a four engine plane will generally fly on three...''a three engine, on two ....and a two engine on one...for safety.
At my last AAPT Meeting, Hartford, 2005 I saw a neat demo at Pratt & Whitney aircraft. Using finite element analysis, they showed that the disintegration of a jet engine often showered shrapnel into the wing-borne gas tanks (I fly.) To prevent this, they re-engineered the cowling (engine housing) to include a Kevlar lining. Now disintegration of the blades of the turbine fails to penetrate the cowling walls...and the debris exits with the exhaust...neat. That explains how an Iraq sidewinder nozzled a C5a..blew up...and it landed safely. Imagination , the true virtue in engineering. I Love it. Pete.
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I just finished reading an article on National Geographic news about pelicans in California being found exhausted on the beach from starvation. Maybe these were just exhausted as well.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...-pelicans.html
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Phew! Things are tough all over...
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How would you like to explain that one to your Allstate agent? "Honest, I'm just sittin' at the light... fully stopped... when this, well, drunk pelican comes flyin' outa nowhere and... Hello? Hello? Operator, I think I was cut off."
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Depends on the size of the inhaled object (some website I was shown had pictures of the ground crewman who got inhaled not so long agoIn the sixties, inhalation of a seagull by a jetliner at Logan airport on takeoff, led to a stall and a slide into the drink...(Boston Harbor)...nobody was killed, but it made a point...they hired cats and dogs to patrol the area.
Today, a four engine plane will generally fly on three...''a three engine, on two ....and a two engine on one...for safety.
At my last AAPT Meeting, Hartford, 2005 I saw a neat demo at Pratt & Whitney aircraft. Using finite element analysis, they showed that the disintegration of a jet engine often showered shrapnel into the wing-borne gas tanks (I fly.) To prevent this, they re-engineered the cowling (engine housing) to include a Kevlar lining. Now disintegration of the blades of the turbine fails to penetrate the cowling walls...and the debris exits with the exhaust...neat. That explains how an Iraq sidewinder nozzled a C5a..blew up...and it landed safely. Imagination , the true virtue in engineering. I Love it. Pete.). It might not penetrate the cowling, but its going to severely affect engine performance. Jet engines are a little more fragile than cars, at least in that respect.
For a car, maybe a windshield or headlight hit would cost a few pesos, but a grill hit will result in one badly broken bird moreso than the car.
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Accident-prone Pelican Crashes Again
There was good news and bad news when Crash, the California brown pelican that earned her nickname when she flew beak-first into a car windshield, was released back into the wild.
As soon as workers with the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center released Crash on Big Corona Beach on Thursday, she stumbled and fell beak-first into a pile of rocks.
But after taking a few moments to gather her bearings, Crash shook her tail, bobbed in the surf and then headed for the heavens.
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Just wait until MADP (Mothers Against Drunk Pelicans) starts lobbying your state legislature. It won't be pretty!
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Ban that demon algae!
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A just a small detail folks, the proper term is "ingested" when you wander too close to an intake, not inhaled. Even if it is more accurate. That's always been a problem working flight decks. That and wandering into props.
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Yes if it inhaled you it could exhale you too. However being ingested infers chewing up! Gory thought!
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It's horrific Ozzy, cause you do come out the back. Are at least parts of you do. An F-14 at idle sucks in 5000 cubic feet of air a minute. When they are flying 40% of their forward motion is them literaly sucking themselves through the air.
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When you ingest food, it comes out the back, too. Le mot juste.
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EEeeeeooooooowwww!!!!
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It does?! damn, I must be doing it wrong, it comes out of my bottom
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I first read the title of this thread as "Politicians held on suspicion of being drunk"!!
That would have been a much more interesting story.
edited for really bad speeling!
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Why? that happens all the timeI first read the title of this thread as "Politicians held on suspicion of being drunk"!!
That would have been a much more interesting story.
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