What a crappy mess!

 

326-day deployment

 

https://idahonews.com/news/local/tw...ng-an-airshow-at-mountain-home-air-force-base

https://youtube.com/shorts/f8tLojcxG0M?si=jGkAT7mJAOM6dRB8

 

 

Total nightmare.

 

 

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Hand to God.

https://cbs12.com/news/local/florid...g-while-driving-wireless-communication-device
Court records show the citation was dismissed at the request of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputy who issued it. A court hearing had been scheduled for Tuesday, but was canceled after the case was dropped.

The citation, issued Feb. 11 along North Dixie Highway in Lake Worth Beach, accused the driver of violating Florida’s wireless communications while driving law. The case drew widespread attention after the woman posted video of the traffic stop on TikTok, where she questioned the deputy’s claim that he saw a device in her “right hand.” She said she does not have a right hand.

 

 

Hand to God.

https://cbs12.com/news/local/florid...g-while-driving-wireless-communication-device
Court records show the citation was dismissed at the request of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputy who issued it. A court hearing had been scheduled for Tuesday, but was canceled after the case was dropped.

The citation, issued Feb. 11 along North Dixie Highway in Lake Worth Beach, accused the driver of violating Florida’s wireless communications while driving law. The case drew widespread attention after the woman posted video of the traffic stop on TikTok, where she questioned the deputy’s claim that he saw a device in her “right hand.” She said she does not have a right hand.

I think she's been handling this with real class ... good for her:

Woman without right hand speaks out about viral traffic stop video: "I felt very uncomfortable"

 

I think she's been handling this with real class ... good for her:

Woman without right hand speaks out about viral traffic stop video: "I felt very uncomfortable"

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office told CBS News in a statement that the deputy "initiated a traffic stop based upon his visual observation at the time of the incident." The department said the ticket was dismissed after a review of state statutes and "based upon the totality of the circumstances, specifically the lack of clarity on how violations are labeled in our citation software."

"PBSO remains committed to professionalism, fairness, and the lawful enforcement of Florida statutes," the department said.

Our brain often generates a 'reality' to match what we expect to see from previous experience. Most likely he saw her driving only using one hand and 'assumed' (his mind created a reality) the other was manipulating a phone like so many he's watched before. Confronting an hallucination can be a shock when you're so sure it was real.

 

Unfortunately, our sense of sight is our most fallible one. They once put glasses on a person that turned everything upside down. After wearing them for several days their brain "corrected" the problem and everything was once again right side up. Removed the glasses and everything was upside down again for several days until their brain again "corrected" the problem and everything was back to right side up. Many very weird things about vision and how our brain interprets it.

 

Air traffic control run by Compaq computers is safe but inefficient, FAA head says


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"We still have, I think, some real reliability risk in the system because we're running off of 1970s and '80s computing power, compact disks. It's crazy what the system is using today. ...There's a lot of floppy disks still in the system."

 

Many very weird things about vision and how our brain interprets it.

Yes.
If you think about it, what we see is not the image in our eye's retina.
Instead the stationary, single three-dimensional image is generated in the brain.
The eye just refreshes/paints that image and moves to do that.
Otherwise whenever you moved your eyes the image would move, like when you pan a camera, but it doesn't.

They've done experiments where the image the eye sees on a screen moves with the eye movement so the image is stationary with respect to the eye.
After a few seconds the image disappears and the person sees just a gray, uniform picture.
This indicates the image from the eye to the brain is basically AC coupled, so the eye has to constantly move (saccades) to maintain the brain image.

 

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