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Peter Sheerin retweeted
There are still a few hours left on Friday the 13th, so it’s not too late for more calamities.
Peter Sheerin retweeted
As expected, new footage. This comes from one of the outboard cabins on board American Heritage.
What we see in this video:
1⃣The ship still had propulsion as we can see some wake astern of the vessel. This was not clear in the earlier videos - probably due to the distance.
2⃣After clearing the Crescent City Connection bridge, the ship appears to make a hard right turn, vice drifting back down after losing power.
3⃣The crew have dropped both anchors in an attempt to arrest the forward motion of the vessel, but it is not enough to stop the ship.
4⃣Atlantic Asphalt never sounded a danger signal to give warning to those on-board American Heritage.
5⃣This is not the reason you book a balcony room on a cruise ship.
Peter Sheerin retweeted
The engines shutdown like they had their repress clogged, which would have led to the Booster slamming down onto the chopsticks and or the Raptors exploding first due to run away engines which could have also blew the booster on the tower.
It tells me that even with a half stack of Starlinks that Super Heavy Booster was struggling to throttle up after Max Q, perform its boost back and then landing burn which melted those engines. Those flames are not supposed to look like that at all.
Hope they can retrofit the engines and tanks in time for flight 16. Booster looked like it had a lot of juice in it so it could handle the filters, new plumbing and or better avionics.
My thought on the FAA comms outage today: I’ve had a bunch of interesting mentors, one of which is public, and a couple I can’t talk about but who also have Wikipedia articles (+ 1 that doesn’t). There’s a force of stupidity that hates redundancies that prevent disasters. Kill it
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while we were trying to protect the SF Bay Area from the next disaster, while being managed by two bosses who once told me they were designing their tech to fail in a disaster so they could be the heroes that fixed it. My tech was so robust it ran for two years with one of them
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Peter Sheerin retweeted
I can't be certain, but this looks like a stuck rudder, and the crew did a good job getting the anchor down.
The anchor was my worry. If it isn't fully set, it shifts the ship's pivot point to the bow and makes the ship turn even harder.
But look closely: they were still paying out chain right up until the end.
There's a small chance the anchor did shift the pivot point and the captain ordered more chain in response, but that's the less likely explanation.
Three very different possibilities:
1) Mechanical failure. The crew reacted quickly, dropping anchor to slow the ship.
2) The anchor slipped during the bridge approach, shifting the pivot point forward and increasing the rate of turn.
3) Both. Crews don’t practice purposely dropping anchor often so it’s possible a mechanical failure caused the captain to order the anchor dropped and the helmsman was not prepared for the faster rate of turn.
Also… why didn’t they have tugboats alongside?
Why did we never have the public hearing after the Baltimore Bridge collapse in 2024. We had a brief NTSB report but no drawn out public hearing like we saw after the El Faro, Deepwater Horizon and Marine Electric.
Those hearings are important to find hidden lessons learned but neither the Biden nor the Trump administration was eager to hold one.
BTW, Captain Jeremy is an excellent follow.
Peter Sheerin retweeted
WHY DIDNT THEY SOUND THE HORN?
The fact that the ship never sounded its horn before hitting the cruise ship is trending right now.
Were they supposed to sound it?
Yes!
What were they supposed to sound?
The danger signal: five or more short blasts on the ship's whistle.
Why didn't they?
We don't know.
What's my guess?
Most of these foreign-flagged ships sail with skeleton crews, and an emergency like this demands a dozen things be done at once. Cut the manning and something gets missed.
The 2006-11-13 Friday the Thirteenth is the day that caused NORDO procedures to be added to every checkride.
We also need to bring back “Mother May I” to grade schools.
Bruh never had a problem with NASA orbiters doing wide-ass S-turns over the continental United States.
Listening to the SpaceX feed - they're talking about the trajectory of the ship "weaving around towns" and coming in north of San Padre Island, then basically banking the ship around to get back to Boca Chica.
That's a huge red flag, pulling basically a u-turn in multi-mach velocities with that ship which will be mainly empty and heat-compromised, possibly burned through.
Will definitely be paying attention for that phase, if it makes it that far.
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I’m pretty sure I took a cruise on that boat. It would have been the year both WinHEC and SIGGRAPH were in New Orleans. I think ’twas NVIDIA that threw a party on that paddlewheel. But definitely out of that dock. And oh the irony of NVIDIA and that boat getting hit the same week
An absolute MIRACLE. Every passenger, most of them elderly, rescued.
For YEARS we’ve been told foreign cruise ship crews are just as capable as Americans.
Yet one of the last ALL-AMERICAN-crewed ships gets t-boned and pulls off an extraordinary miracle.
American mariners. American excellence. USA USA USA
End H1 Visas and stop bringing in foreigners to crew cruise ships NOW!!!
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Peter Sheerin retweeted
An absolute MIRACLE. Every passenger, most of them elderly, rescued.
For YEARS we’ve been told foreign cruise ship crews are just as capable as Americans.
Yet one of the last ALL-AMERICAN-crewed ships gets t-boned and pulls off an extraordinary miracle.
American mariners. American excellence. USA USA USA
End H1 Visas and stop bringing in foreigners to crew cruise ships NOW!!!
Peter Sheerin retweeted
Star Wars 50 aniversario es la película original, tal cual se estrenó en el año 77. Sin nuevas escenas, sin retoques digitales, sin alteración alguna del material original. ¿De dónde ha salido esta copia?
En los años 90, el estudio británico y distribuidora Rank, donó al instituto fílmico británico (BFI) una copia nueva en Technicolor IB de la original Star Wars. Las copias en este formato se conservan mucho mejor y no tienden a la degradación de color con el tiempo como en el celuloide Eastman. Esta copia se criogenizó (has leído bien) a -5 grados en los archivos del BFI y ahí ha estado durante 30 años para garantizar su preservación (con muchas otras películas y material fílmico). En 2025, los conservadores del BFI encontraron la película con el añadido que se hizo posterior de Episodio IV, pero también los rollos originales previos incluso a ese cambio: una copia original en dos rollos del material que se estrenó en el año 1977.
Tras comprobar la increíble calidad, el celuloide ha pasado por un transfer digital, escaneado en 6K y masterizado en 4K. Se usó software especializado para alinear fotogramas, eliminar imperfecciones (polvo, suciedad…) pero no se ha pasado un proceso DNR (reducción de ruido) y se ha conservado intacto el grano original y la estructura del celuloide.
Es la primera vez, desde 1993 con la copia en LaserDisc, que se dispone del master original inalterado y que además, se consigue a tal calidad. La película tendrá estreno en salas IMAX, también en IMAX de 70mm, salas 4K láser… y conservará su relación de aspecto original 2:40:1. El objetivo de este trabajo llamado SW77 era ser lo más fiel posible y tener la copia en mejor calidad del film original.
El sonido, que tenía varios masters uno de ellos de 70mm con 6 canales, ha sido restaurado y reconstruido desde 0, pudiendo trabajar con las cintas magnéticas originales con cada elemento aislado y se ha creado una mezcla en Dolby Atmos a partir de este material original. Incluyendo todos los diálogos originales y todos los efectos originales de Ben Burtt. Sin retoques.
La música de John Williams ha sido transferida nuevamente desde las cintas analógicas originales de la grabación en 1977 con la London Symphony Orchestra, usando el multipista original que ha dado la mezcla para incorporar, con limpieza de audio, la mejor calidad posible.
Lo que se ha hecho con esta copia es una auténtica obra de orfebrería, donde cientos de personas han trabajado para traer la mejor calidad posible a la película original, en un esfuerzo que merece la recompensa de volver a vivir aquello que hace 50 años muchos vivieron. Y aquello que muchos como nosotros no hemos podido vivir en años por la obsesión de George Lucas de modificar el material original.
¡Gracias a todos los implicados por este trabajo y por traerla a todos los países! Allí estaremos para disfrutarla.
A 50 días del 50.º aniversario de Star Wars en 2027, Lucasfilm y Disney informan de que el 19 de febrero estrenarán una versión restaurada de La guerra de las galaxias (1977) en miles de salas de cine de todo el mundo, incluida España.
#StarWars50🚀
I’m speculating that Booster 22 had an autogenous pressurization failure, maybe because they sucked the tanks dry.😑
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Peter Sheerin retweeted
Today the Boom team uncovered a design mistake in our first turbine.
This is the kind of setback that if it had happened in a traditional company would have meant weeks or months of redesigning and rebuilding.
Multiple teams, design reviews, part releases, getting a supplier on contract to make a replacement part.
But the Boom team figured out a solution in a couple hours. Our shop is working overnight to make a replacement part which will be installed in the morning. The whole fiasco will cost us about 24h.
I was reflecting with the team - is this a failure story or a success story?
I’d argue it’s a massive success — an entire team and industrial setup that can occasionally make a mistake but recover super quickly.
