one of the most recognizable people in the world isn't taking the train even if it's japan level efficiency
Ok, so seems like the valley interrupting the signal would be atypical—if I understand you correctly. Such an eery thing to listen to.
Maybe I read too much into your post. A lot of people exaggerate the wealth tax thinking rich people won't still be rich, when in reality they won't even feel it that much. Maybe you weren't doing that.
We need better infrastructure, but this. They said he lived 49 miles away from Staples Center. Sort of seemed like a life choice to be happy where his home was, more than primarily traffic.
It’s a shitty thing. I’ve flown around Los Angeles and never had an issue with any frequency. It really is scary flying in conditions like that with terrain. We’ve had to listen to quite a few transmissions like that just to understand how quickly things go wrong.
So right now the prevailing theory is that they flew into the side of a mountain at 185 mph with the fog potentially keeping them from even realizing what was about to happen? Fuck, that has to be instantaneous death. Awful either way, but I'd rather go that way than spiraling to the ground. The thought of having your child onboard in mortal terror fucks with me.
Believe it was posted earlier, but I’m just now getting around to reading the Plaschke story. One of the best ones I’ve seen on it, honestly.
This is horrible. Kobe found great purpose in his life after basketball and had it taken away far too soon. Watching him play brought me so much joy throughout my life.
The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight other passengers that crashed into a hillside in Southern California on Sunday was in a climbing left turn about 2,400 feet high before it dove to the ground, a person familiar with preliminary investigative information about the fatal crash told ESPN. According to data from flight-tracking service Flightradar24, the helicopter was flying at about 160 knots (184 mph) and descending at a rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute when it crashed. ——— Something had to have gone wrong, I think the standard rate of descent is 500 ft./min.
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/kobe-bryant-believed-dead-in-helicopter-crash/ Here is the final minute of ADS-B data as posted on the FlightRadar24 blog:
What is tone deaf is telling a woman who was raped how she should react to the world deifying a guy with his past.
1. Who is doing that? 2. I don’t have any problem with the sentiment of the tweet/article, but hours after the death with his daughter, while his wife and children and six other families are grieving, is shitty. There will be plenty of time to view him in his totality after the smoke clears.
I know jackshit about helicopters but this one was a 1991 model so it was roughly 30 years old. That seems old but for all I know that year and model could be the safest helicopter known to man.
I’m not talking about Kobe’s victim. I’m talking about everyone on twitter sending this lady who was raped herself death threats (and the Washington post suspending her) because she retweeted a story about his controversy. If everyone in her timeline is posting how great this dude is, I think she should have every right to say uhh, not so fast.
I agree with this. I do not see the time stamp of her tweets but my guess is that her blood began to boil after seeing all of the celebs go on and on about what a great guy he was and how this is such a big loss, etc... and she acted irrationally.
The coincidence of the 8 and 24 second violations as a tribute was so perfect. Adam Silver will forever be indebted to whoever came up with the idea.
You know I could be wrong here, but I don’t think “everyone on Twitter” is wishing death to that woman. Most logical people just want her to not post something like that after a dude dies in a helicopter crash with his 13-year old child.
Of course every twitter user was not threatening her. I was referring to every person on twitter who sent her threats.
I do agree that there were a ton of over-the-top replies in her mentions. Just another example of Twitter being arguably the worst place while also a good spot for information.
It’s probably going to be the case, but I was hoping that pilot error played no part in the accident. Kobe was at the level of fame that some of his fans are zealot like. I will lose some hope in humanity if anybody lashes out at the pilots family.
Damn I can’t escape this. I’m playing FIFA and one of the songs on the soundtrack has a lyric with “score points like Kobe” in it.
Not saying mechanical failure isn’t a possibility. Just saying that the age of the aircraft probably doesn’t have anything to do with it. 4000 feet per minute is kind of steep, especially near mountains and in clouds. Weird situation and we probably won’t really know until the NTSB gets started on their report.
I’ve long wondered how much worse Moises Alou acting like a twat made things for Bartman. He had no case for the umpire to rule it an out, and it was his own teams fan.
I’d much rather fly on a thirty year old airplane than a Boeing 737 Max. The richest man in Thailand and owner of Leicester City (English soccer team) died in a helicopter crash shortly after leaving a match that was definitely mechanical error.
I think what is frustrating to some (myself included, although I don't approve of bingbing's stuff here) is that she's basically picking out his worst moment and, in his most vulnerable moment (aka death), using that to crucify him in the court of opinion. I think most of us would be uncomfortable in this situation, even if the worst we've done is traffic violations.
1) Kobe’s dead. Anything she does isn’t making him uncomfortable. 2) you’re in your feels over this - and that’s fine. You’re entitled to your grief but 3) He didn’t represent the same things to everyone that he did to you. 4) In the same way that they can’t tell you how to react to his death, you don’t get to tell them how to either.
Actually, I think you're the one that's being personal about this. I didn't like Kobe particularly, stopped watching NBA back when they went on strike, was pretty mad about how the whole assault thing was settled. I'm just asking everyone to take a step back and consider this. She's welcome to respond how she likes and accept the consequences, ditto for me/you/anyone else. I'm not in any way beholden to famous or rich people, nor am I a Kobe fan boy. But people change and improve. I hope the WP columnist isn't living in a prison of her own design that would lead her to post this immediately. But, clearly you hold the moral imperative here and didn't really consider my contra, so I defer to your superior judgment. I'm happy you can 'splain a little to me.
The more I read the more I get really sad we won’t see what Gianna could have become. Unfair to put expectations on a 13yr old, but given her genetics, clear talent, resources, seeming mental make up she could have been a special player and person. Would have been great for the women’s game.