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In all of the possible violations of airline etiquette, this may take the cake.
A passenger on a plane in Russia caught a woman drying what appears to be children’s underwear over the plane’s vents. According to the video’s description, she held the underwear up to the vents for about 20 minutes, and nobody complained.
“The stewardesses laughed,” the description says.
We know traveling is tough, especially with kids, but please don’t use the overhead air conditioning to do your laundry. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Worst passenger ever uses airplane vents to dry underwear
The GOES-S weather satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, joining its sibling satellite GOES-R.
Here’s a GIF of it, tweeted by atmospheric scientist Dakota Smith. GOES-R captured its twin bursting through the atmosphere so quickly, you’ll miss it if you blink.
The water vapor imagery of GOES-S taking off. Simply incrediblepic.twitter.com/fIQYsTlYHa
— Dakota Smith (@weatherdak) March 1, 2018
Here’s another view from GOES-R, now known as GOES-16, which operates in the GOES-East position. GOES-S will be known as GOES-17, and will operate in the GOES-West position. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Weather satellite captures its twin satellite being launched into space
It’s never too late to a break a record.
Australian swimmer George Corones did just that on Wednesday night, breaking the world record in the 50 metre freestyle in his age bracket at the Commonwealth Games swimming trials on the Gold Coast.
The 99-year-old clocked in with a time of 56.12 seconds, and was the only competitor in the 100-104 age group.
Organisers of the trials had given Corones a chance to break the world record, which was previously set by the late Canadian swimmer Jaring Timmerman in 2009 with a time of 1 minute and 16.92 seconds. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | This 99-year-old swimmer just casually broke a freestyle world record
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