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Nuclear Explosion

January 31st, 2013 2 comments

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“Got clearance, Clarence”

January 30th, 2013 No comments

Listen to this radio conversation between Pilot Clarence, Co-Pilot Roger, Navigator Victor and the ATC station.
Source: Airplane! (1980)

ATC: “209 You are cleared for take off”
Clarence: “Roger”
Roger: “Huh?”
ATC: “L.A. departure frequency 123.9”
Clarence: “Roger”
Roger: “Huh?”
Victor: “Request Vector, over”
Clarence: “What?”
ATC: “Flight 209 cleared for vector 324”
Roger: “We have clearance, Clarence”
Clarence: “Roger, Roger. What is our vector, Victor?”
Victor: “LA radio clearance, over”
Clarence: “That’s Clarence Oveur. Over”
Victor: “Roger”
Roger: “Huh?”
ATC: “Roger, over”
Roger: “What? – Huh? – Who?”

Nerdocide

January 20th, 2013 No comments

Exposed by Alex Jones

wide holding pattern

January 15th, 2013 No comments

LX289 arriving from FAJS obviously was to early to land on rwy 34 in LSZH and was sent into an exceptionally wide holding pattern.

LX289 large hodling pattern

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Treasuring the subject

January 15th, 2013 No comments

Aaron EFFTo treasure the subject and issues that Aaron Swartz was fighting for, I would like to refer and remind to my mail to Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow, which I wrote on 21st of January 2012.

Link to former blog post

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Aaron Swartz

January 13th, 2013 No comments

awk’ing lat/lon

January 10th, 2013 No comments

Here’s how one can convert latitude/longitude values from degrees to decimal format using GNU awk.

# description: convert dec values to lat/lon
# license: GPL 3.0
# input: "N010.00.21.698 E094.24.35.999"
# output: "10.006027 94.41

awk '{
lat=$1;lon=$2;
split (lat, latitude, ".");
latpre=substr(latitude[1],1,1);
latdeg=substr(latitude[1],2);
latmin=latitude[2];
latsec=latitude[3];
latmil=latitude[4];
latdec=latdeg+(latmin/60)+(latsec/3600)+(latmil/3600000);
if (latpre == "S"){
latdec=latdec*-1;
}

split (lon, longitude, ".");
lonpre=substr(longitude[1],1,1);
londeg=substr(longitude[1],2);
lonmin=longitude[2];
lonsec=longitude[3];
lonmil=longitude[4];
londec=londeg+(lonmin/60)+(lonsec/3600)+(lonmil/3600000);
if (lonpre == "W"){
londec=londec*-1;
}

printf "%.7f %.7f\n", latdec, londec;
}'

usage:
echo "N010.00.21.698 E094.24.35.999" | ./awk_converter.sh
output:
10,0060272 94,4099997