asciilifeform: iirc if you calc the 'millimorts', the max theoretical lifespan of usian is CAPPED at somewhere like 300 yrs (taken, yes, with eternally unchanging Reich) PURELY by the car.
asciilifeform: i see smouldering wrecks, and mangled passengers carted away, every day
asciilifeform: where, i ask, is the fear of the car ??
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-24#1456960 << if the folks showing up to 'job where there is only paycheque' were taken off the board, there would be quite enough room even on motherfucking 'beltway' (infamously congested road circling washington)☝︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: much of the complexity comes from the paucity of airport☟︎
asciilifeform: (if the things were reasonably common, the order-of-magnitude diff b/w e.g., ohio and d.c. would not appear reasonable even to idiot)☟︎
asciilifeform: i still think that small planes were bureaucratically strangled to avoid threatening the real estate racket.
asciilifeform: for a while folks really thought 'plane was the next car'
asciilifeform: the 'ercoupe' thing in the background is interesting. i live not so far from where the old 'erco' factory was, where the things were made. it was, iirc, a plane with simplified controls and extremely stable dynamics, for lamers to fly. sold like hotcakes, until the bottom fell out of the market in '47
asciilifeform: and pay for petrol what its litrage in whiskey costs
asciilifeform: i feel hardly any envy for the joe stack folks of today, who spend an hour filling out forms for every 2 flown
asciilifeform: and, witness, pre-bureaucracy artifact - no radio in there
asciilifeform: i wonder if davout ever went up in a machine like this
asciilifeform: there were literally no hidden parts but for the motor, which was a very modest 80 hp thing
asciilifeform: and could see all through fuselage (original, unmolested) all the way where they led into wing & tail.
asciilifeform: whole thing was moved by steel cables that you could actually ~see~ and grab, right in the cockpit
asciilifeform: it was interesting, thing was really no more complicated than a motorbike
asciilifeform: in other 'news', http://imgur.com/4nqeK3A << in a museum (hands on right hand side are of pet). one of the machines on exhibit was gettable into☟︎
asciilifeform: (it is no mega-seekrit that mircea_popescu and i disagree on 1,001 things, yet he keep inviting me places. for the time being at least.)
