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    Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    Poor dummy. They forgot to tell him he's flying Air Face-plant... #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    Nuts to that! Install self-inflating pillows that activate when the passenger is feeling drowsy!

    Airplane ergonomics are probably the worst in the world. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    Doesn't anybody read the story before making snarky comments? These are only installed in certain locations where a passenger's head would smash into something very hard (this doesn't include most seats in coach).

    It is also designed to raise the survivability threshold of a crash from 9g to 12g. That involves accidents on or very close to the ground (overshooting the runway for example) but clearly excludes plummets of death.

    It's amazing how quick we all are to find stupid shit to bitch about. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    @curious-character: Cathay seems to be installing them in all of their seats... #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    So THAT'S what they are - I have actually seen these belts on a few Cathay pacific flights. It just looks like a big piece of padding on one side of the lap belt - I could not figure out why only one side of the belt was padded, but now I know.

    Since we travel with a baby, I would love to know how to have one deactivated, since it looks like on deployment it would push my child through my face.

    I also don't understand why they don't add some sort of 5-point harness - you would only have to wear it during takeoff and landing, and then just wear the lap belt at cruise altitude. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    @Canoehead: Someone proposed seating passengers backwards because it greatly improves survivability, but they decided that that would be too disorienting and people wouldn't be able to find the exits after a crash.

    Given that, I bet the 5 point harness would be too complicated for addled passengers to take off before the fire got them. #airplaneairbags
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    Canoehead promoted this comment jetRink was starred jetRink was unstarred
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    10/26/09

    @jetRink: That makes no sense. I know that some people get motion sick moving backwards (I don't), but you just follow the lighted strips to the nearest exit. If that fails, follow the smoke since it will likely be flowing towards the nearest big hole.

    You could easily have a 5 point harness with a big, easy to grab, release catch. I think the airlines don't like the "message" sent by something that looks like it belongs in a stunt plane. #airplaneairbags
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    Image of James Babiarz James Babiarz
    10/26/09

    @jetRink:
    Heaven forbid putting exits and both the front and the rear of the place.... #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    @James Babiarz: Um, which they do. Have you not ever flown in a commercial airplane? #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    I hope they are detachable and can be used as floatation devices too. On the slimmmmm chance you survive the crash, of course. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    Pointless! They'd do better to equip each seat with an ejection seat system. #airplaneairbags
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    spannu promoted this comment rivercat was starred rivercat was unstarred
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    10/26/09

    @rivercat: I don't know about you but I certainly don't want my chair to accelerate my skull into the overhead compartment at 15g. Isn't that what this regulation is out to prevent? #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag

    The cost of replacing all those "what to do in an accident" pamphlets is going to be astronomical. #airplaneairbags
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    Image of froggy froggy
    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    this is so silly on so many levels... a) do you really think an airbag is going to save you on a plane crash? really?; b) the weight added to the plane means increased fuel costs aka higher prices for passengers and/or less luggage allowance; and c) what happens if the airbags deploy because of a electrical short/hard break on landing/turbulence? that plane will be grounded months to reinstall them, meaning huge costs on top of huge losses of revenues.

    Just buckle your damn seatbelt when you're seated. It won't kill you, hell, it might even save you a nasty bruise.

    (edit: they can always add a shoulder strap for much less weight and about the same degree of protection)
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    chauncy that billups promoted this comment Edited by froggy at 10/26/09 10:34 AM froggy was starred froggy was unstarred
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    10/26/09

    @froggy: At Southwest, bags fly for free! #airplaneairbags
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    08/18/09

    In reply to Apple Building Secret Massive Data Center, Probably to Hold Steve's Electronically Cloned Brain
    This is clearly for Woz's MP3 collection
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    08/18/09

    In reply to Apple Building Secret Massive Data Center, Probably to Hold Steve's Electronically Cloned Brain
    Amazon-style cloud services, or massive storage/distribution for iTunes content (HD video, etc) are my guesses.
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    08/18/09

    In reply to Apple Building Secret Massive Data Center, Probably to Hold Steve's Electronically Cloned Brain
    hopefully it is to speed up the painfully slow mobile me.
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    08/18/09

    In reply to Apple Building Secret Massive Data Center, Probably to Hold Steve's Electronically Cloned Brain
    For legal reasons in the movies the company was called Cyberdyne.

    But this is the beginning.

    Judgement Day is set.

    This will be Skynet's cradle.

    (cue terminator theme)
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    08/18/09

    In reply to Apple Building Secret Massive Data Center, Probably to Hold Steve's Electronically Cloned Brain
    Its probably a huge data mine that Apple is putting together. Using data they gather from your iTunes habits they will.... I don't know, do something.
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    szrimaging promoted this comment Duc was starred Duc was unstarred
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    08/18/09

    @Duc: Step 1: Collect Data!
    Step 2: ....
    Step 3: Profit!
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    08/18/09

    In reply to Apple Building Secret Massive Data Center, Probably to Hold Steve's Electronically Cloned Brain
    They are building a Mac soooooo powerful that it will be able to run Crysis at 30 fps. In Windows.
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    08/18/09

    In reply to Apple Building Secret Massive Data Center, Probably to Hold Steve's Electronically Cloned Brain
    It's not a data storage facility. Apple is solving two problems at once. Apple is rounding up San Francisco's homeless, putting them into medically-induced comas, and harvesting their organs for Steve Jobs.

    Personally, I don't have a problem with this.
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    08/18/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: There Apple goes, copying Microsoft! Ballmer already has one of these!
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    08/18/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Whenever I read your comments, I imagine them read in Rorschach's voice from Watchmen. It just fits.
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    Image of amābō tē?「Tayler」 amābō tē?「Tayler」
    08/18/09

    @Segador: that movie was terrible :/
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    08/18/09

    @Bigbadbikernerd: when did you get banhammered.
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    08/18/09

    @Holy shirt! a talking squirrel! 「Tayler」: "Coma" was a terrible movie. But I liked "Watchmen"
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    08/18/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: You apparently didn't sit through the 6 hour director's cut. Some footage deserves to be on the cutting room floor.

    @Nick I love Nick: Zat why the comment is in gray and pink? I've seen this before, and always thought "huh?" But BBBN's profile is not showing comments disabled? This just some other oddity of the new comment system?
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    08/18/09

    @AmphetamineCrown: It turns out that under the new system, some comments are shown in pink to imply that the commenter is a wuss.
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    08/18/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Another Another Double Double New New Comment Comment System System Fail Fail
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    Image of Psychicsword Psychicsword
    08/18/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: As long as it gets them off the streets the program will have my support.
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