Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - April 29, 2025 [scampydog]

Good evening and thank you for stopping by the Tuesday, ONT.

A couple of shout outs this evening:

- Big thanks to ONT Cob Emeritus, Misanthropic Humanitarian, for covering last week with a dandy evening of content.

- Daywalker Cobs are doing great work while Ace is parts unknown and doing ... we probably don't want to know.

Let's see what amount of random fun we can get into this evening. Lurkers, c'mon out tonight - let it fly.

Not Friday. Yet.

🔥Friday Funnies🔥

Drop a funny meme or video.

Humanity needs more laughter! 😂 pic.twitter.com/a3NbJlrkLb

— GnosisWolf (@GnosisWolf) April 26, 2025

There is a long list of fallen HollyWeird.

Airport people vs. airport robots. This oversized, mouthy robot Roomba and its cousins look a bit like the R2-D2. Pic below from the ATL airport. One of the vacu-bots got stuck between two rows of gate seats - going back and forth like the Austin Powers cart scene. The robot kept saying, "Please step aside, robot is cleaning." Surprisingly less annoying than some of the airport people.

These robot cleaners use the SLAM system - or they used to. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (I read that somewhere). Simple algorithm that is decent at mapping but not very good at navigating all the ped traffic.

While stuck at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, I came across the display pictured below.

70's lunchboxes.

Daredevil Evel Knievel soared into pop culture fame with his wild stunts and larger-than-life image. His 1970s lunchbox often captured him mid-jump, cape flying, motorcycle wheels spinning through the air.

Who had a lunchbox? And/or which one did you REALLY want? I always kind of wanted the Six Million Dollar Man version. Who else was a brown bag kid?

MOAR airport!

How do US airports get their three letter codes? I thought you'd never ask.

It's easy to assume that airfield identifiers correlate with letters in the field's name: "JFK" because it's the initials of the late President after whom the airport is named; "MIA" because those are the first three letters in "Miami"; and "LAS" because that's the first half of "Las Vegas." Yet, it's actually way more complicated than that, involving at least three governing bodies with their own separate naming standards.

Airports and their names? Sure, sure - airport eponyms. Have that for you also.

Horde engineers, give us an Incidental Learning Session in the comments.

High heels on airplane shoe myth? Engineers. Pressure. High Heels.
None of the links at the site work but there is a decent table of information to peruse.

Here is a link to an Engineer forum.
Worth a scan.

"There is an old story that while the 747 floor was fine - women with high heels would destroy them...."

Boeing made their improved floor panels, BMS4-23, to better handle in service wear (impact and rolling load).
BMS4-20 is graphite epoxy face with nomex core.
BMS4-23 is fiberglass flame retardent epoxy face with aluminum honeycomb core.

One of my co-workers said that the 777 has composite graphite floor beams with BMS4-23 floor panels. Maybe the type floor panels are a customer option.

Looking at that long airstrip of a hallway might make a certain person or Moron want to get a good run and see how far they could slide. Or put some Wesson oil or dish soap or Pam spray, and give it a go barefoot. Boys really are simple creatures.

Big Airport Finish

There is an AoSHQ airport in Spain - Moron Airport (OZP). Also airports named: Fukui Airport (FKJ), Japan, Brest Airport (BES), France, which leads us directly to... Ogle Airport (OGL), Guyana.

Here is the list. Much comment material in the link. Bestest airport names.

This picture has been sitting in a file folder for a spell. Kept thinking I'd write a bit about noodle-armed, David Hogg, but I never seem to have an interest. Take it away, Horde.

This ONT is brought to you by dancing. Shakira, we love you but the first 8 seconds of this video are old school Hips Don't Lie. Hit the comments with the names of the actresses, actors, and movies.

Bonus dancing videos:

Hitch

Ann Margaret, Tonight Show

Breakin' 2, Electric Boogaloo

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