Новости за 22.07.2016

“At your chainsaw factory job, you were one of 300 workers. Most didn’t have a car and were eager to get one. Let’s say that the Trade Union designated five cars per year for your company. The first in line were the employee of the month types. Having Communist Party membership didn’t hurt either. If you were an average worker, the chances that your car was going to arrive the year you ordered it was close to non-existent. The average waiting line for a car was seven to 10 years”

The plane is still lost. What do we know? “The crucial factor was whether a pilot had been at the controls. If the cockpit was unmanned — if Zaharie had taken a suicide pill after turning toward the empty ocean, or the captain and first officer had killed one another in a struggle for control — then the end would have come quickly”. But a conscious pilot could have brought the plane down to the sea in a controlled glide, another 100 nautical miles beyond the assumed point of impact

Interview with Thomas Thwaites, an English designer who is trying to live as a goat. He crossed the Alps wearing a “goat-like exoskeleton”, and eating grass. “I’ve learnt a lot about my prosthetics. I’ve changed the back-leg prosthetics so that they now support my legs from the front, which allows me to relax into a better goat posture. There’s also things I didn’t manage to finish in time for the experiment — growing my hair long then using resin to stick it together into horns, for example”