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I thought we hit 8B last year? I remember hearing a lot of buzz about it. I guess with so many, it's hard to approach an accurate count, so different methodologies would yield different results.
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In jr high I was taking a theatre class. The room was pie shaped with seats in the upper portion descending down to the lowest part of the room which was the point with a very small stage area large enough for a high bar stool and a piano. My teacher is perched on the stool. Students were clustered pretty close to the teacher except for one guy way in the back all alone. My teacher is talking, paused to take a breath and in the silence we hear a very loud sneeze. No one thinks anything about it until the guy in the back says "Nobody turn around." Which, of course, we all did in unison. The guy had his hand up to his nose and there, in full technicolor, was a huge sheet of snot covering his entire hand. He then took his hand and tried to fling the mucus away which landed on the chairs and the floor around him. Our teacher laughed so hard he fell off his chair and nobody sat in the back of the room for the rest of the semester.
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You may think "short time," but that was 41 years ago! Things haven't really changed that much. Today, any judge would know what an arcade game is (more so than a young person), but try explaining to a judge in his/her 60s what an NFT is, and you'll see the same confusion.
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I bought a German made plus size female mannequin from a store that was getting newer and cheaper ones. My mannequin had glass eyes. My friend and I got the thing home and we put it in the basement in a corner. The basement was rather dark and what little light came in through the windows made the eyes shine. I put a long black Cher wig on it's head and an apron that had a bib portion on it so it covered her 'bits' perfectly. Looked just like a dress. We came upstairs and sat down in the livingroom and waited for my son, who was in high school, to come home. Finally he came. I said hello and then, in my stern mother's voice, said: 'Bobby', I am sick and tired of you leaving all your clean clothes laying around on top of the washing machine. Please take care of this at once!"He went to the basement door and my friend and I listened to him clomping down the stairs. All was very quiet for about 20 seconds and then I heard my son make a loud gasp and then a scream and he came running up the stairs yelling and crying real tears about some woman in the basement with a knife. My friend and I just laughed and laughed. Gotcha, kiddo. That was payback back for scaring me a few weeks earlier.***My son and I tried to scare each other every so often. I won that round***
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Even though it is correct, what the guy in the video says.... it is only true if the flight captain turns off one engine... In case of an unwanted engine shutoff, the reason for this shutoff is very important for your decision to panic or not... Is it caused by an event that only effects a single engine? Such as a Rüppel's Griphon Vulture sucked in at at a height of 11,300 m (37,000 ft) is a no-panic scenario.A plane loosing an engine because one sucked in one birdie more than the other from a flock of doves or seagulls is a different cenario...A catastropic engine failure with additional damages of other vital aircraft components is also a panic scenario.An engine failure caused by neglected mainenence or fatique of engine components is also a pro-panic-scenario, as usually both engines have the same age and maintenance history...An engine failure caused by impure fuel or a lack fuel is also a kind of "do panic" case. Just remember the "Jacarta incident" where a 747 lost all 4 engines due to volcanic ash. Comparing incidents that only affect a single engine, and the incidents that affect all engines of an airliner... in my humbe opinion the "Do Panic" scenarios outnumber the "Don't Panic" scenarios. But even in case of an all engines gone case an airplane still can be operated as a kind of sailplane and does not fall from the sky as a stone l. But keep in mind that in case of an emergency your flight crew has a lot of stuff to deal with and some extra "Cargo compartment Panic" may just distract the flight crew so much that the decision that saves the Plane and the Passengers may get delayed so much that a fatal crash becomes unavoidable. So apart from any mechanical or statistical reason, it is always better not to panic (even if the plane is on fire) as the panicing passengers or flight crew always reduce the chances of a less leathal outcome.So DON'T PANIC even if you have 42 reasons to do so...
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