i can only speak for myself but i had a great time, met a lot of great people and enjoyed all 3.5 years. its a very nice place with a lot of nice people.

nice enough that your kid can be in this mass of excited people and be just fine...
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War Eagle Dalad!

It's been an interesting case to follow, because virtually all the information has been filtered through non-aviation media that have been wrong more than they've been right even while quoting aviation sources. Basically, what I've picked up is that the ACARS VHF transmissions shut down (supposedly manually) before the MH370 even went feet wet around Kota Bharu. However, the engines' maintenance computer is designed to keep pinging info back to Rolls Royce via satcom once out of range of VHF - if the carrier is signed up for the service. MH was not signed up, but the satcom system still checks in with the Inmarsat satellite once an hour. It last did this at 8:11am MST (GMT+8), roughly 7.5 hours after takeoff. Likely the pilot, or whoever was in control at that point, had no idea the Satcom system would keep doing this. Based on the ping response time from the geostationary Inmarsat satellite, they've established a number of arcs - one an hour - along which the airplane had to be each time it sent a ping. Based on the expected cruising speed of a 777 and the range given the FOB at takeoff, they've established two possible routes and rough final positions for it to run out of fuel (shortly after the final 8:11 ping). One is in Kazakhstan after a route through western China, and one is southwest of Australia in the southern Indian Ocean. The former is unlikely due to the number of military radar systems it would have had to circumvent (India, Pakistan, China), and the latter is unlikely for any theoretical reason other than suicide with the intention of hiding the evidence - which unfortunately every other piece of evidence supports. In any case, they don't seem to have any theory for which they've been able to find a motive on any theoretical perpetrators' part. :confused: Pilots are pretty straight arrows near as they've been able to tell. CA is a bit weird with a homebuilt flight sim in his house...and strongly supported the least nutty, least corrupt opposition politician in MY politics. FO was somewhat religious, but let a South African hottie ride in the flight deck last year while he & the Captain lit up a few ciggies. Dunno. :confused:

Best 4 years of my life. Hopefully you will get to a couple of games while she is there. WDE!

I just put two daughters through there, 6 years each, all the way to their Masters...oh, and their horses all earned undergrad degrees in turning cash into poop. :eek:

I hope you are paying In State tuition, because out of state is about $11,000/semester this year, and it's been going up $1000/semester every year. I guess somebody has to pay Gus Malzahn! :rolleyes:

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The last second of that last Auburn/Bama game was worth it though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GKmkD1pUG0

Well, I have been on the A la Carte plan at Woodward for the last four years, so 11k a semester is no problem. I've got plenty to cover her education. It's the car, sorority, spending $, etc.

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Space 1999 was neat. I had an "Eagle 1" as a favorite toy and the studio models were works of art (articulated suspension, pneumatic motors, etc ...) which are highly prized by nerdy collectors.

As a fellow Sci Fi fan, the first five or so episodes of Caprica had some of the most compelling plot lines of any story I've watched. Worth some time if you're bored with a Netflix account.

I don't care a lot for the "Cattlecar Galactica" series that this was the prequel for and even Caprica's storyline got weak towards the end, but they easily could have spun the first episodes into a heck of a movie.

She applied to Baylor and SMU but not TCU? Shame on her!

We also have a proc with the loss of Satcom where we attempt to re tune the satellite...not usually successful.

1999 was cool, I remember seeing it a few times as a kid, and was like, whoa, what is that??? Unlike anything else on TV at the time.

Clearly it was influenced by Stanley Kubrik's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Watching that movie as an adult, I am struck by how incredibly prescient it was in terms of thinking about the future. Of course, there was some linear prediction-- moon shot, Pan Am, Bell Telephone, all of course would feature heavily in the future! Even though that didn't really happen, it still feels like it could have. They even had Ipad like devices... What blows my mind is the thought of someone going into a dark theater in 1969, seeing that movie, and walking out... into 1969 America. I still can't comprehend it. I wonder what a movie would look like today that had that sort of future view.

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its about Boeing.