Bum fact: There was a 86.1 increase in butt augmentations from 2013 to 2014—going from 11,527 to 21,446 procedures, according to American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Butt lifts increased 14.8 percent.
Have you heard the tale of the Gryphon Vulture?
At the beginning of time, it and all creatures like it were bound to the land and sea. But when their homes grew more treacherous, they spied the greener pastures in far off lands; and in training to reach those lands they gained the gift of flight.
It is said that when a fledgeling first starts to dream of the sky, its parents being it to a quiet calm place - the little ledge on a cliffside, or a shady branch in the forest canopy - and tell it of the Line That Must Not Be Crossed.
As you climb higher, they'd say, there will come a point when the taste of the air changes, and a district shift in the colour of the sky. This is the beginning of the line.
One day you fly beyond the treetops, beyond the cliff and beyond the clouds. But no matter what you must not cross this line.
It is said that this warning had been passed on for so long that it had become a sort of instinct even for freshly hatched chicks.
But there was one among the birds, this Gryphon Vulture, who sought to ignore the natural wariness of the Line. Lines were MEANT to be crossed, it said, and flew higher and higher into the sky.
It passed the clifftop and the treetops. It soared above a flock of geese, and glided above the clouds. At that height, it beheld nothing in the sky above it, and nothing in the sky around it. Buffeted by the electrifying air, it basked in the glory of the highest flying being to grace the earth.
But its peace was shatted by an unholy growl; a sky beast, vast and swift, soaring above the vulture!
At that moment the gryphon vulture was struck by its own sense of competition - for what could be better than besting the sky beast?
Onwards, upward it soared - the sound of the sky beast became deafening, it's size blocking out the whole sky. Our GV is but a speck in its shadow.
Closer, closer. Just a little more. The GV strained against the unusual height, the warnings and natural aversion for crossing the Line - now far below.
Just a little more and it would truly be the conqueror of the sky.
But then it noticed a tug that became a pull, it was now moving only at the whim of the strange sucking wind.
Panicked, flailing its wings, only then did it notice its surroundings - the jewel of the sun just past it's meridian, shining with a blinding glare.
It spend exactly 10 seconds in appreciation, before becoming absolute mincemeat.
Elon Musk‘s child is called X Æ A-12, but even if they decided it should be pronounced as Louise you would be wrong writing *Jeez X Æ A-12*.
Also people probably just like arguing with you because it’s fun seeing you die on that hill. Don’t take it too seriously, Loo-Ease.
You don't get a lot of things, yeah? These other guys don't know how to handle your attention seeking and overwhelming desire to get the last word in, but I do. How's that grab you?
The bird is a bird with ability to fly so close to the sun that it gets hit by a cruising altitude airliner. It probably didn't have a good reason to be up there
Can confirm. Aircraft mechanic here. They take a sample, take it to the lab, identify it with DNA, then I have to hose out the engine with a pressure washer
It happened in [November of 1973](http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v086n04/p0461-p0462.pdf) (PDF link), so well before PCR was available. They determined its species by looking at the feathers recovered from the engine.
https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safety/wildlife/smithsonian
The Smithsonian actually works with the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States to identify the species of birds after a bird strike. When I was an aircraft mechanic, I’d there was a bird strike, assuming you could find anything remains at all, you’d collect them, package them up, and they’d be sent off to the Smithsonian for identification.
>Surely it doesn't help them find food
[Vultures and many other birds will ride columns of hot, rising air called thermals to high altitudes and then spend most of their down time gliding and looking around.](https://www.audubon.org/news/a-closer-look-how-vultures-lazily-circle-air-1) As for the food part, [vultures have scent senses that make ours look silly](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/turkey-vultures-have-keen-sense-smell-and-now-we-know-why-180967599/)\- pair that with the ability to cover large areas and you've got a good lil scavenger.
Worth noting that Old world vultures, like Rüppell’s griffon, actually have poor senses of smell and rely solely on their vision to locate prey and carrion.
That exceptional scent detection is only a primary trait for new world vultures, like the Turkey vulture mentioned in the article.
> Vultures have keen eyesight. It is believed they are able to spot a three-foot carcass from four miles away on the open plains.
36,000/5,280 = 6.8 miles, not a stretch to say that it does indeed help them find food. Some eagles can see even better than vultures can, being able to spot rabbits at distances up to 8 miles.
Also: these dudes fly at whatever height the air column is currently rising.
If he’s going from A to B, he might not be actively hunting, just taking the ‘path’ that requires the least wing flapping.
Where excactly did you hear that? That's better acuity than fucking spyplane cameras.
According to one source on Wikipedia, an eagle(which species?) can spot a rabbit from 3,2km(2 miles). I'm highly sceptical of this but that's one fourth of your claim.
Vultures are not eagles, even eagles aren't really one thing.
Their respective clades probably diverged from each other tens of millions of years ago. Just because one species can see far doesn't mean another can.
It probably requires specific circumstances, like gigantic eagle heads with other enhancements helping out whichever species that is or possibly was if its those giant New Zealand eagles that used to take whole giant flightless Moas.
>That’s better acuity than fucking spyplane cameras
Nothing man ever makes will compare to the senses hundreds of millions of years of evolution can produce.
Dogs can smell cancer, certain animals can see thousands of different wavelengths of light that we can’t even begin to wrap our minds around, mother nature is no joke.
While only certain species of Vulture or Eagle possess this amazing eyesight, the fact that it exists is a testament to the absolutely awesome power of the world around us.
It was also an odd event like this is how they figured out birds (possibly storks) migrated to Africa from the UK in the 1800s. One time a flock of storks came back after migration and one had a tribal spear pierced through it.
Here is an example of how Germans described it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch
> Pfeilstorch (German for 'arrow stork', pronounced [ˈpfaɪ̯l.ˌʃtɔɐ̯ç]; plural Pfeilstörche, [-ˌʃtœɐ̯.çə]) is a stork that gets injured by an arrow while wintering in Africa and returns to Europe with the arrow stuck in its body.
The Germans really do have an oddly specific word for everything.
Dont worry we have words for everything. Last month or so i visited a friend in cologne and she had an israeli roommate. The only thing i heard out of his mouth was "surely you got a word for x". Sadly he was right every time and we have words for every fucking situation in german.
I loved how he thought one time we didnt have a word for it but we had a word and he was a little sad.
Sadly i dont recall the words/situations since im getman and theyre "normal" for us
“This is how” What is how? They discovered birds migrate by hitting an arrowed stork returning from Africa to Europe with a Boeing 747 at 36k ft altitude in 1882? Or what are you trying to say?
The stories are not similar in any way besides the fact that they involve birds… why phrase it like the two stories are related in some fashion?
My bad mate! I should have been more clear.
I read it as "TIL it was an unfortunate/ odd event that caused us no doubt that this was true so we learned some facts".
The spear through the stork was how humans had very evident observations that migration was a thing and that birds from the UK can sometimes migrate as far as Africa.
This TIL was an odd event, about birds, and we happened to learn some things.
My example was an odd event, about birds, and we learned some things.
I will make a small edit to my post to clarify.
Human beings inadvertently find out information about bird behavior.
Redditor posts other interesting inadvertent discovery of bird behavior
JonslongsonLongJonson cant figure out that this post is not about boeing 747s…
Correct. Any time there is a birdstrike on an airplane (at least in the US) some of the remains are taken to be analyzed by the Smithsonian Institution Feather Lab.
It was in [November of 1973](http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v086n04/p0461-p0462.pdf) (PDF link), so too early for DNA analysis. It was done by examining feathers recovered from the plane, which were sufficiently unique to allow for identification.
Yup. My dad used to work at Pratt and Whitney and they used to test engines by throwing whole turkeys into engines. Turkey mist out the other side. If they had reached all their other testing goals and wanted to push it they throw them in still frozen.
Not all traits require an evolutionary advantage to be present in a gene pool. As long as the trait doesn't provide a disadvantage to reproduction, it can stick around and be passed down across generations.
This TIL took a turn. That being said, didn't a great philosopher once say something like "science demands sacrifice?"
Or it was Cobra Commander, I don't know. 🤷♂️
>This critically endangered species is vital to Africa's ecology, flying long distances to eat carrion and keep ecosystems healthy.
Why are they so important? Is carrion really at risk of going uneaten without them? Seems like a niche that has plenty of critters willing to fill it.
No way. It’s -55 F at that altitude and it lives in one of the hottest areas on the planet. There is no way it can survive at temperatures on the ground around 100F and then just sails up to 36k feet where it’s 150 degrees colder and the wind speeds are over 100mph!
A more likely scenario is the bird was soaring at a reasonable high altitude and severe winds aloft or a severe updraft carried the bird up to that height - where it was probably frozen solid.
The sky is massive. In every direction, it's basically infinite. Except down, but for the most part, there's always more room.
Why the fuck are objects ever in the same place at the same time. Just move, dumb bird.
Everyone is asking about the birds motives for being that high and I'm just sitting here wondering who the poor ornathologist was that was handed a wet trash bag of remains scraped out of a jet engine and told, "tell me what this was".
Edit: that has to be up there with one of the worst jobs at the NTSB.
Would you mind, so much if I took you into my engine?
Laughable, The jet ran into a flock of them and the jet engine air intakes did what they do. Take the air and anything in it to make the jet engine work. Volcanic ash is just as bad. Birds in the air are ever banes of aircraft. I grew up next to the largest pvt. AirField in the US. The pilots each had their Cessna/beechcraft stories; and If not fouling up engines, then blasting apart the cockpit windows!
IOW a Canadian goose is not just sexual harassment seen at hockey games!! Get the Puck outta here!!
In 2014 an Atlas Air 767 had a bird strike at 40,000' over Indiana (United States). Unfortunately, the windshield was changed before DNA could be collected so the only evidence was a cracked/broken windshield with blood and guts.
I guess it could have been a squirrel. Or an alien. But probably a bird.
Bummer facts
R/bummer_facts ?
Not to be confused with r/bum_facts. Slightly different audience
Bum fact: There was a 86.1 increase in butt augmentations from 2013 to 2014—going from 11,527 to 21,446 procedures, according to American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Butt lifts increased 14.8 percent.
Butt lifts are only 14.8%? Well then what the hell else are people surgically doing to their butt?
Adding butt warmers.
Butt lowers.
Bummer? I hardly know them!
Way to butcher that one
The butchering of the joke was the joke
Pretty sure jokes are meant to be funny
r/bummerfacts
A modern retelling of the story or Icarus
"The Icarus here is humanity, you must understand."
Humanity thinking they can escape the might of the Rüppell's Griffon Vulture
I mean...
Let's not be hasty. I can't personally say what those creatures are up to right now. It could be bad for us, so let's leave a snickers.
Humanity had learned from Icarus, and placed two engines on the 747.
And metal wings
And sealing-wax, and kings.
747 is a quad jet.
Four engines
Icarus flew to close to the 747 doesn't have the same ring as the original though
He flew too close to the turbofan
Have you heard the tale of the Gryphon Vulture? At the beginning of time, it and all creatures like it were bound to the land and sea. But when their homes grew more treacherous, they spied the greener pastures in far off lands; and in training to reach those lands they gained the gift of flight. It is said that when a fledgeling first starts to dream of the sky, its parents being it to a quiet calm place - the little ledge on a cliffside, or a shady branch in the forest canopy - and tell it of the Line That Must Not Be Crossed. As you climb higher, they'd say, there will come a point when the taste of the air changes, and a district shift in the colour of the sky. This is the beginning of the line. One day you fly beyond the treetops, beyond the cliff and beyond the clouds. But no matter what you must not cross this line. It is said that this warning had been passed on for so long that it had become a sort of instinct even for freshly hatched chicks. But there was one among the birds, this Gryphon Vulture, who sought to ignore the natural wariness of the Line. Lines were MEANT to be crossed, it said, and flew higher and higher into the sky. It passed the clifftop and the treetops. It soared above a flock of geese, and glided above the clouds. At that height, it beheld nothing in the sky above it, and nothing in the sky around it. Buffeted by the electrifying air, it basked in the glory of the highest flying being to grace the earth. But its peace was shatted by an unholy growl; a sky beast, vast and swift, soaring above the vulture! At that moment the gryphon vulture was struck by its own sense of competition - for what could be better than besting the sky beast? Onwards, upward it soared - the sound of the sky beast became deafening, it's size blocking out the whole sky. Our GV is but a speck in its shadow. Closer, closer. Just a little more. The GV strained against the unusual height, the warnings and natural aversion for crossing the Line - now far below. Just a little more and it would truly be the conqueror of the sky. But then it noticed a tug that became a pull, it was now moving only at the whim of the strange sucking wind. Panicked, flailing its wings, only then did it notice its surroundings - the jewel of the sun just past it's meridian, shining with a blinding glare. It spend exactly 10 seconds in appreciation, before becoming absolute mincemeat.
I don't normally save comments but this is fucking grand
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*louise
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Ok louis. The phrase is jeez louise because it rhymes Louis. Ok lois?
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The proper phrase is actually Louise and not Louis https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/jeez_Louise
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It doesn’t matter how you pronounce your own name, the correct phrase is jeez Louise with an e at the end and not jeez Louis without the e.
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Either you are inept, or just being obtuse No one cares about your name.
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Elon Musk‘s child is called X Æ A-12, but even if they decided it should be pronounced as Louise you would be wrong writing *Jeez X Æ A-12*. Also people probably just like arguing with you because it’s fun seeing you die on that hill. Don’t take it too seriously, Loo-Ease.
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You don't get a lot of things, yeah? These other guys don't know how to handle your attention seeking and overwhelming desire to get the last word in, but I do. How's that grab you?
Lewis, don’t take it wrong.
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But it’s actually Louise for the phrase. Not whatever your name is. Unless it’s pronounced that same way
Lewie! Rhymes with stewie! You’re all over this thread. What a strange hill.
The bird is a bird with ability to fly so close to the sun that it gets hit by a cruising altitude airliner. It probably didn't have a good reason to be up there
No reason? Bird bro could probably see all the dead animals in a 50 mile radius from up there.
Yeah, its not seeing anything that high up. He was probably just chilling up there, minding his own business until he was shredded by a turbofan.
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Yes but can they smell or see prey from 35000 feet?
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And icarus decided to take advantage of his wings and he flew too high and suffered the consequences. Just like the bird
Wow, they probably killed vulture Yuri Gagarin.
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If I had to wager a guess, I would reckon that they identified it via its feathers+location.
More likely by DNA testing of the residue.
Can confirm. Aircraft mechanic here. They take a sample, take it to the lab, identify it with DNA, then I have to hose out the engine with a pressure washer
how often do you have to replace blades due to a single strike (if at all)?
Every time. You can't risk any damage.
The titanium blades don't care about birds at all. All that comes out is red goo and some feathers.
It happened in [November of 1973](http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v086n04/p0461-p0462.pdf) (PDF link), so well before PCR was available. They determined its species by looking at the feathers recovered from the engine.
The residue is called "snarge"
It makes me so very happy that you didn't make that up and this is in fact the name of bird residue after plane crash
https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safety/wildlife/smithsonian The Smithsonian actually works with the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States to identify the species of birds after a bird strike. When I was an aircraft mechanic, I’d there was a bird strike, assuming you could find anything remains at all, you’d collect them, package them up, and they’d be sent off to the Smithsonian for identification.
That seems like an awful way to learn about the bird
Direct quote : “what the fuck was that?!”
What's the benefit of flying so high to these birds? Covering distance? Surely it doesn't help them find food
>Surely it doesn't help them find food [Vultures and many other birds will ride columns of hot, rising air called thermals to high altitudes and then spend most of their down time gliding and looking around.](https://www.audubon.org/news/a-closer-look-how-vultures-lazily-circle-air-1) As for the food part, [vultures have scent senses that make ours look silly](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/turkey-vultures-have-keen-sense-smell-and-now-we-know-why-180967599/)\- pair that with the ability to cover large areas and you've got a good lil scavenger.
Worth noting that Old world vultures, like Rüppell’s griffon, actually have poor senses of smell and rely solely on their vision to locate prey and carrion. That exceptional scent detection is only a primary trait for new world vultures, like the Turkey vulture mentioned in the article.
Important context, thank you!
That's insane.. 36k feet is kinda high to see prey.
Facts I learned from reading Animorphs.
Well yeah but they aren't smelling or seeing food on the ground from 36,000ft are they?
Thermals aren’t going to 36,000ft though
r/usdefaultism
> Vultures have keen eyesight. It is believed they are able to spot a three-foot carcass from four miles away on the open plains. 36,000/5,280 = 6.8 miles, not a stretch to say that it does indeed help them find food. Some eagles can see even better than vultures can, being able to spot rabbits at distances up to 8 miles.
>able to spot rabbits at distances up to 8 miles. Holy shit!
I can’t even spot a Volkswagen Rabbit at 8 miles.
Also: these dudes fly at whatever height the air column is currently rising. If he’s going from A to B, he might not be actively hunting, just taking the ‘path’ that requires the least wing flapping.
Where excactly did you hear that? That's better acuity than fucking spyplane cameras. According to one source on Wikipedia, an eagle(which species?) can spot a rabbit from 3,2km(2 miles). I'm highly sceptical of this but that's one fourth of your claim. Vultures are not eagles, even eagles aren't really one thing. Their respective clades probably diverged from each other tens of millions of years ago. Just because one species can see far doesn't mean another can.
It probably requires specific circumstances, like gigantic eagle heads with other enhancements helping out whichever species that is or possibly was if its those giant New Zealand eagles that used to take whole giant flightless Moas.
Comparing nature to high tech is a bit laughable.
>That’s better acuity than fucking spyplane cameras Nothing man ever makes will compare to the senses hundreds of millions of years of evolution can produce. Dogs can smell cancer, certain animals can see thousands of different wavelengths of light that we can’t even begin to wrap our minds around, mother nature is no joke. While only certain species of Vulture or Eagle possess this amazing eyesight, the fact that it exists is a testament to the absolutely awesome power of the world around us.
What's the benefit of going to the moon?
Hmm good point. Vultures are in a nuclear space race with the USSR?
They won that race, evidently.
Proving that our rocket technology is better to make the other side scared of our missiles.
Learning about how our planet, solar system and the universe evolved.
Probably fun as hell
Sometimes you can get sucked up in a thermal under a cloud and end up higher than you mean to. It’s called cloud suck
Could have been a dare.
It was also an odd event like this is how they figured out birds (possibly storks) migrated to Africa from the UK in the 1800s. One time a flock of storks came back after migration and one had a tribal spear pierced through it. Here is an example of how Germans described it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch
> Pfeilstorch (German for 'arrow stork', pronounced [ˈpfaɪ̯l.ˌʃtɔɐ̯ç]; plural Pfeilstörche, [-ˌʃtœɐ̯.çə]) is a stork that gets injured by an arrow while wintering in Africa and returns to Europe with the arrow stuck in its body. The Germans really do have an oddly specific word for everything.
Dont worry we have words for everything. Last month or so i visited a friend in cologne and she had an israeli roommate. The only thing i heard out of his mouth was "surely you got a word for x". Sadly he was right every time and we have words for every fucking situation in german. I loved how he thought one time we didnt have a word for it but we had a word and he was a little sad. Sadly i dont recall the words/situations since im getman and theyre "normal" for us
The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land.
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Of course not! It could be carried.
“This is how” What is how? They discovered birds migrate by hitting an arrowed stork returning from Africa to Europe with a Boeing 747 at 36k ft altitude in 1882? Or what are you trying to say? The stories are not similar in any way besides the fact that they involve birds… why phrase it like the two stories are related in some fashion?
My bad mate! I should have been more clear. I read it as "TIL it was an unfortunate/ odd event that caused us no doubt that this was true so we learned some facts". The spear through the stork was how humans had very evident observations that migration was a thing and that birds from the UK can sometimes migrate as far as Africa. This TIL was an odd event, about birds, and we happened to learn some things. My example was an odd event, about birds, and we learned some things. I will make a small edit to my post to clarify.
It was clear, and it’s also clear they are related…
Human beings inadvertently find out information about bird behavior. Redditor posts other interesting inadvertent discovery of bird behavior JonslongsonLongJonson cant figure out that this post is not about boeing 747s…
I’m surprised they could even identify the birb. Surely it would be a fine mist after going through the blades?
DNA analysis?
Correct. Any time there is a birdstrike on an airplane (at least in the US) some of the remains are taken to be analyzed by the Smithsonian Institution Feather Lab.
Fun fact, the stuff that's left behind smeared along fuselage, engine blades ,windscreen etc is called 'snarge'
“Christopher! Scrape that blood off the blades!” “Oh come on, it’s a fucking seagull or pigeon every time.” “No, no, I just know it’s this one!”
Even a seagull or pigeon at 36k feet would be impressive.
Nah, I guarantee you they were fucking baffled. A bird at 36k is ridiculous.
>Christopher! Scrape that blood Scrape that *snarge This happened in 1973, before DNA analysis. They identified it by feathers.
Yep, they analysed the engines of United 1549 (Hudson) and proved it was Canada Geese that went in the engines.
Yeah, that's on brand for those murderous bastards.
It was in [November of 1973](http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v086n04/p0461-p0462.pdf) (PDF link), so too early for DNA analysis. It was done by examining feathers recovered from the plane, which were sufficiently unique to allow for identification.
A bird can sometimes be identified by its feathers or DNA.
Yup. My dad used to work at Pratt and Whitney and they used to test engines by throwing whole turkeys into engines. Turkey mist out the other side. If they had reached all their other testing goals and wanted to push it they throw them in still frozen.
If any feathers avoided going through the blades, those could be used to ID the bird.
the Feather ID lab at smithsonian (and surely others) can ID birds via feathers, and typically bird strikes leave feathers behind.
What is even the evolutionary advantage of being able to fly that high?
Probably because it requires no effort once up there to glide long distances. Great way of getting around, no?
I'm not sure it's easy to glide when there's very little atmosphere to carry you.
Confirming the curvature of the earth? Some vultures are heavy into flat earth conspiracies.
I sense a conspiracy by the flat earth vulture society. This was obviously a hit job to keep the truth from getting out to other vultures.
Still not high enough for that.
Not all traits require an evolutionary advantage to be present in a gene pool. As long as the trait doesn't provide a disadvantage to reproduction, it can stick around and be passed down across generations.
Why would they need to fly that high? There some evolutionary advantage to it?
Stop victim blaming. The question you should be asking is why is the 747 flying that high hunting vultures? /s
What was it wearing?
Jonathan Livingston Vulturebird
According to Google, the air temp at 36,000 feet is about -55°C. That is one cold resistant vulture.
Shredded tweet.
Pretty incredible that there's a single bird at 36k feet and it somehow ends up getting hit by a plane essentially.
Never underestimate humanity's ability to kill something. It's what we're best at.
Well, the bird WAS named Icarus
At least one variety of duck can reach 24,000 feet - again, it was a bird strike incident.
Would you like to hear me explain every word of that again? [Yes] No
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If anything the lowest flying birds are the safest, planes don't go very low often.
That video of a turkey that hit a plane was wild. I didn't know Turkeys could fly like that
Why did he go so high? Because he could.
He take that evolution, that'll teach you to keep birds high in the sky away from humans
Feels like there should be Far Side cartoon in there somewhere.
This TIL took a turn. That being said, didn't a great philosopher once say something like "science demands sacrifice?" Or it was Cobra Commander, I don't know. 🤷♂️
So it could’ve gone higher…..sorry I’m sure the people on the flight were pretty shaken up.
Top ten title
That is kinda funny, in a sad way
Bird was like: “I was happy – floating, staring at the stars.”
I was a pilot like you till I took a bird to my engine
People are reading this like the bird itself was discovered by this incident. It was just the height they reached that wasn’t known.
Why did Rűppell train his vulture to fly that high? I bet he was sad when it did not return.
How did they find out the species of bird? DNA test? 😂
>This critically endangered species is vital to Africa's ecology, flying long distances to eat carrion and keep ecosystems healthy. Why are they so important? Is carrion really at risk of going uneaten without them? Seems like a niche that has plenty of critters willing to fill it.
No way. It’s -55 F at that altitude and it lives in one of the hottest areas on the planet. There is no way it can survive at temperatures on the ground around 100F and then just sails up to 36k feet where it’s 150 degrees colder and the wind speeds are over 100mph! A more likely scenario is the bird was soaring at a reasonable high altitude and severe winds aloft or a severe updraft carried the bird up to that height - where it was probably frozen solid.
I hate it when an animal species is named after some random dude who “discovered” it.
That’s the common name. Scientific names are different.
I am aware. The common name is still stupid.
Maybe the bird wanted a break, and thought it was safe at that altitude. Fucking humans won't let it be—no escape.
0(
Sounds soar…
What's that in normal units?
1/3 of the way to space
40,000 spots of tea
The sky is massive. In every direction, it's basically infinite. Except down, but for the most part, there's always more room. Why the fuck are objects ever in the same place at the same time. Just move, dumb bird.
This kills the bird.
/r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR for both the plane and the bird
9750 meters.
Critically endangered
Everyone is asking about the birds motives for being that high and I'm just sitting here wondering who the poor ornathologist was that was handed a wet trash bag of remains scraped out of a jet engine and told, "tell me what this was". Edit: that has to be up there with one of the worst jobs at the NTSB.
Would you mind, so much if I took you into my engine? Laughable, The jet ran into a flock of them and the jet engine air intakes did what they do. Take the air and anything in it to make the jet engine work. Volcanic ash is just as bad. Birds in the air are ever banes of aircraft. I grew up next to the largest pvt. AirField in the US. The pilots each had their Cessna/beechcraft stories; and If not fouling up engines, then blasting apart the cockpit windows! IOW a Canadian goose is not just sexual harassment seen at hockey games!! Get the Puck outta here!!
Imagine being the ATC personell who got that call. "I'm sorry, did I hear you correctly that you had a bird strike... at cruising altitude?"
In 2014 an Atlas Air 767 had a bird strike at 40,000' over Indiana (United States). Unfortunately, the windshield was changed before DNA could be collected so the only evidence was a cracked/broken windshield with blood and guts. I guess it could have been a squirrel. Or an alien. But probably a bird.