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The bus driver did a wonderful thing. G-d bless him.

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This is a very thorough explanation. Thank you. And I never thought that 1970 was his birthdate either. 

I saw a post in the last week or so–I don’t remember who made it–but it was about this scene. The OP wondered how Rodney McKay, who had never met John Sheppard, knew to call him “Major”. 

It’s simple if you know what to look for and how to read it and Rodney McKay with his years of working with the military would know. Take a look:

See Sheppard’s nameplate? (You should be able to click on the photo to embiggen.) In the bottom left corner, it reads MAJ, his rank, and in the bottom right, his branch of service, USAF. 

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This made me smile. At times, this is me. Lol #humor #goldengirls #sophia #itsme

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I found this very interesting.

Setting the Standards for Unmanned Aircraft

From advanced wing designs, through the hypersonic frontier, and onward into the era of composite structures, electronic flight controls, and energy efficient flight, our engineers and researchers have led the way in virtually every aeronautic development. And since 2011, aeronautical innovators from around the country have been working on our Unmanned Aircraft Systems integration in the National Airspace System, or UAS in the NAS, project.  

This project was a new type of undertaking that worked to identify, develop, and test the technologies and procedures that will make it possible for unmanned aircraft systems to have routine access to airspace occupied by human piloted aircraft. Since the start, the goal of this unified team was to provide vital research findings through simulations and flight tests to support the development and validation of detect and avoid and command and control technologies necessary for integrating UAS into the NAS.  

That interest moved into full-scale testing and evaluation to determine how to best integrate unmanned vehicles into the national airspace and how to come up with standards moving forward. Normally, 44,000 flights safely take off and land here in the U.S., totaling more than 16 million flights per year. With the inclusion of millions of new types of unmanned aircraft, this integration needs to be seamless in order to keep the flying public safe.

Working hand-in-hand, teams collaborated to better understand how these UAS’s would travel in the national airspace by using NASA-developed software in combination with flight tests. Much of this work is centered squarely on technology called detect and avoid.  One of the primary safety concerns with these new systems is the inability of remote operators to see and avoid other aircraft.  Because unmanned aircraft literally do not have a pilot on board, we have developed concepts allowing safe operation within the national airspace.  

In order to better understand how all the systems work together, our team flew a series of tests to gather data to inform the development of minimum operational performance standards for detect and avoid alerting guidance. Over the course of this testing, we gathered an enormous amount of data allowing safe integration for unmanned aircraft into the national airspace. As unmanned aircraft are becoming more ubiquitous in our world - safety, reliability, and proven research must coexist.

Every day new use case scenarios and research opportunities arise based around the hard work accomplished by this incredible workforce. Only time will tell how these new technologies and innovations will shape our world.

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A scene from one of my most favorite shows! Stargate Atlantis

August 10: Scott Caan at the CBS’ 2015 SUMMER TCA PARTY in Hollywood, California.

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