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    Image of twig twig
    12/01/09

    In reply to The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet
    TechCrunch covers the industry gossip better than almost anyone else, but there's one way they get this story right. So come on, Ryan, show us what you're made of. Arrington's post is fishy as hell.
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    11/30/09

    In reply to The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet
    #hahahahahahaha
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet
    Popular Mechanics? A million or so of the world's best minds spend thirty years inventing the internet, and there's still a Popular Mechanics?
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet
    I was just about to email this to you, Ryan. Of course, I should have known that you'd already be on top of it.

    I wonder if Popular Mechanics is going to release a statement, or if they'll go the Perez Hilton route (Castro) and just never speak of the incident again.
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    I hate when that happens.

    /5th grade
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    I'm figuring the pilots were also on their laptops checking Facebook when they were supposed to be paying attention to Heavy Clouds(tm) and ZOMG!Lava.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    Will no one consider the feelings of the lava? You struggle valiantly to emerge from the bowels of the earth, you're dying of heat stroke and just when you get some fresh air and you're finally cooling off, a plane lands on top of you.
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    Image of zibnchy zibnchy
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    OK this line in the AP news story completely cracked me up:

    "Radio Okapi said the plane was flying from Kinshasa to Goma on Thursday and passengers had warned the crew that there were heavy clouds."

    Reasons NOT to travel to Goma:
    1.) lava
    2.) airline pilots that have to have assistance of seeing-eye passengers to identify clouds.
    3.) also, lava
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/19/09

    @zibnchy: A+ comment. Would lol again.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    Thankfully, the lava only does periodic damage. So if you time your jumps right, it'll maybe only hit you once.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/19/09

    @Mount_Prion: I'm praying they were already in a power up.
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava

    In retrospect, using these as runway beacons might have been ill-advised.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    Luckily, Captain Adetokunbo "Sully" Achebe set that plane down like an indentured nanny setting a baby Afrikaner in a crib.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/19/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Really? I heard that Captain Achebe, who is also the Minister of Transportation, died in the heroic landing attempt. The unfortunate captain had control of US $145 million in rail and road construction funds that now can only be accessed with my help. That's what his cousin, Honorable Arms Akimbo, told me, anyway.
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    Image of Adah Adah
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    The lava was hardened. Still: 1.) Who builds an airport next to a volcano? and, 2.) Why did the original AP story fail to mention that the lava was hardened? You type lava, people are going to picture the molten stuff.

    [www.google.com]
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    11/19/09

    @Adah: The AP report is hilarious. Aside from the lava goof, it includes the sentence "..Passengers had warned the crew that there were heavy clouds."

    O RLY? Was the crew blind? Playing poker and drinking gin in the cockpit while the passengers were dutifully monitoring atmospheric conditions?
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/19/09

    @Adah: "Who builds an airport next to a volcano?" Optimists?
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    Captain Yllus declined to comment.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    Erm, I can't imagine anything more absolutely horrific than landing in lava. I'm sure upon seeing lava approaching out the window, the knowledge of such, would just short out all neurological function. Seriously. Lava has got to be the greatest fear of all second to....well, NOTHING! Well wait maybe....there's lava, and then perhaps being hit and then incinerated by a large meteor, but then, no, scratch that, because lava still wins.
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    11/19/09

    @Spirit Fingers: "I can't imagine anything more absolutely horrific than landing in lava."

    Not even President Palin?
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/19/09

    @Dr. Nick: Hmmm, well. It's questionable if we'd all survive "President Palin," but it's a definite we'd not last a nosedive into friggin lava!

    (But President Palin would make me leave the country, and I think Costa Rica has lava. So there's that.)
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    11/19/09

    @Spirit Fingers: we probably wouldn't survive President Palin, but it would be a longer, far more annoying process. At least with lava, you'd know it would be over quickly.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/19/09

    @Dr. Nick: If by annoying you mean bombarded daily by her stupidity and poorly constructed sentence structure. Seriously, does the woman not even read? I know she "wrote" a book, but has she never actually read the written word? It's like she grew out of Gomer Pyle's rib bone. Heh. Creationism.
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    11/19/09

    @Spirit Fingers: She's the living embodiment of the Peter Principle, except in her case, she kept rising way, way past her level of incompetence.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/19/09

    @Spirit Fingers: "I can't imagine anything more absolutely horrific than landing in lava." Sharks?
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/19/09

    @Xylo: Oooo, good one, sharks. Naw, I still say lava. People have survived shark attacks. While that's damn harrowing, I'm still thinking burning alive (flaying alive, bursting into flame alive!) tops being chomped on by a shark. At least you can fight a shark. If you're ever trapped by lava, what do you do? It's like being in the sun. Like the sun melted on your body. There's no coming back from that.

    In doing some quick research, the only way to survive, is to not be in a place with an erupting volcano. at all. Even tourists are told, "Look at this active volcano at your own risk, because it's like a nuclear reactor. with lava."
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    Image of New Gonzo Drifter New Gonzo Drifter
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    There are always plane accidents/incidents in Goma ... when they quote "lava," they actually mean the hardened lava outlying the area from the eruption of the volcano just outside Goma in '02 ...
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    Image of econdave econdave
    11/19/09

    @New Gonzo Drifter: I'm sure that makes everyone feel better. Instead of worrying about being incinerated in magma, they just have to worry about hitting hardened lava, crashing, and being incinerated from burning jet fuel.
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