-hour flight out of Houston, we started to descend to land after 20 minutes. No announcement as to why. Just a bunch of strangers making eye contact, trying not to panic, assuming that if something was really wrong, they’d say something, right? Finally, 15 minutes later, the pilot announced we were landing back in Houston due to emergency maintenance. That was a very long 15 minutes."
Thanks to a pre-recorded message on a 2012 British Airways flight from Miami to London, passengers heard a female voice announcing over the intercom at 3 a.m., “This is an emergency announcement. We may shortly need to make an emergency landing on water.” Though another announcement telling people to ignore the warning was played, the 330 passengers aboard reportedly went into a panic. Incredibly, the same announcement had been accidentally played the year before, on a BA flight from London to Hong Kong.
Passengers heading to Barbados from London on Monarch Airlines were horrified when their pilot said that technical issues with the reverse thrusters could have led to “a quick, watery grave,” referencing a 1999 Thai flight that flipped in mid-air and killed all 213 people on board. A passenger on the Monarch flight, Mike Bloxam, later took to Facebook, writing, "Safety is of course the most paramount consideration. But to mention planes flipping over and watery graves as you wait to take off is totally unacceptable."
Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger rose to national fame when he safely landed the “Miracle on the Hudson” flight following a bird-strike and dual-engine failure. While it had a famously happy ending, the incident was terrifying to passengers onboard, who heard Sully say “This is the captain. Brace for impact.” Flight attendants then began chanting, "Keep your head down, brace for impact."
The mother of all airplane announcements came in 1982, during a flight from Kuala Lumpur now known as the Jakarta incident. After his plane ran into volcanic dust, triggering engine failure, Captain Eric Moody issued a now-legendary announcement in the grand tradition of British understatement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress." Though flames engulfed the engines, the oxygen masks dropped, the plane went into a 6,000-foot nosedive, the cockpit windshield shattered, and the landing equipment failed, incredibly, Captain Moody successfully (and manually) glided the plane to the ground. Everybody aboard survived.Want to improve your performance? View this recording of a special webinar hosted by Tina Van Horn, Director of Research and Business Development at SL Technology, Inc., a Reliv Company.
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Nothing beats participating live – stay tuned for Reliv’s next live webinar and join in!The setting of the hotel is magnificent as is the hotel itself. The rooms are great. The staff were excellent. The breakfast first rate. I wished we could have stayed longer.
I loved the rooms that were little private cottages. A massive bathroom space and a two level design made me feel like I was in my own home for a few days. The pool facilities are wonderful and the grounds are well kept and clean. Located on the Kandalama, it was a relaxing space.
There were a few things that I felt were not good. First, the staff, although friendly were a bit cold. I was a woman traveling alone and it was bizarre that everything I went to order, they would warn me the price- lol- in a way that was very awkward, as if they assumed I wouldn't have the money. It was a bit comical at times and annoying at others. Maybe they've never seen a woman who can pay for her own things out of the money she makes but this I began to find rude. Especially since it kept happening. The food was not the greatest. I ordered mostly a la carte and it was definitely the worst meals I had in my entire almost 3 week trip. The buffet was better albeit not by much. As well, the room/cottage I had was infested with ants. I know it's located in the wilderness and jungle so I expected some creatures of nature to make their way through, however, this was much more than that. I asked them to look at it the first night and they simply used a cleaning agent and cleaned it as you would a spot on the wall. By the second night, I was waking up to the little critters checking out the bed and crawling on me. The other issue I had was wifi. It was only located in the hotel lobby, which can be a considerable walk from your room depending on where they place you. I stayed at places during my trip for less than the cost of this hotel and I had better wifi, food and facilities. I didn't dislike this stay, I just feel they need to look into some issues. Especially if they are charging over 100 per night. This is more of a place for large groups or families i think.
The resort is located on main road near Dambulla cave temple(apprx 3km)..One can also do day trips to sigiriya...The resort is set amidst a large farm land.There is a river flowing behind the river...cycles are available for rent at the hotel..I think Nov to Jan is the best season as there will be drizzles and less hot...overall i will say it is good value for the money paid...
Relaxed and enjoied with the family. Food was enjoyable too.
Damian the host was very helpful and made our stay as comfortable as possible. We stayed in a newer room.
The chef / head of restaurant was also extremely friendly.
The staff here really made us feel welcome and were interested in their guests.
Very leafy & green and the pool is very inviting. Pool bar will help create a social atmosphere.
I would suggest putting a mosquito net above the bed as there were many bugs flying around the room and also many migies or flies on our bed.
Also perhaps a TV in the room as there is not much to do in Dambulla in the evenings so after a day trip it would be nice to have a tv. I think the older rooms had one.
Good service, good room, excellent grounds, good food. This is a good hotel where people really care about providing good service. Good location. Dambulla Caves and Sirigyra were easily accessible from this hotel.
Food was expensive. 15 dollars return to Dambulla by tuk t.when you make it with LINK?
without really telling them?
Leave your village and never return.
Honestly though OP revenge is a waste of time and energy.
>"make it with LINK"
Put a LINK decal sticker on your nice ride.
The realest answer. While wearing nice new clothes in front of your expensive comfy vehicle, tell them straight to their face that you forgive them.
Given you'll be in a coma fantasy, try to move your head side to side.
not sure why you put village in quote, sir.Posted on May 15, 2022 May 15, 2022 by Brian Koberlein
A Recently Discovered Double Binary System is Unstable. Stars Could Collide, Leading to a Supernova
Multiple star systems are very common in the Milky Way. While most of these systems are binary systems consisting of two stars, others contain three, four, or even six stars. These systems tend to be pretty stable since unstable systems tend to break apart or merge fairly quickly, but sometimes you can get a kind of meta-stable system. One that lasts long enough for stars to evolve while still being stable in the end. And that end could be a supernova.
It all comes down to gravitational dynamics. In Newtonian physics, two orbiting masses in isolation are always stable. The only paths they can have are elliptical orbits. This is why simple binaries are the most common multiple star systems. Once you have three or more masses, things get more complicated. So complicated that there isn’t an exact solution to the three-body problem, much less four or more.
Fortunately, we can make highly accurate orbital models. So while we don’t have an exact solution for multiple star systems, if we make precise measurements of the stellar motions we can create an accurate model. These models are so accurate that they’ll make good predictions across millions of years. This leads us to an interesting star system known as HD 74438.
The orbital motions of HD 74438. Credit: University of Canterbury, Mt John Observatory
It was discovered in 2017 by the Gaia-ESO Survey, and it is what’s known as a spectroscopic double binary. This means Gaia’s telescopes aren’t powerful enough to observe individual stars, but we know they are there because of their stellar spectra. As the stars orbit around each other, each star’s spectra Doppler shifts slightly because of their relative motion. So we can calculate their motion and speed.
In a recent article in Nature Astronomy a team used ground-based spectroscopic observations of HD 74438 to pin down the orbits of the four stars. They confirmed that the stars are in a 2 + 2 configuration, where the stars are paired