What News Stories Caught Your Attention Today?

[Tenacity]

I read the news online a few hours ago, and looking back the only two stories that really caught my attention are the Cosby mistrial and the collision between a US warship and a Philippines container ship. I remember other news stories, but they aren't the "front and center" ones in my mind.

What stuck with you today?

And do newer stories tend to stay with you, or older stories with new details?

 

[Sibyl]

The Philando Castile sticks out in my mind this morning simply because of the vicinity (not to mention the injustice, but I've kind of become numb to that, lately).

I have a long memory of impactful events, but lately, they've been coming hard and fast, and some stuff is inevitably going to get pushed out over time, or relegated to the subconscious.

 

[publiusr]

I read the news online a few hours ago.. the collision between a US warship and a Philippines container ship.

Never sail on a ship called the Fitzgerald
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/polit...-collides-with-merchant-ship-japan/index.html
Wasn't even November...

And--if you ever see a ship named the "High Flyer" run!

SS High Flyer was the second ship to explode in the Texas City Disaster of April 16, 1947 (living up to her name), and the HMS Highflyer was in Halifax on December 6, 1917--30 years earlier--when the Mont-Blanc went up in smoke.

I have a long memory of impactful events,

Disasters stick with me. Train collisions especially. Train cars often have a way of telescoping one into the other. Not pretty.

The supercell that spwaned this Lovecraftian monster passed over my house, after the piping, whistling, circling, vortices went aloft:

https://stormtrack.org/community/threads/tornadoes-with-tentacle-like-external-vortices.24624/
http://orf.media/

 

[BillJ]

The continuing Ray Tensing retrial here in Cincinnati...

http://www.fox19.com/category/302278/dubose-shooting

 

[Kai "the spy"]

As far as German media is concerned, nothing happened in the last two days except for the death of Helmut Kohl.

 

[Smellincoffee]

The Navy collision. With as many bells and whistles as US Navy ships have these days, how on Earth do they manage to run into ANYTHING?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The Navy collision. With as many bells and whistles as US Navy ships have these days, how on Earth do they manage to run into ANYTHING?

1) Extremely high traffic shipping zone with hundreds of ships passing through in close proximity every day (and numerous collisions as a result).
2) Restricted navigation lane relatively close to shore with narrow assigned paths to avoid other traffic, meaning that if you steer to avoid one ship you'll be moving toward the path of another.
3) Ships with a turning radius measured in kilometers, especially with the huge, sluggish container ship, which means even if you notice you're on a collision course in advance you might not always be able to avoid it.
4) The accident happened at 1:30 AM, when even with all the bells and whistles on your navigation sensors low visibility still doesn't help.

The above are all based on info in the article, the two below are speculation:

5) It looked like good weather and fairly calm seas the next day during recovery operations, but they could have had heavy chop and fog at the time of the collision affecting control and visibility.
6) There may have been human error or negligence involved.

 

[Anna Yolei]

I read the news online a few hours ago, and looking back the only two stories that really caught my attention are the Cosby mistrial and the collision between a US warship and a Philippines container ship. I remember other news stories, but they aren't the "front and center" ones in my mind.

What stuck with you today?

And do newer stories tend to stay with you, or older stories with new details?

You beat me to it.

The Fitzgerald was my first command in the Navy and I slept in berthing 2, which was one of the two that were flooded out. It was also two decks directly below a couple of my division's workcenters.

It hits home, suffice it to say.

 

[Anna Yolei]

The Navy collision. With as many bells and whistles as US Navy ships have these days, how on Earth do they manage to run into ANYTHING?

Bells and whistles do very little if the watchstander are fucking off or poorly trained.

Assuming any of the rigorously high standards have trickled down between the three COs who have taken over after I left, no ship in the Navy would be better prepared for such an event. The crew managed to rescue quite a few people from what I've heard; given the extensive damage, it's surprising that there weren't more casualties.

I feel bad for the CO who was asleep and will most certainly lose the command if he pulls through his own injuries.

 

[publiusr]

1) Extremely high traffic shipping zone with hundreds of ships passing through in close proximity every day (and numerous collisions as a result).
2) Restricted navigation lane relatively close to shore with narrow assigned paths to avoid other traffic, meaning that if you steer to avoid one ship you'll be moving toward the path of another.
3) Ships with a turning radius measured in kilometers, especially with the huge, sluggish container ship, which means even if you notice you're on a collision course in advance you might not always be able to avoid it.
4) The accident happened at 1:30 AM, when even with all the bells and whistles on your navigation sensors low visibility still doesn't help.

The above are all based on info in the article, the two below are speculation:

5) It looked like good weather and fairly calm seas the next day during recovery operations, but they could have had heavy chop and fog at the time of the collision affecting control and visibility.
6) There may have been human error or negligence involved.

There is a book called "How To Avoid Huge Ships" which became an internet sensation--and won the title of "worst book:"
https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?128530-Please-let-this-book-be-real

If folks actually read the book--we might have less incidents like this one.

Tropical Storm Cindy caused a death of a child with a wave rolling a log onto his head--crushing his face--before dropping tornadoes upon metro-Birmingham, Alabama.

(Fairfield--hitting the old Wal-Mart that closed recently--the lack of income depressing the community)

More:
https://stormtrack.org/community/threads/tropical-storm-cindy-2017.29790/

Gitant waterspout
http://klewtv.com/news/offbeat/waterspout-forms-in-mississippi-as-cindy-approaches-gulf

Triple waterspouts
https://weather.com/storms/severe/video/triple-waterspouts-form-off-coast-of-florida

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Dude, enough with the non sequitur linkstorms already. Just because all those stories involve the ocean doesn't mean they're relevant to each other or to my post, except for the first one, sort of. It just comes off as spamming when you do this all the time.