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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #672 on: March 27, 2020, 08:38:42 AM »
I have tried a dozen different ways to attach it.  It’s not working🤨

I will keep trying
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #673 on: March 27, 2020, 08:51:45 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 27, 2020, 06:19:46 AM
You can't pass a flight medical exam if you are colorblind, interestingly enough.  You also can't be diabetic (they may have modified that rule).

This is a Class III, the lowest class.
A friend years back entered USAF flight school in Del Rio Texas.He was almost disqualified for a slight acne problem.Fortunately this seemed to be a thing and it was corrected by some dermatologists
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #674 on: March 27, 2020, 09:25:28 AM »
my eyes were only one reason I'm not a pilot
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #675 on: March 27, 2020, 10:05:34 AM »
I'm sure Trans-Debris Airlines would be more than happy to have you
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #676 on: March 27, 2020, 10:29:10 AM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on March 26, 2020, 08:34:54 PM
Red looks red. Yellow looks yellow. Green looks white. Basically I can't distinguish a green light from a street light except by shape/context.

Somehow I'm still alive.
My father was red/green colorblind and worked as an electrician for years. In this day and age he would never get licensed. On really complicated wiring where there were multi colored/striped wires he would bring a piece how and go over again and again with my mom so he could identify the various wires by the "intensity" of the color. 

It was fun playing Uno with him. And we always had a good laugh when he picked out his own clothes instead of mom.
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #677 on: March 27, 2020, 10:31:01 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on March 26, 2020, 09:32:59 PM
Colorblindness has always fascinated me.  And I believe it's supposed to be pretty common among males?

Not "pretty common" among males, but extremely rare among females.

It's a recessive gene on the X chromosome. So for a woman (two X chromosomes) to be colorblind, she has to have a colorblind father, and a mother who is either a carrier for colorblindness (50% chance daughter becomes colorblind) or who is colorblind (100% chance daughter becomes colorblind).

But since men only have one X chromosome, and there is no corresponding gene on the Y chromosome, all it takes is to be male and your mother be a carrier of the gene to have a 50% chance that you'd be colorblind yourself.

It also means that I didn't pass any colorblindness to my two sons, but my daughter is definitely a carrier of the gene. 

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #678 on: March 27, 2020, 10:31:28 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on March 26, 2020, 09:32:59 PM
Colorblindness has always fascinated me.  And I believe it's supposed to be pretty common among males?

Most colorblindness is past on through from father to Daughter (Carrier) to son.

So my father was colorbind and my sister's two boys are both colorblind.  None of my sons nor my brother's sons are colorblind.
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #679 on: March 27, 2020, 10:35:37 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on March 27, 2020, 09:25:28 AM
my eyes were only one reason I'm not a pilot

I had an appointment to West Point, 2 weeks before I was suppose to leave for boot camp, I was disqualified because of my eyesight. I am extremely myopic (-14.75 diopters). 

I thought after I received the nomination and then the appointment that I had received a waiver for my eyesight. I figure at the last moment some big mucky-muck wanted his kid to get in at the last moment and they found me who they could disqualify because of my eyesight. 
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #680 on: March 27, 2020, 10:35:44 AM »
Quote from: Riffraft on March 27, 2020, 10:29:10 AM
My father was red/green colorblind and worked as an electrician for years. In this day and age he would never get licensed. On really complicated wiring where there were multi colored/striped wires he would bring a piece how and go over again and again with my mom so he could identify the various wires by the "intensity" of the color.

It was fun playing Uno with him. And we always had a good laugh when he picked out his own clothes instead of mom.
I'm an electrical engineer. Resistors have their resistance value identified by colored stripes. 

I had trouble with that in college, not because I didn't know the system, but because I'd have to ask people "what color is this?" in order to identify resistor values. 

I was so happy when I started dealing with surface mount resistors that have the value silkscreened into the top of them. 

I mostly avoid any issues with picking out my own clothes... Because everything I own is basically gray or blue or black, so it's pretty easy. 
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #681 on: March 27, 2020, 10:48:12 AM »
Quote from: Honestbuckeye on March 27, 2020, 08:38:42 AM
I have tried a dozen different ways to attach it.  It’s not working🤨

I will keep
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/covid-19-evidence-over-hysteria


try again.   
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #682 on: March 27, 2020, 10:55:32 AM »


I think this is why pilots can't be color blind.  That thin red line is called "Never Exceed Speed".  I'm told bad things happen above that, like wings shearing off etc.  And you shouldn't be in the yellow in "turbulent conditions".
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #683 on: March 27, 2020, 11:01:47 AM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on March 27, 2020, 10:35:44 AM
I mostly avoid any issues with picking out my own clothes... Because everything I own is basically gray or blue or black, so it's pretty easy.
well, you live in Cali

that's all they wear
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #684 on: March 27, 2020, 11:02:25 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 27, 2020, 10:55:32 AM


I think this is why pilots can't be color blind.  That thin red line is called "Never Exceed Speed".  I'm told bad things happen above that, like wings shearing off etc.  And you shouldn't be in the yellow in "turbulent conditions".
what red line?
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #685 on: March 27, 2020, 11:42:09 AM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on March 27, 2020, 10:35:44 AM
I'm an electrical engineer. Resistors have their resistance value identified by colored stripes.

I had trouble with that in college, not because I didn't know the system, but because I'd have to ask people "what color is this?" in order to identify resistor values.

I was so happy when I started dealing with surface mount resistors that have the value silkscreened into the top of them.

I mostly avoid any issues with picking out my own clothes... Because everything I own is basically gray or blue or black, so it's pretty easy.
Yup, can't imagine how troubling that would have been!

I still have and use the soldering station I bought for myself during those glorious old lab days.  EE321 and EE321K were the labs, if I recall correctly.
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