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Take Yourself Seriously - Part 4

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Jax is definitely surprised that the coolest person here is panicking so badly.

Finally, we're getting into the monologue jwjwjejqkj

these feelings inside of me

and then I will die.

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They knew they were going to die when the engine fell off whilst still on the runway. Their options were to slam on the breaks and barrel directly into the distribution facility straight ahead of them with hundreds of workers inside of it, or TRY to get airborne enough to hit the ground somewhere that won't kill more people than them. They chose the latter. It's a nightmare Murphy's law scenario in general, but especially for that bird.

It was bound for Honolulu, there was a MASSIVE amount of fuel it had just been filled with. It has 3 engines and designed to be able to fly with 2 should one fail and even if 2 failed it should still be able to make a relatively safe emergency landing (depending on altitude and location). But one engine fell off, the tail engine ingested likely debris from the multiple different angles of it, and there was an uncontrolled fire near, if not already at the fuel tank for that fallen engine - and it all happened while going down the runway at speeds there is no way of stopping quickly with something so large. Had it crashed into the facility straight ahead, not only would everyone in it be killed but the explosion would have taken out other surrounding buildings/parts of the airport that were also highly populated.

Those pilots saved countless lives in the last few moments they had.

It's basically them and railroad workers who are awake to problems in their industry and they will work themselves to the bone too keep those problems from killing people--and they will stay in these industries even when that work is insurmountable because so often the math comes down to "at least I know what is wrong, I couldn't live with myself if I walked away and wasn't there when something happens."

Pilots of all flavors, private and commercial and more, are also trained how to make the best of bad dice. They go up in the air knowing how much fuel they have, how heavy that fuel is, and they know just how quickly a spark becomes a conflagration in the realm of compounding problems. Pilot decisions therefore must move faster than that spark and must outsmart the physics of that conflagration.

It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:

Given the fitness world's persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries. Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat's energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males. Estrogen's ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body's response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn't receive estrogen supplements.