Larry Greenfield

So Monty Python it hurts... - Chad Thornton

Where did you find this? - DeWitt Clinton

Lol. "Some of them are built so that the front doesn't fall off at all." - Jess Lee

Hilarious, cheers! - Majento

ooh, I've dreamed about writing this forever. I really like the idea of including "BUILD.py" with some software, which just executes the set of commands to compile it, using memoize if it happens to be available. I think that would be way better than automake and its awful friends for software source distribution. If there's platform sensing to be done, it could just be done on the fly (and memoize-d). - ⓞnor

I just tried this on a small personal project. Seems to work, and so so so much simpler. - ⓞnor

I love that it uses strace to determine the input files used by a command, rather than making you maintain dependency lists yourself. - seth

props to ⓞnor, who found this link originally - (@){

zzzzzt: http://friendfeed.com/e/a74196... - j1m

ha: http://friendfeed.com/e/f94582... - ⓞnor

FriendFail! - Jim Norris

I wonder why they were videotaping in the first place. Still, very lucky nothing happened. - Louis Gray

The weather in Germany was stormy in general the last couple of days. Northern Germany was supposed to be especially bad. The Lufthansa plane in the video is apparently trying to land at one of Hamburg's airports, which is up north. - Mustafa K. Isik

Louis - there is a whole subculture of people hanging out around airports taking pictures of planes landing and taking off. Sounds about as interesting as fishing to me, but these guys are really into it. - Frederic

The German weather service actually posted a hurricane watch alert for Saturday morning, so I am not surprised to see this. Sure is scary! - Mark Douglass

Scary. Makes me feel great that I'll be taking a Lufthansa flight to Germany this fall. =P - Dan Hsiao

Looked like it was going to be a pretty standard cross-wind landing, but the wind must have changed directions just a few seconds before touchdown. Must have been some good pilots. - Frederic

For those of you reading German, here is an article with some details from Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/panorama... - Frederic

Yeah, the storm was called "Emma" and it was announced before the weekend. Blew my teacher half off his bike he said, and I too saw some tree branches heading my way. The pilots were pretty lucid to start off again but I wonder why they tried landing with this weather in the first place. Spiegel suggests the base just communicates the conditions, then it's up to the pilot whether or not to land... - Philipp Lenssen

This article from BILD (in German) has some pictures where you can actually see the wing scrape the ground... http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/l... - Mark Douglass

if the wing scrapes the ground, wouldn't you wonder "maybe if we lift off again, the plane may fall apart?" - Huy Zing

@Huy, when you're in the cabin in the rush of adrenaline trying to save your sorry ship and passengers, you hardly have time for doubt. - Urbansheep

I'm going to guess this happens a lot more often than people realize, and it only made the news this time because there was video footage. The plane is already back in service as they decided there wasn't any structural damage to the wing. - Kevin Fox