Friday 13th travellers take chance on flight 666 to HEL

Would you board flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th? For superstitious travellers, that might be tempting fate. But Finnair passengers on AY666 to Helsinki apparently were not too bothered. Friday’s flight was almost full.

“It has been quite a joke among the pilots,” said pilot Juha-Pekka Keidasto before flying the Airbus A320 from Copenhagen to Helsinki. “I’m not a superstitious man. It’s only a coincidence for me.”

The daily flight AY666 from Copenhagen to Helsinki falls on Friday the 13th twice in 2013. Friday the 13th is considered bad luck in many countries and the number 666 also has strong negative biblical associations.

Some airlines, such as Scandinavian Airlines, take such fears seriously and do not have a row 13 on board. However, the negative connotations are a relatively new phenomenon for northern Europeans, and Finnair and other regional carriers such as Norwegian and Estonian Air keep row 13.

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The last time Jay Leno was a guest on Letterman

This visit happened after Leno was named host of the ‘Tonight Show’.

I thought there’d be more talk about the show or some awkward chemistry, but both men were very friendly to each other and I didn’t detect an ounce of bitterness from Letterman.

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This picture is cooler than you probably think

 

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The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) from Earth.  Wikipedia

No other picture of Earth has been taken from so far away and it was done with 1970’s technology.

I’m referencing this picture because Voyager 1 has just entered interstellar space, which means it’s in a region beyond the influence of the sun or solar winds. That thing has been traveling at 38,000 mph.

I bet millenniums from now it will be returned to Earth.

 

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