From TFA:
"Time 1:54, Tower: “Southwest 708, confirm on the roll?” Note that this comes 34 seconds after the previous transmission, and nearly a minute after the tower cleared Southwest for takeoff.
In that minute, the FedEx plane has covered most of the distance to the airport. Presumably the visibility is so bad that the tower can’t even see the Southwest plane sitting on the runway. So the tower controller is asking: Hey, are you moving?
Southwest immediately replies, “rolling now.”
Investigators will also want to find out what the Southwest crew was doing through this time, in the minute after saying “we’re ready” and while knowing that another plane was about to land."
The biggest surprise here for me was that this happened unanimously - does anyone know why or how? Maybe I should be glad that such clear-cut, science-based decisions are still possible, but it's become just so unusual lately...
Same as with trains: Its not cabins pricing thats expensive, its flights being too cheap - mostly due to tax subsidising of kerosin and similar. With proper energy costs and carbon pricing the bill would look different
This starts at 1099$ per the article, so the mac mini is the low-price alternative here.