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WCDT: 2226-2230 (9-13 July 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread (SDCC Edition 1)
Barmymoo:
It's an EU legal requirement that everything is sold in metric weights, so many market stall holders have both the lb and g prices on their produce. They also have to be able to weigh sufficiently accurately in grams - there's a regulation about how accurate the scales need to be.
I use feet and inches for how tall I am, centimetres for the circumference of my waist, inches for the circumference of my chest, kilograms for what I weigh, lbs for how much I've lost, miles for distance, and so forth. I think I was still being taught to convert from imperial to metric at school - and also vague memories of converting old money to new (and I was born in 1991!).
HiFranc:
--- Quote from: Boxilar on 09 Jul 2012, 00:36 ---[...]
especially after that one Canadian airliner ran out of fuel mid flight because the ground crew didn't understand the difference between gallons and liters. The military still uses Kliks and meters for the most part, but the military does love their tradition so hoary units of measure like the knot are still used for ship and aircraft speed.
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Actually that's what the film of the incident stated. However, if you look at a documentary of the incident (aka the Air Transat glider incident), what actually happened was that there was a fuel leak. From what I remember of the Air Crash Investigation's episode on it:
The leak was in an unusual location (i.e. it was leaking through the engine) so the warnings that came up in the cockpit were unusual so the captain suspected it was a problem with computer software. Even the ground-based technician the he called suspected it was a computer fault. Therefore, the captain didn't take the action necessary to stop the fuel leaking. It was lucky that ATC had diverted him earlier, due to weather conditions, otherwise the plane would not have been in gliding range of the Azores.
It was a twin engine Airbus with Rolls Royce engines.
The investigators found that the initial fault had been that a technician had put a part designed for another Rolls Royce engine in that engine because he didn't have the one for that particular engine to hand.
Whilst the air crew were hailed as heroes for getting the airline down safely, the investigators criticised them for not using their common sense and shutting down the number 2 engine.
Boxilar:
Ouch. That's as bad as the DC10 getting a bad rap for a major design flaw, when in reality it was rushed maintinence procedures that caused the engine pylons to develop cracks and drop engines in mid flight.
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 09 Jul 2012, 13:13 ---It's an EU legal requirement that everything is sold in metric weights, so many market stall holders have both the lb and g prices on their produce. They also have to be able to weigh sufficiently accurately in grams - there's a regulation about how accurate the scales need to be.
I use feet and inches for how tall I am, centimetres for the circumference of my waist, inches for the circumference of my chest, kilograms for what I weigh, lbs for how much I've lost, miles for distance, and so forth. I think I was still being taught to convert from imperial to metric at school - and also vague memories of converting old money to new (and I was born in 1991!).
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I grew up with Imperial mesurements and still have to do minor mental gymnastics when I'm presented with anything in metrics. Grumble, grumble, 1.6 kilometers to a mile, 2.2 pounds to a kilogram and so forth. I guess it's the way my brain is wired. I know what a gallon or a foot or pound look and feel like. I have to think about metrics. Not logical, but there it is.
HiFranc:
--- Quote from: Boxilar on 09 Jul 2012, 13:23 ---Ouch. That's as bad as the DC10 getting a bad rap for a major design flaw, when in reality it was rushed maintinence procedures that caused the engine pylons to develop cracks and drop engines in mid flight.
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The DC10 did have a design flaw but the flaw that I am aware of wasn't anything to do with the engines.
Under US and International Law it should be impossible for a plane's baggage door to seem to be locked when it isn't. It that happens then you can get explosive decompression. It happened twice! The first time DC10s were grounded but the head of the NTSB overruled the order and had a gentleman's agreement with the head of McDonald Douglas to rectify the problem. They did make a couple alterations that allowed a baggage handler to (one of them was a small window in the door to the baggage compartment) see if it didn't lock properly but did not issue any guidance do the industry of how to use its modifications. When the second crash occurred the baggage hander was blamed in the first instance but, after the 2nd investigation was complete, DC10s were grounded until the flaw as corrected.
Let's get this back on topic (sort of):
What phone is Dora using?
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: PHDrillSergeant on 09 Jul 2012, 08:59 ---I envision that Dora and Tai WILL start getting into it, but there is the slight problem of Tai's piercing.
(a) she goes to get a dental damn and kills the mood
(b) she forgets the dental dam and gets an infection.
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And she's allergic to latex!!
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