Broken Planes & Families, and the number 159

[Frankie]

Passenger jet breakes in two! How safe are those planes we ride everyday?

http://news.yahoo.com/cheers-screams...185128270.html

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Officials say a U.S. team is expected soon in the South American nation of Guyana to probe the crash of a Boeing 737 jetliner that all 163 people aboard survived.

Authorities so far have given little idea about the cause of Saturday's crash. The Caribbean Airlines plane ran off the end of a runway at Guyana's main airport and broke in two. About 30 people had to be treated at a local hospital, including the pilot.

The airline is largely owned by the government of Trinidad and Tobago and its prime minister has visited the crash site. Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she is worried that the accident will hurt tourism to the Caribbean, a region that depends heavily on the industry.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Pants

I wonder what Frankie's son does. He'd probably be a chess grandmaster if he wanted, but, honestly, that peasant game bores him to death.

Like Marilyn Vos Savant, his son also writes an advice column.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/ask...onvince,19354/

[evenfall]

How amusing. Einstein 159 claims he is just as smart as Stephen Hawking.

[evenfall]

Originally Posted by Pants

I wonder what Frankie's son does. He'd probably be a chess grandmaster if he wanted, but, honestly, that peasant game bores him to death.

We only know he is damn sure not an aerospace engineer.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by evenfall

How amusing. Einstein 159 claims he is just as smart as Stephen Hawking.

Somewhere, Stephen Hawking is claiming to be just as smart as Frankie. The mod on the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics message board has changed his moniker from "Hawkster" to "Frankie 159".

Hawkster erroneously posted that a muon is not classified as a lepton. It was an honest mistake, and the rest of the board had a good-natured chuckle at his expense. Hawkster took it too far and claimed that he was as smart as Frankie, and the dogpile ensued.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by Pants

Frankie, even the smartest man on Earth is still a primate. I'm surprised you didn't know that.

Oh hell, you know what I mean. You're smart enough. Allegedly.

[threebag]

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[Pants]

Originally Posted by Einstein 159

Oh hell, you know what I mean. You're smart enough. Allegedly.

I know what you were trying to say.

I was simply expressing my surprise that someone with your intellect and knowledge did not know that humans are of the Primates order.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Einstein 159

Oh hell, you know what I mean. You're smart enough. Allegedly.

Did you know that all humans are primates, Frankie?

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

I just re-read the OP, and it just gets dumber every time.

It just did.

Originally Posted by Saul Good

A jet drives off a runway, careens down a hill and into a field, and has its fuselage break in two as a result. Frankie's take? "Holy shit! Good thing that plane wasn't 36,000 feet in the air when that happened".

That's not what I said. I said something in what I considered to be a general terms. Some folks took as specific and based on that, not missing a beat, started their customary insults and shit tossing. I may have been mistaken in thinking that my "general" term was not going to be understood well. But the resident assholes just HAD to disregard that possibility and attack. Sorry dude. Like calling me, say, a ****ing dunce.

Originally Posted by Saul Good

What a ****ing dunce. Does he just own the stupid thread? Of course not. After being called on his stupidity, how does he respond?

1- There's NOTHING to own. At worst it's a misunderstanding in an insignificant "news" thread. If not for the butt-hurt of some of the usual clowns in past "debates" with me, this should have gone no more than 30 posts. And, BTW, note when I came in.

2- Gee I call people on their "mistake," not their "stupidity." Not until enough malice and name-callings is directed at me.

That's the difference between someone civilized and cavemen. And that last point has absolutely NOTHING to do with geography.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by Pants

I wonder what Frankie's son does. He'd probably be a chess grandmaster if he wanted, but, honestly, that peasant game bores him to death.

You have an infraction coming for talking about a family member! I got one last week. DaFace do your thing

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Einstein 159

That's the difference between someone civilized and cavemen. And that last point has absolutely NOTHING to do with geography.

Or you could have acted like a man. You could have been intellectually honest, admitted that you got a little carried away with your OP and everyone would just go "Oh lol, it's just ol' Frankie being Frankie."

[threebag]

Originally Posted by Pants

Or you could have acted like a man. You could have been intellectually honest, admitted that you got a little carried away with your OP and everyone would just go "Oh lol, it's just ol' Frankie being Frankie."

This. Frankie is usually a pretty good sport. But this has just 'plane' got out of hand.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Einstein 159

1- There's NOTHING to own. At worst it's a misunderstanding in an insignificant "news" thread. If not for the butt-hurt of some of the usual clowns in past "debates" with me, this should have gone no more than 30 posts. And, BTW, note when I came in.

You mean this?

Structural fatigue vs air (no matter how aerodynamic) and vibration can create a similar failure.

You chose to double-down.

[TimeForWasp]

I can't believe this thread has almost 10,000 views.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-40548163
Evidently, the odds of a flight-related accident are 1 in 1,600,000. In other words, if fuselages are prone to spontaneously snap in half, it has been a rare phenomenon as of late. In yet other words, we're overdue.

Fuselages can break up mid air if they are not maintained right. I was generally questioning some airliners maintenance practices.

If there were any mistake on my part it was in my wording. But I will not leave unanswered ridicules by half-wits who did not give THAT a little thought in their blind rush to "prove" THIS "FERNER" is less intelligent than them. That's why I'm still here and adamant in seeing it through.

I learned long ago on this forum that I cannot afford to embolden the chimps.