Originally Posted By Mr X <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/10/22/nasa.air.safety.ap/index.html" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TR AVEL/10/22/nasa.air.safety.ap/index.html</a> Can't say I'm all that surprised. If the government would willingly withhold THIS kind of information because "it could harm the industry", what other scary stuff are they not telling us?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan It takes Atlas to lift it. I tried reading it a few times (someone gave it to me and said I MUST READ IT!!!!) but I think I got the point it wanted to make early on and grew bored with it.
Originally Posted By Mr X Never read it. Loved the Officer Barbrady quote from South Park, "Reading totally sucks. At first I was happy to be learning how to read, it seemed exciting and magical. But then I read this, "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of crap, I'm never reading again!" (kids, "hooray!!") {edited for LP community standards}
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Rand is one of those authors who seemed original and important in her day, but these days inspires mostly "eh" is most readers... except for a few who seem to get passionate about her and insist that she MUST be read, and if you do you'll be "enlightened." Her philosophy is a strange hybrid of Nietzsche, von Mises, and elementary Aristotle that is either complex or confused - you decide. Her novels, as 2oony says, could stand some major pruning, to put it lightly.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 If the new movie next year is as bad as the filmed version of The Fountainhead was, we are in for theaters filled with drowsy moviegoers.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>what other scary stuff are they not telling us?<< Among many things...? Well, in the event of decompression.. the air will get sucked out of your lung, the cabin will get extremely cold, foggy and noisy, with everything that's not held down flying thru the air. Your ears will pop so badly they will probably bleed, and if you think you will find your oxigen mask, and put it on within 7 seconds before Hypoxia sets or you pass out... then you are truly truly lucky or quite too optimistic.
Originally Posted By jonvn And yet cabins decompress now and then and people don't end up dead. Huh. I guess they're all truly lucky.
Originally Posted By jonvn I have one. I don't find people asphyxiating funny, though. I guess I'm just odd that way.
Originally Posted By fkurucz On Oct 20, our flight from Denver to SNA had to be called back to the gate (it had only backed out). The pilot apologized, and said that a mechanic would take a quick look at the problem. 15 minutes later we were disembarking and were transfered to another plane. I wonder how many 3rd world airlines might have ordered the pilot to just ignore the warning light and go?
