More evidence SA is not much of an objective digest of science and technology any more. Their first foray into becoming a populist rag was globull warming support.
Now they become even more of a political commentary.
Pitiful.
The collective intelligence of all that have voted for or still support Obuggery is substantially less than a bag of hammers.
SA. Seriously? You should be ashamed to include “scientific” in your title. Do you REALLY believe that Romney is that stupid? Try looking in the mirror. Morons! You don’t understand what he meant? Who’s the mensa genius running your outfit.
Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years. (do you think SA will understand that?) Never mind, probably not.
Er, not to get in the way of a good rant, but I didn’t see anything in the text you highlighted that suggested they were saying you would “die instantly.” They said that if you were exposed to these conditions, you would die quickly (which you would). The oxygen masks exist to make sure that you AREN’T exposed to these conditions for more than a few seconds.
As an ex fighter jock, I confirm that FR readers are a lot more informed than the Scientific Muslim...er...American loons.
I quit getting their joke of a magazine years ago.
about 10 years ago I quick taking SA because of it’s turn away from science to political science. Complete rag sheet
I own an airplane that has a proper roll down window. But, also, many Part 25 Transports have windows that can be opened in flight.
http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/424078-why-open-cockpit-window.html
BTW, he said “Open”, “Roll Down” is incorreclty inferred.
It would be nice if there was a way, once the plane was not moving, to pop the windows open if there is a fire inside the cabin.
That would help prevent suffocation deaths.
Even a small fire could kill a lot of people in a plane by smoke inhalation, if the fire took out the ventilation.
Of course, the chance of that is very low compared to the risk of having windows that could be forced open, so trade-offs are made. That doesn’t mean we can’t say that it would be nice if you could.
We do have removable windows in the center of the craft, to help people escape onto the wing. SO it’s not a stupid idea. And yes, if someone manages to open one of those in flight, or to open the doors, we would have decompression.
This was actually a hit piece on Romney. He was joking with the press (according to a pool reporter) but SA and its readers assumed he was serious.
In their zeal to attack Romney Scientific American used statistics for a “Commercial” airliner. Ann Romney was on a 10 passenger corporate jet (Canadair CL-600 Challenger 601). I’m no scientist but I am pretty sure they are not the same.
The whorenalists are are beclowning themselves all over
One of the scariest things to happen in an airplace is for it to fill with smoke
You cant see your instruments, you can’t see outside the windows, you cant breathe... if it is bad enough you are going to die unless you can normally land a plane with your eyes closed
hee hee... I didnt know about the enormous fart part
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_useful_consciousness
You have under a minute at 35K feet to get on oxygen.
At the typical max altitude of airliners, you have just a few seconds.
Out of the gate, this meme is a lie...he never said they wouldn’t ‘roll down’...he said they won’t ‘open’. The rolled down slant is meant to make him look stooopid....but I suspect Mr. Romney has been on an airplane or two in his life.
And considering the plane LANDED, he may have been musing about why there is no way to vent the plane, once it goes below 12k feet...instead of waiting for the landing, and complete stop of the plane....which actually wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Yesterday, Mooochelle talked about her ancestors ‘riding’ the underground railroad...an even more stupid comment, that was not commented on one bit by the media.
The math, science and engineering professors I encountered in college were logical, apolitical in the classroom, and I suspect, may have been conservative. I cannot confirm that because they stuck to the subject matter.
The math, science and engineering professors I encountered in college were logical, apolitical in the classroom, and I suspect, may have been conservative. I cannot confirm that because they stuck to the subject matter.
When I was growing up in the 60’s my Dad (a chemist) had every copy of SA going back to maybe 1960. I sat up at night and devoured them, to the extent I could understand them. There were plenty of articles I could not understand, of course. But every issue had at least two articles that fascinated me and usually prodded me to go looking for more information about stuff I became interested in.
I look at SA now and it’s generally scholarly research into prefabricated conclusions. It’s all about global warming as an assumed conclusion. It is anything but classical science. It is liberal advocacy disguised as objective research and it’s laughably puerile.
Once a great magazine-not for everyone, but a great magazine; now, dumbed-down PC bumwipe.
The problem with Romney is that he assumes that voters are intelligent. Fortunately, he’s mostly right. He misses the fact, though, that most of the press aren’t. Anyone so stupid that he must have a joke such as this explained, is usually too stupid to understand the joke anyway. “Scientific” American fits this category.