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25 Jan 10
00:14
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I've just heard someone say this on the telly.
If this is true, the next time I fly I might take a bomb on board but not detonate it. The chances of another bomb being on board would then be a billion to one, so myself, and all the other travellers, would be able to rest that little bit easier.
If this is true, the next time I fly I might take a bomb on board but not detonate it. The chances of another bomb being on board would then be a billion to one, so myself, and all the other travellers, would be able to rest that little bit easier.
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Which one of your bombs will you take...?
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lol
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lol, 1 000 billion to one actually :p
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commonly known as a "trillion" ;)
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I'm old school Dealem. I still think of a billion as a million million. :)
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wouldnae mind renee zellweger explaining this to me in the buff
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Its still a million to one whatever you do
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biggest price on Betfair 999-1 :(
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A billion used to be a million million. Not regarded as such anymore, of course, but I preferred it that way.
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is it f.uck? not until I email her
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I just know I'm gonna' be on a plane that has to make an emergency landing in the sea. The gallant pilot makes a text book landing, but unfortunately we are blown to bits by the impact on landing as everyone was reducing the chances of terrorism by carrying a bomb in their hand luggage. Typical. :(
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The chances of another bomb being on board would then be a billion to one
no they'd still be a million to one |
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I was involved in a near miss approaching Gatwick about fifteen years ago. It caused the pilot to engage our 747 into a gut wrenching aerobatic manoeuvre that seemed to involve flying vertically with the engines at full thrust.
You would expect mass panic and screaming, wouldn't you? I never heard any passenger utter a sound. |
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That's because you work at air traffic control
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It was a horrible sensation, Sparky. Blatantly obvious to everyone that something was very much amiss and I'm sure we all felt the same thing. Sick to the stomach.
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I should have mentioned we were flying vertically upwards. The other way around and I daresay there might have been a bit of screaming.
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I dont like flying to be honest pokermonster. I mean I know statistically it's safe, but jeez it all sounds far fetched1
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i would lay the million to one personally , i think those odds are out .
There Must be millions of flight worldwide in a year . |
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I don't like flying either. I hate it in fact.
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canary is correct, i knew this but chose to follow on to correct for my own slef pleasure...
PM you are also right, but i refuse to acknowledge this. there is no name tag for 1000 mill so a billion is ok by me lol i had a bet with someone in a pub once who was saying how a billion is a million million, this is how i know. i refused to believe it. my arguement was that the world is populated by about 3 billion people. he agreed. i said that wasnt 3000000000000. his arguement was that this is what it USED to be. of course i didnt pay... but nor did he lol |
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I'm sure there are Coach. I think the chap was just generalising.
I still don't buy into the argument that flying is one of the safest forms of transport, though. It obviously isn't. |
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you'd be wrong to actually Coachbuster
Type of Flight Fatalities per million flight hours Airliner (Scheduled and nonscheduled Part 121) 4.03 Commuter Airline (Scheduled Part 135) 10.74 Commuter Plane (Nonscheduled Part 135 - Air taxi on demand) 12.24 General Aviation (Private Part 91) 22.43 |
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Pokermonster , will you fly again after that experience ? :)
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i think it is the safest.. purely governed by the cost of insurance of course...
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Oh yes Coach. I have flown many times since then.
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Still don't like it though. :(
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Coachbuster, although that same site has stats which appear to contradcit that, so I may be wrong!
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if it is a million or .1 of a million, that is still probs the safeest
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sparkmaster. 25 Jan 01:45
you'd be wrong to actually Coachbuster Type of Flight Fatalities per million flight hours Airliner (Scheduled and nonscheduled Part 121) 4.03 ____________________ Assuming the above makes up the type of airliner figures we are talking about ,we can assume 4 deaths per 1m flying hours. Assuming the average flight lasts 4 hours ,we can therefore assume an average of 1 fatality per million flights . Assuming that not all fatalities are caused by bombings i can therefore safely assume a winning payo,ut ;) |
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surely the safest is virtually travelling via chit-chat? I've been to Las Vegas and Krakow 37 times and it's not cost me a penny.
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I flew into New York a couple of months before the Twin Towers terrorist attacks. An hour or so before landing we heard television reports that there had been hijack alerts and that they were threatening to crash NYC bound planes into the cities skyscrapers.
Once in New York aispace we were held circling in the air for what seemed like ages before eventually landing safely. At the time the threats were linked to a group involved with the Columbine shooters. When the towers fell I never heard these earlier threats mentioned once, but I'm sure they must have been connected. |
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*city's
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Linked by whom? What group?
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Another worrying statistic to look up, Sparky, is the percentage of planes that end up crashing.
I can't remember the figure, but it is much higher than one might imagine. |
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Linked by the television reporter, Sparky. I have no idea what his source was I'm afraid, I simply cannot remember.
As to the group, the reporter alleged those two shooters were part of a bigger terrorist group. Again, this is all I know. What I was getting at that is I believe they were wrong in the above assumptions and that the intelligence they did have was connected to the fateful events of 11th September. |
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Bloody Hell, my typing is getting worse by the minute.
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coach is correct.
RE: safety. In the aviation engineering industry there is a saying, "you cant just park it in a lay by". This is shopfloor speak for the multiple back up systems in place in airplane design. Literally every system has backups and failsafes, and in the end a plane can fly and land with no power and a few of its basic mechanical systems in tact. The danger really comes from human error and misendevour. Lets face it this will happen in all aspects of life and flyin is probably safer even then. RE: A billion. English billion is 1000000, (short scale) & American is 1000000000 (long scale). |
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PM, re your first post, I believe you're right, but also that the vast majority of passengers survive such crashes. It's all in the definition of what is a crash.
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True, Jim, but a billion did use to have twelve zeros.
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