On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why is an airplane better than a submarine? I'd like to know whether > you plan to travel under the ice or over it before answering the > question. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > I sure would not want to to experience a pressurization loss in an airplane near Bolivia or Tibet. In that case the pilot is required to descend to 10,000 ft above sea level. Problem is, the runways in those areas are about 13,000 above sea levels, and planes are not good at moving through solid rock.
-- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
