> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab > > 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.
Submariner to pilot: "We've never left one of ours up there." -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
