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Fascinating read but for some REAL fun Jeff Wise's "Russian Hijacking Theory" is pretty awesome.... http://jeffwise.net/2019/03/09/the-russian-passengers-aboar

Fascinating read but for some REAL fun Jeff Wise's "Russian Hijacking Theory" is pretty awesome.... http://jeffwise.net/2019/03/09/the-russian-passengers-aboard-mh370/ http://jeffwise.net/2019/03/09/the-russian-passengers-aboard...

InCityDreams 4y ago
>tradition is to brave subzero air temperatures and water temperatures of 34 degrees Good read, but: all that detail and couldn't be bothered providing a (bracketed) degree-centigrade comparison.
- loeg 4y ago
  If you don't know that 34F is approximately 1C, that's a you problem. It doesn’t require any mental math to observe that 34 is marginally greater than 32, which is the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit.
  - andrewaylett 4y ago
    Why would I know that the freezing point of water is 32°F? Pretty much nothing in this country is measured in Fahrenheit. I've definitely seen the comparison made, on random US articles which almost invariably show °C as well as °F, but I'm not sure that if someone asked me if I would recall the answer.
    - loeg 4y ago
      If you're even aware that Fahrenheit exists, this might be a thing you know. For example, my country mostly uses Fahrenheit but I know that freezing in Celsius is zero, because I attended school as a child.
      - andrewaylett 4y ago
        Nope, fairly sure it was never mentioned in school. But in any case, that's a while ago now and I don't think I've ever had a need to use Fahrenheit except for reading US articles where they almost invariably also put Celsius. I know that 100°F is something close to 37°C, and I'll probably not forget 32°F for a while now. But it's fairly useless trivia as far as every day life goes.
        jascination 4y ago
        Yeah ignore that guy, I'm from Australia and we never learnt squat about Fahrenheit in school. The only things I know are from trying to google conversions when they're mentioned in movies.
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wnevets 4y ago
>His wife, Elena, gave several interviews to local media. In one, she calmly indicated that her husband was still alive. “He’ll be back,” she told the Komsomolskaya Pravda, “and he will tell all.” How did that turn out?

InCityDreams 4y ago

>tradition is to brave subzero air temperatures and water temperatures of 34 degrees Good read, but: all that detail and couldn't be bothered providing a (bracketed) degree-centigrade comparison.

loeg 4y ago
If you don't know that 34F is approximately 1C, that's a you problem. It doesn’t require any mental math to observe that 34 is marginally greater than 32, which is the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit.
- andrewaylett 4y ago
  Why would I know that the freezing point of water is 32°F? Pretty much nothing in this country is measured in Fahrenheit. I've definitely seen the comparison made, on random US articles which almost invariably show °C as well as °F, but I'm not sure that if someone asked me if I would recall the answer.
  - loeg 4y ago
    If you're even aware that Fahrenheit exists, this might be a thing you know. For example, my country mostly uses Fahrenheit but I know that freezing in Celsius is zero, because I attended school as a child.
    - andrewaylett 4y ago
      Nope, fairly sure it was never mentioned in school. But in any case, that's a while ago now and I don't think I've ever had a need to use Fahrenheit except for reading US articles where they almost invariably also put Celsius. I know that 100°F is something close to 37°C, and I'll probably not forget 32°F for a while now. But it's fairly useless trivia as far as every day life goes.
      - jascination 4y ago
        Yeah ignore that guy, I'm from Australia and we never learnt squat about Fahrenheit in school. The only things I know are from trying to google conversions when they're mentioned in movies.
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wnevets 4y ago

>His wife, Elena, gave several interviews to local media. In one, she calmly indicated that her husband was still alive. “He’ll be back,” she told the Komsomolskaya Pravda, “and he will tell all.” How did that turn out?