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"When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound."
If he had broken off after "It's a real problem." then it could have been a joke.
But because he then followed with "And she was choking and rubbing her eyes." it is not a joke.
Fucking clownshoes. The lot of them.
The Daily Mail had this gem:which is a complete load of horse bollocks and certainly didn't come from any aviation expert. While the cabin would depressurize, and people could indeed get sucked out in that initial rush of air, the fuselage would not rip apart and the plane would not crash, nor would there be more oxygen in the cabin than before -- there would be less.
It would get pretty chilly, though.
The pilots have oxygen because they have full facial masks that deploy with more oxygen than what is in the passenger compartment masks (about 15 to 20 minutes worth).
The plane is only pressurized at high altitude, and that is to match the standard pressure inside the cabin at lower altitudes so people don't pass out. At lower altitudes, even if "pressurized" then there is equivalent pressure on both sides.
If an opening in the fuselage occurs while the plane in under pressure, it is not the air rushing out from pressure that will cause suction, so much as what is called the Venturi effect of air rushing over an opening.
Airplane cargoes are sealed in fact so that fires will burn themselves out. But you don't want that to happen where passengers are as they would suffocate.
But as I said, the main thing is that his mannerisms were incongruous throughout, including when talking about his wife coughing and rubbing her eyes.
PS Also, he needs to either calibrate his instant tanning better or to stop standing in front of the red stripes of a giant flag.
The summit of Mount Everest is a good mile lower than normal cruising altitude. Yeti jokes aside, no-one lives on top of Mount Everest, though a fair few experienced mountaineers have died at considerably lower altitudes.
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…
THEN [$ROMNEY$ set_delay]
ELSE [$ROMNEY$ find: excuse/pathfile: humor]
END PROGRAM
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There's a little bit of tittering in the audience, although it's possible that they were laughing at him, not with him.
@14, I believe you are mistaken about the rush of air. It's called "explosive decompression", and it can indeed suck people out. There have been a number of incidents where windows or other holes have been blown open. Some people have been sucked out by the rapid pressure change (though at low altitudes the pressure differential might be the other way, sucking air IN). Unless you're right next to the hole, and are not belted to your seat, you're probably safe (though if you hold your breath your lungs might turn to jam.
Anyone who doesn't think it's normal to be worried when your loved ones are on a plane with an electrical fire onboard is even stupider than Romney. He didn't express himself very well, because he himself is obviously slipping in and out of consciousness, but he clearly wasn't joking.
I was going to say that Paul should chill because taking things out of context to make the speaker look bad is totally fair play, but if this many of us are truly unaware that Romney was joking, then a word of warning is merited after all.
Dumbass.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xr9qzq_…
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_F…
Data's first mistake was asking Joe Piscopo for humor advice.
@23,
You mean if you *are* belted to your seat, you'll be safe. Keep those seatbelts fastened, folks. It's not just the airlines protecting themselves from liability.
You're right as usual. Carry on.
Granted, he's made a lot of money, but that's a lot easier to do when you start of with a lot of money, and his ways of acquiring that money seem quite rudimentary at best: buy a company, drain it of its assets, load it with debt and move on. It's a move he stole from the mafia.
Of course, I don't know the man, and all I see is what's on TV, but I'm not impressed. Even when he tries to sound serious, he comes across as some sort of mediocre salesperson who wouldn't last a pay period in the appliance department at Sears.
Gay Dude for Retroactive Man.
Technology for detecting turbulence has improved since then, but I don't take any chances. I keep my belt on.
What Romney lacks isn't intelligence, but intellectual curiosity. His intelligence could help him overcome that, but he clearly isn't interested. And he's unsympathetic to the needs of ordinary people. Even Bush had more genuine concern, if not the will to really use his position to do anything about it.
Got it.
( not that i want to die anytime soon.. i'm lovin every moment of living, but still..)
Romney and Bush, despite all their handlers, consultants, advanced degrees, and business "success", don't seem all that bright. Both were more or less set up by their fathers, like the Kennedy boys. But unlike the Kennedy boys, they seem to lack both genuine intelligence and charisma. That's all I'm saying.
cat.. i've calmed down now. ( thank god for edible medicinals).while you're right, you certainly didn't say any such thing, i did run into the prospect of comparison and convinced myself that mittens was indeed worse than bush. that means he'd be the worst president i've experienced in my lifetime.of course, that's fear talking. having observed that fear is a tactic the republicans use to great effect, i should know better. i panicked. but i'm better now. thanks for helping me to calm the frak down.
...toodles..