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Fox Host Wonders If Metric System To Blame For Latest Missing JetAfter another jetliner mysteriously went missing without a trace on Sunday, cable news hosts are yet again filling time by speculating about what could have happened to Air Asia flight QZ8501 over the Java Sea.
On "Fox and Friends Sunday," co-host Anna Kooiman wondered if foreign pilots' use of the metric system played a role in the plane's disappearance.
"Let's talk about the differences. Even when we think about temperature, Fahrenheit or Celsius, kilometers or miles. Everything about their training could bow similar but different, right?" Kooiman asked former Federal Aviation Authority spokesman Scott Brenner.
Seriously?
marym625
(17,997 posts)I didn't hear the answer but I hope it was a hardy, long lasting laugh.
Atman
(31,464 posts)So, it is OUR outlier system of units that brought down an Asian airplane?
If only someone could invent computers or something to run these big giant peddle-driven Flintstone planes!
tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)Some of the comments at the end are cracking me up.
Austin_Dave
Also: Cities are further away in metric. So the airline may not have put enough fuel in the plane to go the extra distance. Sad.
DickWeed
And 1 gallon is more than 1 liter by like 4, and they typically figure fuel efficiency as liters per 100 kilometers instead of MPG so I bet you're on to something.
It's all kinds of crazy, mixed up, math is hard stuff!
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Instead of saying "I'll bet you're on to something" my reply would be "I'll bet you both are on something".
Jimbo S
(2,960 posts)bigger in metric?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)that the answer is yes, they would be all for the metric system being implemented immediately!
Initech
(100,104 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,343 posts)Initech
(100,104 posts)Archae
(46,354 posts)Terrorists only act on nice days.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026016677
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)it's very difficult for Fox News anchors to deal with big numbers... like 1 and 0..
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)They can't figure out ones and zeros, had I called it base ten they would have yelled at me for not understanding baseball...
Initech
(100,104 posts)"Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do."
harrose
(380 posts)NASA lost a Mars probe because of a mix-up over Metric/Imperial units.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/