Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Is that what you wanted to know?
Yes! That makes sense. It sounded odd, anyway, since I didn't get being able to text message when other people around you are visibly frozen.
Next I wonder how long he figured he'd get away with it...
Let me go check the NYT.
It turns out he had no cousin on the flight and seems to have been making up the text message.
Huh.
Well he must have known that the airplane suffered decompression, and inferred the cold from that.
flea, you're back!
this lovely map of the San Diego trolley system.Oooh. Now I just need a photo iPod. And a trolley stop near me.
Huh. I've only read the one NYT mention so far, and it seems to be pre-debunking:
"The pilots have turned blue. Farewell cousin - we're frozen," one passenger wrote in a text message from a cellphone, according to an interview with a relative on Greece's Alpha television.
time is crawling by
conference call without end
the clock mocks my pain
If it got cold due to depressurization, wouldn't you suffocate first? In my head, short of flash freezing, I think cold usually takes a little longer. Or at least on an airplane with a leak.
If it got cold due to depressurization, wouldn't you suffocate first? In my head, short of flash freezing, I think cold usually takes a little longer. Or at least on an airplane with a leak.
Yes. But the aircraft's emergency oxygen masks did drop down. So theoretically some could have survived the depressurization.
Voutas had called Greek television stations shortly after the Helios Airways flight crashed into a mountainous region north of the capital Sunday, saying his cousin, who he identified as Nikos Petridis, was on board.
He claimed his cousin had sent him a cell-phone text message minutes before the crash saying: "Farewell, cousin, here we're frozen."
The report that the plane was cold was taken as a sign of decompression — one of the possible explanations authorities have given for the crash, which was Greece's deadliest. But police in Thessaloniki said they had determined he was lying, and there was no Petridis on the Cypriot government's official list of victims.
It's me, isn't it? I finally had time to take lunch and catch up, and now no one is talking,