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Huh? Diesel engines don't last 800 hours before major repairs??
On 15 Jul 2004 03:58:55 -0700, (basskisser) wrote:
Wow, I should have paid more attention to Jax's ramblings, they ARE
quite humorous! Now, in context, did he REALLY say that the earth's
surface was planar? The rest I can put off to just not knowing, but
that one is just foolish!
Here's the original reference, which, ironically, was in another thread
back in 2001 where Jox was also confused over Junger's description in
"The Perfect Storm".
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...0mb-fz.aol.com
Excerpt:
In his book, "The Perfect Storm", Sabastian Junger makes note that the
(nervous) crew of doomed fishing vessel "cleaned the spark plugs" in the boat's
diesel engine before they set off. That single line instantly branded the
story as fiction and Junger as someone portraying himself as an expert he most
definitely was not. I understand that his portrayal of the thoughts of someone
near to drowning were also substantially at variance with reality. I
understand quite number of other variances exist in Junger's book as well.
I'm not sure Sabastian Junger is a mariner you'd want to go to sea with. I
know for an absolute fact that I wouldn't trust the navigational abilities of
anyone who claimed (nay, insisted) that vectors are "3 dimensional".
btw, if vectors are "3 dimensional", just how can they be used at a point on
the Earth's surface (which by definition is planer).
Spark plugs in a diesel = three dimensions for a vector. Tain't right, Marsha.
Tain't right.
Steve
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