[Split Thread] Conspiracy theories about unconventional usage of notation

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Originally Posted by Vixen (Post 13974815) A bit like: a ship can float on its side once it lists over its centre of buoyance: just like Herald of Free Enterprise! (Actually, resting on a bank!) A ship's cannonball in Nelson's day 'cannot have travelled at 900mph'! an EPIRB has to be switched on by one of the Captain's mates before it works! You can't use base sixty notation for hours, minutes and seconds! a bow visor will fall off if hit by a strong wave! a ship 155m long will sink with no trace within 0.35' because all of the windows on the listed side will have smashed thus letting in water rapidly! 80m is too deep to recover a wreck or the bodies! there were no telephone or radio signals between 01:00 and 02:02 because of the 'storm' (only Beaufort 7)! It takes over two hours for a rescue helicopter to fly from either Helsinki or Visby, or Stockholm after an official mayday call from an MRCC!!! Eleven crew listed as rescued on rescuers lists suddenly are not rescued after all! Helicopter Y64 went to pick up a nurse and a doctor from Stockholm via Visby first before going to the rescue!!!

Gets more ludicrous every time you try, doesn't it! 0.35 feet? or 0.35 minutes of time? or 0.35 minutes of arc? or 0.35 of something else that exists only inside your head?

, split from [Continuation] The Sinking of MS Estonia: Case Reopened Part V

Posted By:jimbo

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