Drunk pilot loses certificate

"Doug" wrote in message om...
A forest in Colorado had Spruce Budworm back in the 1930's.

Is Spruce Budworm a ancester of Spuds McKenszie?

"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message ...
In my part of Michigan there is disease that goes through the white birch
trees in my woods about once a decade and kills them... Being they are not
a hot political issue no gov't agency has come to my 'rescue' with a cure
worse than the disease... As a result I still have lots of white birch trees
even if the big old ones have died off...

Of course, we don't have any American Chestnut to speak of anymore.

Ron Natalie wrote:

Of course, we don't have any American Chestnut to speak of anymore.

They're actually pretty close to having a survivable strain. Two approaches have
been used by different outfits. One guy has been cross-breeding with Asian
chestnuts and another outfit has been trying to build up immunity by working
with the most disease resistant wild trees he can find. IIRC, the latter group
is closest to release. The NPS is already talking about the need to relax the regs
against introducing plants to the National Parks when the time comes, especially
if it's the Asian cross-breed that's most successful.

George Patterson
Love, n.: A form of temporary insanity afflicting the young. It is curable
either by marriage or by removal of the afflicted from the circumstances
under which he incurred the condition. It is sometimes fatal, but more
often to the physician than to the patient.

Andrew Gideon wrote:

But 95% of all the pilots involved in fatal accidents were sober.
It sounds like drunk is the safer way to fly grin.

That sounds like the old statistics lesson about safety while flying
commercial.

A person found out that the chance of being on an aircraft with a bomb
aboard was one in a million. It was also explained that the chance of
two bombs being on the same aircraft were less than one in a billion.

In pondering these two statistics, he therefore decided to carry a bomb
whenever he flew on a commercial airliner, since it greatly reduced the
chance of there being a second bomb on the aircraft.

James Robinson wrote in message ...
Andrew Gideon wrote:
A person found out that the chance of being on an aircraft with a bomb
aboard was one in a million. It was also explained that the chance of
two bombs being on the same aircraft were less than one in a billion.

One in a trillion, but who's counting...

"Bob" wrote in message
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James Robinson wrote in message
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Andrew Gideon wrote:
A person found out that the chance of being on an aircraft with a bomb
aboard was one in a million. It was also explained that the chance of
two bombs being on the same aircraft were less than one in a billion.

One in a trillion, but who's counting...

No, billion, because the person in question was thinking of bringing the
bomb on board in England a couple of decades ago.

-- David Brooks