Paris Air Show

Martin Hotze wrote in
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On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:39:20 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Have you actually attended the show?

Yes, on several occasions.


Watching on CNN doesn't count, bankruptsy boi

forget about CNN (Europe). There are far more better news outlets than
CNN (they got worse and came down to a FOX niveau), BBC for example.

I probably wouldn't spend the money for the Paris Air Show even when
living in Paris .. well, maybe once to have seen it personally. I have
no big interest in the big iron and absolutely no interest at all in
all the military stuff.

So it would be best to reflect sometimes before bashing around.



Uh, yeh, right.



Bertie

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Viperdoc writes:

Was this before or after Lindbergh landed in France?

The Paris Air Show postdates Lindbergh's flight.

Viperdoc writes:

There aren't too many airshows that are air conditioned and indoors. Being
outside is part of flying and working on airplanes.

That's another advantage of simulators.

ManhattanMan writes:

Funny, I don't recall too many deserts in France, especially at a latitude
further north than Switzerland.

Then you haven't been to France recently. Climate changes in the past ten
years have been dramatic in much of the country. Paris has gone as high as
115 degrees, whereas the historical normal high for the year is around 76
degrees.

Viperdoc writes:

Translation: I'm too fat, lazy, and cheap to get off my ass and see one of
the world's largest airshows. Just more excuses.

It's not worth the inconveniences I've cited. And I'm not interested in
military hardware, which is all too distressingly apparent at the air show (it
reminds me of the movie _Lord of War_).

A Guy Called Tyketto writes:

And the amount of daylight in the desert southwest US is less?

Yes. The southwestern U.S. is at a much lower latitude, and so the length of
daylight in summar is shorter.

Las Vegas would welcome the humidity. That would mean a better
chance for rain and a cool breeze, as opposed to dry heat and hot
winds.

No. Humidity does not guarantee rain by any means, and it dramatically
reduces human tolerance for heat by limiting evaporation. You're better off
(or at least no worse off) in the dry heat of Las Vegas than in the wet heat
of some parts of the Deep South, although both locations are far too hot
and/or humid for comfort.

Right now, we're lucky to have temps at 10pm at night *under*
37C.

The desert is like that. At least there is air conditioning in the desert.
With no air conditioning, both heat and humidity can be deadly.

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Mxsmanic wrote:
A Guy Called Tyketto writes:

And the amount of daylight in the desert southwest US is less?

Yes. The southwestern U.S. is at a much lower latitude, and so the length of
daylight in summar is shorter.

This makes absolutely no sense. If the southwestern US is at a
much lower latitude than France (which it is, as I've lived in BOTH),
the length of daylight would be LONGER in the summer, not shorter. The
sun set here (Vegas) at 8:03pm local time tonight, and expected to set
later at this time of the year (due to summer solstice). Plus, with it
being geographically closer to the equator than France, you will see
places like Arizona, Hawaii, and the like not use Daylight Savings Time
because of the amount of sun they get.

You may want to go back to school and LEARN something instead
of sitting there and letting it go through one ear and out the other.

I live here, so I think I would know that better than you.

Las Vegas would welcome the humidity. That would mean a better
chance for rain and a cool breeze, as opposed to dry heat and hot
winds.

No. Humidity does not guarantee rain by any means, and it dramatically
reduces human tolerance for heat by limiting evaporation. You're better off
(or at least no worse off) in the dry heat of Las Vegas than in the wet heat
of some parts of the Deep South, although both locations are far too hot
and/or humid for comfort.

lessee.. Humidity gets up to near 100%; I go outside, and I see
rain.

I grow up in Nebraska, and humidity gets up to 95%, I go
outside, and I see rain. I look at the current weather conditions in
KOKC (where my father and other relatives live) and Humidity there is
92%. Current conditions? Rain.

As usual, you are wrong. And in this case, pathetically wrong
at that.

Right now, we're lucky to have temps at 10pm at night *under*
37C.

The desert is like that. At least there is air conditioning in the desert.
With no air conditioning, both heat and humidity can be deadly.

Take you E=MC^2 to figure that one out?

BL.
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Hi,

In article ,
wrote:
ManhattanMan writes:

Funny, I don't recall too many deserts in France, especially at a latitude
further north than Switzerland.

Then you haven't been to France recently. Climate changes in the past ten
years have been dramatic in much of the country. Paris has gone as high as
115 degrees, whereas the historical normal high for the year is around 76
degrees.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/desert

The only one of those definitions you could perhaps argue as being
applicable to France is:

"5. any place lacking in something"

but somehow I don't think that's quite what you meant...

Andy

On Jun 28, 2:34 am, A Guy Called Tyketto
wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
Yes. The southwestern U.S. is at a much lower latitude, and so the length of
daylight in summar is shorter.

This makes absolutely no sense. If the southwestern US is at a
much lower latitude than France (which it is, as I've lived in BOTH),
the length of daylight would be LONGER in the summer, not shorter.

Guy, you may want to rethink that reply:

June 29, 2007 - Las Vegas - length of day: 14h 35m 46s
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...omy.html?n=127

June 29, 2007 - Paris - length of day: 16h 08m 14s
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...omy.html?n=195

In the summer "Daylight" lasts for more than 24h in the Arctic
(but only ~12h on the Equator)