The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XVIII

[Cutlass]

It would probably take at least low grade commercial amplifiers to crack plaster. A home system isn't going to do it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

How about a very loud concert in a high school auditorium? I will pm details

 

[Cutlass]

If they used amplifiers and speakers made for a larger venue.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Actually I was talking to a friend (just got email) who mentioned that its likely the building was damaged anyways.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What does this say? I'm not even sure what language its in.

Spoiler in case of stretchy :

 

[Verarde]

Looks like a form of Aurebesh from Star Wars, but it isn't.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I think its just the font, to be honest

 

[Cutlass]

If it's a font, get a big list of fonts and match it up.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

No its a different language. That I know for certain

 

[Cutlass]

Airliners often take routes that are not straight lines between locations. How, or where, do you find out the airline miles between 2 cities as opposed to the straight line?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Airliners often take routes that are not straight lines between locations. How, or where, do you find out the airline miles between 2 cities as opposed to the straight line?

Airliners are required to use "waypoints", like, they fly to that waypoint, and continue on to the next. These waypoints are actually specialized radio transmitters, using a special set of frequency system that airplane navigation systems tune to. It's designed to regulate traffic. Adding up the distances between each waypoint, including from the departure airport to the first waypoint, and the last waypoint to the arrival airport (obviously ). For overseas flights, they use latitude/longitude coordinates entered on the GPS as waypoints.

And it's not "often", because it is actually mandatory.

http://www.flightaware.com may be able to help.

You type in a flight number, or you enter a departure and arrival airport.

On the right of the screen, you'll see the flight details, including the distance in miles from direct, and distance in miles with the waypoints included.

 

[Cutlass]

I was thinking like NY London, not the dumb US rules, but thanks, that helps a bit.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I was thinking like NY London, not the dumb US rules, but thanks, that helps a bit.

The website does do international flights, as well as other countries' domestic flights. But I think you noticed it already.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

What does this say? I'm not even sure what language its in.

Spoiler in case of stretchy :

That is in Japanese.

But I don't read Japanese. I think amadeus does?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Thank you. But what does it say? If I could copy/paste it I would have put it in Google Translate auto-detect language a long time ago.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I'm pretty sure it is Japanese too, specifically in the Katakana syllabary that is used largely for the transcription of foreign words.

My elementary school taught Japanese rather than a more useul language, but we never got very far and I don't remember much. At one point I could have read most of those characters aloud phonetically, but that probably wouldn't help either of us understand it unless it turns out to be an English sentence transscribed in kana.

 

[_random_]

So I have a friend who's planning to study architecture in college. He's faced with the following options:
1) Go to Bowling Green State University, get a bachelor's, graduate with 4000 dollars debt.
2) Go to community college in Columbus to get an associate's, get a bachelor's at Ohio State University, graduate debt-free.

Which is preferable?

 

[madviking]

Uh what are the relative rankings of the architecture programmes?

 

[GenMarshall]

What does this say? I'm not even sure what language its in.

Spoiler in case of stretchy :

That's Katakana. One of the writing systems in Japan.

It says:
"Tomu Petei & Haato Bureikaazu / Isotou za gereeto watado oopuso"

The first part is obviously Tom Petty and Heart Breakers. Haato phonetically sounds similar to heart and Buureikaazu phonetically sounds similar to breaker.

 

[dIZZyBlIZZy]

So I have a friend who's planning to study architecture in college. He's faced with the following options:
1) Go to Bowling Green State University, get a bachelor's, graduate with 4000 dollars debt.
2) Go to community college in Columbus to get an associate's, get a bachelor's at Ohio State University, graduate debt-free.

Which is preferable?

Two things to consider. Since madviking covered the first, I'll go into the second. If he wanted option 1, has he started filling out his scholarship applications yet?