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You have to give the FAA some credit for being precise...
Police hold Lisa Irwin’s home on search warrant
The Tuesday afternoon search prompted officials with the Federal Aviation Administration to initiate a no fly zone over the search area for a radius of 1.15077945 miles.
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Hmm, not even an even number of km or nautical miles. The latter being the units the NOTAM was probably issued in. I'm guessing incompetent unit conversion on the part of the station.
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There, I fixed your quote to how I see it.Originally Posted by Trebuchet
I don't know why they felt the need to convert it in the first place.
And; why they didn't state both units like most reporters do when the report a conversion change.
And; why they felt the need to go to so many decimals as if anyone cared.
But; you're right, I can't find any even numbered unit (into the tenths or quarters) that this fits.
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Type '1 Nautical mile in miles' into Google.
Result:
1 nautical mile = 1.15077945 miles
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Well, it is a Missouri station. I guess they felt they had to show you.
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Now I wonder why I couldn't find something that simple.
But; my other points remain.
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Particularly about the weird need to put the entire number, which I assume can be attributed to a lazy copy/paste job. But it just looks ugly. I'm no Rhodes Scholar -- I got my associate's (2-year) degree in Law Enforcement and it only took me about 6 years of college to do so -- but I remember the basics from grade school. Rounding numbers up to a reasonable degree and so forth. Nothing wrong with 1.2 miles or 1.15 miles. Both look much better in print.
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Fazor, nice to see you post today. I was worried you might have strayed a little close to Zanesville and got eaten by a lion, a tiger, or bear (oh my). Just like that poor little monkey.
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Tara drove through there yesterday, but no sightings! I think that by the time she went through, they'd downed all but the wolf and the monkey, which apparently now is suspected to have been Tiger food. Weird, weird world. Sad that all the animals had to be put down, but by all accounts, they were all extremely aggressive. Given what I've heard of their living conditions and treatment, I'm not surprised.
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Not all. But; that doesn't change the sentiment.
6 released exotic animals being cared for at Columbus Zoo
I'm surprised they caught up with the animals so quickly. The Zanesville area isn't exactly urban.Zoo officials say three leopards, two monkeys, and a grizzly bear are in good condition and will get complete medical exams Thursday
Jumanji: African safari tourism thrives in Ohio!
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On her way to Canton, Tara first passed through the exotic animal danger zone, then passed the exit for 'The Wilds', a place with more exotic animals. So on a two hour roadtrip in Ohio, she passed two different "safari" scenarios. Who'da guessed that?Not all. But; that doesn't change the sentiment.
6 released exotic animals being cared for at Columbus Zoo
I'm surprised they caught up with the animals so quickly. The Zanesville area isn't exactly urban.
Jumanji: African safari tourism thrives in Ohio!
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Dang! I misread the original number and put in 1.510....
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The only reason I'm interested in the topic is because I have a relative (and animal lover) that was close friends with the previous Ohio exotic animal keeper debacle (another keeper who is now dead - I actually met him once too).Who'da guessed that?
Some of the stories I heard were very difficult to stomach. I'll just reveal that he was allowed by the state to recover roadkill to feed the animals, and leave it at that.
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That's the <em>only</em> silver lining with this Zanesville debacle. Maybe now Ohio will finally be forced to get off their hind-ends and do something to improve the State's laws regulating these animals. At this point, it's hard to tell how much of what's been reported is fact and how much is gossip making it to print, but it sounds like the DNR and animal wardens had been called out to this guy's place dozens of times, but the animals were allowed to stay even though they still lived in squalor with sub-part protection for either the animals or the people.
Granted, the animals were intentionally loosed, but what was he doing with 50+ of these things in the first place? It's insane.
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Is the animals are partly scavengers, I'd call that an eminently logical solution to giving them food close to that in their natural habitat.
Sorry, but that specific example can't rile me.
But then, I live in a country where one of the sources of meat for large predators in zoos is old riding school ponies, euthanized by the zoo and served in large, easily recognizable chunks while the kiddies are watching.
And where the girls who rode the ponies think it's a good idea.
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Here's one that sounds like there will be a followup story headlined "PARADE GETS LOST".
Parade announced to celebrate life of Carl Lindner Jr
I'm sure the route was probably designed to highlight some of points of interest related to his life.
But; almost 50 different turns? I do hope they have the intersections clearly manned or prepared in some way. (or a really good parade marshall with GPS)
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Of course they are going to get lost, they started down "Pete Rose's Way".
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Okay, I love to pick on my local paper. But with sentences like this, they're just asking for it! Pizza Place Fire:
I know math isn't a huge part of a journalism degree requirement, but really?One of the people who first spotted the fire was C.J. Williams, Jenny Hamilton and Krystal Mollette, who work at Scramblers Marie's across the parking lot.
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Let's count, that's one, one and one. OK, one person.
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It's just a simple case of the media not giving you the whole story as usual.
C.J., Jenny, and Krystal are just tricephalic. The only reason for the difference in last names is that Jenny and Krystal got married.
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From the Fox News site:
More than three thirds? It can't be that bad, right?
(I suspect they'll correct it, eventually.)
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It's Fox News, they don't get anything else right so why should they bother fixing that?
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But they did...
I'm surprised they replaced "more than" with the actual number.Three-quarters of American voters -- 76 percent --
And of course, the important question in the poll was what to do about the stolen teleprompter.
I'd like to have seen the results of them asking whether that issue has anything to do about the direction of the country.
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Remember that four out of three people have trouble with fractions, and that's more than three thirds.
(We should a spokesman for Fifth Third Bank for their opinion on improper fractions.)
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I think they know exactly what they're doing. By the time I'm done paying on my mortgage, they'll have collected about 5/3rds of my home's value from me.
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From the office of redundant redundancies office.
T minus 20 - Beyond the bird, a bacon pig
Although; given the content of the story, it does make sense.Cantwell crafted a pig entirely out of pork as a Thanksgiving appetizer.
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Okay, three things. a) Constructing a pig from various pieces of pork presumably from other pigs . . . does that make him Dr Frankenstein? b) I want to eat that soo bad. and c) I really, really want to eat that so bad.
Okay . . . one last thing. Can't help but be reminded of the Simpson's episode where Lisa decides to go vegetarian, and Homer is questioning her about not eating various things. "Pork chops?" "No." "Ham?!" "No." "Bacon?!!!" "Dad! Those all come from the same animal!" "<Sarcastically> Yes Lisa, some magical animal! Pssh."
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They did go into more detail on that.
Don't forget Spiderpig who was also known as that magical Harry Plopper.
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your guide to the asteroid encounter
Uhm, wouldn't that be "wider than the length of an aircraft carrier?"This space rock (which we'll call YU55 from here on out) is about a quarter-mile (400 meters) wide, which makes it wider than an aircraft carrier.
Wider than the width of one isn't as impressive.
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No, they were comparing widths. New fad; compare wildly unrelated things. I tend to go more creative with it myself. If I were writing an article, it'd say ". . . which makes it wider than that old Aunt you have. Yeah, you know the one."
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