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This is how Canada was named. It actually means "village":Ibix said:There's a long digression on this theme in one of the earlier Discworld books on this theme, explaining why the forest they are in is named Skund ("Your finger, you fool", in the local language) and mentioning the existence of a mountain named "who is this idiot who does not know what a mountain is".
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/origin-name-canada.html#a1 said:The name “Canada” likely comes from the Huron-Iroquois word “kanata,” meaning “village” or “settlement.” In 1535, two Aboriginal youths told French explorer Jacques Cartier about the route to kanata; they were actually referring to the village of Stadacona, the site of the present-day City of Québec. For lack of another name, Cartier used the word “Canada” to describe not only the village, but the entire area controlled by its chief, Donnacona.
There's a song about that:fresh_42 said:I will never make fun of Welsh place names again. I just learned about a mountain called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
In France, Marseille 1, nothing Tolouse.pinball1970 said:FA cup, oldest football (soccer) competition in the world (1871) played on the 3rd June with an all Manchester final (Man U and Man C) for the first time in history.
The director of marine operations at OceanGate, the company whose submersible went missing Sunday on an expedition to the Titanic in the North Atlantic, was fired after raising concerns about its first-of-a-kind carbon fiber hull and other systems before its maiden voyage, according to a filing in a 2018 lawsuit first reported by Insider and New Republic.
David Lochridge was terminated in January 2018 after presenting a scathing quality control report on the vessel to OceanGate’s senior management, including founder and CEO Stockton Rush, who is on board the missing vessel.
According to a court filing by Lochridge, the preamble to his report read: “Now is the time to properly address items that may pose a safety risk to personnel. Verbal communication of the key items I have addressed in my attached document have been dismissed on several occasions, so I feel now I must make this report so there is an official record in place.”
The report detailed “numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns,” according to the filing. These included Lochridge’s worry that “visible flaws” in the carbon fiber supplied to OceanGate raised the risk of small flaws expanding into larger tears during “pressure cycling.” These are the huge pressure changes that the submersible would experience as it made its way and from the deep ocean floor. He noted that a previously tested scale model of the hull had “prevalent flaws.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/missing-...escue-north-atlantic-oceangate-172526242.html"This experimental vessel has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, emotional trauma, or death,” before adding, “Where do I sign?”
I have heard that it was built with titan and carbon fibers. Sorry, but that is a failure waiting to happen. The two materials behave so differently in extreme environments that I'm surprised that people entered the vessel voluntarily at all.Borg said:It's been found, imploded 1/3 of a mile from the Titanic.
May be a fatigue thing, since it had done quite a few dives before? The effects of cycling through a high pressure salt water situation may not have been well enough studied. Just as the effect of pressurization cycles on aircraft was not well understood until the Comet jet liner accidents in the 1950s, which led to improvements in fuselage design.fresh_42 said:I have heard that it was built with titan and carbon fibers. Sorry, but that is a failure waiting to happen. The two materials behave so differently in extreme environments that I'm surprised that people entered the vessel voluntarily at all.
OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush is married to Wendy Rush, the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who choose to remain onboard the sinking Titanic together so that others could escape to safety in their place.
This explains at least why the whole thing isn't quite as impious as I first thought. But still, I find it macabre.gmax137 said:
fresh_42 said:SE and MO
StackExchange and (Math)Overflow.gmax137 said:Signs I'm getting old?
Yes.fresh_42 said:Do you even know the difference between a turtle and a tortoise?
And what's worse, cargo doesn't go by car.WWGD said:Confusingly, shipping includes sending things by truck, rail or plane. But there's no distinctive
term I'm aware of to send things by ....ship.
Not when it's 94°F IMO.BillTre said:50% is low humidity.