Re: The Macintosh is a girl's computer!

J. J. Lodder <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

sigvaldi <sigvald@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

J. J. Lodder wrote:
[snip]

German planes near Iceland were very rare indeed.

German aircraft flew over Reykjavik and other places in the west of
Iceland on numerous occasions, often bombing and strafing, German
planes near the east of Iceland were almost a daily occurrence.

(Wow! Almost a plane a day!)

Iceland does not have a large population - the entire country has a
population only marginally more than the London borough[1] I grew up in
(London's population dwarfs Iceland's), and I doubt it was much
different back in the WWII years. If that `almost one warplane a day'
is also `often bombing and strafing', it's a big deal to Iceland.

And `almost one a day' is indeed a lot of traffic, surely? Thousands of
occurances over the course of the war - hardly trivia that one can
ignore, is it? `Almost one a day' is certainly not the `very rare'
occurance you falsely claimed.

Even if what you say is true
that would still make encountering a German plane
on a meteo flight a very rare occurrence.

I don't see why. There was an awful lot of traffic as we have
established already.

You don't have to be very close to an aeroplane to have an `encounter'
with it, y'know .

If you want to know what it's like when there's a lot of mad war-time
air-traffic, there's at least one occasion during the First World War
when someone fell out of the back seat of one aeroplane and landed in
another - effectively unhurt.

[snip]

Rowland.

[1] 300,000 near as damnit against about 250,000. London's population
is around 7.5-8.5 million, depending on how you measure London, and
anyway probably quite a bit more given there's a lot of people who don't
get counted by the official authorities.

One thing I quite like: Iceland's parliament has 63 members (so says my
reading of the CIA factbook right now). 300,000 people, 63
representatives: that's pretty good representation, that is. Britain's
got about 200 times the population but only about 10 times as many MPs.

Oh yeah, and Iceland apparently has 304,000 mobiles phones - more than
the population.

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