Thursday, August 28, 2008
Layers of editors and fact checkers, none of whom do math
On the opening of the "northwest passage", Der Spiegel Online blows it (emphasis added):
This route is radically shorter than the normal trip through the Suez Canal. From Hamburg to the Japanese port city of Yokohama, for example, the trip using the northern route is just 7,400 nautical miles -- just 40 percent of the 11,500 nautical mile haul through the Suez.
Candidly, I expect more from Germans.
CWCID: Regular commenter DEC.
5 Comments:
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Thu Aug 28, 01:08:00 PM:
By , at
Thu Aug 28, 02:18:00 PM:
And now you can understand why the formerly precisely-engineered and stolidly reliable Mercedes-Benz vehicles have become what they are today. Sad
By , at
Thu Aug 28, 03:54:00 PM:
Successful capitalist, international businessman, and he forwards links to Tigerhawk.
Is there anything DEC can't do?
DEC for President in '08. The groundswell begins now.
-David
By , at
Thu Aug 28, 08:45:00 PM:
I expect more from Germans.
German engineers, sure. German media? Not so much.
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Assistant Village Idiot, at
Thu Aug 28, 11:53:00 PM:
It's sorta kinda maybe 40% less, so perhaps that's was meant. Even that isn't that accurate, but it puts them in the ballpark.
