Fox and Friends knows why those planes go missing

[Capt. Obvious]

Fox Host Wonders If Metric System To Blame For Latest Missing Jet

After another jetliner mysteriously went missing without a trace on Sunday, cable news hosts are yet again filling time by speculating about what could have happened to Air Asia flight QZ8501 over the Java Sea.

On "Fox and Friends Sunday," co-host Anna Kooiman wondered if foreign pilots' use of the metric system played a role in the plane's disappearance.

"Let's talk about the differences. Even when we think about temperature, Fahrenheit or Celsius, kilometers or miles. Everything about their training could bow similar but different, right?" Kooiman asked former Federal Aviation Authority spokesman Scott Brenner.

Seriously?

[marym625]

1. heard about this

I didn't hear the answer but I hope it was a hardy, long lasting laugh.

[Atman]

2. So, like, The U.S. of A. is one of the last places to cling to "feet" and "Fahrenheit."

So, it is OUR outlier system of units that brought down an Asian airplane?

If only someone could invent computers or something to run these big giant peddle-driven Flintstone planes!

[tinymontgomery]

3. The comments at the end

Some of the comments at the end are cracking me up.

Austin_​​Dave
Also: Cities are further away in metric. So the airline may not have put enough fuel in the plane to go the extra distance. Sad.

DickWeed
And 1 gallon is more than 1 liter by like 4, and they typically figure fuel efficiency as liters per 100 kilometers instead of MPG so I bet you're on to something.

It's all kinds of crazy, mixed up, math is hard stuff!

[Capt. Obvious]

5. That made me lol

[Aerows]

7. "Cities are further away in metric"

Instead of saying "I'll bet you're on to something" my reply would be "I'll bet you both are on something".

[Jimbo S]

14. Does that mean my weiner is

bigger in metric?

[Aerows]

15. I'm sure if you told those two bozos

that the answer is yes, they would be all for the metric system being implemented immediately!

[Initech]

11. Yeah I would trust the opinions of a user called "DickWeed".

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Wait till fox finds out they also use 'nautical miles' in addition to miles and kilometers.

[Initech]

13. I'd wonder how long it would take for them to figure out port vs starboard.

[Archae]

6. On CNN an "expert" said it wasn't terrorism since...

Terrorists only act on nice days.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026016677

[SomethingFishy]

8. Hey, the metric system is all ones and zeros...

it's very difficult for Fox News anchors to deal with big numbers... like 1 and 0..

[Electric Monk]

9. I think you mean base ten, not binary. nt

[SomethingFishy]

10. It was a joke....

They can't figure out ones and zeros, had I called it base ten they would have yelled at me for not understanding baseball...

[Initech]

12. So it was the Stone Cutters then?

"Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do."

[harrose]

16. While it sounds like a silly question, it has happened before.

NASA lost a Mars probe because of a mix-up over Metric/Imperial units.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/