unless i missed something, he was only correcting your spelling of grateful, dee ;)

(Written on 2017/07/31)(Permalink)

as an american, born and bred, i have to ask what business you think the FBI has in this case... St. Maarten is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands so it is up to them what they decide to do in this case... i won't bother to point out that you've also confused the definitions of "ignorant" and "stupid"... if he is ignorant then educating him about the possible results will help... at least he wouldn't be ignorant about that any more... if he doesn't care what his actions may cause, then what? there's still the question of stupidity but it really isn't worth trying to discuss on social media c4rp...

(Written on 2017/07/31)(Permalink)

absolutely! the only cure for stupidity is hot lead at high velocity... ignorance, on the other hand can easily be cured by educating the ignorant... but then there's that horse and water thing to deal with...

(Written on 2017/07/28)(Permalink)

at least one article stated that 28L had its threshold lights (??) configured to a huge 'X' to additionally indicate that 28L was closed... that should have also been a clue to the A320 pilot that they were lined up wrong...

(Written on 2017/07/14)(Permalink)

yeah, we don't know... that's plausible but there's no time information given for proper timeline evaluation...

(Written on 2017/06/16)(Permalink)

so the outside crew doesn't count? like those in that van that eased by pretty slowly??

(Written on 2017/06/16)(Permalink)

:) O:) :)

(Written on 2017/03/31)(Permalink)

one of three, maybe? :wink: :wink: :wink:

(Written on 2017/03/31)(Permalink)

ahh! i found it... atlas obscura is where i saw it noted as 16x16 but you made me go hunting again and i did find the 17th column one mile further east and another row one mile further north so i had to renumber everything but i do have a KMZ file from google earth if anyone is interested in it... i've found 144 markers, i think... the rest are just not visible at this time... either (re)moved or covered by sand...

(Written on 2016/10/26)(Permalink)

well, how about that... you are right! i just went back and read it again... i have spent the last half hour trying to find, again, the references i used that told me the grid was 16 x 16... it is apparently 17 x 17 which means i have another row and column to try to find... as for determining the NW origin, once i found one of the Maltese Xes, i kept going west until i found no more... then i went north until i found no more... eventually the NW corner basically showed itself to me... but i'm also wondering if maybe i have actually found the NW corner but it is not an X... slightly offset of where the X would be, is two long pads like a vertical equals sign but a bit larger... i'd love to find the map that they used in the article to determine what and where the markers were... i just started the project after reading the article and others related to it... it is funny, in a way, because i was out that way back in the '80s and could have actually walked to them at that time...

(Written on 2016/10/26)(Permalink)