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可預測空難嗎?
App
Claims to Predict If Your Plane Will Crash tech.co
Fear of flying? There’s an app for you.
Even though there is a 0.00001% chance of
your plane crashing, I understand the growing fear due to the absurd crashes
last year, with the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370, and the crash of
AirAsia QZ8501. That’s where the Am I Going Down? app comes in.
The app was launched to help people conquer
the fear of flying by providing cold hard stats on the unlikeliness that their
flight will crash. A glass-is-half-full approach: Your chances of surviving is
99.9999815%; not bad. Although, I must point out that the app’s name is not
exactly up-lifting.
How the app works is that you enter details
of your journey, view a color-coded ranking of airline and aircraft safety, and
then it calculates the overall flight safety for your next flight. It uses
statistics from a variety of different sources (International Civil Aviation
Organization and National Transportation Safety Board in the US) before giving
users their odds of crashing.
Taiwan
TransAsia plane crashes into river BBC
A plane carrying mostly Chinese tourists
has crashed into a river in Taiwan, killing at least 31 people.
Dramatic video footage emerged showing the
TransAsia Airways plane clipping a bridge as it came down shortly after
take-off from a Taipei airport.
The plane, carrying 58 people, broke up as
it plunged into Taipei's Keelung River. The fuselage was later salvaged by
crane.
There were 15 survivors pulled from the
wreckage but 12 people remain missing.
Questions:
What do you think the tragedy of Trans Asia plane crashed?
Do you believe this report "App can help to Predict If Your Plane Will Crash"?
Can people predict disasters or accidents?
What are other App functions you are expect?
How to survive a plane crash?
Do you believe this report "App can help to Predict If Your Plane Will Crash"?
Can people predict disasters or accidents?
What are other App functions you are expect?
How to survive a plane crash?
Do you think the chance of survival is higher when sitting to the rear of the aircraft?
What are the ways to choose the safest possible flight?
幸運食物
Good Luck Foods for Chinese New Year
1. Tangerines and
Oranges. Displaying and eating these fruits is said to bring wealth and luck.
According to the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, the tradition stems
from the way the Chinese words for gold and orange sound alike, while the word
for tangerine echoes luck. “It’s good if they have leaves,” adds Lum, “because
leaves symbolize longevity.” But don’t group them in fours, because, Dunlop
says, this number is associated with death.
2. Long Noodles. If
noodles are served, then “keep them as long as possible for long life,” says
Lum.
Nian Gao. “Nian gao
means year cake, but gao sounds the same as the word for tall or high,” says
Dunlop. Hence the cakes symbolize achieving new heights in the coming year. The
steamed sweets are made of glutinous rice flour, brown sugar, and oil. Some
versions have white sesame seeds, red dates.
Long Leafy Greens and
Long Beans. Gong writes that leafy greens, such as Chinese broccoli, are
“served whole to wish a long life for parents.”
Whole Fish. The
Chinese word for fish sounds like the word for abundance, says Lum. It’s
important that the fish is served with the head and tail intact, writes Gong,
“to ensure a good start and finish and to avoid bad luck throughout the year.”
Yuanbao (Jiaozi). “In
North China, everyone eats the jiaozi dumplings,” says Dunlop. “Families will
make a dough and wrap it around pork and cabbage, and boil [the dumplings],
then serve them with vinegar and soy sauce. You can wrap them in the shape of
an old silver ingot.” Gong writes that during New Year celebrations jiaozi are
called yuanbao, a reference to the ancient, ingot-shaped Chinese currency, and
that eating them is said to bring prosperity. While making them, families
sometimes tuck added good-luck foods like peanuts (to bring long life) into
some of them.
Questions:
What are your Chinese
New Year holiday plans?
How to celebrate
Chinese New Year? What are the New Year traditions?
How to prepare for
the New Year food?
Why eat Whole Fish? What are the food you eat are said to bring
prosperity?
What do you think
some supersitions of New Year?
What do you think that
“Fours is number associated with death”?
Where are the ideal
places for consumers to buy lunar New Year’s products?
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