Media mistakes

[EEPhil]

A tram replacement tram service.

Sort of. Two of the termini aren't on the main Nottingham bus provider routes. So if there's a blockage a tram caught beyond the blockage might run from the terminus to a stop near a suitable City Transport bus stop - and back (assuming there is one in the blocked/trapped/orphaned section). In this case, I suspect the tram broke down at a platform. With 3 platforms left, a full service could be run to one terminus - and a shuttle service between the other open platform and Hucknall. It may be that they should have said there was no through service. (Edit) Although the reference to using NCT yellow line buses confuses the post even more.

 

[SemiRamis]

If that was all it holds it's hardly worth calling it a reservoir. More like a (very) small swimming pool. Model boats?

Small swimming pool? 38 mil cubic m? You're out of your mind.

Who the hell has a swimming pool of 1800 by 2000 m ?

 

[MikeSh]

Wikipedia quotes "38,000 megalitres",

I was just reading an official report about flooding and early on it used megalitres (million litres), but then seemed to use million litres thereafter. (I didn't read the whole thing end to end, so they might have flipped and flipped a bit.)

Model boats?

Nah. They need a big swimming pool, ideally a lake.

 

[trog]

Small swimming pool? 38 mil cubic m? You're out of your mind.

Who the hell has a swimming pool of 1800 by 2000 m ?

It is not his mind that needs help.

EEPhil's post.

Queen Mother Reservoir, stating it holds 38m^3 of water

If that was all it holds it's hardly worth calling it a reservoir. More like a (very) small swimming pool. Model boats?

 

[EEPhil]

It is not his mind that needs help.

Thanks. You got the point. It was a joke!

 

[Black Hole]

signage error at the entrance to Datchet Sailing Club, with facts about the Queen Mother Reservoir, stating it holds 38m^3 of water

Small swimming pool? 38 mil cubic m? You're out of your mind.

Who the hell has a swimming pool of 1800 by 2000 m ?

WTF you talking about? 9.5m x 4m (x 1m deep).

 

[EEPhil]

WTF you talking about? 9.5m x 4m (x 1m deep).

"I refer the honourable gentlemen to the reply I gave" - two posts ago!

 

[SemiRamis]

Thanks. You got the point. It was a joke!

I apologise. Right over my head

 

[SemiRamis]

WTF you talking about? 9.5m x 4m (x 1m deep).

How is that 38 million cubic metres?

 

[EEPhil]

signage error at the entrance to Datchet Sailing Club, with facts about the Queen Mother Reservoir, stating it holds 38m^3 of water

We are referring to the error.

How is that 38 million cubic metres?

You are referring to the actual volume.

 

[Black Hole]

How is that 38 million cubic metres?

It's not – it's 38m³ as stated in the original post... and as I pointed out in post 866. Hence the references to small swimming pools. Try reading.

 

[trog]

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  No point continuing as you clearly lack comprehension.

 

[EEPhil]

Hence the references to small swimming pools.

Sometimes I wonder whether my attempts at levity go over some people's head (obviously neither you nor trog). And I even did a similar calculation to you to determine whether a small swimming pool sounded about right. Ye gods! It can be hard work sometimes!

 

[trog]

Sometimes I wonder whether my attempts at levity go over some people's head (obviously neither you nor trog). And I even did a similar calculation to you to determine whether a small swimming pool sounded about right. Ye gods! It can be hard work sometimes!

It was not about it being a joke that caused me to react just the fact your post made no mention at all of 38 mil cubic m, you clearly only posted the part of Robobunny's post that said 38 cubic m. Don't question your sense of humour it was only a Sine of his inability to correctly read your post.

 

[SemiRamis]

We are referring to the error.

You are referring to the actual volume.

Well, I finally got it. This is what happens if I skimread. At one point I must have read m as millions.
Apologies

 

[Black Hole]

When it doesn't mean metres, m stands for milli!

 

[SemiRamis]

When it doesn't mean metres, m stands for milli!

Not only

 

[gomezz]

When it doesn't mean metres, m stands for milli!

Only as a scaling prefix such as milli-whats.

 

[EEPhil]

If we are talking prefixes,
m - milli (1/10³), M - mega (10⁶).
ie. the case is important.

 

[Black Hole]

Somebody doesn't have an eye for detail!