Sunday, July 27, 2014

Love Stories!!! Ewwww!

After Twilight, the next hit thing is the Fifty Shades of Grey... Both, in my opinion... totally not my type of love stories that I will enjoy.

There has been lots of news about the Fifty. It has become so popular that now it was turned into a movie... Hmmm... Well, I hate it not because of the "sex" part. It's just because this guy is "some rich & handsome guy". Let's imagine this, if the guy is not rich and handsome... let say... he is a bit financially normal, plus without the face and body... then the whole novel will be... Ya know what I mean!!! If you met a normal regular man who wanna BDSM with you, you'll definitely call a police, the end! By the way... if Grey is the regular man, the whole novel won't be popular among female readers. Why? It won't be "romance novel" at all! It'll be categorized as yet another adult novel, which the main audiences are the regular men.

I dislike Twilight basically is because... I don't get it! I don't get the story and I don't get the whole love thing. It's just too much fantasy may be... but It's just not my type!

Oh, and the all time top romance novel, Pride and Prejudice! I HATE that too!

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Noob's Research on Aviation Fatalities Trend

First of all, I need to clarify to every one that I don't have any background knowledge on aviation engineering or history. This is just some basic database analysis done by my own.

After the infamous MH370 and MH17 incident, I don't trust Skytrax anymore, so I pull out the database from www.planecrashinfo.com and do my own statistic research. 


Total number of fatalities over 15 years of aviation history. Excluding the 911 terrorist event. What I get really shocks me... it's like a cycle of market statistic... While market is generally reflecting the human nature... so does the accidents... When the number reach a high, people started to aware and make changes. Besides, I was puzzled by MAS, established 1946, have so many fatalities in 2014 alone, compare to Qatar Air which is founded 1993, which never have any fatalities since founded. Seems like company experience, records and history does not guarantee safety and reliability.

Why I did all these? I will take a long duration flight end of this next month, and I'm freaking scared about the number fatalities. Now it's just half of year 2014, and if the statistic of the curve is going on high trend, I predict that there will be more accidents.

As a research engineer myself, I would like to play some guesses. Say I speculate, yes I am. I would assume that in year 1999, aviation accidents hit the low when everybody is in fear and aware and working so hard to prepare for the Y2K bug.

In year 2001, it supposed to reach the highest fatalities number due to the September 11 incident. Then, security started to tighten and finally reach another low in year 2004... And then goes back up again in year 2005. Until 2013, the number of fatalities reach lowest point in history.

There's many reasons I may speculate on the sudden high in year 2014. One of it is due to the human nature. When human achieve something great in 2013, we feel proud, we feel we are in advance. In fact, we started to neglect the safety rules.

One of the big change is the introduction and implementation on in-flight internet. People neglected the theory behind the EMC effect. More and more people let their smart phones switched on during the flight. They just switch to flight mode, not totally off the power. Even though with studies supporting the EMC effect and also case recorded. People are like.... "Oh, we no longer have Boeing 727... Oh! We no longer use DVD players... we use ipad, iphone, itime...etc" IGNORANCE! All These leads to a sudden high... 

While all above are just my own speculation. I don't care about Ukraine or Russia... I analyse the data based on a trend line...

For some fancy speculation. Recently a lot of news reported that scientist discover earth-like planets... which it could be an alarming discovery for the inhabitants of that planet. So they must have sent their scientist to earth to pick up some samples. Which explains why the planes never been found.... ever...