Thanks for adding this -- I can see the total economic impact of this could be huge.
Until April, they were producing 52 planes per month. Then they reduced to 42/mo. Now maybe zero for some while.
At $100 million per plane, that's $5.2bil/mo!
And over $400 billion in 7 years. Can their defense business cover that? Can the employee 401k's survive?
Blown away they wouldn’t pause production until they knew the design issues were fixed... rather than build new planes that beat case had to be immediately retrofitted. “Let’s just do the wrong thing again, it’ll work this time.” Seems very risky.
Halting production wouldn't necessarily be a prudent financial thing to do. The reported problems were with small physical sensors and software. It would be much easier and cheaper to retrofit finished planes with fixes after the fact, rather then halting all production then rush to fill orders when the plane design is given the all clear
Both Spanish and English have a fair bit of influence from Latin and from languages that were influenced by Latin. A better example would be what the word is in Swahili, or Mandarin.
> Both Spanish and English have a fair bit of influence from Latin and from languages that were influenced by Latin.
I think you're missing the point. OP claimed that English is the language of science in most other languages. The parent showed, using an example from Spanish, that the actual language of science in most languages is Latin.
It is neither here nor there whether or not the language is latin-derived. And regardless, it's not possible to distinguish whether or not it is 'English' or 'Latin' from examples from non-latin-derived languages because English-speaking scientific establishments, up until the 1800s (and even to this day in some fields like botany, etc.) uses Latin nomenclature in scientific work. Most of the examples that you can find, the examples in the foreign language, English, and Latin are all going to match (I believe the exception is Medical German -- practitioners in Germany have to learn both the German and Latin versions) and it is difficult to prove without specific work into the foreign etymology, that in that case the foreign language is following Latin and not English!
In case I haven't made myself clear, it's trivial to take your Swahili question to demonstrate the point. According to Google Translate (I couldn't find a Wiktionary entry for it) in Swahili it is "asidi deoxyribonucleic". Now, is this because it follows the English form or the Latin form? You can't know without doing some digging into the Swahili Etymology.
Ah, I see your point. I suspect that Swahili's "asidi deoxyribonucleic" is probably an English loan-word, but you're right that I don't know, since I haven't done any real research.
Although Mandarin isn't "influenced" by Latin, it is also influenced by English. In China most everyday writing would just insert the letters "DNA" into the text.
But even for scientific writing, my dictionary translates DNA as 脱氧核糖核酸, where 脱 means peel off, 氧 means oxygen, and 核糖核酸 means RNA, so DNA = de-oxy-RNA. As for RNA, 核糖 means ribose and 核酸 means nucleic acid. And in 核酸, 核 means nucleus/core/pip and 酸 means sour/acid, so again the meaning of the characters joined together are simply the sum of their parts. That's always been the case in my limited experience with medical words in Mandarin.
As the world fractally unfolds, this idea — that there are obvious things that have already been done and nonobvious things that only very smart people can figure out – is going to stop making sense on the face of it.
We are all very smart. But the universe is also very vast. We do not have all — not nearly all — of even the basic, bronze-age technologies that an alternate human civilization could have developed.
Of course there are simple tricks left involving photosensitive semiconductors and modern optical engineering, is my point.
