Don't do math on the airplane

[Mikegaite]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/

[Beancounter]

Damn....I suppose if I continue to write my Swahili thank you cards on an airplane and some idiot sees me I'll be asked to get off the plane. Hamjambo, marafiki and asante sana!

[Guy Fawkes]

I love it... is the equation for stopping a plane dead in its tracks for two hours. Albert would be so proud yet so very puzzled.

 

(The secret service would follow him around and collect all his scribbles. Napkins, Table Cloths, even portions of walls.)

[+ FreshFluff]

He said he was writing differential equations, so maybe they looked something like this:

http://file.scirp.org/Html/7-1240231%5C2379d27a-b76e-4e18-a3a7-150147def589.jpg

 

Greek letters combined with partial derivatives totally look like Arabic . And let's hope there wasn't a capital sigma in there; that would be truly terrifying.

[Beancounter]

مرحبا مايك آمل هيوستن هو علاج لكم التوفيق

Translation: Hi Mike. I hope Houston is treating you well.

 

Just for you Mr. Gaite

[+ sync]

Wow! If they ever saw my arithmetic, they would probably put me before The Hague Court.

[+ glennnn]

So, if the "alert lady passenger" reads the article, will she be embarrassed or smug? Suggestion to all men with dark hair: Go blond!

[gallahadesquire]

He said he was writing differential equations, so maybe they looked something like this:

http://file.scirp.org/Html/7-1240231%5C2379d27a-b76e-4e18-a3a7-150147def589.jpg

 

Greek letters combined with partial derivatives totally look like Arabic . And let's hope there wasn't a capital sigma in there; that would be truly terrifying.

 

Where have I seen that before?

[+ FreshFluff]

I came up with it on my last flight, at great personal risk.

 

Or maybe not.

[+ quoththeraven]

Speaking Arabic is even riskier.

[mike carey]

https://twitter.com/vncnt_csmr/status/729320604122370048

[marylander1940]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/

 

The anti intellectualism, anti science and fact free believes are reaching new heights in America, one more thing this was clear ethnic profiling...

 

A high school freshman was detained by police after a teacher mistook his latest invention for a bomb. The Dallas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations believe the student was targeted because of his religious and racial identity.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/15/student-detained-police-mistake-clock-fake-bomb/72348060/

 

http://www.companyofmen.org/threads/is-terrorism-in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder-homemade-clock-bomb-or-see-something-say-something.107489/page-4#post-1005106

[+ nycman]

More like...

 

"Don't sit next to morons"

[+ quoththeraven]

More like...

 

"Don't sit next to morons"

 

Not really something the average passenger has any control over.

[+ FreshFluff]

Now that ISIS really is laughing at us, where is a certain candidate?