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Edit Admin
Hmm. Did I miss something, or are the names of the airports printed in 0pt?
Oh, and this:
makes my teeth itch. OK, sure, it's possible to accelerate at a constant speed, but only by going in circles.
Edit Admin
OK. Goggle tells me that flight LA 7948 is from Miami to Boston. And that the flight is a bit more than three hours. So apart from the missing airport information, what's the WTF in the first one?
Edit Admin
I'm assuming the WTF is that if you look at the departure and arrival times (7:15-10:40), the difference between those is 3h25m, but the page lists the duration as 3h23m. This could maybe be explained by some hidden seconds fields and inconsistent rounding choices, but more likely it's just some dumb data error.
Edit Admin
Hmm. OK, that makes more sense. It's still difficult to see how exactly the rounding would make that happen that way. In that case, the constant-speed time dilation from 3h25 to 3h23 would be around 7% of the speed of light.
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It's an off-by-two error, we see those all the time. Right? Err....
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Maybe they have off-by-one errors in both the departure and arrival times.
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Look closer at the date-time info. At least they'll make it before Groundhog Day (unless it gets delayed..)