Talk:3169: EPIRBs - Revision history

216.221.83.168 at 16:01, 4 December 2025

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2.98.77.121: (Un)signed and moved it until after the whole thing that already mentioned that it was explained.

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(Un)signed and moved it until *after* the whole thing that already mentioned that it was explained.

2601:647:C182:B070:69DB:C392:2A5E:8D0D: reply to comment wondering what "count" was

2025-11-21T10:44:57Z

reply to comment wondering what "count" was

2.98.65.8 at 23:28, 19 November 2025

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100.1.214.162: added citogenesis

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added citogenesis

82.13.184.33 at 09:21, 19 November 2025

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82.13.184.33 at 09:20, 19 November 2025

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82.13.184.33 at 09:17, 19 November 2025

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82.13.184.33 at 09:16, 19 November 2025

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2607:FB91:1649:8047:48AF:AA8B:AEFE:DAD2 at 05:08, 19 November 2025

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	The Trivia section here describes a real case of [[978:_Citogenesis\|Citogenesis]] ! {{unsigned ip\|100.1.214.162\|22:58, 19 November 2025}}		The Trivia section here describes a real case of [[978:_Citogenesis\|Citogenesis]] ! {{unsigned ip\|100.1.214.162\|22:58, 19 November 2025}}
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		+	We should tag the comic. That's hilarious! [[Special:Contributions/216.221.83.168\|216.221.83.168]] 16:01, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

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 I understand the 1600 CT written at the box indicates that there is 1600 EPIRBs in it. But I'm not native English speaker and could not just find it by searching. Is CT an abbreviation for content? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:18, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
 :Ah I can now answer myself, as someone has actually already put in this link to the {{w|CT#Other uses|meaning of CT}}, and here it is stated that:<br>ct followed by a number means the number of items contained in a package (e.g. zucchini 3 ct).<br>Thanks for the link :-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:22, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
 ::Although 3 zucchini would cause rather less alarm to the Coastguard{{cn}} [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 09:24, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
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 :::::Yeah, here I was reading, edited the above (not in Omaha) and then found myself unable to save it, until a little over three hours later.
 :::::From all that I've seen, it was down to a common reference file getting too big. Whether for the file-system or just for the code trying to check it, I don't know. [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8|2.98.65.8]] 23:54, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
 Modern EPIRBs have a digital identity which they broadcast - unlike their archaic ancestors which are no longer tracked. The old ones last century just basically all broadcast an emergency tone so you can't tell one from another. These identities map to an entry in a database, which presumably will be blank for a brand new EPIRB. Outfits like a Coast Guard will have access to the database and can thus see the 1600 beacons in the comic are probably unused. You're supposed to register contact details in the database, obviously if you need rescuing then your phone number is unlikely to be useful, but it can have details of friends and family back home who'll be able to verify that you're overdue, or at least your intent and purpose which justifies activation of the rescue assets. Registering in many countries is mandatory, and even if it's not mandatory for you it's a good idea. COSPAS SARSAT (the service EPIRBs are sending messages to) is said to "Take the search out of Search & Rescue" because of the accuracy of the position data. --[[Special:Contributions/2001:8B0:FBB0:1247:1B24:1C24:1D24:714|2001:8B0:FBB0:1247:1B24:1C24:1D24:714]] 19:13, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

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 I understand the 1600 CT written at the box indicates that there is 1600 EPIRBs in it. But I'm not native English speaker and could not just find it by searching. Is CT an abbreviation for content? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:18, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
 :Ah I can now answer myself, as someone has actually already put in this link to the {{w|CT#Other uses|meaning of CT}}, and here it is stated that:<br>ct followed by a number means the number of items contained in a package (e.g. zucchini 3 ct).<br>Thanks for the link :-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:22, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
 ::Although 3 zucchini would cause rather less alarm to the Coastguard{{cn}} [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 09:24, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

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	:"We apologised yesterday for the box we dropped then, and now we'd like to apologise once again for the one we dropped this morning." [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 09:20, 19 November 2025 (UTC)		:"We apologised yesterday for the box we dropped then, and now we'd like to apologise once again for the one we dropped this morning." [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 09:20, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

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	:It may refer to that morning's dropping of a similar box. "We'd like to apologise once again for [...], and ''now'' we also need to apologise for this latest incident... if you're not ''already'' getting 1600 more distress signals, you'll definitely start to be getting them as soon as the water soaks into the crate." [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8\|2.98.65.8]] 00:05, 19 November 2025 (UTC)		:It may refer to that morning's dropping of a similar box. "We'd like to apologise once again for [...], and ''now'' we also need to apologise for this latest incident... if you're not ''already'' getting 1600 more distress signals, you'll definitely start to be getting them as soon as the water soaks into the crate." [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8\|2.98.65.8]] 00:05, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
	:"We apologised yesterday for the box we dropped then, and now we'd like to apologise once again for the one we dropped this morning." [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 09:20, 19 November 2025 (UTC)		:"We apologised yesterday for the box we dropped then, and now we'd like to apologise once again for the one we dropped this morning." [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 09:20, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
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		+	The Trivia section here describes a real case of [[978:_Citogenesis\|Citogenesis]] !

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 saying "...apologize for 'the' 1,600 simultaneous false alarms 'this morning'" makes it clear they have already apologized for this specific event. It doesn't imply any previous false alarms. [[Special:Contributions/173.88.137.222|173.88.137.222]] 21:32, 18 November 2025
 :It may refer to that morning's dropping of a similar box. "We'd like to apologise once again for [...], and ''now'' we also need to apologise for this latest incident... if you're not ''already'' getting 1600 more distress signals, you'll definitely start to be getting them as soon as the water soaks into the crate." [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8|2.98.65.8]] 00:05, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
-:"We apologised yesterday for the box we dropped then, and now we'd like to apologise once again for the one we dropped this morning. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 09:20, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
+:"We apologised yesterday for the box we dropped then, and now we'd like to apologise once again for the one we dropped this morning." [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 09:20, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

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	saying "...apologize for 'the' 1,600 simultaneous false alarms 'this morning'" makes it clear they have already apologized for this specific event. It doesn't imply any previous false alarms. [[Special:Contributions/173.88.137.222\|173.88.137.222]] 21:32, 18 November 2025		saying "...apologize for 'the' 1,600 simultaneous false alarms 'this morning'" makes it clear they have already apologized for this specific event. It doesn't imply any previous false alarms. [[Special:Contributions/173.88.137.222\|173.88.137.222]] 21:32, 18 November 2025
	:It may refer to that morning's dropping of a similar box. "We'd like to apologise once again for [...], and ''now'' we also need to apologise for this latest incident... if you're not ''already'' getting 1600 more distress signals, you'll definitely start to be getting them as soon as the water soaks into the crate." [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8\|2.98.65.8]] 00:05, 19 November 2025 (UTC)		:It may refer to that morning's dropping of a similar box. "We'd like to apologise once again for [...], and ''now'' we also need to apologise for this latest incident... if you're not ''already'' getting 1600 more distress signals, you'll definitely start to be getting them as soon as the water soaks into the crate." [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8\|2.98.65.8]] 00:05, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
		+	:"We apologised yesterday for the box we dropped then, and now we'd like to apologise once again for the one we dropped this morning. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 09:20, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

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 : Because of some people I have known to well I would ship the items as fully operational and trust the sandwich ziplock bags I put them in to keep sneezes off. I would Not trust the end user to install them. It would suck to be the emergency responder for those 1600 {within whatever distance they are precise enough to show} screams for help:
- I recall a 911 operator who hung up on a surgical or something nurse who was reporting that her husband was having a heart attack because caller was not upset so obviously fake. IIRC the caller lost her husband and quite calmly (as must be for her job) helped her lawyers hurt that 911 center and every thing associated with it so badly that all 911 calls get a response nowadays.four tildas.just a sec [[Special:Contributions/2607:FB91:1649:8047:48AF:AA8B:AEFE:DAD2|2607:FB91:1649:8047:48AF:AA8B:AEFE:DAD2]] 05:08, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
+: I recall a 911 operator who hung up on a surgical or something nurse who was reporting that her husband was having a heart attack because caller was not upset so obviously fake. IIRC the caller lost her husband and quite calmly (as must be for her job) helped her lawyers hurt that 911 center and every thing associated with it so badly that all 911 calls get a response nowadays.four tildas.just a sec [[Special:Contributions/2607:FB91:1649:8047:48AF:AA8B:AEFE:DAD2|2607:FB91:1649:8047:48AF:AA8B:AEFE:DAD2]] 05:08, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
 "...drifting out into the harbor!" Is the ship not already in the harbor? I really dislike that use of "out into", it makes little sense. [[User:SDSpivey|SDSpivey]] ([[User talk:SDSpivey|talk]]) 01:51, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

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	Is the caption implying that they've apologized multiple times for the same incident or that there have heen multiple incidents of this nature? The haphazardous unloading procedure shown makes me think it's the latter. [[Special:Contributions/64.114.211.89\|64.114.211.89]] 00:33, 18 November 2025 (UTC)		Is the caption implying that they've apologized multiple times for the same incident or that there have heen multiple incidents of this nature? The haphazardous unloading procedure shown makes me think it's the latter. [[Special:Contributions/64.114.211.89\|64.114.211.89]] 00:33, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
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		+	: Because of some people I have known to well I would ship the items as fully operational and trust the sandwich ziplock bags I put them in to keep sneezes off. I would Not trust the end user to install them. It would suck to be the emergency responder for those 1600 {within whatever distance they are precise enough to show} screams for help:
		+	I recall a 911 operator who hung up on a surgical or something nurse who was reporting that her husband was having a heart attack because caller was not upset so obviously fake. IIRC the caller lost her husband and quite calmly (as must be for her job) helped her lawyers hurt that 911 center and every thing associated with it so badly that all 911 calls get a response nowadays.four tildas.just a sec [[Special:Contributions/2607:FB91:1649:8047:48AF:AA8B:AEFE:DAD2\|2607:FB91:1649:8047:48AF:AA8B:AEFE:DAD2]] 05:08, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

	"...drifting out into the harbor!" Is the ship not already in the harbor? I really dislike that use of "out into", it makes little sense. [[User:SDSpivey\|SDSpivey]] ([[User talk:SDSpivey\|talk]]) 01:51, 18 November 2025 (UTC)		"...drifting out into the harbor!" Is the ship not already in the harbor? I really dislike that use of "out into", it makes little sense. [[User:SDSpivey\|SDSpivey]] ([[User talk:SDSpivey\|talk]]) 01:51, 18 November 2025 (UTC)