The highway one surprised me, I thought that was true
Isaac Send a noteboard - 05/01/2011 10:27:42 PM
# The United States Interstate Highway System was not designed with airplane landings in mind. A common urban legend states that one out of every five (or ten) miles of highway must be straight and flat to allow emergency (or military) airplane landings, but this is not the case.[194][195] However, several parts of the German and later the Swiss Autobahn system were indeed designed to be auxiliary military air strips, both during World War II and the Cold War.[196] Additionally, the Swedish Air Force built landing strips into their highway system starting in the 1950s with some expansion continuing into the 1990s.[197] Poland also contains highway strips for landing and takeoff, as well as Finland and Bulgaria.[citation needed]
I suppose in fairness living in Germany for some years might justify the misconception but I took it as a given, made sense and all.
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List of common misconceptions
- 05/01/2011 04:33:16 PM
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The highway one surprised me, I thought that was true
- 05/01/2011 10:27:42 PM
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I wouldn't be able to sleep a wink with a fan running all night anyway
- 06/01/2011 09:46:04 AM
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How could belgian highways be visible from space??
- 06/01/2011 12:22:58 PM
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fans make great white noise generators
- 06/01/2011 04:43:25 PM
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Agreed.
- 07/01/2011 12:14:43 AM
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good old hurricane Alicia
- 07/01/2011 04:51:08 AM
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Sounds like you enjoyed it more than I did. 
- 07/01/2011 07:06:06 PM
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- 07/01/2011 07:06:06 PM
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I was 17 and had just found out how wondefully different they were
- 07/01/2011 07:12:34 PM
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- 07/01/2011 07:12:34 PM
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When I lived in Thailand, I slept with a fan blowing directly into my face
- 06/01/2011 04:47:39 PM
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Not for long anymore, they're gonna turn the lights off I understand. *NM*
- 06/01/2011 07:47:49 PM
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I cry, "foul!" on the senses one.
- 07/01/2011 12:12:16 AM
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That seems reasonable.
- 07/01/2011 06:23:54 AM
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If we limit touch to pressure, yeah, pain and temp have to be separated.
- 07/01/2011 07:04:05 PM
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Ha! I think it's very important for men to be able to differentiate between the need to pee and poop
- 07/01/2011 11:07:03 PM
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I'm not sure how you can equate the feeling of pain with touch.
- 07/01/2011 11:40:36 PM
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Because I think of pain receptors as being grouped with tactile ones.
- 07/01/2011 11:58:48 PM
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Agreed. For the rest, I knew all the ones that had ever crossed my mind. They arent common at all
- 07/01/2011 11:52:48 PM
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