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Rate me late, but I couldn't not respond to this...
His bit on funeral cars on railways makes no sense.
Fat doesn't understand anything. Trains don't have shared ventilation from one car to the next. If something stunk in one car, then the way to keep it from smelling up the other cars would be to keep the smell contained by closing all the doors and windows out of the car. No matter how intense the smell got in that one car, it wouldn't matter to everyone else, because it would have no way to reach them. The way the smell could reach them would be by venting the smell to the outside, where it would be carried to every car behind it. Those cars might have their windows down in order to get some fresh, cooling air, in which case the smell would be delivered straight to them. If the smell of the deceased were really that big a problem, then the casket cars would be stuck on the back of the train, where the smell would be carried away from the other cars.
Also, Fat must not have ever been to a funeral. Even back in the 1800s, they had embalming practices. The bodies carried in a funeral car wouldn't be fresh corpses producing foul odors from decay. They'd be specially prepared for death and enclosed in coffins. The smell would be minimal - if you got any at all. Funeral cars in San Francisco had an enclosed compartment in the same car as the mourners. Other style cars had the front of the car sectioned off with glass so that the passengers could see the casket. No smell problem.
And his thermodynamics sucks, too. In winter, the train cars in the 1800s would be cold whether you opened the windows or not. You wouldn't need to circulate cold air into the train when it would have been cold by default. In fact, the circulating of air to keep the coffins cool would have been of more use in the summer, when keeping the car closed could have turned it into something of an oven, and letting the air heated by the sun shining on the metal roof of the car get vented out and replaced by cooler outside air could actually make a difference.
What Fat did was just enough research to see a picture of a funeral train from England that didn't have windows on the front two cars, and then he assumed he was smart enough to explain that without any further research. He wasn't smart enough. If Fat actually did meaningful research, then his 'hacking' in Starship Repo would have had believable substance, instead of being the process of buying programs off of hacker Etsy.
Fat's writing hurts me on such a primal level. If he did research on anything worth knowing, then we wouldn't have all been educated on what the 'plane of the eclectic' was.
His bit on funeral cars on railways makes no sense.
Fat doesn't understand anything. Trains don't have shared ventilation from one car to the next. If something stunk in one car, then the way to keep it from smelling up the other cars would be to keep the smell contained by closing all the doors and windows out of the car. No matter how intense the smell got in that one car, it wouldn't matter to everyone else, because it would have no way to reach them. The way the smell could reach them would be by venting the smell to the outside, where it would be carried to every car behind it. Those cars might have their windows down in order to get some fresh, cooling air, in which case the smell would be delivered straight to them. If the smell of the deceased were really that big a problem, then the casket cars would be stuck on the back of the train, where the smell would be carried away from the other cars.
Also, Fat must not have ever been to a funeral. Even back in the 1800s, they had embalming practices. The bodies carried in a funeral car wouldn't be fresh corpses producing foul odors from decay. They'd be specially prepared for death and enclosed in coffins. The smell would be minimal - if you got any at all. Funeral cars in San Francisco had an enclosed compartment in the same car as the mourners. Other style cars had the front of the car sectioned off with glass so that the passengers could see the casket. No smell problem.
And his thermodynamics sucks, too. In winter, the train cars in the 1800s would be cold whether you opened the windows or not. You wouldn't need to circulate cold air into the train when it would have been cold by default. In fact, the circulating of air to keep the coffins cool would have been of more use in the summer, when keeping the car closed could have turned it into something of an oven, and letting the air heated by the sun shining on the metal roof of the car get vented out and replaced by cooler outside air could actually make a difference.
What Fat did was just enough research to see a picture of a funeral train from England that didn't have windows on the front two cars, and then he assumed he was smart enough to explain that without any further research. He wasn't smart enough. If Fat actually did meaningful research, then his 'hacking' in Starship Repo would have had believable substance, instead of being the process of buying programs off of hacker Etsy.
