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[deleted] t1_iu2kk6x wrote

Reply to comment by elatllat in Boeing’s Starliner charges approach $900 million - SpaceNews by Adeldor

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toodroot t1_iu2qp3k wrote

You can't compare revenue to profit/loss like that. Boeing lost $3.3 billion in Q3 on deliveries of 112 commercial planes.

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azdood85 t1_iu2vhwa wrote

No airport in WA state has tarmac. Its usually asphalt, concrete or similar.

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[deleted] t1_iu2yrmw wrote

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azdood85 t1_iu34mm2 wrote

The media and people who dont know better refer to it as the tarmac. But sure, lets continue to lower our standards its not like we are going into space or anything.

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ryclarky t1_iu4cygk wrote

This is very common in language often words get taken over by society to mean other than what was the original intent of the coiner.

Take "meme" for instance. Dawkins originally intended this to mean any idea that left an individual's mind and he described how ideas were comparable to genes in as far as how they died or thrived within the memetic pool of the society within which they exist.

Now it means crappy images/gifs.

As an aviation and airport runway materials sciences layman tarmac to me "means" runway. Society may have usurped it from its original meaning, but it is what is is now.

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sirbruce t1_iu2zgck wrote

These days, tarmac is a generic term that refers to the apron (and sometimes paved taxiways and runways), not the specific substance (Tarmacadam) sometimes used in the past for making them.

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