Yes and No, that’s for the new voice system but won’t be going live until 2026, don’t know about the cyber side of it though.
TBH I’ve only been there 3 months and still learning.
In my defence I’m on holiday today and didn’t touch anything.
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OK looks like it’s out in the media now anyway.
The flight planning system fell over, it’s an absolute beast of a system with some really complex code.
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Will this screw the next few days Chris?
Specifically, tomorrow 
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Supposedly flying weds 6am….
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I’d expect it to last a few days, they would have cancelled loads of shorthaul or european flights today and those will be the backlog. I was told that longhaul is cancelled as a last resort as it’s harder to get additional flights in to cover those.
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That the surface area of Africa is 85% that of the Moon.
Today’s shit i learned. Excited about tomorrow’s shit.
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Does that make Africa big (Mercator’s got a lot to answer for here) or the moon small ?
Does surface area include the up and down bits of the surface or just a flat plan view?
No idea why I asked Guy that question!
Should have been Bob.
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More commonly known as the Peters projection, it was published in 1974 by Dr. Arno Peters. It’s an “equal-area” map, borrowed from the work of 19th century Scotsman James Gall, which means it accurately scales land according to surface area, creating a far more balanced reflection of what the world really looks like.
Does it make much difference ? I’d be curious to know if much of either body’s surface is significantly slopey (say steeper than 1 in 5). Erosion tends to reduce slopeyness on earth although plate tectonics here creates it. The moon has none of either.
I really don’t know but my opening guess would be that the area difference due to slopes is no more than a few percent.
I may be saved by the fact that I’m travelling to LCY.
I’m going this evening, and the equivalent service this morning is 20 minutes late. I’ll take that.
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Fucked if i know, but i reckon Africa has some bumpy bits too 
If civilisation had developed in the South, the South would be up.
There’s less south than north though, and quite a bit of it is hard for humans to inhabit at any density - ice-covered or jungle or desert (Australia, although the extent to which desertification there is due to humans is a matter of debate).