# Puzzles

Does anyone else find it peculiar that <a href="http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en">Google Translate</a> will happily translate 18 different language pairs, <em>but you still have to tell it what language your source text is written in</em>?

Another puzzle: why does it take <em>over a year</em> to replace the <a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/planned-works/#liftescalatordetail">down escalator at Archway</a> when it took 9 months to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-51_Mustang">design and build the P-51 Mustang</a>?