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Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China
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Anonymous
Well, the other pilot must have gone to the bathroom earlier then, right? I'm sure if you listen to the transmission really really carefully... when you hear "alright, goodnight", faintly in the background you can hear "hey, why'd you lock the door? let me in, let me in!" |
Anonymous
| Question - And sorry if someone already brought this up. I'm no scientist, but it seems to me that if one identifies an object from a satellite picture, is it out of the realm of possibilities that the whatever high powered computer is enabling the sending of the image would provide a longitude and latitude location of the object? It seems very low tech to me in this high tech world that the only "credible" information we have so far is that there is some large object somewhere in a 600k sq km area of the ocean. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Ocean currents are infamous for shifting debris. |
Anonymous
Yes, they know that lat & long of the satellite picture. On the ocean, there are these things called waves and currents. The objects bob and move about. The objects are not where they were 5 days ago when the photos were taken. So yes, the search goes low-tech. |
Anonymous
I take it you've never been out on the ocean, eh? Unless we can teleport someone to the location within seconds of the picture being taken the object will be gone once the search crew arrives. |
Anonymous
Also, lat/long is not as precise as people think it is. there is a +/- factor when you enter lat long coordinates and attempt to steam there in a ship. It's not as easy as a fixed place on land. (types the former oceanographer who spent many a seasick afternoon as we steamed back and forth looking for our data site around the lat/long coordinates). Lat/long gets you very close, but with waves, currents, and no other fixed landmarks, you're really searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack. If you've never been on the open sea or done any navigating, it's hard to understand how vast it all is. |
Anonymous
If the controls were still in autopilot, the plane can still be turn manually but the autopilot would control the turn radius and altitude. Kind of like the anti lock brakes. |
Anonymous
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CNN anchor asked if it could have been a black hole.
http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/03/we-asked-scientists-about-cnns-black-hole-based-malaysian-plane-theory/359382/ |
Anonymous
Racist |
Anonymous
| We should all email CNN and ask about cloud deers and if the plane could have hit one. |
Anonymous
Black is not a race; its a color. |
Anonymous
| PP with the long and lat question. Thanks for your insights. |
Anonymous
You made me laugh. 
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Anonymous
| Michael Kay alert! CNN right now. |