bjacks12
Android Expert
I agree, but lack of debris could also mean it's already on the sea floor. It took 2 years to find the wreckage of the Air France flight, and they knew where it crashed.
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Malaysia Airlines tragedies
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I agree, but lack of debris could also mean it's already on the sea floor. It took 2 years to find the wreckage of the Air France flight, and they knew where it crashed.
and that the garbage tends to pool together in sizeable masses.
I've seen some interesting comments on that.
First was a few days ago from Dr David Gallo, who co-led the search for Air France flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean. (I'm going to hide it to save scrolling but it's really an interesting read.)
True and equally true that it gets scattered by turbulent seas.
It's pure chaos.
Exactly.
Dear Members of the So-Called Press:
Please learn to walk and chew gum at the time. There are two search corridors. What's going on besides the sensational southern search?
Authorities have been clear - both scenarios are valid until further data are found.
Try reporting for a change.
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By the way, here are some very interesting opinions.
Missing Malaysia Airlines MH370: Five air safety lessons to be learnt
One Reason It May Be Harder to Find Flight 370: We Messed Up the Currents | Mother Jones
MH370 WAS carrying highly flammable lithium batteries admits CEO of Malaysian Airlines | Mail Online
Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 crew 'died heroically trying to save the plane from a fire' - Mirror Online
I think the only thing we know for sure is that when the guy at CNN went on camera and said the lithium batteries in the hold were used to help power the airplane (and that's an actual quote, its in the toy airplane youtube posted earlier) - proved he and his entire crew were not qualified to be on the air discussing any of this.
QFT.
QFT.
bjacks12
Android Expert
Wait... Power the plane as in provide energy for propulsion? Epic fail. Boeing Volt, lol. Could you get a tax credit for buying one?
If this was the 787, the press would be camped in Seattle right now.
These theories should have their own segment on Fallon. They could have viewers tweet their theories and win a prize for the most far fetched.
Stuntman
Android Expert
Reminds me of the song, "Razzle Dazzle" from the musical, "Chicago."
Razzle Dazzle Lyrics — Richard Gere | from "Chicago"
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
Everyone who's not 'they.' I'm sure Australia, for example, never thought they'd get dragged into this. But they were apparently very open about their discovery and didn't hesitate to spend millions... fer nuthin.
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
'Extraordinary riddle' of lost jet now 2 weeks old
Flight 370 relatives met Friday with Malaysian officials at the Beijing hotel ... "We feel they're hiding something from us,"
I don't think it's just the Malaysians doing the hiding.
Flight 370 relatives met Friday with Malaysian officials at the Beijing hotel ... "We feel they're hiding something from us,"
I don't think it's just the Malaysians doing the hiding.
Gmash
Extreme Android User
I don't think CNN is any worse than the other networks. They all have some good and bad. You have to remember that anchors and reporters are not the same thing. It's not enough for anchors to just read the news, they have to be "personalities" now, so idiotic comments happen. Ratings drive everything.
Nope.
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Granite1
Zercron Encrusted Tweezer
That's a cool site Boss, never saw that one before.
I've actually begun to stop reading and listening to anything about this in the news. The speculation and random information is starting to get a little ridiculous.
Something new and shiny will pop up and this will fade into obscurity before it's over, just like the nuclear disaster in Japan.
That is what bothers me the most about the press today.
^^ Sad but true.
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
Barring the Australians finding the plane at the bottom of the Indian Ocean in the next few weeks, this unsolved mystery will fade from the news. The governments involved would like nothing better. The passengers and crew will all be declared dead for lack of anything better to declare them. Hush money will be dispersed and that will be that... but we'll never know if one of these spooky theories is actually true.
Both are so inclined to charisma and the best way of stating an idea that neither the facts nor central ideas stand much chance.
I'm trying to imagine Fred Friendly, Edward R. Murrow, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, or Walter Cronkite tweeting or FB'ing and I got nothing.
And yet those names mattered, not for being charismatic, handsome or clever, but for knowing that news was far more important than they were, and delivering it.
I know that those are just names to a lot of people now, but once, the news mattered - and that's not a case of rose-colored glasses or get off of my lawn.
It's all social media now, even if it calls itself news.
Nearly a billion hits for googling Malaysia air news - and nearly all of it repeating the last idiot in the quest to satisfy and feed the demand of entitlement for instant gratification.
It's no longer about information. It's about entitlement.
A picture of a camping trip gone wrong as a substitute for reporting the weather.
During the Cold War, one scientist made a poignant observation - there is no democracy in physics - saying iow, we can't vote to see how atomic fusion works.
And yet this tragedy shows clearly that a great many people want to vote on the truth as if that would make it so.
...and good luck for your next international flight, as EM already posted. As someone who regularly does international flying, I'd rather not be thinking about Stephen King type mysteries. ...but then the chances of any aircraft just vanishing into thin air are pretty remote, especially large Boeings.
Gmash
Extreme Android User
But is that the fault of the media, or the public? Sure, somebody could report "just the facts", but how many would watch? The networks see a spike in ratings when they talk about a certain story, so they keep talking even if there is nothing new to say, leading to questions about black holes and wormholes. In the Cronkite days, there were three networks with a captive audience, no internet, and the networks saw the news as a public service, not a profit center. Multiple news networks with 24 hours to fill (and ratings to chase) leads to babbling.
Shame the media and politicians don't learn that: they're only too happy to treat science as a matter of opinion when it conflicts with their ideologies, economic theories or their paymasters' interests, or just when they can get some lobbyist or nutter to turn up and argue colourfully.
(Sorry for the rant. Don't want to go PCA, but this is an error that our shallow media and political culture keeps making. It's no wonder the public often have a poor understanding.)
Mind you, the main morning news programme on the radio here just spent 10 minutes talking to Simon Cowell. I think I'd have considered re-hashing what we don't know about MH370, or even discussing the speculations, a better use of time than that.
Alien Droid
Newbie
Was just watching the live daily update to the press and they produced a hand written note right at the end saying the Chinese have spotted a 30m by 22m of something by satellite and will give an update on that in 2 hours!
Lets hope that doesn't vanish also.
Lets hope that doesn't vanish also.