03-13-2014, 06:25 AM | #101 | |
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While it did take them years to locate the black box, debris were found within 24 hours by the Brazilian Air Force. Now of course they had the benefit of knowing in which area to look, something which doesn't seem to be the case here. |
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03-13-2014, 06:28 AM | #102 |
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I am pretty sure they know where to look... somewhere in this map:
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03-13-2014, 06:56 AM | #103 | |
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That being said, the Air France flight had data which showed something catastrophic occurred. This event makes no sense in many ways.
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03-13-2014, 08:47 AM | #104 | |
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From the Wall Street Journal:
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03-13-2014, 09:17 AM | #105 |
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This is seriously unbelievable. Part of me wonders if there's a REMOTE REMOTE REMOTE chance that the plane was taken "off-line" (for lack of a better term) and flown to a remote location to hold the passengers as ransom?
I'm 99.2% that is dead wrong, but damn...how does a plane just disappear?! I mean, if they had it flying on radar just in a straight line or whatever before a crash, we could say that maybe it's like the Payne Stewart flight that lost pressure or whatever. Ugh, I just hope whatever this is is over soon for those families. This must be worth than dealing with the actual death(s). |
03-13-2014, 10:24 AM | #106 | |
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To me, this sounds like a hijacking gone wrong. Not unlike Ethiopean Airlines Flight 961. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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03-13-2014, 01:11 PM | #107 |
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The US now is saying they have info pointing to a possible location in the Indian Ocean.
MH370: US confirms possible 'new search area' in Indian Ocean – live | World news | theguardian.com
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03-13-2014, 02:28 PM | #108 | |
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Damn that's a crazy story. I think today they would have been clubbed unconscious and duct taped to seats before they even reached the cockpit. |
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03-13-2014, 02:54 PM | #109 |
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If the Indian Ocean thing is true I was thinking more along these lines.
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03-13-2014, 05:00 PM | #110 |
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So apparently Malaysian Airlines didn't subscribe to a particular satellite data service. But the plane still sent data to the satellite. That's where the new leads are coming from.
White House: Hunt for missing airliner may extend to Indian Ocean - The Washington Post
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03-13-2014, 08:09 PM | #111 |
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The more I'm reading about this, the more I think this was a deliberate act and that this plane landed somewhere. If somehow they managed to put more fuel on this thing than people think it could be in the middle east.
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03-13-2014, 08:10 PM | #112 |
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Not a new theory, I have a real hard time believing anyone could pull that off undetected.
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03-13-2014, 08:12 PM | #113 |
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Occam's Razor - it's in the ocean somewhere.
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03-13-2014, 08:59 PM | #114 | |
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Same here, without knowing anything about it I'd have thought somebody in the middle east would notice an unauthorized jumbo on radar given the security concerns in that region. Surely the US and Israel are watching close enough. If we're talking places to hide a jet I'm guessing Vietnam would probably be pretty decent, but again how do you do it without showing up on someones radar? If we're wildly speculating I still think the Malaysian govt has something to hide - they've all but admitted they tracked it on air force radar and then they backed off that statement. On top of that China is flat out accusing them of being unhelpful and evasive. Something doesn't smell right, maybe just incompetence I suppose. |
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03-13-2014, 09:00 PM | #115 |
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Yeah this is my thought too. I was looking at that globe and thought it was too small of an area. They need to look within 2500 miles of that last radar hit. Also I'm wondering if the US knows more then they are leading on. Some way to visually go back into satellite archives and look for anomalies. There is tech that is far greater than you or I know of. If that radar hit heading west is accurate then that plane could very well be out in the middle of the Indian Ocean somewhere.
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While I seriously doubt it, it would more likely be in North Korea under that scenario. Though I think it unlikely Kim Jong-Whogivesafuck could keep his mouth shut this long if they had pulled it off.
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03-13-2014, 09:17 PM | #117 |
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Sri Lanka certainly has a questionable history. Wonder if there were some rebel/insurgents there who plotted something.
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I guess my big stumbling block is: why take the plane and then stay so quiet about it? What would be the point?
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03-13-2014, 09:22 PM | #119 |
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The plane isn't sitting in some airfield. It would have been picked up on radar by someone. And if the goal is to steal a jumbo jet, there are probably much easier ways of doing it.
DT said it best, it's sitting in the Ocean somewhere. Maybe a suicide by pilot, maybe hijacking, maybe just something went horribly wrong mechanically. The Ocean is quite vast and incredibly difficult to find something as small as a plane. |
03-13-2014, 09:23 PM | #120 |
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Seems like the latest breaking news is all signs point to the Indian ocean, although there are a million questions about when things stopped transmitting and why, and still a ton of conflicting information.
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03-13-2014, 09:30 PM | #121 | |
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03-13-2014, 10:16 PM | #122 | |
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See that's just what makes me wonder why the US came out and said that they think it flew for 4 hours after it left radar coverage. You're right, there isn't anything to gain by acknowledging that that kind of tech exists.
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03-13-2014, 10:19 PM | #123 |
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That apparently comes from satellite pings to a commercial satellite.
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Still hoping that somehow there are survivors and they're floating in a raft somewhere waiting to be rescued.
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03-14-2014, 05:49 AM | #125 | |
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I haven't been listening too closely but I didn't think there had been anything revealed that was from tech we didn't know about SI
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You're right SI. I've always had this thought that the extent of what is public knowledge is still pretty far behind where we actually are. Take the Snowden leaks for example. There is tech that is out there that surpasses what we know, but the question is what is the extent of it. It probably has nothing to do with this and isn't applicable. Hypothetically, could something exist, be used and passed off as something else?
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While I feel for the families, I do like the idea that there could still be a mystery on this scale that could never be solved in this day and age.
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It's Friday. I suspect if we actually have any real info it will come out this late afternoon so it gets swallowed by the news cycle.
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03-14-2014, 08:36 AM | #129 |
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This is a story about one of the Andaman Islands, the latest theory about the direction the plane was heading.
The North Sentinel Island : One of the most isolated and unwelcomed places on the Earth.
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Wow, that's interesting. I know this is very tragic, but this is seriously like reading a GREAT book.
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The NSA must really despise the Sentinelese...
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Or they really /are/ the Sentinelese! *cue dramatic sting* SI
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I feel guilty to admit it, but I feel the same way. If I knew any of those people or their families, I would feel really awful about this and in the abstract way we feel bad for people when something bad happens, I do. If it was a choice between "neat mystery" and "people home safe", I'd chose the latter. But as it's not, I'm also fascinated by the mystery SI
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What it really makes me think is that if there's something that is "10 years off", there's a good chance someone already has it if there's a use for it in the military. Technology moves unevenly so some things may be behind and others ahead. But time and again, when things are declassified, we see "futuristic technology" in use. It makes me think that when you see a trade magazine that says "this will be common in the next 10 years", you can guess that if it can make money or make military sense, it's already here in some form either just in infancy and on the fast track or already fully developed but not industry standard yet. SI
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I like it!! I mean, no one has really ever seen a 'real' NSA employee and a Sentinelese in the same room...
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Since part of my industry involves imagery data, I recall years ago there were publically promoting revolutionary 2m resolution. The military (as well as the same companies that were making available the 2m resolution) were privately snickering since they were already generating and using 0.5m accuracy (Now it's 0.5m for public by federal law but spy satellites go 0.3m). |
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I think the only obvious answer is that someone designed a time travel machine.
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Sounds like someone needs to call Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Tiegs.
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Nice! Do you know how many years I have been waiting to use that reference?
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24?
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You both are correct.
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Somehow, someway, I'm pretty sure these guys are involved.
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Okay, I did some weird non-googling brain shit and deduced it was called The Final Countdown.
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