The data behind the search for MH370
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The data behind the search for MH370
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Re: The data behind the search for MH370
#2That's really neat. Jump down to the "Phase Two Data", they found some really cool stuff down there. Whale bones and ships and cable.
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#3For some software the term "bloatware" was coined, which had to many features which do not add any useful functionalites, but made working with the software overly complicated.
Do we have a similiar term for overdesigned websites which makes reading them feel like doing hard work?
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#4For some software the term "bloatware" was coined, which had to many features which do not add any useful functionalites, but made working with the software overly complicated. Do we have a similiar term for overdesigned websites which makes reading them feel like doing hard work?
I'm in general not against it (as I use reader mode) but given the fact that people died in this crash and that this is an official website a more simple design should have been used.
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#5This is the most annoying page design/behaviour I have encountered in the last 30 days. I am very curious, but I just can't.
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#6This was amazing! It's a bit sad that scientists had to piggyback on search missions to get high quality data but I am glad they made the best of the situation; a silver lining of sorts.
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#7I'm going to have to disagree with many of the other comments and say that this is a very well designed website. In my opinion, it's the optimal way to present this data in an interactive format short of a presentation from someone in the same room. Large amounts of geographic data that covers as large an area as the search for MH370 did, is not easy to present.
Very cool.
Re: The data behind the search for MH370
#8I'm going to have to disagree with many of the other comments and say that this is a very well designed website. In my opinion, it's the optimal way to present this data in an interactive format short of a presentation from someone in the same room. Large amounts of geographic data that covers as large an area as the search for MH370 did, is not easy to present. Very cool.
On a laptop with no mouse it is just frustrating though. It also makes it nearly impossible to skim.
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#9"The available data indicates the aircraft entered the sea close to a long, narrow arc in the southern Indian Ocean, the 7th Arc."
"indicates". If it did enter the sea along this arc, wouldn't they have found it? Perhaps the assumption is wrong? Where is the working showing the calculation of this arc? Where is the peer review and discussion of this work calculating this arc? As far as I know it has never been released (correct me if I'm wrong) and the arc has all the hallmarks of a wild goose chase.
Re: The data behind the search for MH370
#10"The available data indicates the aircraft entered the sea close to a long, narrow arc in the southern Indian Ocean, the 7th Arc." "indicates". If it did enter the sea along this arc, wouldn't they have found it? Perhaps the assumption is wrong? Where is the working showing the calculation of this arc? Where is the peer review and discussion of this work calculating this arc? As far as I know it has never been releas…
> If it did enter the sea along this arc, wouldn't they have found it?
Perhaps you're unclear on how large the ocean is, how deep the sea floor is, how rugged the sea floor is, and how little we know about it... even with all of the scanning done.
It's entirely within the realm of possibility that MH370 fell and was covered by a landslide, or fell into a crevasse, or one of many other things.
It's not like the sea floor is a large flat plain with a shiny metal object sitting on top.