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Its crazy the amount of money spent on MH370... does anyone know how much it compares to the payout of the victim's families?
Also there's not really much "mystery of MH370." It was almost certainly suicide/murder by the pilot. Though I guess there's no harm confirming that.
Do you have any sources for that? Everything I've read has suggested it as possible but never going stronger than probable
Makes one wonder just how much money people are willing to spend to find that plane. Not every mystery is worth unlimited funds to resolve.
Either way, though, the advance of technology may mean that it is the last such mystery. As the oceans are watched with ever closer scrutiny, from space and the depths, it is increasingly difficult for anything to get lost in the first place. Have things changed this much since 2014? What would happen if the exact same scenario happened again (airliner switches off all transponders and veers off course into an ocean)…
That wouldn't help intentionally or accidentally disabled transceivers as was (probably) the case for MH370. That would require space based radar... which was once but is no longer a DoD project. It'll happen eventually.
Its crazy the amount of money spent on MH370... does anyone know how much it compares to the payout of the victim's families?
For example, consider another flight that disappeared mysteriously over the ocean: Air France 447.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
It took nearly 2 years to find and recover the flight recorders. Once they were analyzed, the results were shocking: the pilots flew a perfectly good aircraft into the ocean after a relatively minor technical fault. It had a major impact on pilot training and procedures across the globe.
That's why they'll keep searching for MH370. Beyond closure for the families, there's a chance that there was something in that crash that we all need to know.
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Yeah actually kidding aside, why not that? Maybe the idea is that robots are more like insects than fish, but that seems a bit exotic imo.
"Drone" comes from worker bees, so "swarm" is at least consistent. But I found drone misleading here - I thought they'd be airborne. What's the scope of "drone"?
Drones are males - they don't actually do any work, living exclusively to have sex with a queen in spring. Once mating season is over, they are evicted from the hive to die - they are unable to fend for themselves. I believe it'd be rare to find drones as part of a swarm of bees in the normal case of a swarm.
Worker bees are females. I've never heard them called anything other than a worker bee.
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Yeah actually kidding aside, why not that? Maybe the idea is that robots are more like insects than fish, but that seems a bit exotic imo.
"Drone" comes from worker bees, so "swarm" is at least consistent. But I found drone misleading here - I thought they'd be airborne. What's the scope of "drone"?
Airborne association with drones is quite a recent thing with rise of "military drones" (mostly recon) and subsequently manufacturers of RC multirotors using a word distancing their products from RC toys. RC multirotors are drones only in the sense that they maintain altitude and orientation autonomously.
Its crazy the amount of money spent on MH370... does anyone know how much it compares to the payout of the victim's families?
Also there's not really much "mystery of MH370." It was almost certainly suicide/murder by the pilot. Though I guess there's no harm confirming that.
“no find, no fee”. That's pretty bold.