How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?

This is all you ever need to remember when considering the validity of the majority of news sources:

> I soon realized the germ of every TV-news segment is: “Officials say X.” The validity of the story derives from the authority of the source. The expert, such as myself, is on hand to add dimension or clarity. Truth flowed one way: from the official source, through the anchor, past the expert, and onward into the great sea of viewerdom.

Well, and it was a TV show.

I dunno anymore, I feel sometimes like I'm living in some crazy world where everyone decided to start using "bad" drugs a while back and forgot to tell me to join in.

There are plenty of Americans who cannot believe that some adult gets on TV and publicly puts forward these sorts of theories.

It's like watching a Fox News anchor have a melt-down on TV regarding the ethnicity of Santa Claus...[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XYlJqf4dLI

The difficult thing with this sort of article is that while it generally sounds plausible, the layperson reader doesn't know about the specifics. I don't know anything about BFO spoofing or handshake rings. This means that all I can really judge this article on is its presentation and logical reasoning, and while both seem okay, there's no way for me to evaluate the premises and finer points that the piece critically hinges upon.

Reading this article sort of left me feeling the same way I imagine a child might feel when reading Erich von Daniken or a book about Roswell or something like that: a set of allegations that are (1) surprising, (2) seem to make sense, and (3) that are totally beyond the reader's capacity for counterargument.

I will deliver one counter-argument: I think the focus on Yubileyniy might be unwarranted. The extrapolation of the flight-path is mere speculation, and don't forget that there are lots of places to land a plane, even a very large one. Out of all the larger airfields on the eastern hemisphere of our planet, I'm not surprised to see one that's large enough for this plane and that had some apparently-unusual things going on within the last few months. Statistically, I just regard such an event as probable to occur, independently of any missing planes.

Anyway, it was an interesting read.

Also the british woman on a yacht ... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mh370-search-br...

Incidentally, the kiwi oil rig worker who claimed he saw MH370 come down in a fireball was sacked for saying that, and hasn't worked since.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&obje...