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

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

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wow an eye-opener, maybe there is 5% chance it makes sense? Is Australia still actively looking for it? who is paying for all these efforts?

Yes - http://www.atsb.gov.au/mh370.aspx

Its being shared between Malaysia, Australia & China, but what % each I don't know. I think Australia has spent the most so far.

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

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One of CNN's most embarrassing moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpVd7k1Uw6A Can anyone fix American news?

Everyone is making fun, but this comment thread has the longest amount of comments. Eyeballs = $$$, that is why they do this sort of 'reporting'

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

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post #14

wow an eye-opener, maybe there is 5% chance it makes sense? Is Australia still actively looking for it? who is paying for all these efforts?

The search costs are in the tens of millions of dollars, which is peanuts to most countries.

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

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Lack of debris and communication aside, the sheer frequency of Asian airliner disasters and disappearances this past year has been especially provocative and unusual. The Ex-Prime Minister of Malaysia has resisted implications that the plane had crashed, insisting that MH370 was a CIA operation. The loss of the plane over the Ukraine, too, stirred up rumors of a hacked plane being used as a missile and also rumors that it was taken down by US Air Force to as a reputation tarnishing campaign and pretense for military action (plus countless others).

There's just not enough real information to gain certainty, and the number of plausible sounding theories create a cacaphony.

But one thing seems certain. The series of unusual, '(in)convenient' (a plane full of AIDs reseachers!) and mysterious circumstances have triggered enough minds to where is not controversial to conclude that something unusual and extraordinary is going on. I wonder if we'll ever know.

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

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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…

This illustrates that feel: http://imgur.com/r/IASIP/YQi3ZFz

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like how positive americans are. They wouldn't say people are dumb for coming up with crazy "Lost" and "Twilight Zone" theories. But instead, it's wonderful that everybody is trying to help :)

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

I definitely wouldn't consider that to be a "melt-down"

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

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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…

I started reading this and then I thought of Occam's Razor. This theory is appears way too complex to be true, something much simpler likely happened.

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

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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…

You can also ponder it from the perspective of a rational hijacker. Why fake BFO when you could have just had no pings at all?

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

#30

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…

This is how I feel about climate change.
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