What Jeff Wise has learned about MH370 since 2/23
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Re: What Jeff Wise has learned about MH370 since 2/23
#2I'm not sure if this guy is more obsessed with the plane or the publicity. Either way, is anyone taking bets on how long until he loses his wife over it?
Re: What Jeff Wise has learned about MH370 since 2/23
#3I'm not sure if this guy is more obsessed with the plane or the publicity. Either way, is anyone taking bets on how long until he loses his wife over it?
No, that's not a very nice thing to say. Everyone can get a little obsessed over their projects or ideas from time to time. There's no karmic penalty for being wrong about a unsolved mystery nor should there be.
Re: What Jeff Wise has learned about MH370 since 2/23
#4I'm not sure if this guy is more obsessed with the plane or the publicity. Either way, is anyone taking bets on how long until he loses his wife over it?
No, that's not a very nice thing to say. Everyone can get a little obsessed over their projects or ideas from time to time. There's no karmic penalty for being wrong about a unsolved mystery nor should there be.
There is something wrong with it when you openly admit to profiting from the story.
Give it a few months and I'm guessing we'll see a story about how well his "social experiment" worked.
Re: What Jeff Wise has learned about MH370 since 2/23
#5He's a cross-eyed lunatic. There's no conspiracy on the part of Russia involving the disappearance of this aircraft.
People had a rough idea where Air France Flight 447 was when it went down, and it still took them two years to find it. No one has even a faint idea of where MH370 crashed, making the chances of finding it at all very, very, slim.
The ocean is a shockingly massive place which is a fact that Wise would discount in favor of some fantastically absurd notion that Russia somehow snuck an aircraft all the way from Malaysia to anywhere else without being spotted is ridiculous.
Unfortunately, he's going to view all this exposure as an affirmation of his theory instead of a confirmation that he needs to seek professional help.
Re: What Jeff Wise has learned about MH370 since 2/23
#6Assuming this theory is wrong (and I assume it is) it is interesting to consider why it has become so popular.
Firstly, there is no compelling counter-theory. The consensus view (the plane turned off its flight path for an unknown reason, flew in a mostly unknown direction for an unknown period of time and then crashed somewhere in the Indian ocean) has so many thing that are unknown that any theory offering certainty is attractive.
Secondly, the "Russians stole the plane because of something to do with some Ukrainians" fits the current political narrative very well. Confirmation bias means people are likely consider it even when they probably shouldn't.
Thirdly... maybe it true. Anyone have a better theory? (See how easy it is?)
Re: What Jeff Wise has learned about MH370 since 2/23
#7He's a cross-eyed lunatic. There's no conspiracy on the part of Russia involving the disappearance of this aircraft. People had a rough idea where Air France Flight 447 was when it went down, and it still took them two years to find it. No one has even a faint idea of where MH370 crashed, making the chances of finding it at all very, very, slim. The ocean is a shockingly massive place which is a fact that Wise would…
They found debris from AF447 the day after it crashed. Nothing from MH370 has been found.
Re: What Jeff Wise has learned about MH370 since 2/23
#8Assuming this theory is wrong (and I assume it is) it is interesting to consider why it has become so popular. Firstly, there is no compelling counter-theory. The consensus view (the plane turned off its flight path for an unknown reason, flew in a mostly unknown direction for an unknown period of time and then crashed somewhere in the Indian ocean) has so many thing that are unknown that any theory offering certaint…
Theory A) Putin had 3 Russian Spetsnaz hijack the plane, kill all the passengers on board, and navigated to an abandoned space launch and landing facility, so in a year or two it could be loaded up with explosives and used in a first-strike terrorist attack against the USA.
Theory B) Plane crashed at unexpected location in ocean that covers 3/4 of earth surface.
I know which one the media outlets that are booking this guy are going to be pushing come Monday. It has all the right juicy bits in it. And the other one is kind of bland.
Re: What Jeff Wise has learned about MH370 since 2/23
#9He's a cross-eyed lunatic. There's no conspiracy on the part of Russia involving the disappearance of this aircraft. People had a rough idea where Air France Flight 447 was when it went down, and it still took them two years to find it. No one has even a faint idea of where MH370 crashed, making the chances of finding it at all very, very, slim. The ocean is a shockingly massive place which is a fact that Wise would…
They found debris from AF447 the day after it crashed. Nothing from MH370 has been found.
> They found debris from AF447 the day after it crashed.
Again, its location was known. It did not deviate from its flight path. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AF_447_path-notext.sv...
Re: What Jeff Wise has learned about MH370 since 2/23
#10I had never read before that it was known the plane did a 180, but the Malaysian government denied for a week (why would they deny it..) And then the plane was on a zigzag course and traveling fast.
So we don't know what happened, but based on that alone it seems like something fishy.
[1] http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/jeff-wise-mh370...