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Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage

First time accepted submitter NapalmV (1934294) writes "Using technology designed to find nuclear warheads and submarines, an Adelaide-based exploration company believes it may have located the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. 'The company, GeoResonance, says its research has identified elements on the ocean floor consistent with material from a plane. Six weeks have now passed since the plane disappeared and extensive searches in the Indian Ocean have failed to locate any wreckage.'"

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  1. Does it make me a bad person... by Kenja · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that I simply don't care anymore? After weeks of CNN jumping at every bit of trash in the ocean, I simply do not care about this plane anymore. Toss a couple wreaths into the water and call it done.

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    1. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by magsol · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I didn't stop caring; I just stopped watching CNN.

      Truthfully, I stopped watching CNN years ago.

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    2. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by sconeu · · Score: 5, Interesting

      CNN's heyday was the First Gulf War. After that, it was all downhill.

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    3. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by CanHasDIY · · Score: 4, Insightful

      that I simply don't care anymore?

      Nah; heck, if not for the curiosity factor (loss of communications, stories about the 'weird' pilot, et. al), most people wouldn't have paid any more attention to it than any other plane crash.

      If anything, that just shows that you don't have a vested interest in the search, just like 6.999 billion other humans.

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    4. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      I'm Indian and I don't give a shit.

    5. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by OffTheLip · · Score: 3, Insightful

      About the same time CNN decided the news "reader" was the story rather than what was being read. Just because some guy climbs under a table in his hotel room while continuing to speak in frightened, hushed tones does not a great newsman make. Now they are all personalities.

    6. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by Kenja · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It also shows a total lack of empathy and curiosity. Typical of white people.

      Around 154,889 die every day. How much time do you spend on each of them? Or do you lack empathy and curiosity?

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    7. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      There is not a good left-leaning news channel out there. The American stations are all still too capitalist. BBC rocks, but in the US, the market is limited. My own carrier refuses to carry it -- likely because they get paid not to. RT is nice, but is too Russia-centric. Also, the American news channels are nothing but spin. I want nothing but news. I don't want what YOU think happened. the BBC does such a great job. I'm saddened I cannot get their TV channel.

    8. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by lbmouse · · Score: 3, Funny

      I agree. A few of them will find their way off the island anyways.

    9. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yup. They act like Anderson Cooper is some sort of Doc Savage-ess superhero. It's nauseating, tiresome and profoundly uninformative. CNN sucks, and about the only thing it has going for it is that most network news in the US sucks, so it's more like a competitive contestant on the race to the bottom.

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    10. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by jimminy_cricket · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Are not the sentences "There is not a good left-leaning news channel out there." and "Also, the American news channels are nothing but spin. I want nothing but news." in direct contradiction? Is not the very definition of "left-leaning" (or "right-leaning") equal to "spin"? If you desire spin-free news, you cannot also desire that it lean to the left (or right, or any other direction).

    11. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      There is not a good left-leaning news channel out there. The American stations are all still too capitalist. BBC rocks

      I love this. I know the way it's written doesn't necessarily imply that the author believes the BBC is left-leaning, but it does come across that way. From your side of the pond I guess it probably is left-leaning by comparison to the range of news media you have available; the BBC charter, however, requires it to be politically independent, and it is monitored by OFWATCH to ensure neutrality.

    12. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by meta-monkey · · Score: 3, Interesting

      What bothers me most about the saturation of mass tragedy coverage is how the media makes it seem as if such events are threatening to repeat themselves everywhere. This happens every time there's a school shooting. "Are your children safe?!? Tune it to find out how horribly your children may die AT ANY TIME!" When the fact is, your children are not in danger. If you do the math, there are almost 100,000 public schools in the US. There's an average of about 2 incidents of somebody firing a gun at a K-12 school each year. The average school year is 180 days. That means that 18,999,998 school days each year, the bell will ring in the morning, the bell will ring in the afternoon with not a shot fired. On two terrible, terrible days, a shooting occurs. It's awful. A terrible tragedy. But it's so incredibly, incredibly rare that there's basically nothing that can be done to stop it. Banning guns, arming teachers, mental health screening, whatever, is not going to stop 1-in-9-million events. And yet the "debate" will rage in the media for weeks until the next tragedy strikes.

      It's exhausting.

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    13. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Try NPR.

    14. Re:Does it make me a bad person... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you desire spin-free news

      Then you better go places and see for yourself. You can't get spin-free news on electronic media. Quantum physics 101!

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  2. jim stone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is absolutely no doubt that flight 370 was electronically hijacked and flown through the Maldives and on to Diego Garcia. There is also no doubt that there was a plan to use at least the image of flight 370 to crash the nuclear summit in Belgium and blame it on Iran, and that the Dutch intercepted the crash craft before it arrived. This report is documented accurate. There will be a lot here, briefly discussed that you have not seen before. If you were looking for a concise report that will give a clear picture, this sums it all up.

    1. Re:jim stone by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

      Your analysis intrigues me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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  3. Oops. Our bad... by funwithBSD · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was just some guy and his lady in a 30's prop job on the bottom of the ocean.

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  4. Re:So what? by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Courtney Love did indeed spot wreckage. But she was looking in a mirror.

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  5. Physics Rules! by BoRegardless · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Using sensors which can pick signatures over time (bother before and after the crash) of various metals, like aluminum, titanium and steel (radiation as in spectrophotomry), sounds like the type of info you need. Getting it out of satellite info from orbit is a bit of a surprise to me.

    What this indicated, from the article, to me is that the military has far higher capabilities than I ever thought.

  6. Re:For real this time? by OneAhead · · Score: 5, Informative

    The pings are relatively hard evidence because nothing else could have made them (except, for the conspiracy theorists among us, a submarine deliberately spoofing the signal emitted by black boxes). Also, they are consistent with the satellite data. Finding chemical elements that are used in the construction of airplanes off the coast of Bangladesh, which is very polluted and in a general area where ships are being scrapped on the beaches? Neither hard evidence nor consistent. Free advertisement for GeoResonance, that's all what this is.

  7. Re:For real this time? by PPH · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes. The next step I'd take is to dip a 37 kHz pinger down to the bottom at a number of locations, measure the received audio signature and build an acoustic model of the area. Then run the actual pinger data back through the model and generate a probability map of where it might be located.

    Only problem with this approach: thermoclines change. And we don't have good models for how they do.

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  8. Re:Tech used? by fremsley471 · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are using a vary basic form of technology called bullshit. 100%, unrefined. It's impossible to do what they say from 'satellite images'. If they had a large fleet of low-flying aircraft with extraordinarily sensitive magnetometers, it may just be possible. From orbit? Complete and utter bollocks.

  9. Re:I am just amazed at the total lack of wreckage by T.E.D. · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am just amazed at the total lack of wreckage. I mean, none has been found. With the technology we have

    To horrendously misquote Douglas Adams:

    The ocean is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to the ocean.