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Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage

Posted by samzenpus on from the maybe-this-time dept.

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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    "Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
    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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      "I'd just like to emphasise that taking a million years isn't a metaphor here..." -Rich Bradshaw
    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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      General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
    3. 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).

  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.

  3. 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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  4. 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.

  5. 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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    Have gnu, will travel.