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Why Are We Spending Billions and Tons of Fossil Fuel On Search of Lost Planes?
Reader Max_W asks: After days of massive search finally, "Report: Signals detected from EgyptAir Flight 804 in Mediterranean"
Why not record GPS/GLONASS track constantly into a text file on say twenty flash USB drives enclosed into orange styrofoam with the serial aircraft number on it? In case of an accident, these waterproof USB flash drives are released outside overboard. Certainly the text file is encrypted.
Such a floating USB flash drive would cost maximum a hundred USD even if equipped with a tiny LED lamp; while an aircraft costs millions, and a search may costs billions let alone thousands of tons of burned fossil fuel.
Why not record GPS/GLONASS track constantly into a text file on say twenty flash USB drives enclosed into orange styrofoam with the serial aircraft number on it? In case of an accident, these waterproof USB flash drives are released outside overboard. Certainly the text file is encrypted.
Such a floating USB flash drive would cost maximum a hundred USD even if equipped with a tiny LED lamp; while an aircraft costs millions, and a search may costs billions let alone thousands of tons of burned fossil fuel.
Then we can spend all that fuel looking for a piece of floating garbage.
But what if the USB flash drives were somehow attached to a turtle that was trained to swim back to the nearest airport? I figure if we're going to ask hypothetical questions, why not really go off the deep end?
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
But what if the USB flash drives were somehow attached to a turtle that was trained to swim back to the nearest airport?
And what if we also outfitted the turtle with a strobe light, and then hired Aquaman to search for the turtles?
BRB, on my way to the patent office!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Last time I flew through lots of clouds, why not just store it in one of those ?
Nullius in verba
Why don't they build the ENTIRE PLANE out of USB drives?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Why not just record all flight data to an iPhone? And then when the plane crashes, you use "Find my iPhone" and boom!, you've located the crash site.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Attach it underneath the wing.
At the bottom of the
That's it! We mount small planes under the planes, complete with their own black boxes. It's planes all the way down!
If only the Boeing engineers were as smart as you guys....and knew as much about air pressure and stuff like that.
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