Hey at least the Sci-Fi channel had the courtesy to change its name to "Syfy" when they realized they had strayed far from their roots, kind of like how food products that don't really contain the ingredient they purport to be based on will change that ingredient's name slightly in their name(Cheez, etc.).
At the very least the History Channel should put ironic quotes around the word "History."
Something I don't understand is how the plane disappeared from radar yet kept flying. Switching off a transponder does not make a plane disappear from radar, it just means there is a blip on the radar without the data a transponder provides. The fact that no one is bringing this up leads me to believe I'm missing something big here, because as far as I know the only way that plane could have disappeared completely from radar was if it disintegrated.
You can listen to VOA LIVE with RealAudio from their website. (www.voa.gov) Of course, when the Russians bomb us and take out The internet backbones, you'll have to pull out that old shortwave reciver...
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Hey at least the Sci-Fi channel had the courtesy to change its name to "Syfy" when they realized they had strayed far from their roots, kind of like how food products that don't really contain the ingredient they purport to be based on will change that ingredient's name slightly in their name(Cheez, etc.).
At the very least the History Channel should put ironic quotes around the word "History."
Close enough.
Something I don't understand is how the plane disappeared from radar yet kept flying. Switching off a transponder does not make a plane disappear from radar, it just means there is a blip on the radar without the data a transponder provides. The fact that no one is bringing this up leads me to believe I'm missing something big here, because as far as I know the only way that plane could have disappeared completely from radar was if it disintegrated.
I think the biggest problem would be that those suits weigh something like 200-300 pounds.
You can listen to VOA LIVE with RealAudio from their website. (www.voa.gov) Of course, when the Russians bomb us and take out The internet backbones, you'll have to pull out that old shortwave reciver...