sooraj wrote:Seriously? CNN asks if Lost-like phenomena is to blame for missing plane
http://www.blastr.com/2014-3-20/serious ... sing-plane
I get it.Wow we we have a White Mr. T prowlingTSJones wrote:Being on the A-Team I don't worry about that.Rajiv Lather wrote: Automobile, what automobile ? Am a below-the-poverty-line, doing-it-out-in-the-open, Indian.
You are 1000 times more likely to be killed by your own cops or in a genocidal war.
Full Aircraft of Chinese disappeared and PRC govt and PLA military is helplessRajiv Lather wrote:If after this someone says the Chinese Navy and Air Force are a threat to us, am personally going to stomp on them. Let us prepare ourselves to tackle Somali pirates; much more worthy opponents.Harpal Bector wrote:And we have the case of the dog that can't seem to bark, the super duper power of China which is completely powerless even though an aircraft filled with Chinese citizens has disappeared in an area that Chinese consider strategically important.
Exactly. "Let me avoid the thunderstorm, deviate 180 deg from the flight path, and land on the ocean safely. No way the thunderstorm can get me now!"
1. Why don't they rent a Malaysia Air 777 I wonder: If they fly direct it can stay over the area for a couple of days... or weeks..The area being searched is enormous and remote. Aircraft can stay over the scene just two hours before having to return to base. And given that the objects spotted on satellite could have drifted hundreds of miles since they were photographed Sunday
Actually this is all sheer, undiluted pakistan. So satellites saw these things on Sunday. It wasn't until thursday that someone actually looked at it. OK, I'll buy that. But then what stops them from putting 1 or several satellites on the job, and dedicating a team to just look at this general area? The search planes, UAVs etc are best used to check out things that show up on the satellite images, hain? Now we are down to maybe a 100 mile radius of where the sighting was made Sunday, and by now spy sats with the 0.5micron resolution should have taken pictures of every beer can floating in that area. Life jackets, seat cusions etc should have shown up long since.The objects were spotted in a part of the Indian Ocean known for swirling currents called gyres that can trap all sorts of floating debris.
and all patroling IN ships have their equipments switched off too. On the same principle, the actual direct survilliance range of Australia will be far less than the Melbourne administrative FIR (due to massive size). I am inclined to guess it is the same case with Yangoon FIR as well (due to lack of sophistication). The only possibility would be any hidden Chineese surprise at the Great Coco Island.Old but fresh news, March 11 - wonder how can the accounts on a networking site be active ?
Wars and battles unfold in slow motion as diplomacy fails (as it is happening in Crimea) bit by bit. Starts with skirmishes which escalate to battles, troop movements, and declaration of war which is as much about openly stated ideologies as about territory and resources. But terrorist attacks are asymmetric and purely ideological. The only way impending attacks can be detected are through humint, elint, and increasingly a mixture of the two (social networks, chat rooms etc.).chaanakya wrote:Why spend billions on raptors when plane can become invisible by switching off transponder and ensuring that it is not transmitting anything. What happened to number plate reading yooEss satellite? Why they are not using it ?
ShankarCag wrote:New Manali in Antartica. Now question arises, buying time for what?
Did the hijacker enter Manali and the flight computer computed a path to New Manali (or the hijacker could be someone who is as illiterate in geography as foggy wallahs) and entered heck let us go to New Manali, new must be a bigger and better Manali like New Delhi with Chankayapuri where as dhilli has Chandni Chowk.Differrence is narrowing - God becoming more totalitarian and big-brotherish and the god forsaken communists becoming more capitarist. Soon there will be a "happy" medium where as some sanAtanIs will not conform to the uniform mono culture.habal wrote:So what is the difference between China &falseGod.
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon says it has spent $2.5 million to help in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet.
The defense department has been flying high-tech surveillance planes to assist in the effort. The spending also includes operating costs for ships that have assisted in the search, which has stretched across the South China Sea and into the Indian Ocean
Poor chaps.A Pentagon spokesman says $4 million has been budgeted, and that amount could last into early April depending on the number of flying hours and whether other equipment is needed.
One heck of a late ChristmasLalmohan wrote:middle of the night, christmas island... probability of anyone looking on the screen and worrying about a high flying blip... pretty low
As usual if sharif gives 400% guarantee then Sheriff would know where to look for the plane.saravana wrote: First comment in the linkWhat a misleading heading... Malaysian PM did not call his counterpart to seek Pakistan's intelligence expertise to locate the plane where ever in the world it may be.... instead, he called to request PM Nawaz Sharif to confirm 100% that the plane is not in Pakistan!!!!!
Beer cans? Off the coast of Oz? Now that would be an object of interestUlanBatori wrote:pictures of every beer can floating in that area.
Nawaz Sharif wants to know the MH370 hijacking/diversion technology so that he can permanently disable any future Musharraf. No more landing permissions drama if there is no plane to land.matrimc wrote: As usual if sharif gives 400% guarantee then Sheriff would know where to look for the plane.
Not only that they wore out the canooter valve on the P-8 causing a lay day for maintenance in Perth.chaanakya wrote:Search for Malaysian jet: Pentagon spends $2.5 million; India deploys Super Hercules aircraftWASHINGTON: The Pentagon says it has spent $2.5 million to help in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet.
The defense department has been flying high-tech surveillance planes to assist in the effort. The spending also includes operating costs for ships that have assisted in the search, which has stretched across the South China Sea and into the Indian OceanPoor chaps.A Pentagon spokesman says $4 million has been budgeted, and that amount could last into early April depending on the number of flying hours and whether other equipment is needed.
Musharraf kiya (made) a musharraf out of him. Abhi to "kiyah nahin kya karega" (Now what can the "not done anything" Kayani do)? But it is always to be better on the safer side especially in Pakistan where the odds or better than 1 in two that if one is an "elected" leader one might hang from the lamp bost or "sunroof lever"ed. OT should go into Paki thread but I wonder whether there are any cases of the tables being turned, i.e. "elected" leaders getting back at brown pants.A_Gupta wrote:Nawaz Sharif wants to know the MH370 hijacking/diversion technology so that he can permanently disable any future Musharraf. No more landing permissions drama if there is no plane to land.
Rajiv Lather wrote:Old but fresh news, March 11 - wonder how can the accounts on a networking site be active ?
The Washington Post said that the families of some of the 239 people onboard the missing Boeing 777 claimed to have heard the mobile ringtones.
"In some cases, the relatives could see them active online through a local Chinese networking site called QQ," the Post reported.
The eerie development comes even as Malaysian authorities described MH370's disappearance an unprecedented mystery. One man told the Washington Post that his brother-in-law's QQ account indicated that he was online. Frustratingly for those desperate for some news or sign, messages have gone unanswered and calls were not picked up.
Britain's Daily Mail reported that the phantom phone calls and online presence had set off a new level of hysteria among relatives and next-of-kin, most of whom have spent three days cooped up at a Beijing Hotel waiting for news on the missing plane. MAS officials in Beijing have been told repeatedly about the QQ accounts and ringing telephone calls, and relatives are hoping that SAR forces will be able to triangulate the GPS signals of the phones to locate their loved ones.
However, at a press conference in Beijing, MAS spokesman Ignatius Ong said one of the numbers provided to the airline's head office in Kuala Lumpur had failed to get through.
(Reuters) - A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The quake was at a depth of 6.2 miles about 68 miles southeast of Misha, Nicobar Islands, in the Indian Ocean, the agency said.
An official at the provincial disaster management control room said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage but the earthquake had been felt by islanders.
The official said there was no tsunami alert.
Andaman and Nicobar is made up of more than 500 mostly uninhabited islands. A Reuters witness at Port Blair, the capital, said the earthquake was not felt there.
An Australian military plane, as well as two long-range commercial jets, depart to search the site of suspected debris from Flight 370.
UlanBatori wrote:
The REAL News is that another day has passed, without satellite imagery spotting anything.
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has exposed the technological limits of satellites, which can see a license plate from space — if not necessarily read it — but struggle to find a missing jetliner.
These limits are shaped by physics, money and practicality. Military and commercial satellites are not closely observing and amassing data about the blank places on the map in lightly traveled seas — such as remote areas of the Indian Ocean thousands of miles from where Flight MH370 vanished from radar.
There’s also a trade-off when scrutinizing the surface from space: You can go wide or you can go deep, but you can’t do both. The most sophisticated spy satellites are essentially looking down straws, trying to resolve small details in a narrow field of view.
“Imagine driving down the street at 70 miles an hour with a pair of binoculars and trying to look at every single mailbox,” said Brian Weeden, technical adviser to the Secure World Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to space policy. “You can’t slew your binoculars around fast enough.”
you are so right. any allusion to technology super duper knows all sees all is pure nonsense......pay no attention to it. It's all arrogant, racist pandering.shiv wrote:UlanBatori wrote:
The REAL News is that another day has passed, without satellite imagery spotting anything.
There is definitely a degree of "aura building" that goes on to inspire awe and admiration among yak riders of Mongolia and other turdworlders about the capabilities of God. Information like "capability to read a numberplate from space" are selectively highlighted to inspire ooohs and aaahs that spread like ripples through public info spaces.
What is not revealed is how difficult it is to extract one numberplate out of a photo that ha 200 trillion other number plates visible which need to be checked out. "We can do that also" is what is said - but that is obviously not true. See how difficult it was to identify bin Laden from space. For a country that is busy reading every numberplate from space and busy listening to every conversation including phone calls that I get telling me "Doc - I fart too much and they stink. Can you prescribe something?" the one thing that is not advertised in all this aura building is that there is no magic. Magic is achieved by aura and reputation building so everyone shits in his pants when opposed to some forces or else swells with pride and admiration when some specific words and TFTA looks can be associated with one's own side.
What a world we live in. Pakiness is admired. Truth and logc can't hold a candle to Pakiness.
