LanceVance
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Seen as the earth's core is estimated to be around 6000 Degrees Celsius (as hot as the surface of the sun), I doubt that. We're more likely to have an elevator to the moon before an elevator going through the earth's core
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian Ocean
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Seen as the earth's core is estimated to be around 6000 Degrees Celsius (as hot as the surface of the sun), I doubt that. We're more likely to have an elevator to the moon before an elevator going through the earth's core
SniperHunter
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still nothing
omg this is insane!
omg this is insane!
Phoenix
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Pretty much. While the plane might be more intact, there is shit all chance that the passengers inside would survive.
That's why the core would have to be frozen first. Iol
Wrap the elevator in several layers of dry ice. Done.
Phoenix
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It could just be a shitty sat image too. If the sources are accurate at all, there was an aircraft that headed in that direction. Give the general shittyness of the tracking in this case its certainly possible that it could be wreckage of some sort.
We've seen a number of crash cases where something goes wrong and the pilot tries to turn back around to get to the airport but because of some sort of issue they never make it back to the airport. It is possible that they had some sort of severe issue with electrical or instrumentation and tried to make it back to the airport but couldn't find it because their instruments were shot. So they followed a course that they thought was taking them back while trying to fly blind, maybe changing course a number of times trying to acquire the airfield (as has happened in a number of crashes) but due to some issue with the aircraft they finally just ended up going down due to a failure of the flight systems or some human error (which ends up being the case MOST of the time) where they ended up putting themselves in the ocean.
It'll probably still planes. I don't see anyone shelling out for an undersea rail network.
Phoenix
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If we're still primarily using "traditional" airplanes for travel 100-200 years from now there is a pretty high likelihood that our species is going to die on this rock.
Well the main problem with commerical air travel is the fuel cost, and any sort of low-orbit travel will make that worse. I really hope that we get some of the proposed vactrain projects off the ground in the next 200 years because it would be fucking awesome, but I find it hard to imagine it actually making it out of development hell.
But 200 years is a long time so...
You would die every time you used it. Your consciousness would not continue. There would be a copy yes, but "you" wouldn't be driving it.
LanceVance
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We should be pumping money into human genetics so that the next evolution of humans have wings and gills so they can fly and swim wherever they want
If there's an afterlife it's suddenly full of thousands of copies of the richest businesspeople in the world <shudder>
Then we would lose all sorts of people. Jesus....think of those logistics
Phoenix
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Just what we need, drunken assholes falling from the sky.
It never ceases to surprise me that this is so hard to grasp for some people.
SniperHunter
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Dead. I can't stop laughing.
robertsan21
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Pretty weird that they dont have better tech that can track this black box all over the world with satellites..
Osiris
I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
Transglobal, Sub-Orbital aircraft will be the thing for the next 100 years, once they get off the ground and prove economically feasible.
Capable of going around the world in a few hours, instead of the 12+ hours typical long-haul flights take.
They won't have parachutes or escape hatches either, and a sub-orbital crash is going to make a normal, cruising altitude crash death seem a quick, easy death in comparison.
Phoenix
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The tech is certainly there, but satellite bandwidth is pretty limited so if you're talking about pushing all of the telemetry data up to the satellite along with the voice recordings - you're going to have to likely put some additional comms capacity in orbit to cover the substantial number of aircraft flights data signals (and their encryption) that take place on a day to day.
Metaphoreus
This is semantics, and nothing more
So, they're back to thinking the military may have tracked the plane crossing to the Strait of Malacca?
Whole thing is a clusterfuck. Elements of the Malaysian Military refuse to believe China has seen anything so they are still adamant of the turn.
The only way that plane turned is if it was hijacked. It takes several minutes for a plane to complete that kind of turn around in the air and if it had lost power etc. it wasn't doing that turn.
Jason's Ultimatum
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Ugh, this segment with a passengers wife is heartbreaking on CNN.
Beautifully Shaped Monsters
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It would be stupid to put all their eggs in one basket, they shouldn't move the whole focus to where the current lead is.
Guardian's live update says that they are investigating that area around the satellite coordinates as well.
Guardian's live update says that they are investigating that area around the satellite coordinates as well.
HerbertFish
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I feel like they should have been out there by now
User Name Here
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Also, when the US military offers to send in marines to get your people out,your correct response should be, "yes sir, please and thank you."
mightynine
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Phoenix
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Dude there are entire ships (larger than this plane) that go lost in the ocean. Recently there was this whole cannibal rat infested ship that was about to hit the UK. Oceans are huge and deep. Extremely easy to lose something in it if you don't know where it was when you lost contact with it.
everyday math
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So they might've found the crash site via Satalite image?
Hope so.
Hope so.
El_Presidente
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Pretty interesting . how reliable is all that? Weird that the plane changes it lat 3 times before the alt. dropping to 0 and it going black..
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
They should attach a second plane to the first plane just in case.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
Wow, that is pretty cool.
FlightRadar is awesome. The app lets you hold your phone up, using the camera, to a plane in the air and it'll overlay the flight info.
everyday math
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If this turns out true. That's pretty scary. :S
Phoenix
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Yep. I guess people don't fly enough to care about these sort of thing, but I use this app all the time. Some of you might be freaked out by the fact that when crossing the ocean there are times when a plane will go untracked or have unclear data. People seem to have this fallacy that every aircraft is accurately tracked all the time, but that is definitely not true when you're dealing with international routes.
Heh....I keep those planes from hitting each other. That's what I watch every single day. Albeit not on a shitty website like that but with real radar feeds.
Twilight Gap
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Not sure if already posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob8nE4f2ZWc
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