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Why ghostly false positives cropped up in MH370 satellite hunt

21 pointsby adennerabout 11 years ago

4 comments

tgbabout 11 years ago
Math doesn&#x27;t check out for me: plane flies at ~700mph or 0.2 miles per second. Satellite speed is on the order of 5 miles per second. Sensors separation is on the order of a few inches. It would take about 15 microseconds between first and last sensor passing over the same spot. The plane can only move around 5 millimeters in this amount of time. It looks like it&#x27;s moved several hundred feet.<p>What am I missing?
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yaurabout 11 years ago
Since there shouldn&#x27;t be too much moving around the open ocean besides planes, couldn&#x27;t you use this artifact to build a semidecent search algorithim rather than going through all the data by hand?
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malandrewabout 11 years ago
Thus far, have we found even a single piece of debris that we know came from the MH370?<p>I just don&#x27;t buy the idea that the plane ended up as far south as it did and I haven&#x27;t really read of any solid evidence to support this other than one blurry satellite image with a large but unidentifiable object. If that object was in fact part of the plane, I have yet to hear of any explanation as to why the plane was that far south of it&#x27;s last known position instead of continuing north west.
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throwwitabout 11 years ago
Out of all the news coverage showing the search crews manning the planes, never once did I see anyone wearing sunglasses. Wouldn&#x27;t polarized glasses actually help with reflection&#x2F;glare?
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