Plane search vs spending the money combatting world hunger and disease

[Sundae]

I'm tired of the media hoopla, but I am glad to have read reasonable explanations for the search here. I wouldn't have thought of them, having not really considered this much, beyond the headlines.

Sadly, Monster, if the search stopped this minute no money would be spent in the way you're suggesting. I felt the same about the hunt - still ongoing - for Madeleine McCann. A missing child must be every parent's worst nightmare, and I did feel for them. But the amount of children hurt, abused, deprived who might have been prevented from growing up into runaways/ addicts/ criminals with the money funding the search had its own little tragedy and poignancy. Except that had she not gone missing, that money wouldn't have gone into social care or family support.

The Governments have the bread and the media gives us the circuses.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Sundae

I'm tired of the media hoopla, but I am glad to have read reasonable explanations for the search here.

That hoopla was obviously reason for my mockery. We need to know what happened for reasons we needed to know why Three Mile Island and Fukishima failed.

The beeper is a rather irrelevant. Since even with France Airlines, they put the tracing device right over it - and did not hear it. The beeper is so weak that you probably could not hear it 100 feet away in air. It is one obvious and not very reliable solution. And why this story will probably continue over 2 years from now. Like all such disasters, a study to avert future failures takes years.

But we are learning from this, the Challenger and Columbia, Fort Hood, Mission Accomplished, GM's intentional defects, and even Glatt's Washington Metro of why these failures happen. In every case, human failure. We are shocked to discover a Boeing 777 pilot in San Francisco could not land that plane without electronics assistance. And said so before the Captain told him to land it anyway. Same woefully insufficient human abilities are traceable to a plane crash in Rochester NY, the France Air 447, 3 Mile Island, and why we massacred 5000 Americans uselessly in Iraq.

We are required to learn our mistakes. Since that is necessary to the purpose of life. Doing so is why Silicon Valley is so productive and why Wall Street subverts the American economy by refusing to invest in innvation. These all share common factors.

Some is human nature. Some of it is directly traceable to people who fail to be sufficiently trained because management never learned its major purpose. Never learned what meant by providing "attitude and knowledge".

Meanwhile, a front page story every day about Malaysian Air 370 is, "Nothing to report." That is not news for the same reason local gossip at 6 and 11, a Barbara Walters or a Larry King interview, or pictures from the latest car crash is not news. It is not news until it reports facts, numbers, and information we can use to avoid future mistakes.

[Aliantha]

There's a good conspiracy theory on facebook about the plane being in a hangar on diego garcia. A US military base. Apparently they have been doing top secret testing stuff on the plane...and maybe the contents!

[tw]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

There's a good conspiracy theory on facebook about the plane being in a hangar on diego garcia. A US military base.

Wow. The CIA now has hundreds of pure Chinese to experiment on. To refine their torture techniques. To prepare for the next war. And so they can lie about it to Congress. What a scoop!

What did they learn? Attack a Chinaman from above. With narrower eyes, they cannot see you coming.

[glatt]

That was a pretty good post, tw.

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

There's a good conspiracy theory on facebook about the plane being in a hangar on diego garcia. A US military base. Apparently they have been doing top secret testing stuff on the plane...and maybe the contents!

Naw, it was a confidence exercise to ensure we could take out an airplane over water and leave no trace in preparation for when Snowden leaves Russia for South America.

[xoxoxoBruce]

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[monster]

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[fargon]

I think the plane was abducted by aliens. We may never know where they got off to, think Amelia Earhart. They never found her or her plane. Shit Happens.

[monster]

...and stole it. that's one way to sort the facebook wheat from the chaff