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re: Has everyone pretty much said peace out on the missing Malaysian airplane?
Posted on 8/25/14 at 11:29 am to PsychTiger
Posted on 8/25/14 at 11:29 am to PsychTiger
SOMETHING would have shown up by now if it crashed. When a satellite can read a car tag # I'm not ignorant enough to believe they couldn't find plane wreckage somewhere, even if only a fuel slick.
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 11:32 am to bamarep
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When a satellite can read a car tag # I'm not ignorant enough to believe they couldn't find plane wreckage somewhere, even if only a fuel slick.
I'm pretty sure you have to know where the car is at before you can read the tag #
Posted on 8/25/14 at 11:34 am to bamarep
You obviously don't understand the size of the area that was being searched.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 11:35 am to bamarep
Do you understand how big the ocean is?
Posted on 8/25/14 at 11:43 am to bamarep
The missing plane was a Boeing 777 and bamarep currently has 777 posts. 
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bamarep
Member since Nov 2013
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This post was edited on 8/25/14 at 11:44 am
Posted on 8/25/14 at 11:51 am to bamarep
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SOMETHING would have shown up by now if it crashed
i don't think people realize just how big the Indian ocean is...not to mention it could be in the southern ocean
Posted on 8/25/14 at 12:50 pm to bamarep
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I'm not ignorant enough to believe they couldn't find plane wreckage somewhere
Yes you are. Sorry.
First off, satellites can't be "repositioned" into a different orbit. There are probably only one or two that ever had a chance of spotting anything at all, if that.
Second, if the plane did go down in the southern Indian Ocean, that's one of the most storm-tossed seas on Earth. Oil slicks don't last long under those conditions, nor can a satellite see one through clouds anyway.
Third, oceans are big. Really big. No, it isn't easy to spot something on the surface that you're looking for unless you happen to be looking at that particular patch at the right moment. So even on the rare day that the waves weren't 20 feet high or more with overcast skies (see #2) it's unlikely a satellite would have been in position to spot it (see #1).
Satellites are much better able to pick up radio broadcasts b/c you don't need a direct line of sight (that's why they are called "broadcasts") and that's why they were able to get transponder signals. But spotting an oil slick with a sat is virtually impossible.
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