re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

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this may be a stupid question, but what's the purpose of the black box anyway??

we have high speed internet access, can't all the telemetry, etc. from an airplane be stored in a cloud? the idea of a black box on the airplane containing all the relevant data seems..well...'quaint'.

it doesnt make sense to me this black box is the best way to keep all this data when you got a $30 million dollar airplane, how much could it cost to store the data remotely instead of buried in a box on an airplane that might be spiraling down in flames?

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I really think cloud storage will be implemented or at least brought up to be implemented in five years. Makes too much sense.