Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Strange world we live in.

It's been fine here for 3 days and now we have grass fires, I'm expecting a hosepipe ban any minute, how the hell the crass can actually catch fire is baffling, I went for a walk yesterday evening and ground that's normally bone dry was soaking and flooded in places, in 60 years I've never seen it that wet..... maybe waters spontaneously combustion now.... ?

The Malaysian jets that's been missing for 4 days now is still missing. You would think in this digital age when everything is monitored that something the size of a passenger aircraft would be easy to find (especially as it's route is known) 
Now this plane was fairly close to land, how hard would it be if the plane had vanished over the middle of the Atlantic ocean?   Perhaps all aircraft should have some sort of self deploying beacon in case of crashing over water ( or land for that matter).  One thing that puzzled me is the so called 'black boxes' (actually bright orange) have a pinger so sonar can find them, it's supposed to last for around 30 days.  Now a half decent submarine can 'hear' another sub from miles and miles away, and they are trying to be really quiet, they should hear the pinger for a heck of a distance. 

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