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gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

Copley Depot posted:

its just my mom relax everyone

yeah like your mom is aerodynamic

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Fat Lowtax
Nov 9, 2008


"I'm willing to pay up to $1200 for a big anime titty"


plane found. so what

Ironed Idol
Nov 16, 2013

by XyloJW

Fat Lowtax posted:

plane found. so what

The plane died on it's way to the home planet.

In other news quasars aren't common, they outpace us.

Emanuel Collective
Jan 16, 2008

by Smythe
Please merge the planethread with the auspol thread

Drape Culture
Feb 9, 2010

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

The End.
A big fat "maybe":

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/possible-parts-missing-jet-spotted-australia-prime-minister-n57296

edit: tony abbot says "maybe" in a funny accent:

http://media.smh.com.au/news/national-news/mh370-have-we-found-it-5278048.html

Drape Culture fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Mar 20, 2014

king salmon
Oct 30, 2011

by Cowcaster
is tony abbott an airplane expert now :rolleyes:

samizdat
Dec 3, 2008
Twitter conspiracy theorist with various US government sources is ho-hum about latest debris discovery:

"I hope Australia has found #MH370, but we've heard satellites have found debris 4 or 5 times, oil slicks, luggage and bodies for 10 days."

"China thinks it went north, DHS [thinks] north, DoD north ... NTSB puts #MH370 in a small area 2300km west of perth. Something is wrong"

This guy thinks it landed in Iran or in some -stan nearby (I want to believe because it'd be like political science X-Files poo poo) but I can't make his reasoning work until it's confirmed officially because most of it is from his Rolodex of anonymous sources, like "My primary DHS source says that they have a briefing indicating DoD has reason to believe #MH370 'could’ve landed in Pakistan.'"

Bonus weird aviation nerd humor:

nnnotime
Sep 30, 2001

Hesitate, and you will be lost.
Micah Grimes @MicahGrimes
.@wrightups from Navy P-8 search plane: "We are just descending through clouds right now ... about 1,300 miles southwest of Australia."
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http://voices.suntimes.com/news/breaking-news/live-updates-possible-objects-from-mh370-detected-near-australia/

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

I've been enjoying this story immensely solely for the Lost angle. Like, this media reaction would have been the same in Lost, right? The missing flight 815 would be a huge world wide deal with governments looking and satellites and everything. And so when Jack and crew come back, it would be a super huge deal.

Ironed Idol
Nov 16, 2013

by XyloJW
Maybe this is just one of those exercises we train for you know, a rouge 777 is out there waiting. We must be prepared.

This news story is fiction, because

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.
So this would be essentially a huge nod in favour of the fire theory - that they went up to extinguish the fire but poo poo got real and they've ended up Payne Stewarting all the way over the Indonesian islands and just fallen out of the sky.

Just once I wanted it to be hippos.

Snowcow
Oct 17, 2007

samizdat posted:

Twitter conspiracy theorist with various US government sources is ho-hum about latest debris discovery:

There's some good poo poo on reddit too:

"I think most everyone knows the plane didn't head down towards that Southern arc. The Aussie Air Force isn't even flying their birds up in the air to look yet. The southern corridor is deliberately being kept in play at this point to create the illusion of confusion to the public as well as whatever villain(s) involved thinks we aren't going to find the plane. Likewise, China's search in it's western provinces is a decoy as well. Wonder why there's been no real developments the past couple days? It's because in all likelihood we've already got them and their location in our crosshairs (or close to it) and we don't want to tip them off about the fact intelligence agencies confidentially know the plane took the Northern Route. The success of the surely impending SEAL/Dark Ops mission against the plane landing site and it's captors will rely on targets who believe nobody will find them."

Imapanda
Sep 12, 2008

Majoris Felidae Peditum
what if they ended up on the lost island? :ohdear:

king salmon
Oct 30, 2011

by Cowcaster
malaysia take notes: this is how you do a press conference

BlueChocolate
Jan 4, 2014

looks like a fuckin UFO

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Snowcow posted:

There's some good poo poo on reddit too:

"I think most everyone knows the plane didn't head down towards that Southern arc. The Aussie Air Force isn't even flying their birds up in the air to look yet. The southern corridor is deliberately being kept in play at this point to create the illusion of confusion to the public as well as whatever villain(s) involved thinks we aren't going to find the plane. Likewise, China's search in it's western provinces is a decoy as well. Wonder why there's been no real developments the past couple days? It's because in all likelihood we've already got them and their location in our crosshairs (or close to it) and we don't want to tip them off about the fact intelligence agencies confidentially know the plane took the Northern Route. The success of the surely impending SEAL/Dark Ops mission against the plane landing site and it's captors will rely on targets who believe nobody will find them."

AUS & NZ Orions are heading there at the moment. Visibility is poo poo atm and I think there's one in the vicinity.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Imapanda posted:

what if they ended up on the lost island? :ohdear:

Others would kill them. Or Smoke Monster.

fuseshock
Aug 7, 2010
Apparently its a "number of objects" that might indicate a debris field... watch it turn out to be nothing :(

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

samizdat posted:

I'm loving jealous that he had a job that he loved so much that he'd pretend to do it while he was at home. How many people have dreams about being at work and wake up in the morning completely pissed off? Not this guy. Way to go, dude.

Except for the part where he likely killed everyone.

I thought it was a thing among airline pilots to do something like bring a laptop on-board a long trans-Atlantic flight and play flight sims on it on the flight deck. Just something anecdotal I read once.

jscolon2.0
Jul 9, 2001

With great payroll, comes great disappointment.

fuseshock posted:

Apparently its a "number of objects" that might indicate a debris field... watch it turn out to be nothing :(

A patch of rubber ducks or severed feet.

Ironed Idol
Nov 16, 2013

by XyloJW
the pacifc ocean garbage path shows everything thats of worth floats.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Ironed Idol posted:

the pacifc ocean garbage path shows everything thats of worth floats.

I hope there's some Vietnamese or something living on that huge garbage island.

They could collect rainwater, fish, grow some plants in plastic gardens. Plenty of material for building some huts and skiffs.

Sounds pretty sweet, actually.

maxidious
Sep 25, 2007

Meh
Nevermind false alarm!

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




fuseshock posted:

Apparently its a "number of objects" that might indicate a debris field... watch it turn out to be nothing :(

It's worse than nothing. It turns out that debris field is actually from the Fukushima, and is chock full of all the deadly radiation idiots on facebook have been warning us about. :stonk: When they go to investigate the ones not killed by a deadly dose of radiation will surely be killed by irradiated sea monsters.

Ironed Idol
Nov 16, 2013

by XyloJW

redshirt posted:

I hope there's some Vietnamese or something living on that huge garbage island.

They could collect rainwater, fish, grow some plants in plastic gardens. Plenty of material for building some huts and skiffs.

Sounds pretty sweet, actually.

"day 31

It is nice here, hopping across milk crates is necessity though. It seems the man with the oldest form of plastic is king here. To nad for him bakelite is not immune from the sun.

Day 43 "I made a lenses and killed the kings idol everyone is upset"

Day 131 "I now have a mountain dew can".

king salmon
Oct 30, 2011

by Cowcaster
i heard on cnn that it's just a whale

duckmaster
Sep 13, 2004
Mr and Mrs Duck go and stay in a nice hotel.

One night they call room service for some condoms as things are heating up.

The guy arrives and says "do you want me to put it on your bill"

Mr Duck says "what kind of pervert do you think I am?!

QUACK QUACK

redshirt posted:

I hope there's some Vietnamese or something living on that huge garbage island.

They could collect rainwater, fish, grow some plants in plastic gardens. Plenty of material for building some huts and skiffs.

Sounds pretty sweet, actually.

The garbage island isn't an island, it's just an area where there is a large amount of poo poo in the sea. And when I say large amount I mean "it just about outnumbers plankton".

You can't stand on it and you certainly wouldn't be aware you were even in it.

Subliminal Sauce
Apr 6, 2010

Spreading freedom and spreading it thick; that's just a thing us right-wing nutjobs do!
and to think they all vanished like that without even one snarky GBS post is the most insulting thing!! Goshdarnit, looks like I'm gonna have to get fatter and whiter pondering this one.

:also seeking sullen lab assistant/intern to help out here so, hmu.

net cafe scandal
Mar 18, 2011

fuseshock posted:

Apparently its a "number of objects" that might indicate a debris field... watch it turn out to be nothing :(

I too am hoping that the plane crashed and everyone died.

Ironed Idol
Nov 16, 2013

by XyloJW

duckmaster posted:

The garbage island isn't an island, it's just an area where there is a large amount of poo poo in the sea. And when I say large amount I mean "it just about outnumbers plankton".

You can't stand on it and you certainly wouldn't be aware you were even in it.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm

Tuxedo Gin
May 21, 2003

Classy.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I thought it was a thing among airline pilots to do something like bring a laptop on-board a long trans-Atlantic flight and play flight sims on it on the flight deck. Just something anecdotal I read once.

That's some spergy poo poo if true.

"God, flying this 747 from NYC to London is boring as poo poo. Let me just boot up my laptop and pretend to fly a 737 from LA to Vegas and back a few times."

Dreamlogic
May 11, 2007

PLAEN FOUND???

I look forward to tomorrow's headline: NOPE.

(srsly I hope this is legit so everyone can get some answers and put an end to this madness)

slinkimalinki
Jan 17, 2010

Ironed Idol posted:

a rouge 777 is out there waiting.

Nah man, I think it's blue and white.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

Tuxedo Gin posted:

That's some spergy poo poo if true.

"God, flying this 747 from NYC to London is boring as poo poo. Let me just boot up my laptop and pretend to fly a 737 from LA to Vegas and back a few times."

Well, if you have a 6-figure job that you absolutely love due to your sperginess, then more power to you. I can respect that.

Seriously, that pilot had a good life, I really doubt he would cock it up out of some half assed terrorism plot.

treasured8elief
Jul 25, 2011

Salad Prong

fuseshock posted:

Apparently its a "number of objects" that might indicate a debris field... watch it turn out to be nothing :(

parts from an entirely unrelated, totally unknown, 777.

Drape Culture
Feb 9, 2010

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

The End.

tentative8e8op posted:

parts from an entirely unrelated, totally unknown, 777.

It's actually that stolen 737 from 2003

rocket_man38
Jan 23, 2006

My life is a barrel o' fun!!
It took 2 years for AF 447 and that was only a couple years ago, with a much smaller area. Pretty soon news channels are going to get sick of no story.

hofnar
Dec 27, 2008

by sebmojo

gradenko_2000 posted:

I thought it was a thing among airline pilots to do something like bring a laptop on-board a long trans-Atlantic flight and play flight sims on it on the flight deck watch movies. Just something anecdotal I read once.

fixed

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW
Is it wrong that I'm hoping it isn't the plane just so the hilarity can continue?

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reagan
Apr 29, 2008

by Lowtax

Emanuel Collective posted:

They could have had boats in the area days ago but Tony Abbott stopped the boats

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