ve been thinking about all the media hoo-ha going on Malaysian flight MH370 and I think the problem with the public perception of “why cant they find it?” is all a matter of scale. Okay, lets take an area the size of a football field (US football) and make it look a little like the Indian Ocean. To do that, remove the turf and any distinguishing marks except the sidelines. Randomly place cameras around the sidelines, but fix the focus so anything farther than 10 feet away is blurry (These are military radars). Then cover the field with some really ugly 70s shag carpet. You know, multicolored with various textures and depths, the really hideous stuff. Finally, you need your airplane, which to keep things relatively sized properly will be a simple steel pin. A plain old sewing needle. Fire up your cameras and fly a helicopter over the field, randomly dropping the pin along with bags and bags of ping pong balls (to represent the other aircraft in the air at the same time). Heres the trick. Nobody is watching. Oh, the helicopter pilot is, but pretend hes God and hes not talking. Now with each camera, take the pictures and give each to people that all speak a different language. Then have 3 or 4 groups of people speaking different languages start looking at the pictures, trying to figure out where the helicopter dropped that pin. At the same time, each group sends out searchers but they can only see 1 square foot at a time and it takes 10 minutes to look at that 1 square foot. Sounds ludicrous, right? Well a search and rescue when the thing youre looking for went in an unexpected direction is just like that. You take what information you have and start looking. You cant do anything else BUT try. But Ive lied. The space to search for that pin isnt the size of a football field. Its the size of Atlanta and the shag carpet is 12 feet deep.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:16:29 +0000
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