Have they found the plane? Breaking on Twitter

[B2G]

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Sunday, March 16, 2014Did Reddit Find Malaysian Airlines Flight 370? Possible wreckage at 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E

Users of the social network Reddit and Twitter may have found debris in the water, possibly linked to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, as a Greek oil tanker steams toward the same spot after Indonesian reports of possible luggage in the water.

Richard Barrow has posted several images to Twitter of a satellite image that could possibly show debris from an airplane on the surface of the Ocean at coordinates 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E, after collaborating with users of Reddit over the last 2 days.

Most interestingly, on request of the Indonesian maritime authorities, a Greek flagged oil tanker was steaming to the same location identified by the Reddit and Twitter users late Sunday evening, March 16.

The area is at the same point authorities last lost verifiable contact with MH370, as the plane headed north-west towards the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Below are images posted to Twitter and Reddit by several users, including Journalist Steven Daglas, from location 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E.





http://www.bigbreakingnews.com/2014/03/did-reddit-find-malaysian-airlines.html#.UyW4L621YbA

[IDemo]

1. If anyone sees luggage in the water from that image

They are a far more gifted Rorschachian than I.

[B2G]

2. I think that was translated poorly. nt

[longship]

3. Doubt it. Pareidolia?

You see what your brain wants to see.

[AverageJoe90]

70. Maybe not.

I don't want to see seats, but it looks possible, sadly.

[Bjorn Against]

4. I highly doubt that is it

If they found the wreckage we would be hearing from the investigators not from Redditt. I am sure you cound find debris all over the ocean, but very little of it is from commercial airliners.

[warrior1]

5. not far for Malaysia

https://www.google.com/maps/place/5%C2%B039%2708.0%22N+98%C2%B050%2738.0%22E/@4.9151687,95.517778,6z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0

[IDemo]

7. If that's correct,

then this is a false alarm. It's been pretty well established by the satellite pings that the flight made it much further west.

[petronius]

6. Those images look extremely fake to me - not to mention that the

phrase "breaking on Twitter" cranks my BS detector up to 11...

[SidDithers]

8. Where does the average Reddit user get real-time satellite images on the internet?...

Is such a thing available?

Sid

[ChisolmTrailDem]

11. Here:

http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014

Please pay better attention....

[SidDithers]

16. Your post is the first one in this thread to mention tomnod...

so you know what you can do with your "better attention"

Sid

[ChisolmTrailDem]

17. Yea, whatev...they've just been talking about it for a week...

But, go ahead, what do you suggest I do with it?

[SidDithers]

20. I asked about real-time images...

which would be something really new.

You gave me a site with days old images, which is most definitely not new.

Try answering the question asked, next time.



Sid

[ChisolmTrailDem]

23. Digital Globe is providing satellite images as close to "real-time" as possible. When speaking of

satellite images, they are as "real-time" as it gets.

Experts all over the world are perusing those images. I don't see why crowd-sourcing Reddit and Twitter users should also be using them.

[SidDithers]

26. Which might have been a good answer to give to my original question...nt

Sid

[ChisolmTrailDem]

29. Actually, you're right. My apologies for my original snark. Hugs and forgiveness?

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Original un-edited comment: Whatever... Go argue with a CTer. nt

[ohheckyeah]

28. WTF -

not everybody stays glued to the computer, not to mention, Tomnod isn't real time images.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

32. it's a close to real-time as there is. And that poster stays glued well-enough to have known what

the Reddit users were using.

The question was a nit-pick in order to start a flame-fest. So, I obliged. It's a cold, dreary Sunday and I'm bored.

[ohheckyeah]

34. All you had to do is say

it's as close to real-time as there is and post the link.

If you know whether or not the poster is glued enough and the intention was starting a flame-fest, you might be spending too much time thinking about that poster.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

36. I don't spend any time thinking about that poster. But thanks for your comment anyway. nt

[ohheckyeah]

41. Obviously you do...

and you're quite welcome for the comment. I'm happy to oblige.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

47. No I don't. I have never had a previous exchange with that poster. nt

[ohheckyeah]

54. You must have ESP then

unless you were just making up crap by suggesting that it was flame bait and the poster spends plenty of time on the computer to know about Tomnod.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

57. I've been here 1 1/2 years and lurked before that. Plenty of time to become familiar with

characters and tactics.

[ohheckyeah]

69. LOL but you don't think

about the poster/posters.

Have a good night.

[functioning_cog]

40. Tou're being kind of a jerk about this

FYI

[ChisolmTrailDem]

63. Perhaps my original snipe was jerky, but it takes two dumbasses to tango. nt

[CreekDog]

68. I have a question, the "two dumbasses" you refer to

were both of them equally right in the argument we're talking about?

[Iggo]

56. Wow.

That was unnecessarily ****ish.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

58. Spelled out: "dickish". nt

[Iggo]

60. Good luck.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

61. Please don't tell me you alerted on that...

C'mon! We're all just killing time here! Jeez!

[Bjorn Against]

12. I suppose they could use Google Maps

Google Maps does have satellite images of much of the world, although it is not exactly effective at searching for downed aircraft.

This looks like a case of someone using Google Maps, seeing something just slightly unusual and then leaping to conclusions about what it is.

[SidDithers]

18. Google Maps satellite images are often months old...

From the dumbass answer provided above, I found out that:

DigitalGlobe uploaded about 24,000 square kilometers (9,300 square miles) of high-resolution imagery to Tomnod, collected in some of the areas where the plane was originally thought to be. Users can access the website and scan micro-portions of the map, each about the size of a city block, tagging anything that looks like wreckage, rafts, oil slicks, or other signs of the aircraft. Areas tagged by multiple people get passed on to expert satellite imagery analys

http://news.msn.com/science-technology/using-crowdsourcing-to-search-for-flight-mh-370-has-both-pluses-and-minuses


It's not exactly real-time satellite images, which is what I was asking about - and which the dumbass reply provided above most certainly didn't answer - but they're current to within a few days. Good enough to try to find a plane missing for more than a week.



Sid

[ChisolmTrailDem]

21. Which "dumbass answer above" are you referring to? The one that answered

the dumbass question above?

[SidDithers]

25. Yeah, I asked a question about real-time satellite images...

and you gave me a dumbass answer, about a website using days-old images of a very select area.



Am I going too fast for you?

Sid

[Jesus Malverde]

30. You guys need a hug...

[adirondacker]

45. It's been a long Cold winter in Canada...

[pinboy3niner]

59. Well, since a dance-off is probably out of the question

[Jesus Malverde]

66. lol

[B2G]

13. They've been using crowd sourcing for over a week

Not saying it's real, but the pics are interesting enough.

[SidDithers]

22. Gotcha...

I saw the OP and though people were able to access real-time satellite image on the web. That's something I hadn't heard of before.

The dumbass answer I was provided indicated that the crowdsourcing is being done on tomnod, which I learned is using days-old images, uploaded from DigitalGlobe, of only certain areas where the plane might be.

Thanks,
Sid

[ChisolmTrailDem]

24. It was a dumbass question that was now obviously flame bait. nt

[Orrex]

31. Here

[SidDithers]

33. As good a post as any to remind everyone to watch Cosmos tonight at 9:00...

Sid

[ChisolmTrailDem]

35. CORRECTION: It IS on tonight. It's also on tomorrow (Monday) night. I should pay attention.

Before edit: "35. It's not on tonight. It's on tomorrow (Monday) night. Please pay attention. nt"

[itsrobert]

38. It is actually on Fox Network on tonight (Sunday)

They repeat it on cable networks on Monday nights.

[itsrobert]

39. And please pay attention. n/t

just kidding

[ChisolmTrailDem]

43. Indeed, it is. NatGeo has been announcing that Monday is it's new night and my TV guide

reflects that.

I don't ever watch FOX channel so wasn't aware of that arrangement. Thanks for the correction...

[Bluenorthwest]

64. Not FoxNews, just Fox.

Home of the Simpsons, not the Simpletons.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

65. I have had a long-standing habit of not watching anything that IDs itself as FOX. I do watch

Family Guy but only on other channels, like Adult Swim.

I will make an unprecedented exception tonight since I don't want to wait until tomorrow night now that I know it's on tonight, lol.

[tammywammy]

42. It's on tonight. He's correct.

And you should stop being so unnecessarily rude.

http://www.cosmosontv.com

[ChisolmTrailDem]

44. You're asking me to stop being rude to one of the rudest posters on this forum? Please forgive me if

I say...

Nah.

[tammywammy]

49. Based on this thread, you're the one that's coming across as the jerk.

Your first post in this thread is rude and has only continued.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

50. Thanks for participating. nt

[SidDithers]

46. "35. It's not on tonight. It's on tomorrow (Monday) night. Please pay attention. nt"

Dude, quit while you're behind.

Sid

[ChisolmTrailDem]

48. I don't care that you copied my original version and I don't care that you posted it here. Indeed,

I edited my post to reflect that I was wrong. Everybody knows that.

And I'll decide when and where I will quit, thank you.

[Orrex]

51. You sound like a claquer.

Typical scientific materialist.

[NutmegYankee]

9. I wouldn't expect to find a whole plane.

Just small floating debris.

[Barack_America]

27. A floating whole plane.

[rocktivity]

10. That would put it here on the other side of their flight path

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Suggesting that there was an attempt at a turnaround.

(Ciick for Map)

But considering how well the "officials" and "experts" have done thus far, who are we to cast doubt upon amateurs?


rocktivity

[LeftyMom]

14. Remember when Reddit found the Boston bombers? That went real well. nt

[randome]

52. Good point.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

[FarCenter]

15. That is close to the Malaysian island of Pulau Perak at 5.700000,98.933296 according to Bing Maps.

5.652, 98.844 is the decimal coordinates for 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E.

I get a distance of 7 miles.

Pulau Perak, aka Silver Island, is no longer searchable by Google? But it still appears in map view if you use the above coordinates. It disappears in Google satellite view.

Very mysterious. There is an army installation and radar there.

Clearly the Malaysians would know if the plane was located there.

[boston bean]

19. link?

[B2G]

37. update the OP...sorry about that.

[itsrobert]

55. One thing we do know

There is a bunch of trash in the ocean. Could be anything.

[HipChick]

62. That in itself is worrying..

As a species we sure know how to mess up a planet..

[R B Garr]

67. Has anyone checked Davy Jones' Locker yet?

It's probably all there.