Posts by skebenga

We're not looking for MH370 in the wrong place say investigators

Re: No One Wants The Flight Found

In 1987, SAA lost a B747 Combi aircraft, the Helderberg, in deep water. Much of the conspiracy discussion around the loss of MH370 mirrors that around the Helderberg at the time and since. Recovery of the wreck took 2 years.

So why do it?

Because something caused the plan to crash, and finding out what will prevent further occurrences. In the case of the Helderberg, the cause was clearly a fire, and the commission of enquiry determined that the firefighting regulations for that class of aeroplane were hugely inadequate, having not been updated since the 1940s. We will probably never know the cause of the fire, but who knows how many other 747 Combis have been saved from a similar fate by the resultant change in regulations.

That's why we need to know what happened to MH370. Until it is recovered and the cause of the crash is determined, some residual suspicion is going to linger over the B777. Finding the wreckage may not solve the mystery, but it will certainly rule out some possible causes, which is all good.

Timeout, Time Lords: ICANN says there is only one kind of doctor

Only works in English

In other languages, at least Spanish, a medical doctor is a "medico" and "doctor" means a doctor at a university. So this TLD decision is a little biased in favour of English.

US red-tape will drain boffins' brains into China, says crypto-guru Shamir

Re: Organise one in Russia - tit for tat

Russia runs a strict tit-for-tat visa system: it makes you follow the same process that a Russian has to follow to visit your country. Having just travelled to the UK, yes, the UKBA requires visa applicants to provide a list of all the countries visited in the last ten years (in an online box which can only accept about 250 characters).