Satellite's gone
up to the skies
Things like that
drive me out of my mind
The tragic loss of
life following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370
raises many questions, the most simple phrasing of which is: what
happened?
A more complex
question is: why weren't the plane's movements picked up by the spy
satellites that orbit the planet?
The answer is
obvious. There are no spy satellites orbiting the planet.
Using
faint, hourly satellite signals gathered by British firm Inmarsat
plc and radar data from early in its flight, investigators have only
estimates of the speed the aircraft was travelling and no certainty
of its altitude, Mr Houston said. Satellite imagery of the new search
area had not given “anything better than low confidence of finding
anything”, said Mick
Kinley,
another search official in Perth.
Would it were the
case that Flight MH 370 went off course in a major Hollywood
blockbuster rather than in the skies over The South China Sea! But
things aren't straightforward, not even in a film.
All the Hollywood
spy films we watch are now shown to be utterly fantastical, even
false. There are no spy satellites that can pin-point, with
razor-sharp accuracy, the location of a desperate terrorist intent on
blowing up The President, just in time for a government agent to
swoop and defeat the enemy. Or just in time for a drone weapon to
identify and eliminate (i.e. kill) the target (i.e. person).
RESEARCH
TECH #2
Sir.
I've got a code here from NSA --
they're
not gonna give us Keyhole
satellite
clearance unless we have
sign-off
from upstairs.
Who
can give this clearance? And why wasn't it given to Research Tech #2? Or
to Malaysia Airlines?
Who
signs off?
If
you wanted, you could pick your own secret missions. As I do. Name
it, name it. Destabilize a multinational by manipulating stocks. Bip.
Easy. Interrupt transmissions from a spy satellite over Kabul...
done. Hmm. Rig an election in Uganda. All to the highest bidder.
Or
a gas explosion in London.
Mm-hm.
Just point and click.
Well,
everybody needs a hobby.
So
what's yours?
Resurrection.
Tragically,
resurrection is not possible for the people on MH 370. There is no
'point and click' technology that will bring them back. No app that
will salve the grief of the families who have lost loved ones.
No ace-screenwriter
who can conjure up the lost plane and locate, using imagination
and satellite wizardry, the handful of sterling survivors of flight
MH 370, clinging to translucent coral that curls from an atoll in an
azure ocean.
This tragedy proves
there are no spy satellites. We are alone, with only the stars to
light us.
I saw two
shooting stars last night
I
wished on them but they were only satellites
Is
it wrong to wish on space hardware?
I wish, I wish, I
wish you'd care
Or alternatively,
the families of the dead have not got clearance to use spy satellite
data. They do not have sign-off.
From upstairs. Where
the satellites orbit.
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