“The time of day is also relevant. Flight 370 took off in the dark of night, at 12:41AM. Commercial imaging satellites primarily use optical cameras. That is, they do not see in the dark any better than your iPhone. So there are no Google Earth images of where the 777 went.”
Google earth doesn’t use regularly updated sat images, does it?
You know the guys on Duck Dynasty debated how often Google updated their images and that is why they threw a bunch of decoys on the roof of the building, which apparently are still there. I never heard what the conclusion was to that question.
Google Earth displays the best available imagery, most of which is one to three years old. The information in Google Earth is collected over time and is not in real time. It is not possible to see live changes in images. You can read more about Understanding Google Earth imagery within the Help center.
https://support.google.com/earth/answer/187961?hl=en
The US government has a worldwide sat system. In fact, terror states do a lot of their stuff at night to hide from the ‘easy detection’. Daylight satellite imagrey is now child’s play. I don’t know a thing about this weird ‘mystery’, just assumed it was terrorism. Did it disappear in broad daylight or at night?
Tt is common for the government to ‘deny-deny-deny’ terrorism. Remember TWA 800? I’m not surprised by any of this. The more they say it’s ‘unexplained’, the more they cast about for weird explanations, the more likely they know something and don’t want to share for whatever reason.
At the same time, I’m sure that BO is happy to get everyone’s mind off of his scandals.
I’m involved in construction. Google seems to data mine building permit applications throughout the US (not sure about the world). If we break ground for an office building, the Google street viewer car will be by in a few months, and ‘sew in’ a new street view.
But the sat images can get old...3-4 years old sometimes.