Posted on 03/16/2014 5:22:42 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
March 16th, 2014
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn.; Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer; Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.; Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; Bill Gates.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee; Cmdr. William Marks, spokesman for the Navy's 7th Fleet, which is involved in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet.
Interesting post. I put it on the other thread to see what they think over there.Truth lies somewhere. We seem to be getting closer.Everything you said seemed perfectly logical to me but then I do make fishing rods.
Yeah, it’s just the sun light reflecting off the huge solar panels on the Iridium satellite. You only see them an hour or two after sunset or before sunrise. And if you are a mile or two off you might not see it at all. That’s why it is important to get your exact geo-coordinates into the Heavens-Above website program.
This guy has their number no question.!
It a pathetic area of the state,upper arm pit of Fla.
Thanks rodguy911. Fishing rods. Brings back great memories of fishing for salmon in Alaska.
Phsstpok. I do miss him. Wish he would come back. He had profound health issues. I pray for him whenever I think of him.
UNreal our kids are already brainwashed from a-z now they want even more.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for the info!
I have been messing with the LEO and MEO satellite industry since the late 1980’s and need to correct one of your assumptions. The coverage area for an Iridium beam is about 250 miles in diameter, not 60 miles.
Here is a quote from one of their resellers:
“Iridium’s constellation consists of 66 cross-linked operational satellites, plus seven in-orbit spares.
The satellites operate in near-circular low-Earth orbits (LEO) about 780 km (483 miles) above the Earth’s surface. There are 11 satellites in each of six orbital planes and their orbits “intersect” roughly over the north and south poles. The low-flying satellites travel at approximately 17,000 miles per hour, completing an orbit of the Earth in about 100 minutes. It is a function of latitude/longitude and beam coverage, but it typically takes about eight minutes for a satellite to cross the sky from horizon to horizon.
Each satellite can project 48 spot beams on the Earth’s surface. The size of each spot beam is approximately 250 miles in diameter and the satellite’s full 48-beam footprint is approximately 2,800 miles in diameter. All spot beams and satellite footprints overlap.
The large number of fast-moving satellites with multiple overlapping spot beams minimizes missed connections and dropped calls, since more than one satellite is usually visible from any place on Earth. The LEO satellite constellation also makes it possible for changing and multiple view angles to the satellite so that line of sight issues will be temporary as long as you have a view of the sky.”
There is a company in the Washington area that has the capability of finding any earth transmission to space called Interferometrics.
This company located Captain Midnight within a few miles using their technology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_%28HBO%29
They won’t stop until the kids are programmed bots.
Subservient & dependent on the Gov’t along with being distracted with their little video screens in front of their face!
Gotta reverse this!!
In the first link it looks like the left doesn’t want to admit defeat yet they are beefing up “bus” service,feet get in sync with mind.Typical.
I saw that!
Every one of those overpaid "educators" looks like they invest a great deal of their paycheck on food.
Typical lefties excuses “you may have won but of course it doesn’t mean anything”. Sounds like they have a global warming issue that they will never give up.
In light of this one would have to go with the southern arc with a ditching in the waters off the northeastern coast of Australia rather as opposed to the northern arc where they would likely drop the landing gear to put it down on some out of the way landing strip.
BTW on Fox this morning an aviation expert said the same thing -- he believes it is along the southern arc ditched in the deep waters there off the Australian coast.
My one question about that would be this:
Wouldn't it have to fly through Indonesian airspace and over Indonesia itself to get there and wouldn't Indonesian radar have picked it up and done something???
Of course Indonesia is not talking -- atleast to us.
Thanks for the update Andy. Whether it’s 60 or 250 miles, after 5 or 6 pings you should still be able to calculate a pretty good ground track. Also, whether it’s 60 or 250 miles, the theory still stands. If anyone can shoot the theory down I would like to hear from them.
LOL—fishing the great equalizer— we do stand-ups for the Alaskans catching those huge doormats up there.What a place to fish. They have it all at one time or another.
We all do bud he was great.
Exactly we must start with the rino contingent first.
Southwest ground track takes out over Indian Ocean.
Andy, any thoughts as to why we have not heard from the Iridium folks on their efforts to reconstruct the ground track? Maybe no one has asked them to do it. Would take $.
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