-pretty sad weekend for a whole lot of families :(
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-pretty sad weekend for a whole lot of families :(
scary stuff,
stolen passports used to board the plane, one repoprt showing that stolen passports are used to board planesd all the time.
no debris field to be found, plane just disappears.
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Originally Posted by rockhound
Just read piece of debris found. Now in process of verifying.
The geniuses over at CNN were reporting "the black boxes may hold the keys to the mystery".
No shit Sherlock but you kinda need to find the plane first.
RIP
yea pretty interesting events...will be very interested as to what happened...RIP
Amazing to have a 777 disappear like that without so much as a mayday.
Wonder if it will end up being like the EgyptAir flight where the pilot decided to take his crew and passengers to meet Allah
Just gotta hope it was quick for those innocent folks. I'm amazed at the amount of flights everyday and stuff like this happens only a few times a year.
Copied from another site.
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Malaysia Plane Crash & Things that make you go hmmm...So apparently there were 20 people from Freescale out of Texas lost their lives in the Malaysia Jet crash today.
Bummer... that sucks!
But my 'I'm fawking bored so let's check into things' receptors went off & I started looking into what could have been happening in the company - that might have warranted dropping a 777 full of people into the sea.
Well wiki was a yawner.. at first... (ok accidents and weird coincidences happen alll the time ) but then the last line talked about this nifty new chip they just came out with - is the tiniest ever - and meant for internal use hmmm... could be interesting ... lets have a look!
Kinetis
On 26 February 2013, Freescale Semiconductor announced the creation of the world’s smallest (by size) ARM-powered chip. The Kinetis KL02 measures 1.9 by 2 millimeters and is a full microcontroller unit (MCU), meaning the chip sports a processor, RAM, ROM, clock and I/O control unit. The chip competes with the Atmel M0+ offerings, which are the low-power leaders in the industry [17] One application that Freescale says the chips could be used for is swallowable computers. Freescale already works with a variety of health and wellness customers. Both the Fitbit and OmniPod insulin pump use Freescale chips. The new chip was on display at 'Embedded World' in Nuremberg, Germany from February 26, 2013 to February 28, 2013.[18]
Holy Shit!
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/02/...-tiny-arm-chip
The creepiest part ... "Though it’s going to be available for general retail, Freescale says that the KL02 was specifically designed in response to a customer’s request. (They aren’t saying who.)"
Gosh who could possibly want an easily assimilated micro computer that keeps track of your every move, thought, and can cause your body to release or not release chemicals into your system?