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Erick 03-20-2014 08:26 PM


Originally Posted by LightAttack (Post 1606871)
The complaints about the newbies posting here isn't that they are "listening", the problem is that they are putting down stakes and making ridiculous pronouncements as to what happened.

You say you are an "experimental psychologist", whatever that is. If you are a psychologist, you, more than we, would understand human behavior. If one of the crew took over and committed "suicide" by running the jet out of gas after disabling/killing everyone else by depressurizing the plane long enough to deplete the onboard oxygen, why? Why fly for hours after taking over the plane instead of pointing it at the deck - as has been done before?

You're the psychologist, if it were terrorism, why has there been no pronouncement by some terrorist group? They live for that crap. Educate us.

Experimental psychologists primarily do research (mostly in labs). My first graduate degree was in exp psyc and I spent most of my time at NIH studying neural pathways that mediate anxiety. Gave a lot of rats a lot of benzodiazepines such as alprazolam (Xanax) and then competively blocked various neural pathways to determine which one transported the drug to get an anxiolytic effect. A wordy response but it gives you an idea of what that field does. My second grad degree is in counseling and I am primarily interested in abnormal behavior.

Most of the time, anyone willing to kill or harm a large group of people likely has antisocial personality disorderr (sociopath) but some folks are just zealots and feel that God is calling them (odd behavior for a God - but that's my point of view). Anway, these folks are incapable of empathy, have no moral compass, and no sense of right or wrong and some report that they only time they feel anything at all is when they are harming someone else (check YouTube for "The Ice Man").

Anyway, I do enjoy following the conversation and I am learning a lot. When this story first broke I figured I would find some pilots rather than listen to talking heads discuss such low probability events such as a black hole eating a jet (if a jet is on the event horizon for a black hole I gotta believe the rest of the planet is likely as well).

Thanks and take care,

Erick

Mesabah 03-20-2014 08:28 PM

We have yet to hear this theory, but I'm sure it's coming, MSNBC perhaps???

http://i59.tinypic.com/2s189qr.jpg

Erick 03-20-2014 08:31 PM


Originally Posted by ildarin (Post 1606873)
Maybe that's not so unreasonable.
I'm convinced that they ran into Captain Vanderdecken and are now doomed to try to round Cape Horn until they can pass the baton to someone else.:rolleyes:

Many (or most) people cannot tolerate disequilibration (not knowing or understanding) so they fill the void with anything so long at is some kind of answer. Zombies aircraft and jet-swallowing black holes gives you a sense of how desparate that need can be.

CRM114 03-20-2014 09:54 PM

Black Hole Theory Meets Billy Madison
 

Sum Ting Wong 03-20-2014 11:23 PM

The only black hole is the one below Lemon's nose from which the most preposterous stuff is spewed.

Sum Ting Wong 03-20-2014 11:24 PM

CNN, the anti-science network, from 2013: "CNN anchor Deb Feyerick asked Saturday afternoon if an approaching asteroid, which will pass by Earth on February 15, “is an example of, perhaps, global warming?”"

Mesabah 03-20-2014 11:49 PM

My favorite was when a reporter said the Air France jet broke up after exceeding the speed of light. You'd have to be completely brain dead to report that.

N9373M 03-21-2014 01:58 AM

The New "Journalism"
 
In Lemon's piece, he's reading the "black hole" question from a tweet.

In the above examples, is it dain-bread reporters or the severely clueless general public feeding them? i.e. "Today" now has an "Orange Room" where they take comments and questions from the Interweb.

In another CNN piece, the talking head is "telling" Schiavo and Abend what happened and basically only allowing them a "yes" answer, not letting the experts postulate.

I eagerly await the transcendence of the Internet so we may channel (pun intended) Cronkite.

PILOTGUY 03-21-2014 02:28 AM

Maybe I missed it prior, as I do work, but today's update on CNN had one of the airline officials stating there were lithium ion batteries on board.

80ktsClamp 03-21-2014 04:43 AM


Originally Posted by PILOTGUY (Post 1607006)
Maybe I missed it prior, as I do work, but today's update on CNN had one of the airline officials stating there were lithium ion batteries on board.

There were probably lots of them... In everyone's smartphone and laptops. Once again, though, fires tend to burn through the plane and take them down in unholy glory within 20 minutes. They tend to not reprogram the FMS and fly along for another 6 hours.


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