The Malaysian Airliner Mystery

The Malaysian Airliner Mystery

Bob Dr. Bob Uda

3/14/2014

It is interesting to watch all of the television talking heads and subject matter experts (SMEs) speak on television on a daily basis.  Many of them are very knowledgeable through education and experience.  What bothers me about these discussions are those few people who denigrate those who discuss theories, speculation, scenarios, and ideas and who profess that we should just “stick with the facts”—whatever they are.  I have heard a plethora of facts that have turned out to be untrue or false.  Those who just want to stick with the facts are backward looking.  Bill O’Reilly is one of those folks in his show tonight (3/14/2014).

Personally, I prefer to be forward looking.  In other words, I do not want to leave anything out whenever I am solving a problem.  I want to look at not only all of the available facts or supposed facts but also theories (conspiracy or otherwise), speculations, hyperbole, conjecture, scenarios, hypothetical situations, ideas, WAGs (wild arse guesses), SWAGs (scientific wild arse guesses), opinions, polls, and empirical information.  When you do that, you put the puzzle or mosaic together much quicker than just sticking with the facts.  This comprehensive, integrated approach is what I like to take in solving such baffling problems.

If we only stuck to the facts in engineering, science, and technology (EST), progress in developing all of the great new discoveries and inventions would not have moved at an exponential pace as it did over the past century.  If we did not use in our research and development (R&D) theories such as Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, the Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection, String Theory, Chaos Theory, and the Big Bang Theory, we would not have made such rapid progress in new discoveries, new inventions, and development of new knowledge.

Take light for example.  We can discuss light as either photons (bundles of energy) or waves.  By doing that, we were able to develop light theory much better than if we had only one or the other way to describe light.  We know that light travels at a constant velocity of 186,000 miles per second.  We know that light can bend.  We know that darkness is the absence of light.  We know that light is energy.  Through Einstein’s equation, E=mc², we know that energy can be converted to mass and vice versa in the equation that requires the square of the velocity of light, which is a constant.  We know that energy (E) is proportional to mass (m).  In mathematics, to make that proportionality an equation, we add the constant of proportionality (c²) as a multiple of the mass (m).  That is a very simple concept.

If we did not use empirical test data to develop empirical equations to use in our analyses, progress in many of our R&D advances would have moved at a much slower pace.  Furthermore, estimations, forecasts, probability theory, modeling, and statistical analyses all contribute significantly in the development of new theories, laws, principles, and other such discoveries.

Yes, laws and principles such as Hubble’s Law of Cosmic Expansion, Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion, the Universal Law of Gravitation, Newton’s Laws of Motion, the Laws of Thermodynamics, Archimedes’ Buoyancy Principle, and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle all are extremely important to solving problems and developing new information.  However, without the aforementioned theories, many of our advancements would still be in process instead of accomplished.

Theories are extremely valuable because it causes the doubters and devil’s advocates to work hard at proving those theories wrong.  As they do their studies, research, and problem solving method, they may actually prove these theories wrong.  Theories that ESTs have proven to be false include Cold Fusion, Einstein’s Static Universe, the Martian Canals, and the Expanding Earth.  However, in the process of these ESTs working hard at proving those theories to be wrong or false causes them to make new discoveries, to become smarter, and, therefore, capable to solving other perplexing EST problems.

Now, let us discuss the perplexing problem that has baffled us over the past week—the disappearance of the Malaysian Boeing 777 airliner that has been in the news 24/7.  Some of the facts that we know for sure include the following:

1. The Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 airliner that took off from Kuala Lumpur did not make it to its destination in Beijing, China.
2. There were 239 people aboard that airliner with most of them being Chinese citizens.
3. We know the airliner is down, but we do not know whether the airliner has crashed or has landed in some unknown airport or landing strip.
4. We do not know whether the 239 people are dead or alive.
5. We have many conflicting “facts” about the position, condition, and potential location of the airliner.
6. The pilot and co-pilot of the airliner are Muslim men.
7. We have not found any definitive crash debris either on the ocean or on land.
8. Several governments are feverishly working to discover and generate facts to explain the disappearance of the airliner.
9. Latest facts indicate that there may have been a hijacking (skyjacking).
10. No organization (terrorist or otherwise) has claimed responsibility for the disappearance.
11. There are many more facts that we can list here, but we will stop for now.

On the Malaysian airliner disappearance, we are not talking about terrorists or hijackers.  What we are talking about is air pirates.  The perpetrators look for ransom.  The sea pirates off the coasts of Somalia are neither terrorists nor hijackers, but they are sea pirates.  Therefore, those who skyjacked the airliner to use the passengers as hostages are air pirates.

I have a SWAG theory.  Russia or China is not the perpetrator of the air piracy.  However, another nuclear-capable country may be the perpetrator.  Those that come to mind include Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran (Iran’s nuclear bomb is imminent).  The rogue state-sponsor of terrorism will modify the airliner to hold a nuclear weapon.  They will have well-trained terrorist pilots to fly the bomb on a one-way mission over one of the seven largest cities in the United States.  Since there is no bomb bay in the airliner, the suicide pilots will fly the nuclear-weapon-laden airliner about a thousand feet off the ground over one of our largest cities and detonate the nuclear weapon.  The American Hiroshima is upon us.

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