... Posted July 22, 2014 Posted July 22, 2014 Are things overall getting worse worldwide or are we just so much more aware of everything happening the second it happens? honest question...
Pedro2486 Posted July 22, 2014 Posted July 22, 2014 Are things overall getting worse worldwide or are we just so much more aware of everything happening the second it happens? honest question... I think it's a good question. I'm sure there has been humankind doing horrible things every day since the beginning. The speed and accessibility of communication has never been as available as it is today and I think that plays a huge part in it. 1
... Posted July 22, 2014 Posted July 22, 2014 Imagine Hitler and Stalin twitting each battlefield event and whatnot, teasing each other publicly via their Facebook pages... The us-them mentality is an important cause of all the problems we are aware of today, same as always. At that rate, we are going nowhere as a specie... I'll agree though, we are running in circles at a faster and faster pace...
Colt45 Posted July 22, 2014 Posted July 22, 2014 Are things overall getting worse worldwide or are we just so much more aware of everything happening the second it happens? honest question... I feel that history repeats itself - and we're either too stupid or too stubborn......
... Posted July 22, 2014 Posted July 22, 2014 I feel that history repeats itself - and we're either too stupid or too stubborn...... I'd say too human. We are genetically programmed to save our asses and to be opportunistic, hence the self-centeredness so prevalent regardless of cultural background. Altruism is learned... some are slow learners, some are unteacheable
... Posted July 22, 2014 Posted July 22, 2014 Colt, I see you changed your avatar! Loved the smoking Jerry one...
Colt45 Posted July 22, 2014 Posted July 22, 2014 I'd say too human. Like I said, too stupid or stubborn Smoking Thomas will most likely return......
stigmata Posted July 22, 2014 Posted July 22, 2014 I am shocked at dozens of things happening worldwide; I won't bring them here… huh? bring them here?
Fosgate Posted July 22, 2014 Posted July 22, 2014 War is hell, targets get misidentified and friendly fire occurs all the time. No law will change that. Should be blaming whoever thought it was a good idea to fly a plane through this war zone. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1
MIKA27 Posted July 23, 2014 Posted July 23, 2014 I think it's a good question. I'm sure there has been humankind doing horrible things every day since the beginning. The speed and accessibility of communication has never been as available as it is today and I think that plays a huge part in it. +1 Technology is bringing the world closer and it's not always for the better however IMO such horrific acts worldwide should not be ignored. It's horrible what's occurring in Gaza, and now the Malaysian Airlines however there are a great number of other atrocities happening right now.... Don't worry, the U.N is on top of ALL of them. 1
MIKA27 Posted October 14, 2015 Posted October 14, 2015 How Dutch Investigators Used Science To Reconstruct MH17's Last Moments The Dutch Safety Board has issued its final report into the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The cause of the crash has been identified as a BUK surface-to-air missile fired from the Ukraine. The forensic study of the wreckage took months, and saw investigators literally piece together a plane that had been peppered with missile fragmentation to determine exactly what happened in those final moments. On 17 July, 2014, MH17 dropped out of radar contact over Ukraine. Authorities quickly determined that the plane had been shot down by a missile fired by rebel forces, but couldn’t accurately determine the timeline of the incident and how the plane came down following the explosion. The Dutch Safety Board was brought on to spearhead the investigation, along with representatives from several other international bodies, including the Australian Federal Police. Investigators initially struggled to retrieve the wreckage of MH17 for study, due to its location inside an armed conflict zone in the Ukraine. In late-Autumn and early-Spring, the investigators were able to retrieve the wreckage over three separate recovery missions, where it was then taken by train back to the Netherlands for study. Once it arrived, the wreckage fragments were tagged and photographed in front of a green screen so it could be digitally reconstructed by investigators. Once the investigators determined that a missile had in fact been the cause of the crash, they issued a preliminary report, before working to determine the exact series of events. That’s where the hardcore forensics came in. The first job was figuring out what the missile did to the plane at 33,000 feet, and where it went off. Investigators knew what time the flight went off radar, and knew where the explosion took place, but they didn’t know what the missile exactly did to the plane once it exploded, nor did they know where or how the missile had detonated around the plane. After the black box flight recorders had been flown to Farnborough in the UK for analysis, investigators played all three tapes at exactly the same time to listen for the explosion. Four microphones in the cockpit all picked up the missile’s detonation outside the plane. Using just the audio captured by those four microphones, investigators were able to analyse their waveforms down to the millisecond to determine which of them detected the explosion first. They then traced the sound of the shockwave back through the cabin to infer where around the plane the missile detonated. That’s how investigators double-confirmed (along with the peppered fuselage) that the BUK missile exploded above the cockpit’s left-hand side. To aid visual interpretation, the photographs snapped when the wreckage came into the hangar were reconstructed against a digital 2D representation of the plane to piece together exactly what the fuselage looked like pre- and post-explosion. In the same way police would reconstruct a crime scene, the then team built an exact replica of a Boeing 777 frame in its hangar, and worked hard to recreate the jet with the pieces they had recovered from the crash site. The real-life reconstruction and subsequent 3D scan served to further validate the forensic team’s findings. 800 of the tiny bowtie- and block-shaped fragments perforated the cabin when the warhead exploded, shearing the cockpit from the rest of the plane, and killing the pilots instantly. The plane fell from 33,000 feet to the deck, disintegrating on the way down, killing all 298 on board. Forensic digital reconstructions of the detonation along with data collected about the damage to the cabin found that the missile detonated less than a metre from the cockpit. The job of the forensic investigators is finished, but the questions about exactly where the missile was fired from and who fired it remain unanswered. The Dutch Safety Board go to some length to explain that such political questions fall outside of their investigative remit. You can watch the full video report below.
oliverdst Posted October 14, 2015 Posted October 14, 2015 I'm getting old. I think this is so f. dEpressing. 3
El Presidente Posted October 14, 2015 Author Posted October 14, 2015 Chase those responsible to the end of time. 2
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