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I remember watching the American news media go crazy over this airplane for around 1 month every night. The CNN anchor Don Lemon asked one of the 6 guests on h

I remember watching the American news media go crazy over this airplane for around 1 month every night. The CNN anchor Don Lemon asked one of the 6 guests on his panel whether it was possible that the plane had been sucked into a black hole.

llao 7y ago
Dear god, you were not joking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpVd7k1Uw6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpVd7k1Uw6A
- i386 7y ago
  If I were the guest I would have said yes and seen how long I could keep that interview going
- isostatic 7y ago
  A small black hole would destroy our entire universe apparently
  - mc32 7y ago
    Well, it depends if they are speaking colloquially or not. If our “universe” is our Sun’s solar system, then yes...
- mehrdadn 7y ago
  Can't help but wonder if he mixed up black holes with the colloquial "air pockets" or something.
catacombs 7y ago
It was actually Oceanic Flight 815 come to life.
airstrike 7y ago
I always thought Don Lemon was an idiot. Thanks for giving me the final proof I needed. FWIW, I'm neither American nor a Republican. I just really think the guy is an idiot.
- melling 7y ago
  He also once blamed a rape victim: https://time.com/3596105/don-lemon-bill-cosby-rape-myths/ https://time.com/3596105/don-lemon-bill-cosby-rape-myths/
- PhantomGremlin 7y ago
  I just really think the guy is an idiot. I don't watch CNN and don't know Lemon. But here's a possible alternative explanation (hardly a defense): Wikipedia says he graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism. He probably didn't pay much attention to science in high school, and almost certainly wasn't required to take any science classes in college. So, he might not even understand science as simple as F=ma. In his defense I'd bet that if you surveyed the adult population, the majority couldn't tell you what F=ma means. The above is a long way of saying that most journalists aren't literate in science. And, we know that black holes are "sexy". Many books have been written about them. Many movies made that feature them as key plot points. So, why not ask about black holes as a possibility? It's as plausible an explanation as whatever it was that happened to that airplane in the Lost TV series of about 10 years ago. Having said all that, yeah, the guy is probably an idiot. As are quite a few TV journalists.
  - kodz4 7y ago
    These are news readers. Not journalists.
    - mc32 7y ago
      If they’re just media presenters then maybe they should let a “journalist” do the interviewing?
  - grahamburger 7y ago
    I always assume reporters ask these kinds of 'dumb' questions because they know they're the questions the audience wants answered. They play the part of their audience, basically. (I have no idea whether or not Don Lemon is an idiot.)
writeslowly 7y ago
Back when this happened, me and a friend spent some time coming up with the most ridiculous conspiracy theories about how the plane disappeared , just for fun. The best one that I could invent with was that MH370 flew right next to another plane in order to appear as a single, really big plane on the radar. A few weeks later my stupid conspiracy theory was all over the media thanks to a blogger who proposed the same thing (but not as a joke, apparently) [1][2][3] [1] https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-19/reality-check-could-mh370-have-hidden-radar-next-another-plane https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-19/reality-check-could-m... [2] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/03/5-not-so-crazy-malaysia-flight-370-theories.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/03/5-not-so-crazy-malays... [3] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26609687 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26609687

llao 7y ago

Dear god, you were not joking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpVd7k1Uw6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpVd7k1Uw6A

i386 7y ago
If I were the guest I would have said yes and seen how long I could keep that interview going
isostatic 7y ago
A small black hole would destroy our entire universe apparently
- mc32 7y ago
  Well, it depends if they are speaking colloquially or not. If our “universe” is our Sun’s solar system, then yes...
mehrdadn 7y ago
Can't help but wonder if he mixed up black holes with the colloquial "air pockets" or something.

catacombs 7y ago

It was actually Oceanic Flight 815 come to life.

airstrike 7y ago

I always thought Don Lemon was an idiot. Thanks for giving me the final proof I needed. FWIW, I'm neither American nor a Republican. I just really think the guy is an idiot.

melling 7y ago
He also once blamed a rape victim: https://time.com/3596105/don-lemon-bill-cosby-rape-myths/ https://time.com/3596105/don-lemon-bill-cosby-rape-myths/
PhantomGremlin 7y ago
I just really think the guy is an idiot. I don't watch CNN and don't know Lemon. But here's a possible alternative explanation (hardly a defense): Wikipedia says he graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism. He probably didn't pay much attention to science in high school, and almost certainly wasn't required to take any science classes in college. So, he might not even understand science as simple as F=ma. In his defense I'd bet that if you surveyed the adult population, the majority couldn't tell you what F=ma means. The above is a long way of saying that most journalists aren't literate in science. And, we know that black holes are "sexy". Many books have been written about them. Many movies made that feature them as key plot points. So, why not ask about black holes as a possibility? It's as plausible an explanation as whatever it was that happened to that airplane in the Lost TV series of about 10 years ago. Having said all that, yeah, the guy is probably an idiot. As are quite a few TV journalists.
- kodz4 7y ago
  These are news readers. Not journalists.
  - mc32 7y ago
    If they’re just media presenters then maybe they should let a “journalist” do the interviewing?
- grahamburger 7y ago
  I always assume reporters ask these kinds of 'dumb' questions because they know they're the questions the audience wants answered. They play the part of their audience, basically. (I have no idea whether or not Don Lemon is an idiot.)

writeslowly 7y ago

Back when this happened, me and a friend spent some time coming up with the most ridiculous conspiracy theories about how the plane disappeared , just for fun. The best one that I could invent with was that MH370 flew right next to another plane in order to appear as a single, really big plane on the radar. A few weeks later my stupid conspiracy theory was all over the media thanks to a blogger who proposed the same thing (but not as a joke, apparently) [1][2][3] [1] https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-19/reality-check-could-mh370-have-hidden-radar-next-another-plane https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-19/reality-check-could-m... [2] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/03/5-not-so-crazy-malaysia-flight-370-theories.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/03/5-not-so-crazy-malays... [3] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26609687 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26609687