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We couldn't find a 777 plane in an ocean. Maybe technology made us feel the earth is small.

• onion2k 4y ago
  The area of the Pacific is 386,900,000,000 times larger than the wing area of a 777.
  • scoopertrooper 4y ago
    And given what we do know (various wing bits have washed up on beaches), those wings broke apart on impact.
  • praveen9920 4y ago
    We are talking area, we didn’t consider depth. We should change the idiom to “searching 777 in pacific”
  • mkl 4y ago
    Just as well it went missing in the much smaller Indian Ocean then! A surprising amount of that ocean was searched in some way or other in the year following MH370's disappearance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#/media/File:MH370_SIO_search.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#/...), but pieces of plane are still pretty small in comparison.