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I sometimes wonder about the value of these news stories on forums and social media. It's all pretty much wild speculation with several potential causes alread
by duxup 2y ago
I sometimes wonder about the value of these news stories on forums and social media.
It's all pretty much wild speculation with several potential causes already mentioned on this forum.
News important yes, every rando with a few shreds of factoids speculating, not so much.
- g-nair 2y agoI’ve been saying something similar to friends recently. We have access to a bit Too much news for our own good.
- throwaway2037 2y agoAnything about civilian air safety is like catnip for nerds. It is the ultimate armchair nerd sport -- speculating about reasons for a civilian air crash. I guess this discussion will be more than 1,000 comments before its heat-death.
- readyplayernull 2y agoLet's go back to AI non-stop 24/7, hallucinations are saner.
- fullshark 2y agoIn this case there is no or negative value. Wait for the facts, avoid the noise and wild speculation.
- avs733 2y agoBut my dopamine…
- fortran77 2y agoDon't you know? If a person can program in Rust and Kotlin, that makes him an expert in every other field, too.
- justinspace 2y agoI've seen at least one "why don't you just <misunderstanding of how aviation works>" upthread already. Can't believe this flavor of tech hubris is running the country now. No wonder the goddamn planes are falling out of the sky...
- duxup 2y agoArguably we have that with the current US executive branch. We had a hubub about the right way to power an aircraft carrier catapult for a while the first go around with these fools ...
- neilv 2y agoYes, tons of speculation, and very little clear basic facts. When I clicked, I expected to find the comments interesting (since I worked in a small corner of flight safety), but, skimming through, I kept feeling aversion to threads. Most modern news organizations aren't much better.
- Ylpertnodi 2y agoI come to hn for the speculations.
- francisofascii 2y agoHere we get air traffic controller recordings, and people who are ammeter pilots. It is more informed speculation than my "normal" friends or co-workers.
- duxup 2y agoI suspect moderately informed, but not completely informed, is the worst kind of speculation. It has a sense of authority and knowledge that is hard to pinpoint its accuracy. Almost all the amateur theories in here, just by the variety, are going to be dead wrong.
- whateveracct 2y agoIt just sounds more informed. Just like all the "amateur" physicists who speculate on theoretical physics posts on HN.
- wat10000 2y agoHere, I get ATC transcripts and learn about the helicopter flight paths. Traditional news describes an airliner with 60 people on board as a “small plane.”
- dboreham 2y agoWell, last night when there were only 10 comments here, the essentials of what had happened were available from those comments. Meanwhile the mainstream news TV I was watching at the same time was presenting either zero information, or false information (e.g. that 4 survivors had been rescued).