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If Earth were devoid of vegetation and instead uniformly rocky, running into a sliver of a downed plane might've been far more probable. Especially with volunte

• ramblerman 14y ago
  > Especially with volunteers scouring every taken image for anything that doesn't look like a rock. I don't think anybody is confusing the likelihood of finding a piece of a plane due to not looking at the picture well enough. It's a question of if there would be anything in that picture to begin with.
• mistercow 14y ago
  >If Earth were devoid of vegetation and instead uniformly rocky, running into a sliver of a downed plane might've been far more probable. Yes, more probable, but still not probable enough to seriously consider. >Especially with volunteers scouring every taken image for anything that doesn't look like a rock. You'd still be preposterously unlikely to even encounter any debris.