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Wreckage of UTA Flight 772

33 points by techinsidr 13y ago

adrianonantua 13y ago
Beautiful, but the article fails in delivering the actual coordinates: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=UTA+Flight+772+Memorial&data=!1m4!1m3!1d2308!2d11.9546529!3d16.8642515!2m1!1e3!4m15!2m14!1m13!1s0x0%3A0xba48584b70b42544!3m8!1m3!1d841!2d11.9546529!3d16.8642515!3m2!1i1366!2i683!4f35!4m2!3d16.8649384!4d11.9542113&fid=7 https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=UTA+Flight+772+Memori...
- pit 13y ago
  Wow, looking at the desert on Google Maps is _crazy_. Does anyone know of any desert Street Views?
heydenberk 13y ago
You Might Be Sick of These ViralNova and UpWorthy Article Titles, But Not as Sick of Them as You Will Be After Reading This One
ohashi 13y ago
So does viralnova just steal other people's content and post it as its own?
- dismiss21x 13y ago
  Pretty much. Hope the mods ban that site, along with Upworthy.
benologist 13y ago
Stolen in full from http://imgur.com/a/2BpKA http://imgur.com/a/2BpKA
BallardBrian 13y ago
I plugged in the actual coordinates (16.86554, 11.95371) in Apple Maps and their image is pretty interesting too. The whole site is swept over by sand and you can actually see the memorial. I took a screenshot for those without Apple Maps, here: http://i.imgur.com/1SiHKGS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1SiHKGS.jpg
uaygsfdbzf 13y ago
This is terrible. Let me get this straight: you get $170 million from the Libyan government for a terrorist attack. You are from the Congo. And the best thing you can think to blow the money on is to put rocks in the desert, so rich white people can see it on Google Maps? You couldn't have, I don't know, built a hospital or a school or something that would actually help people who are still alive? I imagine that much money could go pretty far in Congo.
- Pinckney 13y ago
  It was a French group, La Fondation de l’Attentat du DC10, that put up the memorial. There's no indication that the cost of the memorial was anywhere close to $170 million. I suppose you can argue that we should never build memorials, since we could better spend such money on other things.

33 points by techinsidr 13y ago

Beautiful, but the article fails in delivering the actual coordinates: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=UTA+Flight+772+Memorial&data=!1m4!1m3!1d2308!2d11.9546529!3d16.8642515!2m1!1e3!4m15!2m14!1m13!1s0x0%3A0xba48584b70b42544!3m8!1m3!1d841!2d11.9546529!3d16.8642515!3m2!1i1366!2i683!4f35!4m2!3d16.8649384!4d11.9542113&fid=7 https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=UTA+Flight+772+Memori...

pit 13y ago
Wow, looking at the desert on Google Maps is _crazy_. Does anyone know of any desert Street Views?

heydenberk 13y ago

You Might Be Sick of These ViralNova and UpWorthy Article Titles, But Not as Sick of Them as You Will Be After Reading This One

ohashi 13y ago

So does viralnova just steal other people's content and post it as its own?

dismiss21x 13y ago
Pretty much. Hope the mods ban that site, along with Upworthy.

benologist 13y ago

Stolen in full from http://imgur.com/a/2BpKA http://imgur.com/a/2BpKA

BallardBrian 13y ago

I plugged in the actual coordinates (16.86554, 11.95371) in Apple Maps and their image is pretty interesting too. The whole site is swept over by sand and you can actually see the memorial. I took a screenshot for those without Apple Maps, here: http://i.imgur.com/1SiHKGS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1SiHKGS.jpg

uaygsfdbzf 13y ago

This is terrible. Let me get this straight: you get $170 million from the Libyan government for a terrorist attack. You are from the Congo. And the best thing you can think to blow the money on is to put rocks in the desert, so rich white people can see it on Google Maps? You couldn't have, I don't know, built a hospital or a school or something that would actually help people who are still alive? I imagine that much money could go pretty far in Congo.

Pinckney 13y ago
It was a French group, La Fondation de l’Attentat du DC10, that put up the memorial. There's no indication that the cost of the memorial was anywhere close to $170 million. I suppose you can argue that we should never build memorials, since we could better spend such money on other things.