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Duncan Steel
Personal blog · duncansteel.com/archivessciencehistory
Duncan Steel's personal blog at duncansteel.com covers science and history. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Duncan Steel's posts on the MH370 disappearance, including one on a 'controlled ditch' scenario for the plane's end point. The comments cite these posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Space Scientist, Author & Broadcaster
What Hacker News says?
This is explored in another article, the "controlled ditch" scenario: http://www.duncansteel.com/archives/2601 It is a possible scenario, although I have yet to see a reason for anyone to do this (as the article shows, it would require quite deliberate planning).
Comment linking /archives/2601
on “What the nine debris finds may tell us about the MH370 end point”Submitted What the nine debris finds may tell us about the MH370 end point as a story · 75 points
HN discussionWondering what this is about? These are the long awaited satellite communication logs from flight MH370 with Inmarsat. Basically, the raw data that indicated the likely crash in the Indian Ocean off Australia, and thus gave an area to search. CNN has some info @ http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/27/world/asia/malaysia-missing-pl... There have been all sorts of theories about the math and data. So we finally have the data a…
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on “Notes for Signalling Unit Log for Flight MH370 [pdf]”Submitted Ping Rings from the Inmarsat-3F1 Data as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inmarsat ping data "released" by CNN as a story · 2 points
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