of doing a broad scale search. miles, if the bluefin-21 missions turn out to be a bust al together, can we expect investigators scale back other aspects of the search, do you think? yeah. i think, jake, just picking up on what rob said, there s a huge cost factor that comes into play here. remember, the aerial search which continues is based on this data, this location which is being searched right now. if it doesn t pan out, then all of the equations that have been put into the mix, if you will, to determine where debris might be by hindcasting the ocean currents, all of that is for not. they are flying over open ocean and it could be any piece of ocean. if you really don t have a place in which to direct your search for an aerial reconnaissance campaign, it makes little chance of doing it. that s hard to explain to the families, however. on the other happened, rob, you and i have talked at great