and you do that every so often. so even if you cover a couple of square miles it might take a day or two with the bluefin. so that is why we have to stick with the tpl for just a little while longer to make sure we have exhausted every ounce of power coming from the battery through the black boxes, before we put the bluefin in. once we put the bluefin in, we re essentially here for the long haul searching for it. and we heard the fifth ping didn t come from flight 370. a, have there been any other pings? i know it is early there, 8:20 in the morning, so the search is just getting under way. and do you have any idea where the fifth ping came in? yeah, i have to give a lot of credit to the australians. they kind of pulled a trick out of their sleeve and rigged the sonobuoy, and normally they don t rig it for the search for the black boxes but they rigged it, tuned it.
algorithms to figger out signal strength, directions, i guess they can to estimate which one is a strong one, a good one, where it is locationwise. that didn t fit the algorithm either. different source just playing different signal. so that one was ruled out. when we re looking at this search area, despite, i guess we could say the disappointing news that this fifth ping didn t turn out to be anything, miles, do you think that do you think that the search area, when we re looking at the search area, is there any way to narrow it down further without the pings? i wonder at this point, how much longer can we expect them to be, as you say, the energizer bunny and keep working past their life? give it a few more days and with no pings in a few days i think that there will be tremendous pressure to shift gears and go into the uav, the unmanned autonomous vehicle. i think that s going to happen.