boxes that sink to the bottom of the ocean. i think that public amazement becomes a political force. the huge public reaction you have been recording shows how amazed people are that this is a primitive machine at work here. we are using a vcr technology in the age of netflix. and i was glad to see one of the spokesman for inmarsat said they were amazed that was the last line, inmarsat was the last line of connection we had with that plane. if it had not been for those pings we would be clueless. as is it the clues are not very strong. but the technology not only exists to send that transmit the same information in the flight data recorder, send it live in realtime, stream it to receiving centers on land and one year after air france 447