frequency. and that disturbs me, but then again, i think this airplane is still in the ocean. on the issue of the pings from the black boxes, i m going to have to disagree with you, as much as it pains me to do that. arthur, you traffic in disagreement. i do. i do. i think those pings were right on. i think that the frequency difference, the 37 1/2 kilohertz which we re all making a big deal about. that s what it s supposed to be transmitting on. it came in lower. i think that s reflective of the incredible pressure where they were. you re down almost three miles. the temperature variations. i spoke to the same analysts, and i walked away with i think they ve got it. and when you take the pings from the black boxes together with the inmarsat data and the radar data, albeit there was some assumptions:00 performance to the airplane, fuel burn speed, things like that, again, it coalesces right in this area which is where they are. it s a large area.
the second extraordinary strand is the extent of interdisciplinary experts. you have experts that are space scientists and physicists looking at the satellite data and the transmissions between the satellite and plane. my colleagues and i wrote a story that explain in arcane way they looked at the temperature of the satellite and the temperature of the satellite communication systems on the aircraft and they were able to use these temperature variations to determine slight fluctuations in the frequency of the communications in the radio waves. this is one more element to try to get closer to where they really think the plane hit the water. interesting. rob, i understand you have been down deep, a couple of miles below the surface. what s the pressure do to a
this is their best estimate, of course, after weeks and weeks of analysis and it s based on some really cutting-edge science. it s based on the analysis that they had and sort of relooked at again and again and again and there is a bit of luck at the end. the reason they are so convinced that this is the right area is because for two weeks ago they managed to come up with an arcane, unusual, and quite intriguing technique and that is they were being looking at the differences in frequency of the signals between the satellite and the plane as viewers had heard about called the doppler event but they really added one more angle to it and that is, they looked at the temperature of the satellite and the temperature of the signaling equipment on board the jet and they were actually able to use these very sensitive temperature variations to look at the differences in the returns, the way signatures that they
we have not heard from in a couple of hours. the last time i heard them was over the loud speaker a couple of hours ago down the hill, shepard. shepard: adam, you have talked about how cold it is there on the surface. what do we know about the temperature down there where the miners are? we re told the temperature down there is pretty constant because you are 2,000 feet down. you are obviously out of the elements. because here in the daytime, shepard, like any desert situation, it s pretty warm. you can walk around in short sleeves, probably 75, 80 degrees. at night it drops considerably. they don t have those temperature variations down below. one reason why years ago before we ever had refrigeration food was stored down under ground. same type of situation. they have been able to keep the temperature constant. so, that s got to be something else that we haven t really thought about now that you bring it up as they come up to the surface the first two or three come up, it s goin