time. but, yes, eventually you get tv specials, you get people with better technologies and you get all kinds of speculation of, you know, a beam came down and took it out into space and whatever happened on lost happened in real life. we re already getting those kinds of theories now. and the longer a plane like this is gone, the more and more outrageous the invitations are to speculate as to what happened. when science doesn t give you answers, you have to go outside of rash nallty to look for them. robert thompson is a popular culture expert at syracuse university, looking at this sort of obsession with this mystery. thanks so much for joining us. i wonder if, you know, airplane travel is something most of us use, it s hard for us to imagine most of this would simply disappear. the way this developed is unprecedented. there were kws, was it