If You Seek Amy…You Might Want to Check Flight 370

So… This legitimately happened today.

"Hey, whatever happened to Amy?"

"I don’t know.  But I still seek her."

Speaking of seeking, let's talk about this Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Now that all the lands have been discovered, and it's possible to travel across whole continents in a 5-hour span, and Google-mapping satellites let you zoom in on your house from outer space, and the internet allows you to video chat with someone on the other side of the hemisphere, and Disney has that insatiable ride to remind us how small the world is…it's difficult to remember just how large the world really is. Any rescue worker can attest to that.

I remember how it took police a month of searching to find Lori Hacking's body in a landfill, even though they knew the date she had been deposited there. Susan Powell was not as fortunate. They never could find her remains because--given Josh Powell's story--she could have been anywhere between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. They called these cases a needle in a haystack. Now, we're talking about one commercial jet in the middle of how many thousands of miles of ocean?

Having said that, considering we track migration patterns of honey bees from Georgia to Minnesota and whales from Australia to Alaska, it seems a bit odd airliners don’t automatically come equipped with a homing device strong enough to make itself known (Ba-OOOOO-oook! Come to Mommy!). I guess migration patterns aren’t really pinpoint accurate either. Just an occasional ping here and there. And there really isn’t anywhere to put a tower in the middle of the ocean. Or…IS there… I see a billion-dollar idea forming!

My other thought is this: what if the Indian Ocean is just a red herring? What if the plane is just circling around Antarctica (another place where there is nothing to ping), waiting to draw Scotland Yard, and Interpol, and all authorities to the Indian Ocean so they can swoop in and take the Western Hemisphere in its completely vulnerable state???

What if the movie being shown on the plane as it circles Antarctica is Clue—a 1980s comedy featuring a butler used as a red herring—and, ironically, passengers don’t have a clue it parallels the plans because the movie is comedic, American, and from the 1980s—none of which can be taken seriously????

One final thought: it’s kind of interesting how closely mayday resembles Malay, as in the language and people of Malaysia.

“Mayday! Mayday! Come in Maylay! This is Maylay A and we’re in mayday!! Onboard it's melee!  Do you copy, Malay? We are mayday!”