I don't know if you've been following, but Andrew Wakefield fled the UK and doubled down on the crazy so I don't think you'll get any of those things out of him.

The CIA used a fake movie to get people out of Iran, that doesn't mean Hollywood is just part of the intelligence apparatus.

The whole idea of vaccinations is that they make it impossible for a disease to spread through a community, that it'll die in its current host before it finds another person who either didn't gain immunity from the vaccine or couldn't be vaccinated for medical reasons. You don't get that benefit at low coverage rates.

I'm one of the users seeing this. The ads are still obvious to me - I assumed that they did it to make the site more mobile-friendly, but it could be a downward slide down your slope.

The True Scotsman called, he wants you to know that you're a terrible human being.

I would love to hear how that was supposed to work. Were human beings programmed to irrationally love things created by people called Randall Munroe, or are you arguing that he owns some sort of mind-control ray?

Those aren't changes for which practical data or experimental models exist, so he's unlikely to ever cover them.

Unfortunately exchanges are the de facto way to work in Bitcoin now; without a cultural shift back to personal wallets, exchange problems are now Bitcoin problems.

The big question is, how the HELL is it possible to lose an entire commercial aircraft in 2014? I've seen some articles to the effect that it's difficult to cover the entire earth with enough radars to track planes over the ocean. OK, sure, but that's the obsolete ACARS system. That's why we have satellite communications. For $150 you can buy a portable GPS beacon from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Spot-Sat... and then there's a subscription fee which is maybe $100/year. Basically, for $250 your kayak trip sends GPS updates every 5 minutes so it can't be lost at sea, it just seems bizarre that a commercial aircraft carrying 200 people wouldn't have even that minimal sort of tracking ability. And there are companies building similar technology for aircraft- basically, streaming the black-box data in real time over satellite networks. It would be expensive to implement, but how many millions of dollars have been spent on ships and helicopters for the rescue effort?

Yeah pure battery won't work well. Hybrid+battery/capacitor would be better. Electric motor tech is fine for heavy stuff - diesel electric locomotives are really heavy.

Depending on the engine/turbine you could even have multi-fuel support - gas, petrol diesel, vegetable oil. This gives you more options in crisis scenarios.

Really small. I'll bet the number of floating cell towers in the middle of the South China sea is an integer that approaches zero.

You can't make a triangle out of a single point.

Back to Intro Geometry with you!

It's Obama's fault.

The satcom device does not have to have been on the aircraft.

You could fly from San Francisco (SFO) to Orlando (MCO) That's a pretty big search radius, if this story is true.