Well, something weird clearly happened.
No, actually, that's not clear at all. Just because we are not exactly sure what happened within a few days of an incident that took place over the ocean doesn't make the explanation inherently weird. When the wreckage is found and the reasons for the crash explained, chances are it will be a fairly mundane cause, not that that's any comfort to the families.
All this speculation about weird phenomena is just a parallel to people believing in ridiculous conspiracy theories. Some people can't fathom the idea that a single assassin with an obsession or agenda can take down world leaders, that a handful of terrorists can take down skyscrapers, or that we can land on the Moon. And when a plane disappears, it can't just be that it's difficult to find because it's in the middle of the ocean, there must be some bizarre explanation behind it.
If someone offers an off-the-cuff optimistic theory, even a goofy one like aliens or some sort of Bermuda Triangle inversion or whatever, why do people assume that is flippancy and not world-weariness?
Really, the plane's not in his house, Martians took it along with Amelia Earhart, or SPECTRE sabotaged it are good faith theories about what happened instead of flippant (as
CC said), poor taste jokes? Can you be any more gullible? Also, I didn't say anything the first or second time, but by the THIRD time he was making a joke in the thread it seemed a bit much.
By the way, thanks for not taking the obvious hint about how this line of discussion was inappropriate for the thread and continuing it anyway. For the completely clueless, there is another thread open right now where you can discuss the value of poor taste and too soon jokes (or for you, how they're actually serious) instead of in the thread where the discussion of the incident where hundreds of lives were lost
is still ongoing.
I won't speak for Captrek, but I know that *I* didn't offer what I said before about them landing on I-40 to be flippant, I offered it because it would be nice if JUST ONCE something AWESOME was going on instead of the expected misery. I don't honestly expect it - I don't think anyone really does, we know the score - but wouldn't it be nice for a change? I'm never quite ready to give up entirely while there's still a fraction of a chance, even if it does amount to beating my head against a brick wall every time the final words on things like this come in.
But it's not awesome. Even if by some bizarre occurrence the passengers and crew were still alive, it wouldn't have been an awesome experience for them. Nor is it an awesome experience for the families and friends they left behind. Which is why it's callous and inappropriate to engage in this kind of joking and baseless speculation.
