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What's weird to me is...
Is there cell service in mid-ocean?
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3/13/2014 4:28:14 PM
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This just keeps getting weirder
- podrock -
3/13/2014 5:51:56 AM
That can't be right.
- ER -
3/14/2014 8:04:24 PM
I'm not buying it either.
- podrock -
3/14/2014 11:04:56 PM
Well, that's 2 misdirects from th Chinese
- SteveS -
3/15/2014 12:32:41 PM
Yeah, and now they're sending two warships to the Straits of Malacca to aid in the search.
- ER -
3/15/2014 6:04:15 PM
Chinese scientists observe 'seismic event' on sea floor
- SteveS -
3/14/2014 2:19:06 PM
My guess is this will all turn out to be tragic, but highly ordinary.
- ER -
3/13/2014 11:24:57 PM
"...we threw a dummy over the side..."
- mcfly -
3/14/2014 5:37:41 PM
Self-deprecating humor.
- RobVG -
3/15/2014 5:08:08 PM
I don't know, man--that was the OLD Navy.
- ER -
3/14/2014 6:20:51 PM
What's weird to me is...
- SteveS -
3/13/2014 12:16:03 PM
Hypoxia?
- podrock -
3/14/2014 11:11:53 PM
With a loss in cabin pressure,
- ER -
3/15/2014 2:15:49 AM
It seems to be a primary theory on the pilots' message board ...
- podrock -
3/15/2014 2:29:39 AM
Is there cell service in mid-ocean?
- ER -
3/13/2014 4:28:14 PM
There's satellite phones and planes have built-in phones
- SteveS -
3/13/2014 11:03:23 PM
This might be old news.
- bowser -
3/13/2014 11:30:23 AM
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