And we thought this one was bad: CNN talking empty head (Feyerick) asks Bill Nye if approaching Meteor was a result of global warming….
OK that set the stage, what could be dumber than that? Now study the picture below, and ask yourself, what’s wrong with this picture? Note the plane, a Boeing 777.
And here is what was said:
CNN’s Don Lemon has been entertaining all sorts of theories about the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, including the chance something “supernatural” happened, but on Wednesday night, he actually asked panelists about the possibility a black hole was involved.
Lemon brought this up along with other “conspiracy theories” people have been floating on Twitter, including people noting the eerie parallels to Lost and The Twilight Zone, and wondered, “is it preposterous” to consider a black hole as a possibility?
Source: Mediaite (click for video)
I wonder how many B.S. detectors went off globally at that moment.
Now, I’ve seen everything. Remember this the next time one of these idiots discusses the science of global warming.
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
You wake up lost , in an empty town
Wondering why no one else is around
Look up to see a giant boy
You’ve just become his brand new toy
Not fair, Watts. Lemon is simply taking questions from the audience and asking them to the guests. This is not Lemon’s own question.
REPLY: Tell it to Mediaite, who created the story, and Lemon did ask ““is it preposterous”? while the topic was black holes and the missing 777. The topic never should have been raised. -Anthony
Reblogged this on gottadobetterthanthis and commented:
For posterity. Our media and most of those who will be interviewed by them are practically brain-dead. Don’t trust them. Go look it up. Figure it out for yourself, and stay skeptical.
“Remember this the next time one of these idiots discusses the science of global warming.”
Just remember it! GGaaawwwdddd! When ever they talk about anything!?!?
The only thing missing was Candy Crowley confirming the black hole theory.
REPLY: Evar http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=evar
-Anthony
———————————————————-
Yo ! Boom shaka.
I think people don’t really realize that news isn’t really news, it’s entertainment. They throw in the word “black hole” because the general public is sufficiently ignorant and rather than immediately jumping at the stupidity of the statement, instead finds it a little curious.
Always remember that
“News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising”
The entire climate change hoopla is based upon the above quote.
Why would any of the passengers call you? 😉
/Mr Lynn
Think fire in the cockpit and take it from there.
Watch out Hollywood actresses, another profession is looking to steal your dumbosity crown.
J. Philip Peterson says:
March 19, 2014 at 9:35 pm
“He was reading many twitter theories.
He did not say “is it preposterous to consider a black hole as a possibility?” (Watch the video)
Hate to defend him, but the “quote” is misleading & not accurate. Watched most of that segment, and the reading of many of the tweet theories – some were outrageous but some were plausible.”
————————————————————————————————————————
Yes he was reading tweets but he did actually ask the question.
I happen to agree with Julian in Wales (March 20, 2014 at 2:55 am) who says:
“I suppose that if there is a popular rumour that the plane was swallowed up in a black hole it is reasonable for the presenter and experts to stage the question in order to cap the rumour from spreading? That would be a reason for deliberately asking a dumb question…if one were kind.”
However the response was even dumber by Mary Schiavo, a former Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Transportation, who said, “A small black hole would suck in our entire universe….”
I now watch AM local news as my morning comedy show, it is actually funny to see how many dumb remarks are made by the hosts or other people in the news. Just yesterday a story about the cafe at MOSI in Tampa Fl revealed it was shut down for infestations of coach roaches and rat droppings. A spokes person for the cafe told health officials that they were “taking aggressive measurements” to quickly rectify the problem.
Mary Schiavo seems to have gone to the Algore school of Cosmology.
I’m sorry I started a fight in the middle of your Science Party.
If nothing else, at least we now have a benchmark for global warming. if hurricanes start spinning the other way around then the agw believers are correct otherwise they are not.
/sarc
It’sa all right, Mr. Lemon. You are not totally useless. You can always serve as a bad example.
The LA Times summed up CNN very well:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-horsey-on-hollywood-cnn-malaysia-airlines-20140318,0,924269.story#axzz2wSpGYz3O
It reminds me of the spoofs of Wolf during the Mid-East war
Black-holes are caused by climate change and we need a carbon tax keep them under control.
Ahhh…the stupid, it burns, it burns…
Just remember folks, the reason the regular news is way better than bloggers is all those layers upon layers of fact checking and professionalism…or so they keep telling us. Sheesh.
Sadly, not the first such silliness. The History Channel (!) had a show a while back “The Bermuda Triangle: Earth’s Black Hole?” that spent a whole hour (minus time for commercials, natch) comparing the Bermuda triangle to a black hole.
Not sure how many ppl were actually watching when CNN made the black hole comment….but it was a viewer tweet ppl!! The panel of experts of course said that no this is not a possible scenario, that a black hole would have sucked in the entire planet not just a plane. And as for bashing the journalists, is it not his/their job to exhaust every single theory…no mater how crazy or unrealistic. Especially when there are no clues as to what happened for 13 days. I know if I were those families of the souls on board that plane I would want them to investigate every single possible theory.
My theory is that it landed on a remote island runway. I understand that a satellite company is at this very moment scanning images of ‘unused’ runways. The missing plane is truly baffling to say the least as we now know it was deliberately taken off course. What do you do with all those people? If it was a hijack then why remain silent for so long?
I think we can now safely assume that CNN does not use any of those “racially invalid” IQ tests whenever they select their on-air talent.
COs is truly the magical gas. Is there anything it cannot do? Alfred Lorentz, Einstein and Max Planck were pikers. They totally missed out on the cosmic qualities of CO2.
Ah, they must have read my comment on the CNN blog following an article on this. I postulated space aliens, who hit the ship with an EMP pulse to completely fry all internal electronics and then beamed up all of the crew.
Sadly, I didn’t think of a black hole, but it makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? And just think — if they are right, there is a reasonable chance that we will all get sucked in as soon as it grows to where the rate at which it eats the planet becomes visible.
There is actually SF book, BTW, that postulates exactly this. A small black hole, slowed to where it oscillates back and forth inside of the Earth, would bounce around, slowly growing, emitting more and more radiation until it reaches a “critical” size compared to its speed eating its way through the mantle, at which point part of the core implodes into it while the rest is blown away by the intense energy released by the infalling matter. The Earth kind of evaporates, leaving behind a black hole more or less quiescently orbiting the sun and a certain amount of glowing ex-Earth gas.
Damn, I also forgot the possibility that the jet ran into a pterodactyl that crushed the cockpit. I did put down a meteor (because that, actually, isn’t that unlikely) and a superbolt of lightning hitting the plane body that generated an EMP sufficient to fry all of the unwired electronics, leaving only the built in wired servos in the jets themselves to keep the plane stable until it went down.
I suppose it is possible that God smote the ship and its passengers for being godless heathens, mostly. Or that gremlins snuck aboard and rewired the autopilot to the coffee maker. We cannot rule out quantum tunnelling, or that an interdimensional space warp opened so that they are all now “lost” on an island in another Universe somewhere. Or — wait for it — it could have been lost because of global warming. Somehow.
Damn you, CNN — why aren’t you following up on all of these possibilities? Do I have to think of everything?
rgb
Admit it. As a nation, we are becoming more and more ignorant with each decade. Yes, I realize that “every generation always thinks that the younger generations are uneducated,” but we need to remember that sometimes, yes, the upcoming generations really are uneducated. We live in such times. http://www.fredoneverything.net/SchoolsBrooklyn.shtml
The author of the article linked to is not an exception. I went to schools in both the North and the South, graduated high school in 1970, and had pretty much the same experience with the level of education. A Bachelors Degree today is probably no better than a high school education of 40 years ago. http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/
There is a reason why Scientific American magazine completely dumbed down their content.
An ignorant population will believe anything — even CAGW, or even mobile bio-weapons labs with canvas sides.
rogerknights says:
March 20, 2014 at 12:51 am
My guess–the pilot ran amok because of the conviction of his favored candidate. The voice recorder will confirm or falsify.
That’s been my guess from the moment I learned the pilot (supposedly) attended the trial just the day before he took off in the plane. I suspect he either overcame or more likely locked out the co-pilot and disabled the passengers and crew, perhaps permanently.
Then I think he likely intended to use the plane against the Malaysian authorities who had angered him, thus turned back toward Malaysia, flying in a way to avoid detection. At some point, he might have realized the magnitude of what he’d already done, much less of what he was still intending to do, and dumped the plane in the deep ocean in a suicide move.
I have yet to see a single piece of evidence that rules this out, and to me it’s the simplest explanation for everything that’s been revealed thus far, including the debris off Australia. No pre-planning, hence no evidence of pre-planning has surfaced.
Of course it’s all speculation on my part.
Question: If they never find the plane will CNN evah return to whatever they consider normal programming? After all, many liberals have been without their daily talking points for going on two weeks now. They must be running short of conversational topics they can engage properly.