43 thoughts on “Did Courtney Love find the missing Malaysia Air jet?”

    1. It would be curious if all adults were asked to stop searching for the plane and only kids under the age of ten could be allowed to find it. At this point the kids might have a non-zero probability of finding it faster than the adults. They do tend to think differently than adults, which may be what this search needs.

      1. It would be curious if all adults were asked to stop searching for the plane and only kids under the age of ten could be allowed to find it. At this point the kids might have a non-zero probability of finding it faster than the adults.

        The children would be guaranteed to find it faster than the adults, under such conditions.

    1. At least she indulges in the obligatory “throat-clearing” (as Hitch would put it) and forthrightly admits that she does not possess a Romneyesque omniscience. Would you say her opinion is as valid as that of most U.S. congressmen, state senators, and local school board members?

      1. Actually, her opinion is utterly irrelevant – as are those of any politicians or anyone else’s.

        The only people who are doing anything remotely useful in this tragedy are those actively engaged in searching with proper tools at their disposal, however well-intentioned other people may be.

        1. From a strong field of irrelevant opinions, something motivated someone to search for and bless us with and post here Courtney Love’s opinion on this particular matter.

          Just congenially curious – is there anything about which Courtney Love is qualified to comment? Or does Dawkins’s tongue-in-cheek “Argument from Incredulity” apply? How could she possibly have anything relevant to say about anything? From reading the New York Times, she apparently couldn’t do any worse than the Malaysian Air Force.

          1. She might be qualified on how to form a band. Se did it something like 27 times.

          2. Perseverance, however ill-advised, would appear to be at least one of her strong character traits.

        2. The various alleged malefactors may have useful knowledge. If they exist. And are not dead. Both of which remain to be seen.

  3. “I searched for signs of an oil slick. I found one and there appeared to be an object nearby.” (Guardian)

    Great technique! – certainly an improvement over “remote viewing”. Uri Geller should take notes.

      1. Ah sayeth the soothsayer. Now walk the seven hills or Rome seven times and you shall find the plane.

        1. Maybe they need to channel Hervé Villechaize. He has experience with “Da Plane!”

        2. “You’ll fall in love,
          Your heart is home,
          When you are young, among
          The Seven Hills of Rome.

          The world is old,
          But love is new
          And when in Rome
          Your heart will tell you what to do;

          You’ll feel a glance
          And a happy circumstance
          Has made you know you’ve
          Suddenly found romance;

          So fall in love,
          You’ve found a home,
          You’ve made a heaven,
          The Seven Hills of Rome.”

    2. “I searched for signs of an oil slick. I found one and there appeared to be an object nearby.” (Guardian)

      “Oil tanker washing out ballast tanks illegally.” (Cynical Filipino Seaman)

    1. Mr. Cobain apparently needed one more. I’m no fan of her and her ilk, but, the fact that she has thus far survived and endured would seem to be some modest testament to her resilience.

      1. Completing Live Through This was probably better for her than any therapy. It’s in my top 20 albums of the 90’s.

  6. “He had bought a large map representing the sea,
    Without the least vestige of land:
    And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
    A map they could all understand.”

    The Hunting of the Snark

  9. Well, it might be an oil slick. Could also be differences in water transparency b/c wind currents concentrate plankton. If ships are in the area they might want to check it out.

    1. Well, it might be an oil slick.

      There are a number of companies who sell access to multi-waveband recent satellite imagery of specified areas, annotated for the various reflectivity (e.g. high near-IR, low mid-IR, high-UV) to identify oil slicks. They sell to several markets : oil companies looking for natural slicks as a pointer to the presence of undersea oil reserves (which is why I get my ear bent by them at conferences) ; environmental monitoring companies policing shipping (see the “Cynical Filipeno Seaman” comment above).
      An event like this is free, worldwide, high profile advertising for them and their skills.
      I’ve heard nothing (see “advertising” above), therefore one of three things : there’s nothing to be found, or there is cloud cover in the necessary area, or the airplane flew until it’s tanks were empty.
      These services are not set up to look for wreckage. There’s not sufficient market for the information, and it’s too sporadic a business.

  10. Within a mile of populated land? And no one noticed? I’m betting against it.

    1. Or Fantasy Island? Hervé Villechaize was always shouting “da plane, da plane”.

  12. I originally thought this was an Onion article, as it came to my attention through the A.V. Club, a sister publication. Tough to know what is parody and what is not sometimes.

  13. The next search is to find what happened to all of Courtney Love’s brain cell. They might have to search all over the Level II multiverse.

  14. Presumably she has been invited to join CNN’s panel of experts, which is on every time I switch to that channel.

  17. Well, I suppose her chances are at least as good as those of Uri Geller.

    I think you are being a bit unfair to Ms Courtney Love. Her chances are infinitely better than those of Uri Geller.

    1. From the comments there:

      No one is discussing the possibility of an alien abduction of this aircraft.

    2. Airplanes don’t really burst into flames in midair in that manner- it’s more of a Hollywood thing. Most likely what the worker saw, if he actually did see something instead of just imagine it, was something burning as it fell into the atmosphere from space.

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