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Hi there, this is Thinking Sideways, and I'm Joe, assisted by Devon and Steve, I feel like I was yelling, sorry.

So usually we sort of tackle really ancient mysteries that have been around for decades, if not centuries, or even millennia, and of course we always solve them.

But this week we thought we'd do something a little more topical, and you know what I'm talking about? Malaysia Air Flight 370.

That's right, we're going to tackle this one, we're going to find those people, and we're going to bring them back alive, right?

Yeah, okay, so let's launch right into this.

I mean, and I know that everybody who's listening or 99% of you have been hearing nothing but Flight 370 for the past week, so I'm not going to go over all the little details.

But I'll summarize just real quickly, the flight took off from Kuala Lumpur, headed north over the Malaysian peninsula towards Beijing.

I was supposed to be about a five hour flight, and initial reports from the Malaysian government were that the ACARS, which is the aircraft communications addressing a reporting system.

What they've been calling the transponder, right?

Yeah, well some of them mixed up the transponder, because there's ACARS, but there's also a transponder.

Oh, okay, so this is something else, nevermind.

That's a communications system.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, what's it?

Already, I'm wrong, I'm sorry.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Yeah, the transponder is there, it's just basically kind of an echo thing if you get, if you get, it makes you more visible to radar.

And so, yeah, so.

Sending up pings, basically.

Basically, what it does, if you get, if you get painted by radar, then it sends a reply.

And so it makes you a lot more visible to that radar.

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