Originally Posted by
artee
Mentour Pilot has just published what is probably the definitive overview of MH370 to date:
Mentour Pilot - MH370
It was proceeding generally quite well up to the 47 minute mark. When talking about the fellow who invented Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR), Nobel laureate, Dr Joe Taylor, it should have been noted that he has stated quite emphatically that his technology CANNOT be used to track aircraft.
Basic physics (the inverse-square law) dictates that any perturbation of an already weak radio signal by an aircraft at the distances proposed would be undetectable. The work is rank nonsense.
And to neatly illustrate that it is truly useless, on the three occasions its proponents have applied their approach to MH370, they have come up with a markedly different end point each time. Every time those fellows have pulled the handle on their WSPR slot machine, they have produced a different result. The chronology runs as follows:
30 November 2021. "... 33.177°S 95.300°E ... ."
8 September 2022. "... 30.57°S 98.75°E."
30 August 2023. "... 29.0°S 99.5°E ..."
As someone in the MH370 community noted, with their guesses moving progressively north-east each time, if they keep going they'll eventually end up with a terminus on land, which would make the whole search effort so much easier.
This is the thing with junk science - it produces junk results.
It is also worth noting that the new search area recently proposed by Ocean Infinity does not include the WSPR crew's latest end point at near 29°S 99.5°E.