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<blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 4240467" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>Certainly, at some point each person will always have to decide how much they are willing to believe. But there is still a big difference in where the information you base your opinion on comes from. You can distrust government and news all you want. But if they are looking at ships logs, river currents, maintenance histories, mayday calls, etc, then they have more information than a person viewing a static camera on the internet from thousands of miles away. </p><p></p><p>That isn't to say that the person viewing the camera is entirely wrong, but to give that opinion the same weight as all the other information is foolish. If for no other reason than we don't know what kind of maneuvers the crew was trying, how they were positioning the boat before the systems failed, if it was an entire system failure or were some systems partially working, what the river conditions were, etc. </p><p></p><p>Lots of variables that are simply not knowable from a camera view of what happened. </p><p></p><p>And while i don't know who the officials are at least one thing i heard said they were recovering the 'black box' equivalent of those found on airplanes for NTSB analysis. At some point they probably will be at a spot where they've have learned all they can in the hours following the incident. Everything else will take more extensive investigation. </p><p></p><p>I'm not up on all the latest information, so i have yet to see anything that shows they've concluded their investigation. Lots of things talk about early indications, but nothing definitive. If you have a source you feel is accurate about it, i'd appreciate seeing it so i can better understand your position. </p><p></p><p>A lack of information (especially when discounting information because you don't trust the government and the news) is not an indication that they are intentionally misleading the public.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donner, post: 4240467, member: 277"] Certainly, at some point each person will always have to decide how much they are willing to believe. But there is still a big difference in where the information you base your opinion on comes from. You can distrust government and news all you want. But if they are looking at ships logs, river currents, maintenance histories, mayday calls, etc, then they have more information than a person viewing a static camera on the internet from thousands of miles away. That isn't to say that the person viewing the camera is entirely wrong, but to give that opinion the same weight as all the other information is foolish. If for no other reason than we don't know what kind of maneuvers the crew was trying, how they were positioning the boat before the systems failed, if it was an entire system failure or were some systems partially working, what the river conditions were, etc. Lots of variables that are simply not knowable from a camera view of what happened. And while i don't know who the officials are at least one thing i heard said they were recovering the 'black box' equivalent of those found on airplanes for NTSB analysis. At some point they probably will be at a spot where they've have learned all they can in the hours following the incident. Everything else will take more extensive investigation. I'm not up on all the latest information, so i have yet to see anything that shows they've concluded their investigation. Lots of things talk about early indications, but nothing definitive. If you have a source you feel is accurate about it, i'd appreciate seeing it so i can better understand your position. A lack of information (especially when discounting information because you don't trust the government and the news) is not an indication that they are intentionally misleading the public. [/QUOTE]
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