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The sonar line is ignorant journalism. As you say, they're hardly going to be cruising the Atlantic merrily pinging away.

I doubt they use 'flight lanes' either - that would be too obvious a security risk. All you'd need would be a mole in Whitehall and the deterrent would be radioactive fish food.

Perhaps they were both looking for a crashed alien saucer in roughly the same place? I'm sure that must be it. :)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Feb 16th, 2009 at 07:29:53 AM EST
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Well, either they hit at random - not very likely in a 4D space like that - or there are a good number of constraints on where they were that should make predicting their location a lot easier than you'd expect. Restricted flight lanes - maybe for shared practical reasons - seem to make more sense than a simple random collision between two small things in a big, big space.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Feb 16th, 2009 at 07:35:25 AM EST
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