The idle speculation and media coverage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 passed the intolerability threshold miles ago, but this is extraordinary.
CNN spent a brief portion of its airtime Wednesday discussing the possibility that a black hole swallowed the plane. A black hole, a phenomenon whose gravitational pull is so strong that not even light can escape.
“A lot of people have been asking about black holes, and on and on and on, and all of these conspiracy theories,” anchor Don Lemon said, before citing Twitter questions about that particular possibility and others, including something similar to the plot of “Lost.”
“I know it’s preposterous,” he began to concede, “But is it preposterous, Mary?” His question was directed at Mary Schiavo, a former Department of Transportation inspector general.
“Well, it is a black hole [unintelligible],” she said. “A small black hole would suck in our entire universe, so we know it’s not that.”
The panel went on to laud the efforts of people searching for clues and concocting theories from home, with one suggesting that setting up a monetary reward would be “pennies on the dollar of what this search is costing.”
Via Mediaite.
