mycool wrote:And the goddamn thingy has landed...and the buggers don't know where any of the pieces landed! Do you really believe they don't know where it landed with all that technology? Were they not able to trace it up to it's final disintegration? Even a single of the 26 pieces they were talking of?
They are not interested in recovering the debris, so there was no point tracking it. Why waste time and resources tracing worthless pieces of metal?
Had it been an accidental crash, it would have been necessary to recover the debris in order to try and figure out what had gone wrong.
However, this was a case of decommissioning.
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