The time is now for considering potential conspiracy in relation to the missing MH370 flight. I would only bring up this bugaboo if it were applicable considering the near constant aversion to anything remotely suggesting it.

You are to imagine that there is limited battery life left in black boxes, with a search closing in on it’s location, and that this represents the last real hope of finding the black boxes in a quick way, if ever.

Now consider for a moment that the acoustic pings (distinguished from the Inmarsat satellite pings/handshakes) heard were not from MH370. This means that energy was diverted away from the broader search area, as it existed prior to hearing the pings, during a period of time when the real black box pings could have been heard before dying.

It is possible that the hypothetical false positives caused them to miss the remaining real pings. These hypothetical false positives could then either be coincidental or by design. If by design, you must then consider conspiracy.

Therefore, determining the actual source of the pings has the most potential to add to our knowledge, if only to eliminate something. They are certainly man made signals. The question seems to be how they could have been heard and from where, if not from MH370.

One of the more ridiculous proposals I think I’ve ever heard is that the Navy towed pinger array (hydrophone) actually produced the sounds it recorded.

And another alternative appears to be an as ridiculous, yet not impossible, scenario involving sealife trackers with insane battery life. This seems as fantastic as a conspiracy.

And by conspiracy I of course mean that, because the pings are obviously man-made and because they can only be heard within a given range, some entity may have purposely thrown off the search by producing a false positive that would focus the search to an area long enough for the batteries to die.