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Wildlife professionals gather critical data on migration routes and habitat choices of the lesser florican by tracking two of them

/PRNewswire/ -- Following the signing of a cooperation agreement with the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) in November, Hong Kong Aerospace...

Part of what theyre doing now is going back and looking between areas, as they make the swaths. going back to make sure they didnt miss anything because it would be tragic to increase that search without knowing that you completely exhausted that search area the initial one. so theyre doing that. theyre very committed to. these are challenging things challenging side challenging depth of the ocean. talking an area the size of illinois here. now were doubling that. now we have two illinoises next...

Tide and the water temperature because bearing in mind, wolf, those -- the satellite telemetry, the satellite images that we saw are three days old. they need to know roughly where would the current have carried them three days ago. theyre not going back to where they were three days ago. theyre now extrapolating where they will be now. and the only way they can do that, wolf, is to know exactly not just model it. you can model it to your hearts content. you have to put assets down into the wate...

Minutes of each other. are there others? >> well, the vhf radios that you talk to air traffic control, and the satellite telemetry, and the aca acars system. and in some cases, high-frequency radio. and youve got a cabin full of passengers with cell phones and probably at least a half a dozen satellite phones. you could call far with them. and from there, its -- youve got to look at the electrical system. every engine, it has two generators that could power the whole airplane. and a generator in...

The people at aabc hated business and what anyone told them do do and rarely does anyone tell us to do anything, and we really do have a free press in america. >> thats right, we do. >> john: how could so many people think that was faked in a studio? >> well, in part. because its such a fantastic, amazing feat that it seems like gosh, could they really have done that? if you think about it, in terms of technology at the time it would have been a better feat to film something like that and pull i...