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They are moving the assets and the cost, i suspect they have an area they want to search. >> did someone deliberately turn off the plane's communication systems? >> we don't know. it's possible to have a cascading fire melt down of the system that you lose the navigation systems and lose communications and tron respoan. >> we know it's shut down. 1:21 a.m. 14 minutes after the plaen's data reporting system shut down, the communications were shut down manually. that's why i ask you that we. >> not necessarily. failure modes, things happen and it's possible. you can't rule it out. >> i wanted to...

Whoser to make sure they're always safe and reliable. safely. >> reporter: can we actually look in? >> sure, sure. >> it vibrates the atoms at the rate of a million billion per second. that is so fast that heat cannot be conducted, shock warvts can't be conducted. >> reporter: there's a big debate right now where people say is this testing really sufficient to be absolutely sure that that nuclear device will go off? how do you answer thatty. >> well, we probably look at these weapons today more extensively than we did even when we were doing nuclear testing. there are hundreds of ways that a n...

Be conducted, shock waves can't be conducted. >> reporter: there's a big debate right now where people say is this testing really sufficient to be absolutely sure that that nuclear device will go off? how do you answer that? >> well, we -- we probably look at these weapons today more extensively than we did even when we were doing nuclear testing. there are hundreds of ways that a nuclear weapon could fail. we've found failure modes in the stockpile that we could never have found with nuclear testing. because we're able to do these massive simulations, the largest calculations that man has eve...

Certain period of time. if that plane flew on for six or seven hours with no pilot inputs whatsoever i'm wondering how much they will be able to learn from the recorders? >> and that really brings up another point which is that the airplane did not communicate to the outside world. and maybe one of the failure modes that we just never thought about was maybe we should have the ability for that airplane to be able to communicate via satellite, to the outside world without any pilot interaction. i don't know. i am sure one thing for transport category aircraft that are flying these oceanic route...

But they will have the ability to get a great deal of forensic evidence what may have physically what happened to the airplane by looking at how the structureed tore or came apart. to see if there was any fire damage. to see if there was any damage that happened to the aircraft before impact. all traffic investigators are trained to do that with ferrous and non-ferrous met it is as well as electrical wiring as well. the accident reminds me of problems we had and issues with the apollo 1 bad fire. astronaut frank borman said that nasa suffered a failure imagination. they could never imagination...