In our "small world" era, it seems almost inconceivable that something as large as a 777 could simply be lost, but this just serves to highlight how little we actually see. With our fancy technology, we feel like we can see every inch of Earth's surface at a whim (with varying levels of detail depending on Google's budget). It almost seems ridiculous to think that something so big could get "lost!" But in reality, what's visible at any instant is minuscule.
I look back at WWI, WWII, and even as late as the '60s, and wonder how they could ever have conducted battle with such limited real-time visibility of the enemy. But events like this, and AF447, illustrate that we are still pretty blind in a lot of ways.
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