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Why ?

Perhaps, they may have inside info, that the search will end in May/June ?

Perhaps they (being so loving of Beaker), are deliberately preparing the public for the end, by laying the justifying ground work for his inevitable formal advice to the Miniscule, that the search must end on completion of the 120,000 square kilometres.

Think Sir Humphrey:-
"Minister, we did our best with what little information we had.
All the other theories, are, to be kind Minister, nothing more than the misguided fantasies of imbeciles.
We don't know where it is, and neither does anyone else, Minister.
Except perhaps the Americans of course, perhaps even the French, or maybe the Chineese, perhaps even the Indonesians, or even the Malaysians themselves, but as you well know Minister, there are many many many reasons why none of them will tell us, even if they do know something.
In any case, they have all publicly denied knowing anything anyway.
You are in the clear Minister.
No one can blame you Minister.
Do not think of this as a failure Minister.
Quite to the contrary.
Although the great unwashed may think it has not been a total loss, the truth is otherwise Minister.
The survey results alone, have been an unexpected bonus for the Scientific Community.
We have given them enough new data for them to chew on for at least a decade Minister."

Minister:
"I hope it gives them indigestion."

Bernard:-
"They may even choke on it.

Minister:-
Quite.

Humphrey:-
Bernard !