Satellites are so good now that archeologists don't even have to go digging around. They can see these things from space.
Thanks to modern technology another MYSTERY solved. Amelia Earhart's plane found
by Newly Enlightened 12 Replies latest social current
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breakfast of champions
Damn. . . And I was waiting for the new system to ask her where she crashed! Oh well.
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FlyingHighNow
Wow. I have been intrigued by Amelia's story ever since I was in jr high.
Here's a song that always makes me think of Amelia, out there, by herself in her lonely ocean grave, hopefully with the plane she loved. The song has a kind of haunting quality to it like the silence you find beneath the surface of the water when you're swimming or diving. See if you don't agree.
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FlyingHighNow
This is unconfirmed though. I hope they are right.
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JeffT
There have been other instances were some one thought they found her plane. The basic problem is that between 1941 and 1945 tens of thousands of planes were shot down over the Pacific Ocean, large numbers of them in the general of Earhart's final flight. It's going to take more than a sonar image to confirm this.
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FlyingHighNow
They are looking for donations to make a trip to the ocean floor to check this out. If it is her plane, I hope they can confirm it.
Amelia was beautiful and fearless.
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out4good3
But....But...
I thought she was taken by aliens ending up on a planet in the Delta Quadrant....
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Band on the Run
<argaret Mead, the anthropologist, was one of my profs. When she was not present, she directed that we view films. She did her field work in the South Pacific. Her theories are in dispute. She did film accurate portrayls of a quiet, isolated native existence. She and her husband's arrival affected the natives. Just as we lapsed into how idyllic it was, Bam, Japanese planes attack, then American and British ones.
Destructive bombs all over the place. The narrator gave us statistics. It was absolutely shocking. Those bombs cost money and there was no military presence or even structures to destroy on the overwhelming majority of islands.
She returned after the war (she worked in Britain to help coordinate American vs. British understanding of culture and etiquette) to help the people put the experience in context. Some took the metal debris to be a sign from the gods. It was complex.
Amelia Earhart missing is so much more romantic than her bones. Maybe she ditched the plane with her lover and they floated to a remote island where people are long-lived.
