New Evidence Indicates Amelia Earhart Survived For a Time on Pacific Atoll 365
In light of new evidence publicly released Friday showing artifacts believed to have been Amelia Earhart's, the U.S. Navy is prepping a mission to investigate the area where they were found. Next month marks the 75th anniversary of Earhart's disappearance, but the just-announced discovery of personal effects and the evidence of cooking represents the most concrete evidence yet that she did not simply crash into the ocean.
Re:Who? (Score:5, Informative)
A famous aviator, that everyone in the US knows of (if only for the fact that she disappeared). The phrase "needs no introduction" comes to mind. Explaining who she is would have been like starting an article with "Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United States during the Civil War". If you don't recognize the name, then you're either a small child or from some other country. If it's the latter, you should accept that American websites will sometimes refer to American celebrities, and in such situations Wikipedia is your friend.
Re:Who? (Score:4, Informative)
She is the most famous pilot ever
Nope. Chuck Yeager is the most famous pilot ever. And people still know who he is.
Re:Who? (Score:2, Informative)
Product of a public school i take it?
If you really didn't know who she was and are from the USA, this is a sad day as i'm sure you were not alone.
This isn't new information. (Score:2, Informative)
These TIGHAR folks have been pushing this pet theory of theirs for quite a while.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4295
Re:Assuming this is correct, how'd she die? (Score:5, Informative)
The particular island she landed is noted for an extremely poor supply of freshwater.
People have tried to live on this island but failed because water was not at all reliable.
Re:Yay (Score:5, Informative)
She didn't survive long. She was eaten by giant sized coconut crabs. I kid you not. Google it. Plenty of evidence there that giant crabs ate her. Coconut crabs can be as large as garbage cans.
Re:Assuming this is correct, how'd she die? (Score:5, Informative)
I've seen some videos of this groups work on this little island. It is no tropical paradise. I don't believe there is any fresh water - so they would need to capture evaporating water somehow. And the island is infested with spider crabs from the size of golf balls to the size of soccer balls. And these crabs are looking for something to eat. You could survive a short time there - long term would be a slice of hell.
Plus we all take modern medicine for granted -- stranded on an island a cut or injury could become infected and that is pretty much game over .... then the crabs eat your body and scatter your bones.
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Re:Who? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Tough call (Score:5, Informative)
They didn't survive? Well, neither has anyone else who was born in 1897.
Dina Manfredini and Jiroemon Kimura are alive, and they were both born in 1897. As is Besse Cooper, who was born in 1896.
Re:Who? (Score:5, Informative)
Snoopy is the nickname given to Roy Brown, who was famous for shooting down and killing the Red Baron. This was played on by a cartoonist in the US, but ultimately the history is much more interesting.
Re:Tough call (Score:4, Informative)
Evaporate the salt water and collect the water vapor. Do it right and you can get a run off of drinkable water. The hotter it is, the better it works.
But it may not work at all if the relative humidity is not high enough, whatever the temperature.
It's not too difficult to imagine using a blackened vessel and/or a reflector to enhance energy capture and boost the rate of evaporation. However, the rate of condensation is just as critical, and there will be essentially no condensation if the local dew point is below any achievable temperature. In tough cases, you need better apparatus which might be hard to jury-rig.
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Re:Yay (Score:2, Informative)
Oh bullshit. Everybody knows she was carried away by space aliens to the Delta Quadrant and put in cold storage until Voyager found her!