Posted on 07/02/2005 7:18:33 PM PDT by Libloather
Ohfercrissake - send in 17 or 18 more people and they'll have enough there to be able to hold hands, span the width of the island, and do a WALKOVER.
And, by the way, it doesn't depend on air temperature, it depends on soil temperature. Soil cools down a lot more than 10 degrees when the sun isn't heating it any more. And there's still differential cooling.
IR will show things the naked eye can't, as many search parties have unfortunately found out. :(
I wasn't aware of that but I'm guessing those were not single-person graves. If so, correct me.
I'll become a believer in the grave-finding IR system if it finds her body (assuming its buried).
Other way around. Air changes more rapidly, of course. In my area, like Nevada, air might change 40 degrees or more from day to night. Soil might change 5.
And soil in the tropics hardly changes at all from day to night.
The biggest problem for the systems is overhead cover. They still don't work well against triple-canopy jungle. However, as more of Vietnam's jungle gets cleared for farming and construction, more sites keep showing up.
At least two cases that I am aware of were single-occupant graves. One was a pilot and aircraft that augered in, the other was an Army infantryman.
Natalee is not buried in piece or place
...and I doubt they used chemicals on her - not enough time and too messy and leaves something that must be disposed of -
The short time factor leads me to believe they either went the "sausage" or "dog food" route
Quite popular with the Mafia folks
There then is no "evidence" at all
There are grinders that reduce the bones to powder
At sea she would be in a weighted container open to sea life
Not very pleasant - but my take on what Daddy van der Slime would do
The question now is what we do to Aruba, the Dutch islands, and Amsterdam as I doubt this will be resolved in any satisfactory manner -
Aruba is a lawless island transit point for Columbian drug cartels -
Now the world sees what "justice" outside of the USA is really like -
Maybe they should have tried "Golden Eagle".
I think it's a snappy idea, probably the only one that will crack the case.
Just think: sand gets REAL hot during the day, then REAL cold at night. Your typical farm loam varies nothing like this. A body (with moisture) will not vary up and down as quickly as the sand around it, and will show temp. difference.
Would it, like, detect her inside a shark?
What the frac! Our technology can be so lame at times... but at least someones trying!
Only at the very surface, though. I can walk outside my house at 4 AM and feel the cool sand on top, but I believe that a foot or so underneath it hardly varies. (I will check that with a thermocouple).
No, unfortuantely, and I suspect that's how the body was disposed of.
However, you still need to eliminate the island as a possible burial site, and this is a pretty good way to do it.
Did they ever find Bishop Pike in the desert?
Day late, dollar short.
I think they should be looking at what boats and planes left the island the night she disappeared.
An 18 year old blonde is worth money in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia. Put her on a ship or a plane and she'll never be found.
They should look at the bank accounts of the locals - anyone suddenly deposit or get a wire transfer of 50 or 100 grand?
Yeah, they did, he's interred in the Protestant Cemetary in Jaffa, Israel.
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