It is the missing link! They have found it again!
artists rendition, extrapolating from tiny bone fragment
Posted on 12/17/2010 12:46:01 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
US aircraft history buffs are hopeful that tiny bones along with artefacts from the 1930s found on a remote Pacific island may reveal the fate of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart. In one of aviation's most enduring mysteries, Earhart took off from Lae, in what is now Papua New Guinea, while attempting to circumnavigate the globe via the equator in 1937 and was never seen again.
A massive search at the time failed to find the flyer and her navigator Fred Noonan, who were assumed to have died after ditching their Lockheed Electra aircraft in the ocean, according to the Amelia Earhart Museum.
Now aviation enthusiasts from US-based group The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) say they have evidence suggesting the pair made it safely to Nikumaroro Island in Kiribati and lived as castaways.
TIGHAR executive director Rick Gillespie said the group, which has carried out 10 expeditions to Nikumaroro over the past 22 years, found three small bone fragments on the uninhabited island earlier this year.
Gillespie said the bones appeared to be part of a human finger, although they could also be from a turtle, and had been sent to the Molecular Science Laboratories at Oklahoma University for DNA analysis.
"We're very hopeful that this will produce the result we're looking for," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Thursday.
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She was a crummy lander too, lucky to have survived all the crashes she caused as long as she did. Her PR obsessed ¨husband¨ pushed her in the public eye over a lot of other truly talented female flyers.
Just a pic. No point.
I just thought someone should post a LOL to your obscure but funny comment. I like Bones to.
Thanks. Obscurely-enjoyed humor is the best kind.
Bones took a long time to grow on us. We started with season one, are now in 5 (via Netflix), and are pretty hooked. With reservations.
When it’s good, it’s quite good.
Wow. It it good eatin’?
Love that movie.
Dr. Simon Tam: In all that time on the ship... I’ve always regretted... not being with you.
Kaylee Frye: With me? You mean to say... as in sex?
Dr. Simon Tam: I mean to say.
Kaylee Frye: To Hell with this. I’m gonna live!
Many believe coconut crabs are the reason Earhart’s remains haven’t been found. Omnivorous, attracted to shiny objects, and notorious for quickly carting off a carcass to its burrow.
She was also a lesbian.
Or if Capt. Nemo had secretly been docked in a cavern under the island.
With all that evidence, it makes me wonder why it’s taken 70 years to get to this point. It seems that it would be unlikely that it would have been anyone else. Why the decades-long remaining mystery and apparent cover-up?
I hang around a number of Warbird/Aircraft Recovery websites, and while I have no personal knowledge of the organization’s practices, to say that TIGHAR has a less than stellar reputation among the participants on them is an understatement.
WIX (Warbird Information Exchange) for instance has a 6-page thread up on this very subject titled “TIGHAR at it again”.
I found a small bone in my compost pile the other day. It could be from a turkey, or it might be from George Washington. I need $1,000,000 to research it further.
I just saw a show about Earhart on the History Channel ...
Many interesting things pointed towards people being marooned on Gardner Island ...
But, the most fascinating thing was a claim by someone who was monitoring shortwave who claimed that she heard a transmission from Earhart. She said Earhart was describing a shipwreck near where they had landed. She said she believed that Earhart said it was the SS New York ...
The SS Norwich was shipwrecked on Gardner Island 29 November 1929 ...
Perhaps it's some bizarre Human/Turtle hybrid. I'll need a big government research grant before this can be confirmed.
Harpo had a penchant for aviatrixes. In his autobiography, he wrote how he was about to ask a girl to marry him, but she was killed in the crash of a plane that she was piloting a few days before he had a chance.
There was a show on the other night and they put a pig’s carcass out on the island with bright strings attached to the bones to see what happened. (The crabs ate, then carried the bones to their holes).
It was amazing (and disgusting) to see all the different types of crabs, and the number of crabs.
The researcher said that it could be likely that the person was weak from hunger and thirst, perhaps injured, and just laying there close to death. But finally too weak to fend off the crabs as they started their feast - eating the person alive.
I can’t imagine.
“..by someone who was monitoring shortwave who claimed that she heard a transmission from Earhart. She said Earhart was describing a shipwreck near where they had landed. She said she believed that Earhart said it was the SS New York ...”
Hmm. Did that person say anything about telling authorities about it and helping Earhart out?
Didn't catch if she did or did not - but she was just into her teens at the time. She did take notes at the time of the transmission though.
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