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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

After a quick google search, I wouldn't get too excited. TIGHAR seems has a long history of being close to finding Earhart without actually doing so.

They've managed to come close in 2010, 2012 and 2013, but there's still no conclusive evidence as to the fate of Earhart.

I'll take this one with a grain of salt.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Ahem.

http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/amelia-earhart-resting-place.htm

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Ahem.

http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/amelia-earhart-resting-place.htm

Read the article. More conjecture based on flimsy evidence. Very convenient explanations for why no physical evidence exculpating this tale was found to be scrutinized.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Ahem.

http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/amelia-earhart-resting-place.htm

Read the article. More conjecture based on flimsy evidence. Very convenient explanations for why no physical evidence exculpating this tale was found to be scrutinized.

I did. Did you? I think you dismiss everything as conjecture.

That flimsy evidence is as good as they're ever going to find. Not saying that was definitely her, but it's a whole bunch of circumstantial evidence that points to her and nothing else has ever been found. It's the best guess.

I also like how you're dismissing the physical evidence in the article at the start of this thread.


What do you think happened? Aliens? Giant mosquitoes? Maybe chickens.

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At this time the analyses of the TIGHAR samples are inconclusive....

The bone fragment was very small, approximately one gram of material...

Because the bone is clearly from an animal, human or otherwise, additional PCRs were used to detect animal DNA more generally. These PCRs provided no positive results. The fact that these PCRs were unsuccessful suggest that either 1) there is no animal DNA in the bone, 2) there was animal DNA in the extract, but it was too little, or of too poor of quality, to reliably analyze, 3) the PCR design was ineffective for targeting the particular animal...

For now, the question of whether the bone is human must remain unanswered...

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A new biopic about Earhart's life, starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere, opens this weekend.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Ahem.

http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/amelia-earhart-resting-place.htm

Read the article. More conjecture based on flimsy evidence. Very convenient explanations for why no physical evidence exculpating this tale was found to be scrutinized.

I did. Did you? I think you dismiss everything as conjecture.

That flimsy evidence is as good as they're ever going to find. Not saying that was definitely her, but it's a whole bunch of circumstantial evidence that points to her and nothing else has ever been found. It's the best guess.

I also like how you're dismissing the physical evidence in the article at the start of this thread.


What do you think happened? Aliens? Giant mosquitoes? Maybe chickens.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
That flimsy evidence is as good as they're ever going to find.

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I also like how you're dismissing the physical evidence in the article at the start of this thread.

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ORIGINAL: Zorch

It's very difficult to prove that something did NOT happen. The only way to 'prove' she didn't make it to Gardner Island is to find her plane 17,000 feet down 100 miles away. And since that is unlikely, we will likely never know what happened.

Her plane is a lot smaller than Flight MH370 and the search area larger (although the weather is better).

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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That flimsy evidence is as good as they're ever going to find.

Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. They're not done searching for her and something may turn up when least expected. But what they've produced to this point is unconvincing. Maybe not for you, YMMV. I'm totally unconvinced.

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I also like how you're dismissing the physical evidence in the article at the start of this thread.

Ah, yes. The absolutely unconvincing physical evidence that may or may not be *animal* bone? Let alone human bone. Let alone Amelia Earhart's. That evidence? Yes. Please forgive the dismissal-clearly that's a cut and dry case you've got there. [8|]

What do I think happened? The mundane. They were lost in the vast reaches of the Pacific and we're unlikely to ever come up with their final resting place. 'Tis the story of countless other sailors and aviators.

Why romanticize or make up a story about a less likely end? There's no shame in being lost at sea. It's a far sight more likely than all confirmable traces of your body / aircraft / companion / clothing, etc. being whisked away in toto by a convenient Typhoon or having body parts carried away by coconut crabs.

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ORIGINAL: Zorch

It's very difficult to prove that something did NOT happen. The only way to 'prove' she didn't make it to Gardner Island is to find her plane 17,000 feet down 100 miles away. And since that is unlikely, we will likely never know what happened.

Her plane is a lot smaller than Flight MH370 and the search area larger (although the weather is better).

warspite1

I agree. Personally I think she never flew to Howland Island. She turned around, flew to Graceland and married Elvis. They are both still alive and living on the moon. Prove me wrong.

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A new biopic about Earhart's life, starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere, opens this weekend.

[8|]

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ORIGINAL: Zorch

It's very difficult to prove that something did NOT happen. The only way to 'prove' she didn't make it to Gardner Island is to find her plane 17,000 feet down 100 miles away. And since that is unlikely, we will likely never know what happened.

Her plane is a lot smaller than Flight MH370 and the search area larger (although the weather is better).

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There are also stories that might fall into the urban legend category that Ehrhart's plane was found on Saipan when the US took it in 1944. The story was she set down somewhere else (forget where) and the Japanese captured her. They executed her and her navigator after interrogating them, but they repaired the plane and kept it at Saipan. Somebody in the American brass wanted to cover up the story, so they had the plane destroyed.

I think that story is a bit of a stretch.

The more likely two scenarios are that they

a) went down in the ocean and just vanished into the vastness of the deep like so many fliers did a decade later
b) went down on one of the small uninhabited islands, died of starvation, exposure, or injuries and the plane washed away in a storm (many hurricanes/typhoons have blown through that region since her plane was lost)

a) is the most mundane, but more likely story. Ehrhart herself was a terrible navigator and was also very stubborn. She may not have listened to her navigator until it was too late. In that part of the world being off course on a long flight by just a few degrees can turn out to be a death sentence.

A few years ago I heard the story they crashed in the Lagoon of Gardner Island. The debris found there could have washed ashore in a storm, so scenario a) might still have happened.

Bill