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Re: Amelia Earhart Report
From: Greg R_
Date: 2011 Mar 6, 16:24 -0800
From: Greg R_
Date: 2011 Mar 6, 16:24 -0800
> I guess you didn't pick up on the fact that this is some kind of an "April > Fools" joke. (They apparently do this kind of thing in PNG in March > instead of in April.) So, much like the "tree falling in the woods" conundrum, is it really a joke if nobody knows that it's a joke?... ;-) Too bad that so much of the world media reported it as if it were a fact, guess that happens when the research staff is declared "excess baggage" and "not needed" in this Internet age. -- GregR ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary LaPook To: NavList@fer3.com Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 12:59 PM Subject: [NavList] Re: Amelia Earhart Report I guess you didn't pick up on the fact that this is some kind of an "April Fools" joke. (They apparently do this kind of thing in PNG in March instead of in April.) In addition to the "six meter snake", things you should have noticed: 1. Nobody is out diving to 70 meters, about 230 feet, using normal SCUBA equipment. Non-professional divers are limited to depths less than 130 feet (35 meters) due to decompression problems and limitations in sport diving equipment. It is a very expensive proposition to dive deeper than that so nobody was just swimming along at 70 meters below the surface and just happening onto the wreckage and, unless beche de mer (sea cucumbers)sells for more than a thousand dollars a pound, nobody would dive to 70 meters to harvest them. Since it is a traditional food it is very unlikely that it is an expensive food. ( "Sea cucumbers destined for food are traditionally harvested by hand on small watercraft; a process angliciszed into "trepanging" (after the Indonesian noun trepang)." See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber_%28food%29) The actual price varies between US $ 1.44 to $15.06 per kilo when exported, much cheaper on the local market. See: http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5501e/y5501e0a.htm 2. "Coral on the left side of the plane?" why not on the rest of the plane and how would that prevent recovering artifacts from the exposed wreckage? 3. "Dust on the seabed?" 4. Putnam and Earhart asked for the newspaper to pay for the cabled stories, why didn't they just dip into all the "gold bullion" they were carrying to pay for their expenses? Unless you are under anestesia you should notice when your leg is being pulled. gl --- On Thu, 3/3/11, Philipwrote: From: Philip Subject: [NavList] Re: Amelia Earhart Report To: NavList@fer3.com Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 8:42 AM I think not, A 1600 mile error in navigation? Alien abduction? On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 08:50 -0400, Richard Langley wrote: > AVwebFlash report: > > EARHART WRECK FOUND? > A report from Papua New Guinea says the wreck of an aircraft that > might be the Lockheed Electra flown by Amelia Earhart and her > navigator Fred Noonan has been found on a reef near Bougainville > Island near Papua New Guinea. The Papua New Guinea Post Courier is > reporting"armed men" are guarding the area over a reef off Matsungan > Island where an aircraft matching the description of Earhart's plane > has been found. Divers are now checking the wreck and inquiries are > flooding in from all over the world. There is no word on whether any > human remains have been recovered. > > More: http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1847-full.html#204205 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Richard B. Langley E-mail: > lang@unb.ca | > | Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: > http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ > | > | Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 > 453-5142 | > | University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 > 453-4943 | > | Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B > 5A3 | > | Fredericton? Where's that? See: http:// > www.fredericton.ca/ | > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- Philip Lange P.O. Box 701 Edenton, NC 27932 252.370.7453