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From: Frank Reed
Date: 2024 Oct 22, 15:23 -0700
Scanning through my email, I briefly spotted a headline that I thought said "LIDAR" and "Earhart". When I had a minute to review more carefully, sure enough, that was in a headline from GPS World: Lidar helps unlock secrets in Amelia Earhart mystery. The first paragraph reads: "The Discovery Channel’s recently released “Finding Amelia” documentary [...] investigates the theory that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, may have crashed in Papua New Guinea during their 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the globe."
Wait, what?! Are there seriously people who think that they crashed on the island of New Britain ...which would seem to imply the crash occurred some short period of time --less than two hours?-- after take-off from Lae and nowhere near Howland Island? Is anyone aware of any "plausibility argument" here? It sounds preposterous from square one, and I don't care how much funding they got to buy LIDAR surveys.
Frank Reed
