• US reportedly to search again for Amelia Earhart's plane
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Source: [URL]http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/19/10764785-us-reportedly-to-search-again-for-amelia-earharts-plane[/URL] [quote] The State Department plans to join a new effort to find the plane of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, 75 years after she mysteriously disappeared over the South Pacific. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will take part in a ceremony Tuesday morning announcing the joint public-private search at the State Department, The Wall Street Journal reports. The event, "Amelia Earhart, a Pacific Legacy," which is pitched as a celebration of the U.S.'s pan-Pacific ties, will be streamed live at 9 a.m. on the State Department's website, a spokesman for the agency said. Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed vanished July 2, 1937, as she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, left New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea) on their way to Howland Island in the South Pacific as part of an attempt to circle the Earth. The search will center on the Nikumaroro Islands in the South Pacific. The half-million-dollar search, financed with private funds, will begin in July. The key area is the Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro between Hawaii and Australia, The Journal reports: A search team will concentrate on the deep waters near Nikumaroro, which was the site of a 2010 search that focused on coral reefs and nearby shallow waters, these people said. The search will be spearheaded again by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, which has championed the theory that the renowned female aviator and Fred Noonan, the other crew member on the July 1937 flight, ended up on or near the west coast of the island, formerly called Gardner Island. [/quote] Pretty cool. They must have new info or something to lead them to a general area, or they're just shooting in the dark.
She's on the moon. ~conspiracy~
It's more interesting to keep it unknown, until someone stumbles upon it. Also half a million could be diverted elsewhere.
Keep looking, it's gotta be around here somewhere.
[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;35211907]It's more interesting to keep it unknown, until someone stumbles upon it. Also half a million could be diverted elsewhere.[/QUOTE] This is paid for with private funds. Don't get all worked up.
I wonder if she and her navigator survived and were stuck on an island and died of malnourishment after all these years.
[QUOTE=Tea Guy;35211976]I wonder if she and her navigator survived and were stuck on an island and died of malnourishment.[/QUOTE] Nah, they're getting drunk and partying with natives totally oblivious to the shitty world around them. Lucky bastards.
Swamp gas
What a waste of money. Half a million to look for a crashed plane that probably sunk in the ocean, really?
[QUOTE=faze;35211963]This is paid for with private funds. Don't get all worked up.[/QUOTE] You wanna work me up?:wink:
[QUOTE=EliteGuy;35212085]What a waste of money. Half a million to look for a crashed plane that probably sunk in the ocean, really?[/QUOTE] Why not? It's not as if taxpayers are paying for it
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;35212222]Why not? It's not as if taxpayers are paying for it[/QUOTE] Yeah it's some rich douchebag who could be putting it to a better cause, rather than finding a plane that's probably covered in coral by now.
[IMG]http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/still/night_at_the_museum_2_16.jpg[/IMG] Found her.
[QUOTE=alexguydude;35212282]Yeah it's some rich douchebag who could be putting it to a better cause, rather than finding a plane that's probably covered in coral by now.[/QUOTE] Recovering a piece of history is hardly just "finding a plane," and simplifying it to such a level is a stupid way of looking at it.
[QUOTE=alexguydude;35212282]Yeah it's some rich douchebag who could be putting it to a better cause, rather than finding a plane that's probably covered in coral by now.[/QUOTE] well it's his money, and he should be able to do whateverthefuck he wants to do with it.
[QUOTE=alexguydude;35212282]Yeah it's some rich douchebag who could be putting it to a better cause, rather than finding a plane that's probably covered in coral by now.[/QUOTE] Like those fucking assholes on steam that spend their money on video games instead of giving it to charity, I hate those guys.
why are people so negative? i really dont see this as a problem.
Why call him a dueshbag? He using his money to find a piece of history thats been lost for years. Atleast hes using for something good rather than waste it on hookers and cocaine.
[QUOTE=mark6789;35212390]Why call him a dueshbag? He using his money to find a piece of history thats been lost for years. Atleast hes using for something good rather than waste it on hookers and cocaine.[/QUOTE] Exactly what I'm thinking, it's really idiotic to criticize him or her when they put up their own money for something as noble as recovering a piece of history, they could easily be spending it on stupid things.
"Amelia Earhart's plane reported to be carrying oil" GO GETTEM BOYS!
[QUOTE=EliteGuy;35212085]What a waste of money. Half a million to look for a crashed plane that probably sunk in the ocean, really?[/QUOTE] Half a million dollars to look for the body of the woman that virtually paved the way for female pilots and who dealt a huge blow to sexism in general.
I thought they found bones on an island pretty close to the area she was in when she made her distress signal. At least I've read from a few places that this is one of those myths that's totally been solved before.
She flew into a vortex that sends her 100 years into the future
Obligatory: [img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/mystery_solved.png[/img]
[QUOTE=BCell;35213636]She flew into a vortex that sends her 100 years into the future[/QUOTE] All we have to do is to wait 25 years! :dance:
Wasn't there one Startrek Voyager episode where Earhart and other people are all on some planet in the Delta Quadrant? Because they better start there.
They might of been shot down and captured by the Japanese Navy, I would suggest the US Government start there in the Japanese naval records or atleast something like that.
They've pinpointed the location of the plane to be inside of this general area: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Pacific_Ocean_satellite_image_location_map.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;35214688]They've pinpointed the location of the plane to be inside of this general area: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Pacific_Ocean_satellite_image_location_map.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Well I'm glad we've narrowed it down.
[QUOTE=King Tiger;35211855]She's on the moon. ~conspiracy~[/QUOTE] Hanging out with the Nazi's that are up there I bet!
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