• Dozens heard Amelia Earhart's final pleas for help, researchers say
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/07/25/dozens-heard-amelia-earharts-final-chilling-pleas-for-help-researchers-say/?utm_term=.7841493e3920 Amelia Earhart waded into the Pacific Ocean and climbed into her downed and disabled Lockheed Electra. She started the engine, turned on the two-way radio and sent out a plea for help, one more desperate than previous messages. The high tide was getting higher, she had realized. Soon it would suck the plane into deeper water, cutting Earhart off from civilization — and any chance of rescue. Across the world, a 15-year-old girl listening to the radio in St. Petersburg, Fla., transcribed some of the desperate phrases she heard: “waters high,” “water’s knee deep — let me out”  and “help us quick.” A housewife in Toronto heard a shorter message, but it was no less dire: “We have taken in water . . . we can’t hold on much longer.” That harrowing scene, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) believes, was probably one of the final moments of Earhart’s life. The group put forth the theory in a paper that analyzes radio distress calls heard in the days after Earhart disappeared. In the summer of 1937, she had sought to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Instead, TIGHAR’s theory holds, she ended up marooned on a desert island, radioing for help. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, could only call for help when the tide was so low it wouldn’t flood the engine, TIGHAR theorized. That limited their pleas for help to a few hours each night. It wasn’t enough, TIGHAR director Ric Gillespie told The Washington Post, and the pair died as castaways. But those radio messages form a historical record — evidence that Gillespie says runs counter to the U.S. Navy’s official conclusion that Earhart and Noonan died shortly after crashing into the Pacific Ocean. “These active versus silent periods and the fact that the message changes on July 5 and starts being worried about water and then is consistently worried about water after that — there’s a story there,” Gillespie said. “We’re feeding it to the public in bite-sized chunks. I’m hoping that people will smack their foreheads like I did.” On July 2, 1937, just after Earhart’s plane disappeared, the U.S. Navy put out an “all ships, all stations” bulletin, TIGHAR wrote. Authorities asked anyone with a radio and a trained ear to listen in to the frequencies she had been using on her trip, 3105 and 6210 kilohertz. But thanks to the scientific principle of harmonics, TIGHAR says, others heard much more. In addition to the primary frequencies, “the transmitter also put out ‘harmonics (multiples)’ of those wavelengths,” the paper says. “High harmonic frequencies ‘skip’ off the ionosphere and can carry great distances, but clear reception is unpredictable.” Gillespie said he believes that evidence supporting his Gardner Island theory is adding up. He believes that the messages sent out over those six days were by Earhart and, occasionally, Noonan. He believes that bones found on Gardner island in 1940 belonged to Earhart, but were misidentified and discarded. But he realizes that the public needs more than his tide tables and extrapolations from data that predates World War II. “We’re up against a public that wants a smoking gun,” he told The Post on Tuesday. “We know the public wants, demands, something simple. And we’re also very much aware that we live in a time of rampant science denial. Nobody does nuance anymore.”
Aw man. Amelia Earhart's story is a lot less romantic if they didn't die instantly in the crash but instead just slowly starved to death or something.
I prefer to think she was abducted by aliens from the Delta Quadrant.
yeah i'm alive
is it just my browser or is amelia earhart having a seizure in the OP
She's signaling from beyond the stars.
Fuck I thought I was the only one this creepy af OP what did you do
*Amelia intensifies* https://my.mixtape.moe/ujwntk.webm
"dying in a plane crash" isn't really the first thought that comes to mind when I think of romance, but to each their own
dying in a plane crash on a revolutionary adventure around the world is romantic as fuck 🔪
cant imagine sleeping very well that night if I heard some panicked voices requesting immediate aid on my wee little radio
okay okay don't hurt me
SHE'S ANGRY
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This has been happening on random posts throughout Newpunch for me tbh
Do you, perchance, have a 4k monitor or have Facepunch zoomed in? I found that it only happens to me on my primary monitor, where I keep the zoom level at about 150%.
Both! That explains it!
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