Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests
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Just grist for someone's mills I guess.
It's the 80th anniversary of her death. I assume the Amelia Earhart specials that run every five years need some new speculative angle to get people to watch.
(Also, can I note that it's actually kind of sad that Amelia Earhart had all of these astonishing accomplishments over her life... And yet the only thing we commemorate -- and the only thing most people seem to know about her -- is the accident of her death.)
"Conclusive evidence" would be plane wreckage, fragments of her personal belongings (or those of other occupants) and the like. Or even statements from witnesses about a plane going down that matched the Electra's description.
But we have none of that. The only thing we have "conclusive" evidence for is that at some point she dropped out of radio contact, and was probably low on fuel.
It’s likely she crashed, and likely died on an island. The evidence is extremely suggestive. Not conclusive by any means but more than simply conjecture.
I thought the consensus was that they turned out to be a man's bones (and not even matching Earhart's proportions). Which may explain why they ended up getting "lost".
That leaves us with just that patch of aluminum, of unconfirmed origin. I would call that kind of an indication "mildly" rather than "extremely" suggestive.
They also found a woman’s shoe and a sextant with a serial in the range that would have been issued to her.
It’s not conclusive at all, I agree, but it’s got vastly more evidence (that is otherwise not easily explainable) than any other theory.
"Machine learning is like a deep-fat fryer. If you’ve never deep-fried something before, you think to yourself: 'This is amazing! I bet this would work on anything!'”
I say this mostly for the humor, but also for the truth: deep-frying is the best. And I deep-fry food quite often. In fact, I am headed home to deep-fry some Won-Tons soon.
Which I think supports the original point: you can deep-fry anything and enjoy tasty results, but that _still_ doesn't mean there's anything substantial in the sense of untapped value.
My observation offers no lessons on deep learning image recognition, but as long as we are already on a tangent...
Not what you'd call delicate or refined, though.
Maybe if you used tempura batter instead of chip shop batter.
And an image comparison: http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2000/08/22/ca3bd939-a...
They were pretty good at keeping secrets under wraps.
Her disappearing was a great happening, and it'll be interesting if this photo/hypothesis is correct.
It's all apparently muddled up in confidentiality which is frustrating as the events were 80+ years ago.
The Marshalls are pretty far away from Japan, and so were cut off pretty early. They were also the site of heavy fighting (unlike, say, most of what is now FSM) so it's easy to imagine paperwork preservation wasn't a high priority.
They claim to have been told to keep it quiet by the US Government
A government with a track record of not caring to care for citizens that get in trouble over seas. Especially back then
They could have wanted it "covered up" just to avoid dealing with it or concerns over international incident.
It could be hogwash, all built around rumors:
https://pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/electra/earhart/
http://www.ameliaearhartmovie.com/briefcasefoundinsaipan.htm...
Apparently there are two camps of Earhart searchers: Those who believe she crashed in the Marshal Islands and died as a POW, and those who believe she crashed on Nikumaroro and died as a castaway. The Nikumaroro folks[1] mount an expedition & issue press releases every year or so, now it seems like it's time for the team Solomon Islands to take the spotlight for a moment.
Really? Because the only thing I see no doubt of is someone who has reached a conclusion based upon scant evidence, attempting to prime an audience to accept that same conclusion as fact without independent thought or verification.