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I agree that there are other factors that make Nikumaroro a candidate for Earhart's final resting place. Calling the image exactly like an Electra undercarriag
by mannykannot 7y ago
I agree that there are other factors that make Nikumaroro a candidate for Earhart's final resting place.
Calling the image exactly like an Electra undercarriage leg is quite a stretch, IMHO - even that interpretation's proponents merely called it "consistent".
- gamblor956 7y agoIt does look exactly like a blurry, distant photo of an Electra leg... That's why they're launching another search. It could be other things, but it could also be debris from the exact same type of plane she was flying.
- mannykannot 7y ago> It does look exactly like a blurry, distant photo of an Electra leg. At least for the sake of argument, I will grant that a blurry, distant photo of an Electra leg might look exactly like this one, but in such a case, the exactitude would be in the correspondence of two blurred, small images, and that exactitude does not transfer to the identification of the imaged object as an Electra leg. You have to ask what else could produce a matching photograph, and if it is sufficiently distant and blurred, just about anything of approximately the right reflectivity would work.
- unreal37 7y agoI hope you're right and they find it. But let's also be honest here... the blurry spec smaller than a grain of rice in the original photo doesn't look like anything, specifically. [1] It doesn't look like an aircraft landing gear at all. Now you can make an aircraft landing gear look like it if you make it blurry, but that blurry grain of rice looks like nothing. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190812112844im_/https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/82_BevingtonAnalysis2/BevObj.png https://web.archive.org/web/20190812112844im_/https://tighar...