Highlights From the Forum June 10 through 16, 2001 |
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Exploring the Reef Edge | Blake Herling | |
Old Airplanes | Dennis McGee | |
Great Exploration Hoaxes | Marty Moleski | |
The AIA | Dennis McGee | |
False Memories | Ric Gillespie | |
Re: False Memories | Marty Moleski, Mike Holt | |
Eleven Minute Gap | Ron Bright |
Ric wrote:
>Old airplanes that are returned to service are not Amen. During my days as a docent at the Smithsonian's NASM restoration and preservation facility in Silver Hill, Maryland, guests always asked the same question: "Can these airplanes fly." Ignoring that straight line, I always explained that the aircraft were NOT restored to flight-worthy status for a variety of reasons, primarily because the Smithsonian's charter forbids it. Nonetheless, I then pointed out that even if the aircraft were 100 percent accurately restored, few pilots would want to trust their lives to 40 year-old rubber/poly seals, 60 year-old hydraulic and electrical systems, or 80 year-old fabric coverings.
LTM, who'll miss Silver Hill From Ric The Smithsonian's preservation policies leave much to be desired – but that's a different topic. |
[DESPERATE EFFORT TO STAY ON TOPIC BEGINS HERE] The issue that the world will have to believe in TIGHAR's testimony about what the Niku team finds came up about two weeks ago. I argue that the Any Idiot Artifact (AIA) will not persuade all of the idiots of the world that the case has been settled because of any number of (virtually untestable) hypotheses that could be dreamed up to account for finding (or salting) Electra parts on Niku. I read a book last week entitled Great Exploration Hoaxes by David Roberts. The ten hoaxes are:
Marty #2359 From Ric We got our first hard lesson on this subject in 1992 when we announced that we had solved the Earhart mystery with the shoe parts and airplane debris we had found on Niku. Nobody disputed that we had found the stuff where we said we found it, but what seemed to us like more-than-adequate verification of our basic hypothesis was clearly not sufficient to satisfy other Earhart researchers whose criticisms were duly reported by the media. Our own further research has eliminated or cast doubt upon some of our 1992 evidence, but new evidence has also come to light. We still think we're right. Of course, we're now hoping to find evidence much more convincing than anything we've had before but I have to wonder if Marty is right: >the Any Idiot Artifact (AIA) will not persuade all of the idiots of the world that the
LTM, |
Marty Moleski said: "I argue that the Any Idiot Artifact (AIA) will not persuade all of the idiots of the world . . ." True. But then we don't need to convince all of the idiots of the world, nor even some of the idiots of the world. We need only to convince ourselves and the scientific community. There is no tangible reward for solving this mystery other than the knowledge of solving the mystery. Or as a friend (who was hoping I might mend my ways :-) ) once told me: The reward for a life well lived is a life well lived.
LTM, who mended her ways |
I thought you guys would get a kick out of this press release from the University of Washington passed along by TIGHAR archaeologist Tim Smith:
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Ric wrote: > I thought you
guys would get a kick out of this press release from the Yes, I did get a kick out of it! Thanks for passing it on. > The scenario described
in the ad never occurred because Bugs Bunny is a Notice that the study depends upon proof of a negative: if the researchers are not sure that BB never appeared at Disneyland, then the study is nonsense. ;o) "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!" Marty
From Mike Holt Thanks for this one, Ric. This topic became a favorite of mine when I set up a business for a woman who claimed to be a multiple personality (29 different persons). She was adopted, and I found her missing sister and her birth parent's names. Most of what she "remembered" was total fiction. > The scenario described
in the ad never occurred because Bugs Bunny is a I'm going to look for this one. Elizabeth Loftus is one of the guiding lights in the struggle against false memory planting. I think she was almost the first to write about it. > "The frightening
thing about this study is that it suggests how easily a When I read Lost Star, I wondered about this. McMenamy might be the first one to check for false memory but he's certainly not alone. After all this time and all this publicity all sorts of very vivid memories will begin to surface. I'm fairly certain that Betty may have developed some of the same memories, but she has her transcript; it's very difficult to write her off. > "Creating a false
memory is a process. Someone saying, 'I know it could This is what I saw in the multiple personalities I met. All it takes is some hint of what memory might get attention for them, and they'll create it in excrutiating detail. Oh, well. AIA suddenly sounds pretty good, doesn't it? LTM (who remembers
the garden party with Joe Stalin) From Ric We worked some with Dr. Loftus way back in the late '80s when were searching for The White Bird in Maine and were finding lots of anecdotal recollections but damn little else. It was the beginning of developing the historical investigation methodology that has become the cornerstone of the Earhart Project. |
With a slow forum, here is a puzzling alleged eleven minute gap regarding AE's final transmissions to Itasca as reported by two researchers. Carol Osborne and Don Dwiggins report that at 08:44 AE transmitted the "...line of position..." message and then eleven minutes later at 08:55 AE transmitted "... we are running north and south." (see Osborne's matrix p.290) All other researchers/authors report that the message contained both phrases at 08:44. Significance. At 08:44, AE said she was switching to 6210, and thus her 08:55 transmission most likely came in on 6210. This would mean that her radio was working quite well after the "last". Thus the switch didn't affect her transmission ability. (The 6210 worked quite well from Lae out some 800 miles. If so skip zones shouldn't come into play.) Now it is possible that the the "north and south" entry was entered later when Thompson, Bellarts, et all got together to piece together an accurate transcription.The log is ambiguous and certainly permits an interpretation of an added signal inside the parenths (?...": KHAQQ TO ITASCA WE ARE ON THE LINE 157 337 XX WL REPT MSG WE WL REPT THIS ON 6210 KCS WAIT, 3105/A3 S5 [The signal strength should be the last typed word] Then comes the questioned entry: (?/KHAQQ XMISSION WE ARE RUNNING ON XX N ES S LINE. All typed in/over "43" in the margin. Everthing in the parenths, above, could have been inserted after the "S5" sometime later when the log was being reconstructed. There was room on the time "43" line after the S5 to add that and as a result the "on N ES S Line" appears in the time margin after the vertical line. The 'LSNIN 6210 KCS" / KHAQQ DE NRUI HRD U OK ON 3105 KCS ,7500" appears on time line 44-46. It is a separate entry and of course Itasca was going to listen on 6210 as that is the frequency AE said she was switching to. If there was a eleven min gap between the 08:44 and the 08:55 transmission on the 6210, the radio working capability changes. The next 3-4 hour absence of broadcasting is more inexplicable. The main problem is that only Dwiggins and Osborne,who do not offer a source or cite, report this gap. Rollin Reineck also postulates that AE broadcast for a short time after the alleged last at 08:44 based on an official memorandum. I'm sure the forum would have some thoughts on this "rosemary" gap. Have you or anyone else heard of " two " separate broadcasts?? Ron Bright From Ric I have no idea where Osborne got her "matrix" and anything Dwiggins got probably came from Mantz. None of those people was aboard the Itasca. You are, of course, correct that Bellart's original log could have been altered later, but if it was, somebody managed to get the platen precisely aligned with the rest of the line – a very difficult thing to do and not done in other known alterations to the log. It's clear from the Bellart's log that the "we are running..." phrase was heard after the operator thought that the message had ended and had typed in the frequency and signal strength notations. I see no reason to think that the delay was 11 minutes rather than more like 11 seconds. If it came in 11 minutes later it must be the case that neither Galten nor O'Hare entered it in their logs at the time it was heard but that it was later added to Galten's log but not to O'Hare's. Just doesn't make any sense. LTM, |
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