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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Amelia Earhart's final moments may have been broadcast around the world days after her plane disappeared in 1937, according to a group that analyzed radio distress calls.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) believes the aviation pioneer waded out to her crashed Lockheed Electra on the reef at the then-uninhabited Gardner Island to call for help, it wrote in a research paper.
[...] The Electra's radio could only communicate within a few hundred miles, but the transmitter also put out harmonics that allowed the signal to reach beyond that.
"High harmonic frequencies 'skip' off the ionosphere and can carry great distances, but clear reception is unpredictable," the paper says.
As a result, the signal was heard by people using shortwave radios at home in locations like Texas, Kentucky, Wyoming, Florida and Toronto.
In St. Petersburg, Florida, a teenage girl transcribed phrases like: "waters high," "water's knee deep -- let me out" and "help us quick," the Washington Post notes.
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:33PM (1 child)
Well literally yes, but the public's memory of her is being stirred up. It's sort of an unsolved mystery, a new fact or a new data point dug up somewhere can make an interesting news story.
But the way the modern news is these days, I'm surprised it isn't more along the line of "oh, look, we found some vague anecdotal evidence that this person may have said something that when read backwards, squinting, standing on your head, while the wind is blowing from the south, might *possibly* be interpreted as racist or sexually harassing!11!1!1." Time unperson them, fire them, make sure they can never hold a job again, disgrace their family and descendants, and erase them from history!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @02:52AM
The benefits of having a womb are demonstrated.