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posted by mrpg on Sunday July 29 2018, @09:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the RIP dept.

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 Gaaark on Monday July 30 2018, @12:38AM (10 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday July 30 2018, @12:38AM (#714541) Journal

    Damn! When did Toronto become an American city? Those Americans invent EVERYTHING!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @09:27AM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @09:27AM (#714661)

    Toronto is as American as Buenos Aires or Rio de Janeiro.

    America (Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antartica) is a continent not the USA and doesn't own it nor the name as Australia does, face it.

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday July 30 2018, @10:10AM (8 children)

      by Gaaark (41) on Monday July 30 2018, @10:10AM (#714666) Journal

      So, if your America is a 'continent': is that North America or South America?
      If one, what is the other?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @10:18PM (7 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @10:18PM (#715937)
        What other? What nonsense are you talking about? Chewbacca argument?

        The American continent has North America at the North of the continent, Central America at the center and obviously at the South, South America.

        Canada, USA and Mexico are at the north of America. Need a picture?
        • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday August 02 2018, @12:35AM (6 children)

          by Gaaark (41) on Thursday August 02 2018, @12:35AM (#715990) Journal

          No, I guess YOU do, though:
          You're talking about the AMERICAS, which are comprised of TWO different CONTINENTS, North and South.
          See link:
          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas. [wikipedia.org]

          Canada, USA and Mexico are all in the North American continent.

          A picture, if you need it:
          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#/media/File%3AN%26SAmerica-pol.jpg [wikipedia.org]

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @04:00PM (5 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @04:00PM (#721019)
            America is not USA.

            America is the name of the continent where Canada, USA and Mexico are, at the North, and a bunch other countries at the South of the same American continent.
            • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday August 13 2018, @05:00PM (4 children)

              by Gaaark (41) on Monday August 13 2018, @05:00PM (#721043) Journal

              Wow...you put up a LINK!, and there is STILL cluelessness.

              ***The 'Americas' are made up of North America and South America: they are TWO DISTINCT and different CONTINENTS, called THE AMERICAS! Read the link!!

              1. NORTH AMERICA
              2. SOUTH AMERICA.

              Where does your problem come up?

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              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @10:26AM (3 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @10:26AM (#722112)
                Cool, So you finally understood that America IS NOT the USA? Thank you very much. Not that hard to grasp, eh?

                Please, repeat a few times more to commit to memory.
                - America IS a CONTINENT and NOT the USA
                - America IS a CONTINENT and NOT the USA
                - America IS a CONTINENT and NOT the USA

                For extra points learn that:
                - America is the NAME of the CONTINENT.
                - American is the ADJETIVE associated to the NAME of the CONTINENT.
                - Americans are the inhabitants of the American continent, be it South, North or Central American, and not just USA same as Europeeans are the inhabitants of the Europeean continent, be it South or North Europe
                - People also say North Europe and South Europe, and South Asia and even South East Asia but still doesn't count them as a separate CONTINENT, how many continents would do you count then if split in North and South or why not 9 cardinal directions, 63?

                Count them 5 continents plus Antartica. Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe. Not 7, 12 nor 63.
                • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday August 16 2018, @09:06PM (2 children)

                  by Gaaark (41) on Thursday August 16 2018, @09:06PM (#722510) Journal

                  Sigh.
                  Please, repeat a few times more to commit to memory.
                  - North America IS a CONTINENT and NOT the USA
                  - South America IS a CONTINENT and NOT the USA
                  - America IS NOT a CONTINENT and NOT the USA.
                  - The America's are made up of North and South America.

                  Aaaaaand, I am done arguing with an idiot.

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                  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday August 16 2018, @09:12PM (1 child)

                    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday August 16 2018, @09:12PM (#722514) Journal

                    Sorry, correction, America IS NOT a CONTINENT and is commonly what the USA is called.

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                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @08:42AM

                      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @08:42AM (#722722)

                      So now you say not USA United States of America but USNA United States of North America? LOL