Re: the movie, I think it would seem more believable to cast an unknown who resembled her more than Hilary, tho Im sure she does a fine job.
Well if we are talking famous aviators Leonardo Decaprio could not have looked less like Howard Huges. Hughes inhis prewhacky days was tall,dark and slim with that pencil thin mustache Boston Blackie thing going on.
I thought that part was terribly miscast but it was a huge hit. If I were casting the part I would have made other choices. Hillary Swank is not a fave of mine.
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Mary
The book by the TIGHAR group, Ameila Earhart's Shoe? I think it's called, it's a fascinating read.
She was always one of my childhood heroes. Not that I had an urge to become a pilot, but just because she did so many things women back then just didn't do.
I've always thought her husband was a money grubbing weasel. Some of the other things I've read, it seems like theirs was purely a marriage about business.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, OMG, that cracked me up! Scared me a little bit too.
I heard that a couple of weeks ago at a dinner party. The guy was going on about this island in the Pacific having these enormous coconut crabs, and the nests of these crabs are kept in the family for generations. He said the scientist discovered some of the bones in the nests.
Basically, the place was pretty barren and shitty. That sucks. I dont' know what's worse dying quickly in a plane crash or basically succumbing to the elements on a barren island with giant crabs.
Here is from the link from the story Mysterian posted. It has some more stuff. http://news.discovery.com/history/am...artifacts.html
What the hell is a cocunut crab ? Oh,, well let me show you ---- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab
http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/hugecrab01.jpg
My favorite pic ---http://images.needcoffee.com/coconut-crab.jpg
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The group that is conducting the search has a website. They are in the pacific right now and are updating daily. It is pretty interesting.
http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/AEdescr.html
holy shit those are big ass craps!?!?!?
i didn't see those, only big ass CRABS!holy shit those are big ass craps!?!?!?
You might make a huge ass crap after seeing that huge ass crab. Can you imagine waking up from a nap on the beach and seeing that staring at you?
I like eating crabs but after seeing those, i can't even gather a taste for crabs or lobster, Omg that would suck with one of them clamped on to you, your hand or foot would just come off. Eek?!!
I wonder if those are even eatable? I guess if you are starving they are, but in general.
I think I am more afraid of Coconut Crabs than death its self. I first saw them years ago on a website about strange animals. They say they are not violent and do not harm humans, but they are terrifying!
Ugh, I don't know why but I was forced to look at the images of the crabs. I got the 'no' feeling in my body. Every time I see those pics I get a bad feeling. Ick, Ick, Ick!!!!
But anyway, I guess I should post about Amelia, I need to see the movies. I am intrigued by the new facts and I really hope they can find her. How amazing if she really made it to her destination!
Well the interesting thing is, a body was found on this island in the 40's. At the time there was no connection, but now the researchers believe it may have been her. However, the bones are now lost, so they are looking for other evidence to place her on this island. So they will probably not FIND her, but at least be able to prove where she landed.
Check out the site of the team that is searching down there now. It is really neat and has had daily updates over the course of their last search.
http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/AEdescr.html
EDIT: Meaning they will probably not find her BODY. The way I worded it made it sound like you thought they would find HER...when I know that is not what you meant.
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omfg, those coconut crabs are ugly mo fo's! YUCK!!!!
I am looking forward to the possibility of DNA testing on some of the artifacts they found. Thanks for the TIGHAR site with the updates, that is so interesting to me.
Yes I too was reading about after her and the navigator
crashed landed on that island.
They had to build a fire around them at night while sleeping
so the crabs wouldn't come out of the ocean and eat them.
Carolyn(1958-2009) always in my heart.
I have read that her husband was the one that wanted to get married, and she finally agreed to an "open" marriage.
OMG those freaking crabs! Prehistoric and they inspire primative fear in me; make the hair on my neck stand up and give me shivers.
I've read the TIGHAR site on and off for years and read their book, as mentioned previously. I think they are on the money and I can't wait til they have conclusions.
I loathe Hillary Swank but the movie was okay. Fiction, I think, for the most part, but okay.
As a side note, it irritates the piss out of me when Hollywood takes poetic licesnce with bigoraphies. Just like Howard Hughes, Amelia's own life was such a story in itself. It didn't need tarting up.
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I can never decide if Amelia was lesbian or asexual. Either way, she certainly wasn't hip to the marriage thing. Which, in that time, I don't blame her at all.
She will always remain a heroine and role model to me.
I reiterate: GP sounds like a real shyster.
Thank you, Okidoll. You know I'm gonna be dreaming about that nasty crab. It's going to eat me, and my little dog too, in my sleep.
Bitch.
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scientists find clues behind disappearance:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/14/scientists-find-clues-behind-the-mystery-of-amelia-earhart%e2%80%99s-disappearance/
I hope something comes of it. Earhart has been "found" so many times over the decades that I automatically reserve judgement. DNA would convince me, however...
About the crabs-yes, you can eat them and they are very delicious. They have a kind of oily coconut flavor and the meat is very rich and they have a fatty pouch on the underside of their belly under the shell that is a giant fat patch that retains the coconut oil they eat and its out of this world rich. You can't eat them with anything except a little citrus or its just too much.
Amelia died in 1980 as Irene Craigmille Bolam.
More on the bones discovered with a little more detail.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1225972895286
I am a sick puppy....woof woof!!!
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Carping the living shit out of the Diem. - Me!!
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Forward thinking woman - I wonder why she married, considering those sentiments?
My father, who was a young adult at that time; always thought that Amelia and her navigator were lovers; and had chosen to "disappear".
I saw an interesting doco a few years ago that suggested that she had been "forced down" by Japanese fighter planes; and later executed as a spy.
Great mystery!
A faulty hypothesis forming:
A German scientist using Iranian physics and French mathematics.
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...-resting-place
they say shes found
that would be so cool if she was actually found. i almost don't doubt that it's her..
Makes you wonder that IF it was her, how long she lived on that island before she died?
I have too and I hope it's her.
It seems premature of anyone to put out a press release about this though, doesn't it? They found a tiny sliver of bone on an island filled with all sorts of living creatures it could belong to and even compared it to bones from a turtle flipper.
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I saw a special on TV the other night, they said she could have survived for a long time as long as she did not get sick or get hurt.
They said if a person was dying, those creepy crabs would start eating on you while you were still alive.
They remind me of those lobster thingamajigs in Stephen King's Gunslinger series. In one of them, the hero Roland is in a situation where it's eat (to survive) or be eaten by them. He wins about half the time.
I've always wondered about why people assume Amelia had any sort of easy or cushy landing on the island. I think if that were the case much of the plane would've been found in tact.
I supposed they could've had a decent landing on the water and made their way to shore safely (the whole sink and ditch it theory) but I don't know. It seems to me to be asking a lot of the airplane safety technology of that era to expect it to be a reality.
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Scientists use letter saliva in final attempt to solve riddle of what happened to aviator Amelia Earhart
The mystery of what happened to the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic when she vanished over the Pacific Ocean almost 75 years ago is still yet to be solved.
But scientists have now given Amelia Earhart's family new hope as they attempt to obtain a DNA profile for the pilot from her saliva - taken from envelope seals.
A bone fragment was found on the South Pacific island of Nikumaroro two years ago and it is believed to have come from one of her fingers, but this has not been proven.
DNA match: Scientists are using Amelia Earhart's saliva to create a DNA profile to find if a bone fragment discovered on an island after the 1937 plane crash is hers
All possible traces of her DNA on clothing or hair have now dried up or are considered unreliable, and the bone fragment found could even have belonged to a sea turtle.
A female aviation museum in Cleveland was once believed to have one of her hair samples, but a study two years ago found this specimen was actually only thread.
But because she sent personal letters to her family and these were removed from their envelopes with letter openers, the original seals are still licked shut.
Researchers will compare DNA from the samples against living relatives to determine a match and will take a few months to build a profile, reported Time magazine.
Location: Ms Earhart vanished during her flight across the Pacific Ocean and may have died on Nikumaroro island after a suspected bone fragment was found there
Ms Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 as they tried to fly around the world following the Equator in their twin-engine plane.
??Anyone can go and find a turtle shell and be like: ??I found Amelia Earhart's remains???, said Justin Long of Burnaby, Canada, whose family is partially funding the project.
He is the grandson of 1970s aviator Elgen Long, who wrote the book ??Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved?? with his wife in 1999.
Mr Long told National Geographic: ??We asked: ??How can we take wild claims like this and bring legitimacy back into the Amelia Earhart mystery?? And so we started looking at everything at our disposal.??
Lost: Ms Earhart was an aviation trailblazer, becoming the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, before she died after crashing five years later
Researchers have looked at 400 letters between Earhart and other people, finding four letters to her family which could be the most useful as she probably sealed them.
Genetic archaeologist Dongya Yang, of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, is leading the project.
He will first carefully steam the seals open and take mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited from mothers, and nuclear DNA, containing most of our genetic information.
Evidence: Scientists hope these finger bone fragments found by researchers on the South Pacific island of Nikumaroro will match Ms Earhart's saliva DNA profile
If both types can be obtained then scientists will be able to create a genetic profile that will enable any potential remains to be identified.
??When we have the best technique available, that's when we'll move on to the real letters,?? Dr Yang told National Geographic.
??A strong licking or a light licking may leave more or less cells with the seal,' he added.
Experts say Dr Yang??s methodology is reasonable, but his team will find it more challenging to find nuclear than mitochondrial DNA, as each cell has only one copy.