Comments on: Amelia Earhart’s Finger Found in Pacific?

By: Bill K

Bill K — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:38:31 +0000

Here in Kansas we still keep the runway lights on for Amelia, just in case.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:17:42 +0000

Dang that evilushun – why did gawd make human finger bones like turtle flipper bones? An he told us we wus speshul!

I’ll have to do some background reading again. I can’t even remember when radio contact was lost. However every few years there are claims that aircraft wreckage, camp stuff, or bones had been found. Amelia’s a bit like a cross between Elvis and Gilligan.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:42:49 +0000

The fingers tend to fall off and get lost. …:)

By: Phillip IV

Phillip IV — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:25:57 +0000

Seems to be a non-profit organization dependent on outside donations. I guess making a press release before the analysis results are in makes sense from a fundraising viewpoint (after all, they might not have anything left to write about afterward), but waiting for some results would definitely have helped to dispel the suspicion that it could be nothing more than a fundraising ploy to begin with.

But wasn’t the whole Nikumaroro hypothesis predicated on the assumption a female skeleton found there during the war – and later lost – was Earhart’s? Wouldn’t that mean none of her finger bones should be lying around there, anyway?