earhart

This might also explain why Amelia Earhart went missing [1] Coverage is obtained from multipath and reflections.

Close to where the transatlantic cable comes out of the sea and close to where Amelia Earhart stopped for fuel.

Clearly after becoming a castaway Earhart learned to fight and became a ninja.

The artifacts point to human presence (hardly a surprise), but there is little more than conjecture to link them to Earhart or Noonan.

In fact, the telegraph writers clearly thought an Earhart link was unlikely.

As far as I can tell there aren't any facts that would rule out their theory that Earhart ended up here.

Earhart disappeared in 1937, since 1938 there were people on Nikumaroro and it seems they didn't report anything that would certainly be easily visible one year later on a 5 x 1.6 miles big island if Earhart and Noonan managed to land and live there.

We considered launching GPT-4 as something like text-earhart-001, but since everyone was calling it GPT-4 anyway, we abandoned that system to use the name GPT-4 that everyone had already latched onto.

> Earhart disappeared in 1937, since 1938 there were people on Nikumaroro and it seems they didn't report anything that would certainly be easily visible one year later on a 5 x 1.6 miles big island if Earhart and Noonan managed to land and live there.

One of the things that may have caused Earhart to underestimate the risk was the high reliability of AM medium wave radio broadcasting in the US over long distances, with over a dozen 50,000 watts and higher clear-channel stations, each serving about half the country reliably just about every night.

I posted this link to both Hacker News and r/history a few months ago under the title "What happened to Amelia Earhart: The sextant box with two serial numbers".

I find it curious that the Lockheed Vega is chosen as “Amelia Earhart’s plane” since most people would probably associate her with the Lockheed Electra, the plane she was flying when she disappeared.

Earhart seems to be a story of someone pushed beyond their capabilities by a runaway media narrative.

The team looking for Amelia Earhart, for example, has been at it for a long time by raising private funds.

There's also the 2024 find that was a (convincing) plane shaped rock near Howland Island: They thought they’d found Amelia Earhart’s plane.