#Object’s Location

[xtruss]

Has Amelia Earhart’s Plane Really Been Found? 6 Key Things To Know

A New Grainy Sonar Image Claims to Solve the Mystery of the Famed Aviator’s Disappearance, But Experts Say it’s Too Soon to tell. Here's What We Do Know.

— By Rachel Hartigan | January 29, 2024

Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in this Lockheed Electra 10e airplane on July 2, 1937. Experts say it's too early to know for sure whether claims that the wreckage has been found are true. Photograph Courtesy PF-(Aircraft), Alamy Stock Photo

With the Release of a Grainy Gold Image, news headlines around the world are trumpeting the possible discovery of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10e, the plane she was flying in 1937 when she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared during the most difficult leg of their round-the-world flight.

Deep Sea Vision, a new venture founded by pilot and commercial real estate investor Tony Romeo, captured the sonar image during a hundred-day expedition in the central Pacific, the region where Earhart was lost. “It was definitely a surreal moment for all of us,” says Romeo, who sold his real estate holdings to purchase a cutting-edge autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) equipped with highly advanced sonar technologies.

The remotely operated vehicle Hercules is retrieved from the waters off Nikumaroro Island onto the deck of the E/V Nautilus in 2019 after a day of searching for Amelia Earhart’s missing airplane. Explorers have long sought to solve the mystery of the famed aviator's fate. Photograph By Gabriel Scarlett, National Geographic Image Collection

Still, it’s too soon to say whether this discovery of an object 16,000 feet deep means one of the great historical mysteries has been solved. Here’s what we do know.

1. Sonar Images Have Limitations.

Sonar images are not photographs. The sound waves sent by sonar are at a low frequency, which translates to low resolution.

“The sound wave, because it’s so big, can’t see fine detail,” says David Jourdan, an engineer whose company Nauticos has led three expeditions in search of Earhart. “It can be distorted by reflections, like taking a picture of a mirror.” Promising images, on a second look, sometimes turn out to be something else entirely, like a geological formation.

Amelia Earhart is shown in the cockpit of her autogiro on April 8, 1931, after setting a new altitude record for women in planes of this type. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images

2. Deep Sea Vision Didn’t Confirm The Object’s Identity.

Romeo and his team found the image in their data storage files as they were transitioning to another expedition. They thought that data from one of the AUV’s earlier sorties had been corrupted. When they discovered it wasn’t—and that they had a potential blockbuster find—it was too late to return to the site.

“We were out of time. We were out of resources,” says Romeo. “And we didn’t have a camera on our [AUV]. It broke really early in the expedition.” Returning to go over the target again with just sonar didn’t seem worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars he estimated it would cost. Deep Sea Vision plans to go back to the sonar image site this year, this time with an operational camera on the AUV to confirm the finding.

National Geographic Explorer at Large Bob Ballard, pictured here in the control room of the E/V Nautilus, led a major expedition in 2019 to find the remains of Amelia Earhart's airplane. Photograph By Gabriel Scarlett, National Geographic Image Collection

3. Some Experts Say The Plane, If It Is A Plane, Doesn’t Resemble The Electra.

“The proportions aren’t quite right,” says Jourdan, pointing to the way the wings are swept back rather than straight across, as the Electra’s were.

Others are even more skeptical. “For the wings of an Electra to fold rearward as shown in the sonar image, the entire center section would have to fail at the wing/fuselage junctions,” according to an email blast from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), an organization that has put forward the theory that Earhart died a castaway on an island to the east of the sonar image site. “That’s just not possible.”

Romeo dismisses this criticism. Both the wings and the tail look swept back due to distortion caused by the AUV moving through the water, he says, pointing to the twin fins on the back of the plane instead. “That’s very distinctive of her aircraft,” he says. “There’s only a couple of planes that’ve ever been made like that.”

Amelia Earhart is photographed with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, the aircraft she used in her attempted flight around the world. Earhart and the plane went missing on July 2, 1937. Underwood & Underwood/Alamy Stock Photo

4. The Object’s Location Is Roughly On Earhart’s Flight Path—But Beyond The Range Suggested By Her Radio Signals.

Earhart and Noonan disappeared on July 2, 1937, flying from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island, a one-and-a-half-mile long island some 2,500 miles away. After flying 20 hours, Earhart thought they were close and radioed the Itasca, the Coast Guard ship awaiting them at Howland, “We must be on you but cannot see you.” Her voice was so loud, the Coast Guard radiomen thought she was very near too. She wasn’t, but the strength of the radio signals suggest that she was just beyond visual range.

Deep Sea Vision’s search area was roughly a hundred miles west; Romeo won’t reveal exactly where to avoid someone else making the crucial find. But he does acknowledge that they were guided by a theory that Noonan had failed to account for how the International Date Line would affect his calculations. That theory, however, doesn’t account for the strength of Earhart’s radio signals.

A deep-sea exploration company has captured a sonar image of an anomaly on the ocean floor that resembles an aircraft. The team believes the object could be Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra that went missing nearly 87 years ago. Deep Sea Vision/PR Newswire

Tony Romeo holds a model of Amelia Earhart's plane, which resembles sonar images he and his crew captured with high-tech equipment. Tony Romeo/CEO Deep Sea Vision

5. Others Have Claimed To Solve This Mystery.

Over the nearly 90 years since Earhart and Noonan vanished, many people have claimed to have proof of what happened to them.

Members of the Ballard-led expedition dive in the primary search area just off Nikumaroro Island, an isolated ring of coral and sand surrounding a turquoise lagoon where some suspect Earhart may have been landed. Photograph By Gabriel Scarlett, National Geographic Image Collection

People who believe the Japanese captured and killed the aviators have pointed to everything from a generator retrieved in a Saipan harbor in 1960 to a photograph on a Jaluit dock revealed in 2017. TIGHAR, meanwhile, has claimed various smoking guns over the years but now argues that a preponderance of historical and archaeological evidence puts Earhart on Nikumaroro Island, 400 hundred miles south of Howland, where they believe she starved to death.

Then there’s the simplest explanation: that the aviators simply crashed into the ocean. Elgen Long, an airline pilot who with his wife Marie did the most extensive research into where that might have happened, wrote a book called Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved. Over three expeditions, Jourdan has looked where Long suggested (and elsewhere) and come up empty.

6. The Mystery Is Still Unsolved. That Doesn’t Mean Its Unsolvable.

Jourdan’s team believes they’ve narrowed down where the Electra went down based on recent radio signal testing. Meanwhile, when Deep Sea Vision returns to the site this year, they will bring a documentary crew to capture the moment. “This is definitely something that we need to go back and look at,” says Romeo. “We’ve got to get out there before … you know, there is some urgency.”

Top: The Romeo Brothers are planning another Pacific Ocean expedition to get better sonar images to confirm whether they have discovered the ruins of Earhart's doomed voyage. Bettmann Archive

Bottom: Deep Sea Vision believes they may have come across Amelia Earhart's wrecked plane in the Pacific Ocean. Photo: Bettman via Getty Images/Deep Sea Vision

Tony Romeo holds a model of Amelia Earhart's plane, which resembles sonar images he and his crew captured with high-tech equipment. (Tony Romeo/CEO Deep Sea Vision)

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Phone guy was wild for saying that to Michael..

[porter-pumpkim]

ii name realization

Steve cobs actually has a name, Steve,

His name isn't corn cob, while the contestants are just called what they are,

What if in the actual real world that mephone4 has avoided objects actually have names, like in hfjONE, but sense mephone has only ever known cobs or just couldn't think of names, they just got called what they are?

Imagine being an ii contestant finally entering the real world, and everyone is very weirded out that you do the equivalent of introducing yourself as "human person" or "homosapien guy" instead of saying an actual name,

To a contestant it's a weird situation of realizing you're missing several key traits of being a person, like a name, a background, a childhood, as far as the government is concerned you don't even exist,

While to regular objects, these strange almost but not quite people are going around functioning on logic regular people just can't, flaming paintbrushes, psychic candles and spoons, healing from things like broken limbs in just a day cause any longer is inconvenient, (looking at you knife) falling from hights that should kill someone and being fine, summoning teacups from literally nowhere for comedic effect mid conversation, (looking at you taco) doing things a regular person can't, they don't have names, they don't have actual jobs, it's genuinly like cartoon characters come to life trying to function in a real setting,

[ruby-static]

Dude caught me taking a screenshot, I'm cooked-

[rocketbirdie]

I found a spot in Nibel where Cloud can glitch into the floor in a falling animation for a couple seconds. It's on top of the submarine on the far end in the underground hanger thing. Just have to walk on a spot between the grates. I've enjoyed your posts about these things, so thought I'd share in case it's one you didn't already know about.

oh this spot is absolutely INCREDIBLE thank you so much for informing me

[simdertalia]

🧵 ACNH Able Sisters Store Set 🪡

Sims 4, Base game compatible | 48 Now 51 items

(added the awning, chimney, and the stairs as a deco item with no footprint)

All the items you'll need to recreate The Able Sisters cute little shop in your TS4 game. All items came with only 1 swatch each. There are a few items that I added a couple of extra swatches for.

As always, turning the brightness down on functional lamps will make them look better (not overly bright) due to my vertex paint issue in Blender.

Type “ACNH Able” into the search query in build mode to find  quickly. You can always find items like this, just begin typing the title and it will appear.

Use the raise & lower keyboard cheat to put your already styled mannequins onto the displays. The displays have slots, but mannequins will only let you place them on the floor, and won't allow styling once they have been raised, so make sure to do that first. They only need to be raised 1-2 notches depending on which display you are placing them on.

Use the scale up & down feature on your keyboard to make the items larger or smaller to your liking. If you have a non-US keyboard, it may be different keys depending on which alphabet it uses.

I hope you enjoy! ☺️

Set contains: Buy: -Books Decor | 1 swatch | 70 poly -Display Tables 1-4 (for mannequins, slotted but see note above for using mannequins on tables) | 1 swatch each | 126, 594, 250, & 148 poly -Dresser Table (functional dresser) | 4 swatches | 796 poly -Fabric Crate | 3 swatches | 1156 poly -Fabric Cubby (slotted) | 1 swatch | 644 poly -Fitting Room Curtain | 1 swatch | 3482 poly -Framed Quilt (storefront) | 3 swatches | 44 poly -Framed Quilting (2 framed squares) | 1 swatch | 86 poly -Framed Wall Photos | 1 swatch | 376 poly -Hanging Flowers | 1 swatch | 778 poly -Hanging Quilt | 1 swatch | 590 poly -Jars | 1 swatch | 1815 poly -Label Doll | 4 swatches for facial expression | 6956 poly -Lamp: Indoor | 1 swatch | 740 poly -Lamp: Outdoor | 2 swatches | 282 poly -Large Baskets (slotted) | 3 swatches | 822 poly -Mabel Doll | 4 swatches for facial expression | 6200 poly -Pencil | 1 swatch | 70 poly -Potted Plant | 2 swatches | 776 poly -Rug: Fitting Room 1 | 1 swatch | 10 poly -Rug: Fitting Room 2 | 1 swatch | 34 poly -Rug: Large | 1 swatch | 587 poly -Rug: Sewing | 1 swatch | 108 poly -Sable Doll | 4 swatches for facial expression | 6200 poly -Sewing Machine | 1 swatch | 1976 poly -Sewing Table | 1 swatch | 224 poly -Sketchbook (slotted for pencil or whatever!) | 1 swatch | 542 poly -Stool End Table (Dressing Room) | 3 swatches | 298 poly -Store Sign (storefront) 6 different items for different languages (English, French, German, Italian, NL, Spanish) | 1 swatch each | 1194 poly -Store Sign 2 (hanging) | 2 swatches | 174 poly -Store Window Display | 1 swatch | 820 poly -Tailoring Machine 1-2 (screen glows in the dark) | 1 swatch each | 462 & 736 poly -Tool Basket | 1 swatch | 721 poly -Wall Hanger (dressing room) | 2 swatches | 324 poly -Wall Hooks Panel | 1 swatch | 380 poly -Wall Mirror | 1 swatch | 44 poly -Wall Spools | 1 swatch | 894 poly

Build: -Wallpaper/Paneling | 1 swatch -Wood Floor | 2 swatches for orientation

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[anghraine]

I keep mentioning the "Spock watches the Kirk vs the Gorn livestream and narrates it to the rest of the bridge while talking like, uh..." scene in "Arena" (an episode I do genuinely love for other reasons) and—I mean, sharing is caring, so the greatest hits reel:

The full Spock running commentary:

SPOCK: Notice the substance encrusting that rock. Yes. Unless I'm mistaken, it's potassium nitrate. MCCOY: So? SPOCK: Perhaps nothing, doctor. [Kirk, clearly suspecting the same thing as Spock that no one else has realized, tastes the substance from the rock that's now on his hand] SPOCK: Perhaps everything.

[cutting the Gorn colonialism reveal for space, but this turns into Kirk hurriedly picking through bamboo stems for an as-yet unknown reason] SPOCK: Fascinating... SPOCK [clearly putting something important together that nobody else is getting as Kirk cuts vines against a rock]: Good. SPOCK: Good. SPOCK [to a baffled McCoy]: He knows, doctor. He has reasoned it out. MCCOY [along with everyone else on the bridge]: ????????? [Kirk starts shoving the potassium nitrate into the bamboo] SPOCK: Yes. SPOCK [going from standing to sitting in Kirk's chair]: Yes. MCCOY: What is it, Spock? SPOCK: An invention, doctor. First potassium nitrate, and now if he can find some sulfur and a charcoal deposit or ordinary coal... [McCoy and the non-Spock bridge crew watch as Kirk returns to a gemstone deposit that baffled him earlier and starts shoving diamonds into the bamboo stem] MCCOY [still baffled, clearly not on the nerd4nerd radio wavelength here]: What's he doing? SPOCK: Diamonds. The hardest known substance. Impelled by sufficient force, they would make formidable projectiles. MCCOY: What force? SPOCK: Recall your basic chemistry, doctor. Gunpowder. [Kirk wanders around while the Gorn speaks to him, his supposedly monstrous growls translated into calmly urging him to be reasonable and accept the offer of a quick and merciful death; Kirk ignores him, clearly looking for something specific, and staggers over to another deposit] SPOCK [almost smug]: Coal. [Kirk starts crushing the coal and mixing his ingredients] MCCOY: Can he do it? SPOCK [concerned but with perfect assurance]: If he has the time, doctor. If he has the time.

[freshbeeth]

fuck it. off the hook songs + irl equivalents playlist

(link in title, tracklist below cut)

OtH first, IRL second

i will NOT be accepting constructive criticism

[kirbyreferences]

Shiver Star Factory

More + Better Quality Images

[steve-stevecobs]

Hello steven cobbers or whatever the fuck your name is.

Do you drive a MeCyberTruck

Sincerely

@0h-my-tat3r (aka Fries)

It’s a MeTruck! Where do you people keep getting the “cyber” from??

And my is Steve Cobs! How did you mess it up so badly????

Also, who the hell is Fries?

[jumpinggreenjellybeanz]

OH so I also didn't get to finish this piece cos of my animatic but now, here we are :o)

HandUnit!

[memezs-corner-of-the-osc]

Drawing a oc daily until I get through them all 49:

[panvani]

I have the type of ADHD where you have some symptoms but not all

[skeletalheartattack]

have you posted about gelato before :o ?

honestly, every mention ive made of Gelato in the past month or so has just been through the tags of some posts ive reblogged on here, it's only been until now that ive gotten around to showing him off!

this is Gelato, a Flamingo/Secretarybird mix that my friend @meetthehelper put together!

for a while, i've been wanting to figure out a bird fursona for myself, and i wanted one that had a similar silhouette to that of Scratch (i.e. Scratch & Grounder), and the bird that seemed to make the most sense to me was a flamingo. it was Helper's idea to mix him with another bird species, and i really like what she ended up with :)!

[theboost]

We used to make movies

[simdertalia]

🥛☕️ ACNH The Roost Set ☕️🥛

80 items | Sims 4, Base game compatible

All the items you'll need to recreate The Roost Cafe in your TS4 game. Most items came with only 1 swatch each. There are lots of items that I added extra swatches for. *See bottom of item list for links to the handful of items that have already been made in other sets. Everything is always posted with the option of pick & choose, so they are easy to find and one-click download.

This set is brought about by the lovely patrons who voted 💗

Set contains: Buy: -Amiibo Books 1 & 2 (2 items)  | 2 swatches each | 768 & 338 poly -Amiibo Phone | 5 swatches | 1076 poly -Amiibo Table | 1 swatch | 576 poly -Bar Ceiling piece | 1 swatch | 141 poly  -Bar Hanging Lamp (2 versions, longer and shorter for people who do not want to use the ceiling structure piece) | 5 swatches | 680 poly -Bar Mixer | 1 swatch | 166 poly -Bar Seat (functions as bar stool) | 1 swatch | 1060 poly -Bar Shelf (lots & lots of slots!) | 2 swatches | 840 poly -Bar Shelf Clutter (cups, towels, small milk all 1 item) | 1 swatch | 2526 poly -Bar Shelf Cups | 1 swatch | 2084 poly -Bar Siphon (2 versions: steam & no steam) | 1 swatch each | 1038 poly -Bar Siphon 2 (2 versions: steam & no steam) | 1 swatch | 1794 poly -Bar Table (functions as bar) | 1 swatch | 654 poly -Cafe Coffee V1 with saucer (steam & no steam versions) | 10 swatches | 1232 poly -Cafe Coffee V2 no saucer (steam & no steam versions) | 10 swatches | 770 poly -Cafe Sign (lights up at night) | 2 swatches | 754 poly -Change Tray | 1 swatch | 220 poly -Closet Box (single) | 1 swatch | 258 poly -Closet Boxes (2 stacked) | 1 swatch | 514 poly -Closet Gyroids 1-5 (5 items) | 1 swatch each | 1180, 1202, 1174, 1068, & 1202 poly -Closet Shelf (lots of slots!) | 1 swatch | 170 poly -Clutter Stacked Glasses | 1 swatch | 262 poly -Clutter Stacked Mugs | 1 swatch | 1814 poly -Clutter To Go Cups 1 & 2 (2 items) | 1 swatch | 578, & 1730 poly -Clutter To Go Lids 1 & 2 (2 items) | 1 swatch | 686, & 2396 poly -Clutter Towels | 1 swatch | 254 poly -Coffee bags 4x | 1 swatch | 2106 poly -Coffee Bags 6x | 1 swatch | 3158 poly -Cooking Spot (functions as a grill) | 1 swatch | 1814 poly -Dining Seat | 7 swatches | 864 poly -Dining Table | 2 swatches | 944 poly -Faux Window | 4 swatches for window "glass" | 414 poly -Fridge | 3 swatches | 4015 poly -Fridge (empty & slotted) | 3 swatches | 1429 poly -Floor Mats | 2 swatches | 676 poly -Milk Carton | 5 swatches | 86 poly -Paper Bag | 6 swatches | 220 poly -Syrup | 5 swatches | 366 poly -Tin | 6 swatches | 214 poly -Tray Glasses | 15 swatches each | 578 poly -Lamp (wall) Turn brightness down as with all of my lamp CC | 1 swatch | 1374 poly -Milk Pitcher | 8 swatches | 1110 poly -Milk Pitcher Small | 1 swatch | 1110 poly -Paintings | 7 swatches | 62 poly -Potted Flower | 6 swatches | 1486 poly -Shelf Cups 2x | 1 swatch | 1826 poly -Shelf Cups 3x | 1 swatch | 2732 poly -Shelf Jars 1-8 (8 items) | 1 swatch each | 626 poly each -Shelf Plate Stack | 1 swatch | 524 poly -Shelf Siphon | 1 swatch | 861 poly -Shelf Siphon Holder | 1 swatch | 130 poly -Table Cards 1 & 2 (2 items for each end of the bar) | 1 swatch each | 34, & 46 poly -Table Flyers | 1 swatch | 12 poly -Vintage Coffee Mill | 1 swatch | 1187 poly -Wall Flyers | 1 swatch | 73 poly -Wall Photo Trio | 1 swatch | 180 poly -Wall Speaker (functional music player) | 1 swatch | 44 poly -Wooden Wall Piece (goes behind bar seating area) | 1 swatch | 756 poly

Build: -Floors Wood | 4 swatches | Wood -Floor Carpet | 5 swatches | Carpet

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-More Coffees, siphons, the siphon flames, potted tree, and the cafe walls (Coffee Stuff Set) -Cuckoo Clock (Antique Set) -Silver Coffee Pot (Big Food Set 2) -Kitchen Scale (Country Set 2) -Coffee Grinder (Harvest Set) -More Coffee Bags (individual, Christmas Set)

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