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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 182 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not why she died. She died because she was incompetent. She was a bad pilot and after a crash the man that was the radio expert quit. She didn't know how to work the radios and broadcasted to listen on a channel that her radio couldn't use, she didn't know how to use the trailing antenna that could have saved them so she had it removed, etc...

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This. If she knew how to use her equipment and bothered to learn Morse Code, the best fail-safe of the time, she would have probably been fine. Instead she made a heap of stupid mistakes that cost her life.

[–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have no idea about this stuff, wheres more information like this found?

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[–] mika_mika@lemmy.world 167 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Stop posting censored shit on the internet.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 64 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

fr. what the fuck is the deal?

It's ironic that the same reason that Amelia Earhart apparently died, is what causes people to want to censor themselves.

Amelia Earhart fucking ✨died

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Whoa! She did? So that's what happened...

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago

No wonder she hasn't answered my calls!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Stop posting censored ~~shit~~ stuff on the internet.

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[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm with you, but I couldn't find an uncensored version in the 3 seconds I spent looking.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago

Took 3 seconds to fix

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 12 points 3 weeks ago

Gotta feed the engagement machine

[–] qualia@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

I love this simultaneously anti- and pro-censorship meme. Gets me every time. laughs my parents' ass off

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] snooggums@piefed.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

Also shitty social media that takes down content for bullshit reasons leading to people self censoring to avoid having their stuff taken down.

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[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 154 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Others have already pointed out that her distress calls were most certainly not ignored. But even if it were true that others did casually allow her to die, their disregard for her life wouldn't have been because she was a woman. Her navigator, Fred Noonan, was a man on board and also suffered the same fate as her. Inventing a sexist conspiracy over an unfortunate tragedy accomplishes nothing productive.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 25 points 3 weeks ago

Never thought i would see someone opposing circle jerking bashing on men and being upvoted for it on Lemmy.

Its nice.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Literally never learned he existed, another man erased from history.

[–] Pman@lemmy.org 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It happens a lot to guys who are near women who shine and are memorable, Marie Curie's husband, Pierre Curie, was more than just her husband he helped with the radioactivity research and they both died because of it. That said how many women have been erased in similar situations like that of Rosalind Franklin being Upstaged by Francis Crick. In short Academia needs to be better about recognition and change the incentive structure that makes for some forcing their names into papers they had nothing to do with besides proximity.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Let's just forget everyone, instead.

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[–] Cort@lemmy.world 108 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They were listening on the frequencies she told them to listen on. How could they have known she didn't know which antenna to broadcast on?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

To put things in context, this is what they used for communication between a tank and its commanders in WWI:

A tank with a pigeon being released from a hatch.

When the Titanic sunk in 1912, they had a telegraph on board, but no voice radio.

In the 1920s radio took off as a one-way broadcaster to receiver technology, but it still was only rarely used as two-way communications. That only really started for communications between ships in WWII.

So, although she didn't know how to use the radio in her plane, it was mostly because radio communication was a brand new thing. I'm sure what they put in her plane wasn't some off-the-shelf radio that had standard switches, antennas and parts. It was probably cobbled together from various parts and only the truly tech-oriented people understood it.

[–] jafra@slrpnk.net 63 points 3 weeks ago

Doesn't matter why she wasn't able to handle her communication tec, she did not die because of male ignorance. If anything it was her ignorance for not learning how to use her equipment

[–] axh@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Her radio wasn't off-the-shelf hardware. But I bet that her plane wasn't either. What she tried to do required much more effort and knowledge than just operating off-the-shelf tools.

What I am trying to say is that she wasn't stupid, she was just not prepared enough for the task.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

Her plane may not have been off-the-shelf, but I'm sure she was heavily involved in any modification to it. She was a pilot, that was her concern.

She probably didn't consider herself a radio operator, and didn't realize how critical it was to fully understand the radio gear.

My guess is that at that point in time, being a radio operator would be like someone who knew something like 3d printing in great detail today. It was a niche skill that involved a lot of obscure knowledge. If someone doesn't know something like 3d printing, someone can set it all up for them and then say "ok, when you're ready, hit this button, when you're done, do this" and they can use it. I assume that's what happened with the radio setup. Someone with expertise set it up, and it might have worked, but she didn't know enough to troubleshoot it when it went wrong.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 40 points 3 weeks ago

If anyone is curious here's a fairly exhaustive description of the radio situation for this flight:

https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/pan-am-radio-pioneer-capt-almon-gray-amelia-didnt-know-radio/

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 60 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Is misinformation okay if it's a shit post?

[–] Soulg@ani.social 18 points 3 weeks ago

Only if it's misinformation that's also rage bait

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter if the radios worked, they were 60 miles off course, no one was looking there.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago

Not only that, they weren't near the burmuda triangle!

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

A woman couldn't fail at something, how can we make it a man's fault?

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is there splooge on 'died'?

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cause apps like tiktok will prevent your post from being seen for having a scary bad word and now they have everyone trained to self-censor

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Because advertisers don’t want their ads associated with negative words. You can say whatever as long as it isn’t against ToS, but if it’s negative it will be buried.

[–] MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

If you play the triangle in the Bermuda triangle everyone who's ever died there comes back to life, but with a catch. All the men have Jenkem filled balls and all the women have smegma filled tits. That's why no one has ever done it, no one wants hundreds of disgusting abominations risen from the dead.

There's one exception to this though, a weird Christian cult in the 1970s believe that when Jesus resurrected and escaped from his tomb he actually walked on water all the way to the Bermuda triangle where he died for realsies. The cult members all made a pilgrimage there to play the triangle to resurrect him again but they all died.

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[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Men are the reason Amelia Earhart died?

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 70 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Only if you ignore most of the facts about the situation that got her killed, if i recall correctly the mission was a bit rushed, there were some miscommunication, and for some reason her radio wasn't able to receive from the ship that she was supposed to meet up with, so the ship could hear her but she couldn't hear them, and thus she couldn't locate the ship

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 weeks ago

Oh the problem wasn't with the radio, she didn't know how it worked.

[–] jafra@slrpnk.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This still doesn't sum up to "she was ignored by men"

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ironically "she ignored men" is technically more correct (although still not what happened)

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