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| titletext = The Roanoke Lost Colonists founded Roanoke, the Franklin Expedition reached the Pacific in 2009 when the Northwest Passage opened, and Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union--he just started going by 'James'.
 
| titletext = The Roanoke Lost Colonists founded Roanoke, the Franklin Expedition reached the Pacific in 2009 when the Northwest Passage opened, and Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union--he just started going by 'James'.
 
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
The aviation pioneer {{w|Amelia Earhart|Amelia Earhart's}} plane comes back to land after it went missing in 1937. Earhart was presumed dead and that her plane went down sometime during her journey. But, this comic supposes that it just took her 74 years to fly around the Earth without really ageing a day. (This means that her average speed was under one mile a day; although she says it's a long flight it can't be that long as no plane flies that slow.)
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The aviation pioneer {{w|Amelia Earhart|Amelia Earhart's}} plane comes back to land after it went missing in 1937. Earhart was presumed dead and that her plane went down sometime during her journey. But, this comic supposes that it just took her 74 years to fly around the Earth without really aging a day. This means that her average speed was under one mile a day; although she says it's a long flight it can't be that long as no plane flies that slow.
  
 
The title text proposed a few more solutions to mysteries including the lost colonists of {{w|Roanoke Colony|Roanoke}}, who were one of the first groups to come to North America, suddenly disappeared, and leaving their colony untouched. The {{w|Franklin's lost expedition|Franklin Expedition}} was a British voyage in 1845 to study the {{w|Northwest Passage}} that also disappeared somewhere in northern Canada. {{w|Jimmy Hoffa}} was the famous {{w|International Brotherhood of Teamsters|Teamsters Union}} leader who went missing in 1975 and declared dead in 1982 (possibly murdered).
 
The title text proposed a few more solutions to mysteries including the lost colonists of {{w|Roanoke Colony|Roanoke}}, who were one of the first groups to come to North America, suddenly disappeared, and leaving their colony untouched. The {{w|Franklin's lost expedition|Franklin Expedition}} was a British voyage in 1845 to study the {{w|Northwest Passage}} that also disappeared somewhere in northern Canada. {{w|Jimmy Hoffa}} was the famous {{w|International Brotherhood of Teamsters|Teamsters Union}} leader who went missing in 1975 and declared dead in 1982 (possibly murdered).
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Revision as of 00:26, 9 February 2014

Mystery Solved
The Roanoke Lost Colonists founded Roanoke, the Franklin Expedition reached the Pacific in 2009 when the Northwest Passage opened, and Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union--he just started going by 'James'.
Title text: The Roanoke Lost Colonists founded Roanoke, the Franklin Expedition reached the Pacific in 2009 when the Northwest Passage opened, and Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union--he just started going by 'James'.

Explanation

The aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart's plane comes back to land after it went missing in 1937. Earhart was presumed dead and that her plane went down sometime during her journey. But, this comic supposes that it just took her 74 years to fly around the Earth without really aging a day. This means that her average speed was under one mile a day; although she says it's a long flight it can't be that long as no plane flies that slow.

The title text proposed a few more solutions to mysteries including the lost colonists of Roanoke, who were one of the first groups to come to North America, suddenly disappeared, and leaving their colony untouched. The Franklin Expedition was a British voyage in 1845 to study the Northwest Passage that also disappeared somewhere in northern Canada. Jimmy Hoffa was the famous Teamsters Union leader who went missing in 1975 and declared dead in 1982 (possibly murdered).

Transcript

[A twin prop airplane flies high overhead.]
Off-screen person: What's that airplane?
[The plane lands, a pilot steps out and waves to the crowd.]
Off-screen person: Holy crap— Is that Amelia Earhart?
[The frame shows a close up of Amelia Earhart.]
Amelia: Hey everyone! My flight was a success!
Off-screen person: But... Where were you!?
[The frame shows a wide view of Amelia again, she stops waving.]
Amelia: I flew around the world!
Off-screen person: But you disappeared in 1937!
Amelia: Right, to fly around the world.
Off-screen person: It's 2011!
Amelia: The world is big. It's a long flight.
Off-screen person: But you... It's not... I—
Amelia: Can I talk to someone smarter?


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Discussion

The Northwest Passage is a sea route from the North Atlantic to the Pacific, north of the North American continent. It has not been "open" until very recent years; the icepack extends far enough south that it is not generally navigable. 75.103.23.206 16:12, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Another possible explanation is that the world includes more than just Earth. Amelia might have had to travel at or over the speed of light, which would also explain the time effects. 108.162.246.11 21:23, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Yeah... I'm pretty sure this can't be looked at with a logical eye. I find this explanation to be lacking and I will probably return to do some re-working. Lackadaisical (talk) 01:44, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

About impersonating your son - that's what all vampires and other long-lived people do. 162.158.90.83 18:20, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

If she flew at near lightspeed for 74 years, it wouldn't have taken her 74 years from our perspective. Maybe she's been living on some unknown island for 70 years? IJustWantToEditStuff (talk) 04:27, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Added "objective" to that bit, to make it plain it wasn't her years but (within the most handy alternate frame of reference) ours. It has to fit with the non-aging aspect of the whole mystery, so the living-on-an-island answer doesn't replace the lightspeed one that way. (Unless the island had mystically soporific qualities, like Sleeping Beauty's castle!) 172.70.90.117 08:52, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
....someone undid that edit without any attempt at explanation (hello? did that person read this at all?). Possibly a metaphysical issue with there being no absolute objective frames of reference, as I had myself pondered during the insertion of that word, but I'm not sure it was quite so well thought out. So I put "non-subjective" in its place, instead, to perhaps better serve the same purpose but without (the same) problems. Hopefully that will satisfy both you (IJWTES) and them, this time. If not, I'll just let someone else work out the better way to mention/clarify it. 141.101.98.193 09:06, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

...noting, in passing, the current news story claiming to have found her plane. (Well, a plane, is the most I'd credit it at right now. But future editors will know more.) 172.71.178.95 13:25, 30 January 2024 (UTC)