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PostPosted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 10:46 am 
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Errrr.....

Edit: The crabs had them...?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/cult ... hart-fate/

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 3:33 pm 
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Makes sense. That's what happened to all those killed on the Titanic; the sea life ate the remains.
There was an airliner crash in the everglades once and I read that the younger rescuers were retching at the sight of critters and marine life crawling off with the pieces of those killed to have for dinner.

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p51 wrote:
Makes sense.


It only makes sense if the aircraft actually came down there. You need to have an airplane or decent evidence of one before you get to claim "crabs stole the bodies". The absence of bodies does not prove that Nikamaru was the crash site.

As I posted elsewhere, TIGHAR is prone to telling stories in a way that doesn't get cause and effect in the right order... "The lack of remains proves that crabs ate the bodies after the crash."

Um, what proof is there of a crash?


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i thought they were parked next to the B-24s on the moon :roll: :lol:

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p51 wrote:
Makes sense.

It only makes sense if the aircraft actually came down there. You need to have an airplane or decent evidence of one before you get to claim "crabs stole the bodies". The absence of bodies does not prove that Nikamaru was the crash site.

Hey, I'm not saying they landed there or specifically anywhere else for that matter, I am only saying that it is likely that the local marine life would have eaten the evidence if they'd gone down in water somewhere. Like in the case of the Titanic, you'd likely just have remains like shoe heels and anything metal left over (and unlike the Titanic victims, some bone fragments).

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i thought they were parked next to the B-24s on the moon :roll: :lol:


I thought it was B-32`s on the moon?


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If there were crabs there, hopefully someone brought some melted butter.

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Hooefully, if they had crabs there someone brought some melted butter.

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the B-32s are in the next crater over :P

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the B-32s are in the next crater over :P


Come-on, let's be honest! There was a photograph of only one B-32 on the moon!


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Having spent just one night in the jungle on Tinian - those coconut crabs can seem like a Tiger Tank moving thought the dark when its just you and a couple friends out there.

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it is likely that the local marine life would have eaten the evidence if they'd gone down in water somewhere.


The crabs that Nat Geo is referring to are not marine life. They are coconut crabs--land animals. But their pincer strength is about equal to that of a Maine lobster, and they are omnivorous. They can easily be a foot across.


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