Conspiracy Revealed

So, I didn't end up in Mongolia. I ended up in Edinburgh, staying for two nights in the Witchery's Library Suite. The incredibly wonderful inannajones had been plotting this for about a year. I was stunned enough by that, but even more stunned to learn that she had roped in grutok, wyvernfriend, puritybrown, mr_wombat, followthebird, olethros, calendril, loupblanc, sismith42, dryad_wombat, cartographer, shootbambi and utterlymundane to help celebrate.

I'm still too stunned to do a writeup justice, so I'll just say a resounding thank you to everyone involved, and link to the pictures inannajones took. And add that the Witchery is the best hotel of any kind I have ever, ever stayed in, and that I had an unbelievably superb weekend.

Six Unknown Plane Wrecks in Nevada

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

There’s a BBC report about the Amazon Mechanical Turk effort to find Steve Fosset’s missing plane from satellite imagery. One of the bits of information in it is a bit mind-boggling:

The search in Nevada by the Civil Air Patrol and many private pilots has discovered six previously unknown wrecks - some of which were decades old.

This is a part of one of the most completely mapped, intensively satellite-covered countries in the world. Further, a lot of it’s desert - rock and mountain, not much in the way of trees to conceal a crash, or water to crash into and sink. One plane taking days to locate is bizarre enough, but to find six others that nobody knew about in the process? Were they ones that were searched for before and not found, or are there planes falling from interdimensional rifts over Nevada?

EDIT: A bit more information on the other wrecks.