What I found interesting about this expedition was that according to
accepted dating techniques, those P-38's are at least 300 years old or
more. :-)
Oh, and they didn't fail to recover them.

Either the pilgrims had a secret air force, or current core dating
techniques are crap. Though I question most dating techniques as they
all seem to be circular and without frame of reference. eg "this stick
is a meter long because we measured it with this ruler we made and this
ruler is a meter long because we checked it against this stick we
believe to be a meter long."

references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core#Dating_cores
http://www.thelostsquadron.com/p-38-pages/p-38-lightning-recovery.htm

Bob Axtell wrote:
> This is well-thought out, Steve.
>
> I'm even skeptical that the icepack is actually melting.  About 3 years 
> ago, an expedition was launched
> to salvage a group of WWII airplanes that were forced down onto an 
> icepack in the Artic in 1942.
> They were expected to be pristine because the icepack should be 
> negligible as a result of GW.
>
> In fact the expedition failed because the airplanes were buried 300 feet 
> deep in new icepack. So much
> for GW.
>
> --Bob
>
>   
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