Is it possible that a dredge could have deposited the stacked bundles with intact bands (as found by Brian Ingram)? I think not, but Bruce reminded me that "strange things do happen sometimes." He wasn't talking about supernatural miracles, just rare events where unexpected orderly results emerge from chaotic events.
I have a lot of experience with all kinds of pumps from my time in commercial fishing, but zero dredge experience. So called "trash pumps" can move large debris through the centrifugal impeller stage without clogging or chopping up the objects.
I have seen dredge effluent being deposited on shore and occasionally have seen large rocks and pieces of waterlogged wood come out unscathed.
Just wondering.
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I believe the dredge is plausible. many think the pump has propellers or blades. it's a impeller. they have changed over the years but they are not meant to chop or cut things up. the impeller pumps the water. some operators can identify things by sound. all sorts of things get sucked up. all depends on how many guards they have to stop objects from going through. reports of chains, tanks, rocks etc. get through. it comes down to how much the impeller would damage the bag and money while passing through. a test needs to be done to put it to rest.
The dredge theory is virtually impossible. In order for the dredge theory to be correct the following series of remarkable events have to occur:
1) Three separate packets have to be dredged from the river bottom, then spread via bulldozer, then migrate another 300 feet minimum, then quickly self-bury all the while...
2) Three individual rubber bands (not simply one but all three) through some remarkable anomaly, remain intact and elastic after each being exposed to the elements (underwater and otherwise) for nearly three years (until 1974 dredge)...
3) These three wonder packets remain with each other through the entire process (dredge, spread and self-bury).
The fact that this is even discussed as an option at this point is the epitome of grasping for straws.
Let's face it, the facts speak for themselves. The only way for these three packets to end up where they ended up was through human intervention..unless we want to embrace a mathematical likelihood bordering on trillions-to-one.
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The dredge theory is virtually impossible. In order for the dredge theory to be correct the following series of remarkable events have to occur:
---How are these events remarkable?
1) Three separate packets have to be dredged from the river bottom, then spread via bulldozer, then migrate another 300 feet minimum, then quickly self-bury all the while...
----If $6000 was 3 packets, then $200,000 was 100 packets. If Cooper lost all the money somehow, or had it and had to get rid of it quickly, then 3 packets out of 100 showing up somewhere together is not too far fetched. Those are pretty good odds from my perspective.
2) Three individual rubber bands (not simply one but all three) through some remarkable anomaly, remain intact and elastic after each being exposed to the elements (underwater and otherwise) for nearly three years (until 1974 dredge)...
-----Do we really need to start this conversation again over bands/straps/packets/bundles/etc.? There are so many discrepancies regarding the exact details of the money find. The fact is that money was found, what happened next is questionable.
3) These three wonder packets remain with each other through the entire process (dredge, spread and self-bury).
----Again, there are possibilities on this one that have been discussed by many others.
The fact that this is even discussed as an option at this point is the epitome of grasping for straws.
----Condescending, as usual, to a group of fairly intelligent and educated people that are regulars on this forum.
Let's face it, the facts speak for themselves. The only way for these three packets to end up where they ended up was through human intervention..unless we want to embrace a mathematical likelihood bordering on trillions-to-one.
---How did you calculate this probability? Bayes' Theorem? A trillion-to-one odds you say? Even Power Ball is only 300 million-to-one. There are plenty of ways the money could have ended up there. Dredge is just one. He could have landed there like some people say, maybe he walked there and dumped the money, maybe he dumped the money further upstream when he thought someone was closing in, maybe it fell out on the aft stairs and didn't drop from the plane until later, maybe he put the money in his shirt like haggarknew said the other day. Maybe it was buried like you said. There are many possibilities.
How can you say that any other theory than yours is "grasping at straws"? It looks to me like you're trying to force Sheridan Peterson as a suspect using the money find as evidence.
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