[ale] OT: How Brilliant Computer Scientists Solved the Bermuda Triangle Mystery

Tue Aug 10 14:57:29 EDT 2010

Odd, this was reported in one on theo Discovery/TLC shows at least a year
ago, which means it had to have been published a year before that.  I wonder
why this is suddenly popped back up?

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 14:42, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> It's OT, and not controversial, but interesting.
>
>
> *Aug-06-2010 14:30*[image: print]<http://salem-news.com/printview.php?id=15442>[image:
> comments]<http://salem-news.com/articles/august062010/bermuda-triangle-ta.php#comments> How
> Brilliant Computer Scientists Solved the Bermuda Triangle Mystery *Terrence
> Aym Salem-News.com*
>
> Oceanographic surveyors of the sea floor in the area of the Bermuda
> Triangle and the North Sea region between continental Europe and Great
> Britain have discovered significant quantities of methane hydrates and older
> eruption sites.
>   [image: The Bermuda Triangle]
>  The Bermuda Triangle. Courtesy: steelkaleidoscopes.typepad.com
>
>  (CHICAGO) - According to two research scientists the mystery of vanished
> ships and airplanes in the region dubbed "The Bermuda Triangle" has been
> solved.
>
> Step aside outer space aliens, time anomalies, submerged giant Atlantean
> pyramids and bizarre meteorological phenomena ... the "Triangle" simply
> suffers from an acute case of gas.
>
> Natural gas—the kind that heats ovens and boils water—specifically methane,
> is the culprit behind the mysterious disappearances and loss of water and
> air craft.
>
> The evidence for this astounding new insight into a mystery that's
> bedeviled the world is laid out in a research paper published in the
> American Journal of Physics.
>
> Professor Joseph Monaghan researched the hypothesis with honor student
> David May at the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
>
> The two hypothesized that large methane bubbles rising from the ocean floor
> might account for many, if not all, of the mysterious disappearances of
> ships and aircraft at specific locales around the world.
>
> Researcher Ivan T. Sanderson identified these mystery areas during the
> 1960s. Sanderson described the actual shape of these regions as more like a
> lozenge rather than a triangle. Some of the more famous spots include an
> area in the Sea of Japan, the North Sea, and of course the infamous "Bermuda
> (or Devil's) Triangle."
>
> Oceanographic surveyors of the sea floor in the area of the Bermuda
> Triangle and the North Sea region between continental Europe and Great
> Britain have discovered significant quantities of methane hydrates and older
> eruption sites.
>
> Because of the correlations and existing data, the two envisioned what
> would happen when gigantic methane bubbles explode from natural fissures on
> the seafloor.
>
> The methane—normally frozen at great pressure as gas hydrates embedded
> within subterranean rock—can become dislodged and transform into gaseous
> bubbles expanding geometrically as they explode upwards. When these bubbles
> reach the surface of the water they soar into the air, still expanding
> upwards and outwards.
>
> Any ships caught within the methane mega-bubble immediately lose all
> buoyancy and sink to the bottom of the ocean. If the bubbles are big enough
> and possess a high enough density they can also knock aircraft out of the
> sky with little or no warning. Aircraft falling victim to these methane
> bubbles will lose their engines-perhaps igniting the methane surrounding
> them-and immediately lose their lift as well, ending their flights by diving
> into the ocean and swiftly plummeting
>
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