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

[Charles Shapiro]

Umm.  This is very OT, but the best explanation of the Bermuda Triangle is
that it doesn't exist. That is to say, given the size of the area and the
amount of traffic moving through that it, the number of ships and airplanes
that have disappeared 'without a trace' is not unusual.  Also please to note
that the most famous case ( the 5 Navy airplanes on a training mission in
1945) vanished in a heavy storm with only a single compass between all of
them.  It could be that Space Aliens snatched them away, or that they flew
into an enormous Chrono-Synclastic Infindibulum, or a Giant Gas Bubble
consumed them, but I think it more likely that they got lost, ran out of
fuel, and fell into the sea.  Even over dry land, a surprising number of
civil aviation flights vanish when their pilots fly into the terrain without
contacting anyone. Of course, if you ignore Occam's Razor then all these
theories are equally plausible.

I googled up a good summary of the skeptical point of view on the (alleged)
mystery of the Bermuda Triangle in about two minutes (
http://www.skepdic.com/bermuda.html ).

-- CHS

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
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>> *Aug-06-2010 14:30*[image: print]<http://salem-news.com/printview.php?id=15442>
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