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

[Jim Kinney]

Have you been listening to sirens again?

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

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