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Wednesday, 18 August 2010

Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved - Not!


"How Brilliant Computer Scientists Solved the Bermuda Triangle Mystery"
The headline is all over the web. The story behind it is that two scientists - using computer modelling - have cracked the problem of why ships and aircraft have vansihed in the so-called 'Bermuda Triangle'.
Turns out that it's all about methane. Certain seabed areas have huge deposits of frozen methane. From time to time the gas escapes in massive bubbles. If  a ship is above the bubble, it immediately sinks. If it is on the edge of such a bubble, everyone on board is suffocated - giving rise to incidents where ships have been found drifting with everyone on board dead. If the methane burp is sufficiently large, even aircraft can be knocked out of the sky.  There is only one problem with the explanation - it is pure, 24 carat hogwash. Had our two scientists done their homework, they would be aware that there has never been a reported instance of a ship found with everyone on board dead. Had they done even more research they would have discovered that there has never been a 'Bermuda Triangle' mystery. It was thoroughly debunked more that thirty years ago by a writer called Lawrence Kusche, in the book shown above. Kusche sieved through through every claimed disappearance in the region. None of them held water. Some ships had never disappeared at all. Some had disappeared in the Pacific, some had disappeared during hurricanes, which the writers had, oddly failed to mention  - and so on.
Yet, through the miracle medium of computer modeling, the impossible has been 'proved'. This will be of no surprise to those of us who regular follow the intriguing results of 'climate modeling'. Oh, and the paper this tripe was published in wasn't some fringe nut outlet, but the American Journal of Physics.

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