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The Bermuda Triangle - Debunked?
ezinearticles.com ^ | By Jane P. Long

Posted on 03/14/2014 11:35:28 AM PDT by virgil283

"The Bermuda Triangle, known to some as the Devil's Triangle, has been the area of numerous mysterious disappearances over the years. What truly baffles the world is that both planes and ships have gone missing. What is powerful and dangerous enough to sink ships and take planes out of the sky?......"

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History; Weird Stuff
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The latest scientific theory, which many scientists believe solve the age-old mystery, is gas. Methane gas, to be exact. They claim that gas builds up under the ocean floor due to organic materials and other substances. They claim that when it gets disturbed it rises to the top of the water. Since methane is much lighter than water and air, it rises quickly through the water and continues to rise once it hits the air.

Experiments have shown that this gas can cause a ship to sink in a matter of seconds. A ship stays afloat because it weighs less than the water, but what would happen if suddenly, the boat were heavier than the water? There would be no warning; no visual signs, just the simple fact that the boat hit a spot where instantly, it was much heavier than the water around it. Tests show, it would sink like a stone.

This same effect would be carried on up in the atmosphere. A plane would suddenly lose its ability to stay aloft. It too would drop like a rock, crashing into the ocean below. How big a methane bubble would there have to be to cause this kind of instant reaction?

Would a pilot facing this type of situation have the chance to radio for help? Could enough gas have gone into the atmosphere and taken out an entire squadron of planes let alone one? The famous flight 19 that went missing on a training mission consisted of five planes. How much gas would have to be released to down five planes simultaneously?

The methane gas theory is not accepted by everyone. Some researchers claim that the ocean has not released enough methane gas to sink a ship let alone five planes. They claim that such an event has not happened in thousands and thousands of years......" Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/5069325

Other suggest methane sucked into an internal combustion engine would cause the boat or plane to explode. Others say this cloud of methane is ionized which could cause gages and electronic to malfunction...

1 posted on 03/14/2014 11:35:28 AM PDT by virgil283
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To: virgil283

I saw a documentary on this a number of years ago, Discovery channel I think. It explains a lot. They tested putting methane into an aircraft engine and it stalled cold. And even if it didn’t, it would make the air much lighter, giving the pilot the impression that they were climbing, then they would dive to compensate and thus, crash. And it makes sense with the water too. It was fascinating. There’s probably some kind of natural/metaphysical combo in that particular area.


2 posted on 03/14/2014 11:39:22 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: virgil283

Q: “What is powerful and dangerous enough to sink ships and take planes out of the sky?”

A: BushChenyHaliburton

Next!


3 posted on 03/14/2014 11:40:12 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: jurroppi1

(Did I need to add a sarc tag?)


4 posted on 03/14/2014 11:41:45 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: virgil283
A ship stays afloat because it weighs less than the water,

WTF ??

5 posted on 03/14/2014 11:43:15 AM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: virgil283

Methane can explain some, even many, of the disappearances.

But Flight 19’s cause is probably something else: the flight didn’t just disappear, there were repeated radio messages indicating they were lost and couldn’t figure out where they were. They ran out of gas and ditched somewhere well outside the search area, possibly even across FL in the Gulf of Mexico.


6 posted on 03/14/2014 11:48:48 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Zeneta

Yes. A ship stays afloat because it weighs less than the water displaced by its hull.


7 posted on 03/14/2014 11:50:06 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: Zeneta

Pockets of air built into ships keep them from sinking because they make the ship weigh less than water.


8 posted on 03/14/2014 11:51:10 AM PDT by kitkat (STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY.)
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9 posted on 03/14/2014 11:51:37 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: Oberon

Yes, I know, the key word is displaced.

It’s the air in the ship that weighs less.


10 posted on 03/14/2014 11:52:29 AM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: virgil283

Anyone checking out the Large Hadron Collider?

That stuff gives me chills;)


11 posted on 03/14/2014 11:52:30 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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To: Dallas59

Funny thing is an actual alien could walk around the streets and we are so conditioned to freaks no one would bat an eye...


12 posted on 03/14/2014 11:53:14 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: virgil283; nickcarraway; JoeProBono
The latest scientific theory, which many scientists believe solve the age-old mystery, is gas. Methane gas, to be exact. They claim that gas builds up under the ocean floor due to organic materials and other substances. They claim that when it gets disturbed it rises to the top of the water. Since methane is much lighter than water and air, it rises quickly through the water and continues to rise once it hits the air.

Am stealing and am repurposing this picture from another thread:

13 posted on 03/14/2014 11:53:15 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Zeneta
It’s the air in the ship that weighs less.

Thank you for clearing that up for us.

14 posted on 03/14/2014 11:53:53 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: Dallas59

Thats so funny.....Man, I’d run too.....


15 posted on 03/14/2014 11:54:10 AM PDT by virgil283 (When the sun spins, the cross appears, and the skies burn red)
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To: Oberon

Maybe I’m nitpicking, but I thought the writers statement was poorly written.


16 posted on 03/14/2014 11:55:41 AM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: tanknetter

But Flight 19’s cause is probably something else: the flight didn’t just disappear, there were repeated radio messages indicating they were lost and couldn’t figure out where they were.


That one was actually debunked by a PBS special roughly 20 years ago. Interesting cause: There are two land masses that look almost identical and if you think you are flying over one when you are really flying over the other you will head out to sea when you think you are headed back to the mainland. And interestingly one of the pilots in the flight was trying to argue that they were, in fact, going the wrong way, but the commander didn’t listen to him.


17 posted on 03/14/2014 11:56:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Oberon

Yeah. The metal parts are heavier than the water, but the air parts more than compensate. :-P


18 posted on 03/14/2014 11:57:00 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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19 posted on 03/14/2014 11:57:50 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: cotton1706
This is the same thing our Captain told us on the Celebrity Summit.
20 posted on 03/14/2014 12:09:54 PM PDT by angcat
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