Posted on 08/06/2010 10:38:07 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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 gasthe kind that heats ovens and boils waterspecifically 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 methanenormally frozen at great pressure as gas hydrates embedded within subterranean rockcan become dislodged and transform into gaseous bubbles expanding geometrically as they explode upwards.
(Excerpt) Read more at salem-news.com ...
Remember, this part of the ocean is where the Gulf Stream starts, and the waters east of Florida is where the ocean currents sharply curve from going directly west to going northeast. It is this "curve" in the ocean currents that can rile up strange waves and also cause the weather to go from calm to stormy in a very short period of time, and because of the fast weather and wave changes, small wonder why there has been a lot of mysterious airplane and ship disappearances.
Scoff. But Fester knows better.
This has been the accepted theory for about 40 years IIRC. What the hell is new about this story?
Old, old theory...
If they know where these eruption sites are, where are all the wrecks on the bottom?
Methane gas is obviously lighter than water. But is it lighter than air?
My recollection is that a natural gas leak will sink to the floor -- being heavier than air. Thus, there would be no reason whatsoever for an airplane to lose its lift.
Diamond shape -- as the red suit in cards...
(1st hit when you Google "lozenge".)
If we could only operate our cars on all the hot air certain people emit and in conjunction with the natural gas (methane) that we all produce daily in the course of our daily lives, we could putt putt down the road at a leisurely 20 - 30 mph (cost free).
Question is this - how do we connect the input orifice to the engine to our output orifices (mouth and anus).
I'm convinced/s.
That is pretty typical scientific writing. Scientists do not like to state anything as if it is a certainty, because there is always a very high chance someone will come along and prove them wrong. Learning to write this way is a large part of scientific training.
"Gasp!"
"Don't worry. It's just a name"
"Whew!"
"It's really a lozenge shape"
There hypothesis lacks any documented instances to buttress their claim and doesn’t explain how aircraft’s compasses have gone haywire.
There=Their
Nope I was caught in a storm in the triangle between Florida and the Bahama Bank in a 30 ft boat. It almost went down. It was not ‘gas’. It was very very strange.
Would inhaling a higher concentration of methane cause disorientation or an altered mental status, similar to taking in to much oxygen? And could that mental status cause hallucinations making it seem the compass is going off kilter?
Not arguing, just asking because I have no clue.
Clathrate precipitates on the sea floor. AFAIK, the technology to access this form of methane doesn't exist. It's not a normal underground reservoir like Macondo, or even a shale deposit.
Methane by itself “is” lighter than air, and will thus rise. But when it forms a clathrate with water, the resulting species is heavier than water and will sink. So yes, the theoretical result with airplanes is correct. Melt the clathrate and release the methane and the result is a myriad of bubbles rising through the water (and then the air). In water these bubbles cause the density of the water column to drop much like an fluidized bed causes sand to act like water. So the resulting “aerosolized” (methanolized??) water column will no longer support the weight of boats, which will literally “drop like a rock”.
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