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 gas—the kind that heats ovens and boils water—specifically 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 methane—normally frozen at great pressure as gas hydrates embedded within subterranean rock—can become dislodged and transform into gaseous bubbles expanding geometrically as they explode upwards.
(Excerpt) Read more at salem-news.com ...
Being a Librarian, I totally trust Kusche anyway, but, having read his book several times, and, having read his book about Flight 19.
He checked the facts, and the stories fell apart.
If you can get hold of it, the NOVA program on TBT was great.
They went to some of the big names (Berliz, Warner) and let them shoot themselves in the foot. They got Warner to admit he lied in his books to make better stories. Then they showed conclusively that statistically that there just wasn’t anything going on.
Yep, me too.
I remember reading an article some years ago that said if you took any single area of ocean the size of the Bermuda Triangle, anywhere in the world, over time you would find dozens, if not hundred of mysterious disappearances.
As a psychologist, I’m well aware of how “scientists” write. But, thanks anyway.
Yes, they did with a boat. They managed to sink it.
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