Have you been listening to sirens again?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">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. <br>
<br>I googled up a good summary of the skeptical point of view on the (alleged) mystery of the Bermuda Triangle in about two minutes ( <a href="http://www.skepdic.com/bermuda.html" target="_blank">http://www.skepdic.com/bermuda.html</a> ).<br>
<br>-- CHS <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Pete Hardie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com" target="_blank">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 14:42, Greg Freemyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com" target="_blank">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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It's OT, and not controversial, but interesting.<div class="gmail_quote"><div>
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