[ale] OT: How Brilliant Computer Scientists Solved the BermudaTriangle Mystery

[Lightner, Jeff]

I totally disagree with this paper.   

 

Elvis told me and Sasquatch that it was the aliens on the flying saucer
we were traveling on at the time that were taking these vessels
Apparently they make good hood ornaments for their mother ships.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Charles Shapiro
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 3:26 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: How Brilliant Computer Scientists Solved the
BermudaTriangle Mystery

 

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. 

I googled up a good summary of the skeptical point of view on the
(alleged) mystery of the Bermuda Triangle in about two minutes (
http://www.skepdic.com/bermuda.html ).

-- CHS 

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
wrote:

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?



On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 14:42, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
wrote:

	It's OT, and not controversial, but interesting.

	 

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