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

[Jim Kinney]

I'll have one of whatever he's having...

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm FB friends with Elvis, Sasquatch, the Chupacabra, and the Loch Ness
> Monster. How come you haven't turned up in their "mutual friends" box?
>
> Anyways,they've already told me about how the moon landings were faked from
> a studio on the moon, and that the Kennedy Assassination was a cover-up for
> the Space Aliens building the pyramids.  Of course, it all really came down
> to 9/11, when the CIA and the KGB collaborated to cover up a massive Alien
> Abduction scandal...
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com>wrote:
>
>>   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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