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2006-09-18 11:40:22 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Physics

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The Bermuda Triangle (a.k.a. the Devil's Triangle) is a triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Legend has it that many people, ships and planes have mysteriously vanished in this area. How many have mysteriously disappeared depends on who is doing the locating and the counting. The size of the triangle varies from 500,000 square miles to three times that size, depending on the imagination of the author. (Some include the Azores, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies in the "triangle.") Some trace the mystery back to the time of Columbus. Even so, estimates range from about 200 to no more than 1,000 incidents in the past 500 years. Howard Rosenberg claims that in 1973 the U.S. Coast Guard answered more than 8,000 distress calls in the area and that more than 50 ships and 20 planes have gone down in the Bermuda Triangle within the last century.

Many theories have been given to explain the extraordinary mystery of these missing ships and planes. Evil extraterrestrials, residue crystals from Atlantis, evil humans with anti-gravity devices or other weird technologies, and vile vortices from the fourth dimension are favorites among fantasy writers. Strange magnetic fields and oceanic flatulence (methane gas from the bottom of the ocean) are favorites among the technically-minded. Weather (thunderstorms, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, high waves, currents, etc.) bad luck, pirates, explosive cargoes, incompetent navigators, and other natural and human causes are favorites among skeptical investigators.

There are some skeptics who argue that the facts do not support the legend, that there is no mystery to be solved, and nothing that needs explaining.The number of wrecks in this area is not extraordinary, given its size, location and the amount of traffic it receives. Many of the ships and planes that have been identified as having disappeared mysteriously in the Bermuda Triangle were not in the Bermuda Triangle at all. Investigations to date have not produced scientific evidence of any unusual phenomena involved in the disappearances. Thus, any explanation, including so-called scientific ones in terms of methane gas being released from the ocean floor, magnetic disturbances, etc., are not needed. The real mystery is how the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery at all.

The modern legend of the Bermuda Triangle began soon after five Navy planes [Flight 19] vanished on a training mission during a severe storm in 1945. The most logical theory as to why they vanished is that lead pilot Lt. Charles Taylor’s compass failed. The trainees' planes were not equipped with working navigational instruments. The group was disoriented and simply, though tragically, ran out of fuel. No mysterious forces were likely to have been involved other than the mysterious force of gravity on planes with no fuel. It is true that one of the rescue planes blew up shortly after take-off, but this was likely due to a faulty gas tank rather than to any mysterious forces.

Over the years there have been dozens of articles, books, and television programs promoting the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. In his study of this material, Larry Kushe found that few did any investigation into the mystery. Rather, they passed on the speculations of their predecessors as if they were passing on the mantle of truth. Of the many uncritical accounts of the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, perhaps no one has done more to create this myth than Charles Berlitz, who had a bestseller on the subject in 1974. After examining the 400+ page official report of the Navy Board of Investigation of the disappearance of the Navy planes in 1945, Kushe found that the Board wasn't baffled at all by the incident and did not mention alleged radio transmissions cited by Berlitz in his book. According to Kushe, what isn't misinterpreted by Berlitz is fabricated. Kushe writes: "If Berlitz were to report that a boat were red, the chance of it being some other color is almost a certainty." (Berlitz, by the way, did not invent the name; that was done by Vincent Gaddis in "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle," which appeared in the February, 1964, issue of Argosy, a magazine devoted to fiction.)

In short, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery by a kind of communal reinforcement among uncritical authors and a willing mass media to uncritically pass on the speculation that something mysterious is going on in the Atlantic.

2006-09-18 11:44:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Its actual. there is not any longer something paranormal or mysterious approximately it although. The Bermuda Triangle, additionally time-honored because of the fact the devil's Triangle, is a area interior the western area of the North Atlantic Ocean the place numerous airplane and floor vessels allegedly disappeared mysteriously. familiar way of existence has attributed those disappearances to the magical or pastime with the aid of aliens.[one million] Documented information shows that an substantial share of the incidents have been inaccurately mentioned or adorned with the aid of later authors, and distinctive good companies have mentioned that the type and nature of disappearances interior the area is equivalent to that throughout the different area of ocean.

2016-10-15 03:38:04 · answer #2 · answered by mcfee 4 · 0 0

It is an arbitrary triangle where urban legend has it that strange things happen, ships and airplanes mysteriously disappear, instruments don't work etc etc. Variously blamed on extraterrestrials, Lost Atlantis, mysterious energy vortexes.

However, it's all bullshitt...there is no mystery, there are no more ship sinkings in that part of the world than any other ocean. The craze was started by pseudoscience author Charles Berlitz in the 1970's and perpetuated by himself and others. Each of the incidents he mentioned in his book has been investigated by actual scientists and found to be easily explainanable, factually incorrect, or just plain never happened. Still, people love a good yarn and they bought his books.

2006-09-18 11:52:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

That is a very interesting question! I would say that, is very possible that the bermuda triangle could be a time machine. No one's ever came back from it, after being sucked in, which makes it very mysterious. Airlines do not fly through it nor does the military. why do you think that is? Interesting stuff!!

There is no evidence to prove anything, just theories.
scientist can't explain alot of things, but just because we can't explain it, it doesn't mean that it can't exist.

2006-09-18 12:01:57 · answer #4 · answered by Clark Kent 2 · 0 1

Based on the disappearances in that part of the world it is hard to say what the causative agent is, but I do not believe it is probable that there is any time dilation or distortion taking effect. If there were, the larger question would be when will it occur again and why hasn't it happend more recently?

It makes for an interesting topic, more legend and myth than fact, but it doesn't negate the possibility that such a void or tear in space-time could exist.

2006-09-18 11:44:45 · answer #5 · answered by RHJ Cortez 4 · 0 1

not at all.here what it is.Bermuda triangle was very popular because of its so called mysterious behaviour.almost 600 planes and ships were disappeared in it.but now truth has been revealed.a year ago a drilling ship near that triangle found something like stone in sea.scientist found that was gas hydrate.which was made under great heat and pressure in the sea.they were in the bottom of the sea.they were made of methane.the thing ships drawn in that are because of some sudden pressure release , suddenly that solid thing explodes.and the gas suddenly goes up.so water loses its float in that area and the ship sailing goes down like a stone in water.and planes flying over it also gets down because lack of oxygen.so fuel doesn't burn.so planes goes down,too.so gas hydrate is the cause.

2006-09-18 11:49:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Hi. Wow, good question! You know, you may be on to something there. I am not usually a crypto-science freak or anything, but the Bermuda triangle seems to be very real to me. It isn't like some guy in a monkey suit in the woods. Yes, I think it could be. But whose? Now there is the question! Who created it? Who operates it? What's on the other end? Very cool idea. Thank you.

2006-09-18 11:45:59 · answer #7 · answered by Isis 7 · 1 3

No, child. Do you realize how primitive, illogical, political, manipulative, irrational, gullible, . . . and just plane ridiculous superstition is? Things are what they appear. Period. Look beyond that and you're seeing boogie men in shadows. Get real. If you insist on believing in such nonsense, your mindlessness makes you the perfect candidate to join a cult-- or you could don a pez and replace a monkey in a sideshow.

2006-09-18 11:53:33 · answer #8 · answered by tigerzntalons 4 · 0 1

to tell youthe truth i really want to know the fisrt thing i thought was the bermuda triangle is probably atlantis the lost city or something but right now im with anything about it

2006-09-18 11:48:45 · answer #9 · answered by ♥ Chelle ♥ 2 · 0 2

na i think its an excuse made up by people that wanna say they got lost in a time machine.

2006-09-18 11:48:32 · answer #10 · answered by damn.green 1 · 0 0

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