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There does some seem to be a high number of crashes there.

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It's actually a myth that the incidence of crashes in the triangle is any greater than anywhere else.

Actually not that I can find any evidence for. If you check with reinsurers like Lloyd's you will find that the Bermuda Triangle carries no higher risk factor than any other comparable shipping lane.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

I think he was shot with more than one bullet from different directions simultaneously. Its either a supernatural act, a conspiracy, or somene with very long arms.All the best.

I always thought that the Bermuda Triangle was sensationalized by a few books and authors looking to make a quick buck. The only thing that dissappeared was peoples money!

No, assuming this means intentional visit. But I can't rule out that organic molecules could have arrived, and panspermia is still a possibility. Small conspiracy (two or three people) - probably, at least for JFK and MLK. Large conspiracy - no. No. No on the Bermuda Triangle. I don't know about tht tiangle

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The gas is methane. The claim is that large deposits of methane get released from the ocean floor.Mythbusters did an episode on the ability of methane to stall a prop plane engine. Yes, it can stall out an engine, but the amount of methane to oxygen ratio is well over anything that nature can produce. The more likely reason (if a methane bubble is the culprit) is that the methane screws with the altimeter and gives a false reading of the pilot climbing, so to adjust they would reduce their altitude: crash. Only viable in reduced/near zero visablity weather conditions.The University of Michigan also do a test using a scale model of a freighter and the effect of a massive methane bubble bursting under it. The effect, under the right conditions, can suck a ship under instantly. Again the bubble has to be enormous to achive that effect.An article I found on the subject.

I recall reading somewhere that many of these "wrecks" did not actually occur in the Triangle. Many were simply vessels that passed through the area and then disappeared elsewhere...some as far a way as the Great Lakes. Yet these "disappearances" where attributed to the Triangle.I can't recall the source though. Anyone else hear this, or am I just a wee bit nuts?

That is the name of a book I read about 25 years ago. (IIRC)The author scours the mags and books for all cases involving the triangle.He then did his best to research each one. From memory some examples are:
1) claim: ship disappears off florida coast mysteriously -- calm night etc.
Actual: headline in NYTimes to the effect of "huge storm off florida coast"2) claim: ship sinks mysteriously in gulf of mexico
actual: article from days previously about the sorry state of repair of an old rust bucket3) claim: ships is gone
actual: no such ship ever existed in any regsistry he could find.4) claim: bermuda triangle has mysterious number of incidents.
actual: taking all the stories in all the mags and books the bermuda triangle covers from the coast of England to out in the pacific off mexico. It happens to cover the most heavily used shipping lanes in the world. -- no mystery.Others are just unexplainable since there isn't enough information to tie them to anything.

This is quite possible. Mechanical failure seems to happen a whole lot more over the water than over land. But perhaps the number of crashes could also simply be attributed to the sheer volume of traffic. But then again, there are more transatlantic flights from England to New York than there are from Miami to the caribbean. But then again we could also factor in that the majority of planes in the Bermuda Triangle are single or twin prop planes that aren't built nearly as well as, or as efficiently, as a Boeing 767. I don;t know, I'm sure there are alot of factors.As for the Mythbusters episode, I think that's where I heard of the methane gas theory, but I didn't see the conclusion. A large methane bubble seems plausible, but it wouldn't surprise me if they busted the myth. Can suck a ship under water, instantly? Maybe that's what happened to the USS Proteus, USS Cyclops, and the USS Nereus. I don't see how ships can just disappear without getting out a distress call. But then again, during the time of their disappearance, its possible they got jacked by German U-boats.

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Faith is not a pathetic sentiment, but robust, vigorous confidence built on the fact that God is holy love. You cannot see Him just now, you cannot fully understand what He's doing, but you know that you know Him." -Oswald Chambers

In typical Mythbusters fashion they ran the test with different levels of methane. Finding that the most plausiable amount of methane to oxygen ratio a methan bubble could produce didn't stall it, they introduced as much methane as was needed to stall it. From my limited memory I believe the level was serveral times higher than you would ever see in an open air system. Relativily instant. From the model test I saw it seemed to be a pretty violent reation. If the freighter was empty and a sudden, large amount of water was to over come the surface I would assume the interior cargo holds would fill with water quite quickly. I could be wrong on this of course.I could see them not being able to send out a signal, just on the fact of not being able to physically send it out. Ship being thrown into a quick, steep list and such.Edited by NeuroCycle, : spelling

Being a skeptic, I am forced to answer I don't know to all those questions and I also believe that most other people don't know either even though they answered "yes" or "no".

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Actually, most of the national debt is owed to US citizens through bonds and the so-called "money from the future" which means spending more money than you have claiming you'll pay it back at some other time.

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You don't know what you believe?The question were 'do you believe X'?People can most certainly know if they believe something

Why have a belief or disbelief in something that I don't know nearly enough about to make a decision one way or the other? The english language is inadequate for me to express my answer in a single word answer. All I can say is I neither believe nor disbelieve "X". Yes, they can.Again, why have a belief or disbelief in something you know almost zip about? Sure, I've seen plenty of tv programs on the bermuda triangle and all the other weird stuff. Heck, I've even seen the fox program on the fake moon landing conspiracy theory thing. Doesn't mean I can speak authoritatively on the subjects.I guess what I'm trying to say in too many words is in the end our belief or disbelief in the things the OP presented means absolutely squat.

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I don't know if any wrecks or plane crashes that occured outside the Triangle was ever attributed erroneously to the Bermuda Triangle. As for wrecks on the Lakes, I know it has happened alot. I think another factor about the Florida coastline could be attributed to the undersea topography. Unlike the Pacific which has deep oceanic shelves, the Atlantic waters off of the coast of Florida is very shallow, where the keel of a ship, particularly large ships where the draft is many feet underwater, run a risk of running aground. Then again, only a tiny part of the Florida coast, (the City of Miami to Miami Beach) is actually consolidated in a portion of the Bermuda Triangle. So that rules that out. But it wouldn't surprise me if people mistakenly attribute many crashes off the coast of Florida to the Bermuda Triangle, even though it is outside of that triangle.

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Faith is not a pathetic sentiment, but robust, vigorous confidence built on the fact that God is holy love. You cannot see Him just now, you cannot fully understand what He's doing, but you know that you know Him." -Oswald Chambers