Hi Everybody,
The Discovery Channel is airing a special on what could be the cause of the problems in the Bermuda Triangle tomorrow, May 2 at 9 p.m. It should be interesting.
The Discovery Channel is airing a special on what could be the cause of the problems in the Bermuda Triangle tomorrow, May 2 at 9 p.m. It should be interesting.
posted by:
|
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Sat, May 1, 2004 - 7:30 PMooh! thanks for the info! can't wait!
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Mon, May 3, 2004 - 3:32 PMyes, it was very interesting... i never would have thought that methane gas could possibly take down a boat or a plane. now that i watched the special it all makes sense. BUT!! what about Flight 19?! i'd love to watch something on that when they do find it... that'll be very interesting as to where they are found. -
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Mon, May 3, 2004 - 5:54 PMI haven't seen the last hour (it's on tape) but I'd heard the methane theory before. I'd NEVER seen the footage of the North Sea oil platform that was almost sunk by a giant methane bubble. THAT was amazing. I thought it was kind of funny when they went to all that trouble just to find those five Avengers, only to find that they aren't the right ones. A careful search of an archive revealed the answer. YEAH! Archivists rule! -
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Tue, May 4, 2004 - 12:14 AMyou know when they found those 5 avengers, somehow i wasn't surprised that it would be the wrong avengers. i didn't expect them to be there, i can't explain that... i just had a gut feeling that they wouldn't find the missing flight 19.
gosh, sometimes when they have specials in certain bodies of water, i keep thinking "dammit, why can't we just x-ray the whole damn ocean?" but i'm sure with time, someone is bound to find something. i know about the ultra waves, etc but to create something to pierce through the density of the water, that would be awesome! -
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Tue, May 4, 2004 - 10:08 AMThere *is* ice- and snow-penetrating radar that I believe has also been used to map the ocean floors. I don't know, however, if it provides the resolution required to pick up something as relatively small as an airplane or even a ship. -
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Tue, May 4, 2004 - 9:04 PMyeah, i've heard of that too... i wonder if they're working on something to single out small objects. although that'll probably be very expensive, etc. *someday* -
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Wed, May 5, 2004 - 10:00 AMI'm pretty sure the government already has something like that--they just aren't sharing. -
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Wed, May 5, 2004 - 10:25 AMYep - I was thinking the same thing. I sure there have been plenty of time when they have wanted to look for certain somethings and needed extra-special equipment to do it with.
Cour, we all know the high quality of our governments searching skills.
"Bermuda Triangle? I looked alllllll over and you know what? Not 1 damn triangle! Not a single one!"
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Fri, May 7, 2004 - 9:03 PMWhy is it that every television show that advertises itself as being about something that is "unexplained" invariably tries to explain it? And how is it that once credible explanations have been offered for something it remains "unexplained"? I have yet to be a TV show or book that advertises itself as dealing with something that is "poorly explained," "incompletely explained," or just "explained but not in the right way". -
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Sat, May 8, 2004 - 5:35 AMAnother factor is that even if a credible explanation *is* offered, there will ALWAYS be a sector of the population that refuses to accept it.
Let me give a good example of this. You guys have heard of Anna Anderson, the nutjob who was fished out of a Berlin canal in the 1920s and claimed to be the Grand-Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II. She claimed to have survived the assassination of the family and to have, somehow, made her way to Germany. A lot of people have bought this story and I'm not really sure why. If there's one thing the bolsheviks were good at, it was silencing the opposition.
Fast forward to the discovery of the Romanov's graves in the Ural Mountains of Russia. Since the bones of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra had been found, it was now possible to do DNA testing and see if Anna really was Anastasia. They did a television special on this and got DNA samples from Anderson's hair brushes. The film showed two *hardcore* believers in Anderson's claim gushing about how the tests would show that Anna really was the Grand-Duchess. They showed them getting the news that the DNA tests showed conclusively that Anderson WAS NOT a Romanov. In a few seconds, the supporters went from believing in the infalibility of DNA evidence to damning the process and saying that they would continue to work for evidence that Anderson was a Romanov.
It's just amazing, isn't it? -
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Sat, May 8, 2004 - 12:47 PMnicely put, thanks! and yes it is amazing... like a magic trick, there's always something to distract the eye and mind.
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Mon, May 10, 2004 - 6:03 PMNot to mention the millions of people who still insist on the divinity of Jesus and the reality of the Resurrection, let alone a six-day Creation that took place in 4004 BC. And what about the rejection of credible explanations for the stories of Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, the parting of the Red Sea, and the authorship of the Bible? There's also the issue of the Shroud of Turin...
It's amazing, indeed. Some myths will never die. I think it was Will Rogers who said, "Ignorance isn't so much about what you don't know as what you DO know that's wrong." -
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Tue, May 11, 2004 - 4:05 AMI have no problem, per se, with people saying that Jesus was divine because I think that all prophets are. Buddha, Mohammed, whoever. I have a problem with the whole "virgin birth, resurrected in three days, son of God" line though.
Here's a link to an amazing story from the NY Times about a Creationist theme park in Florida. It's for whackos who want to take their kids on vacation without being exposed to reality.
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Sat, October 2, 2004 - 11:58 AMJust because there is an explanation of something, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's the correct explanation. I can't prove that Christ is divine, but neither can you prove that he isn't. -
-
Re: Bermuda Triangle Special
Thu, October 7, 2004 - 5:45 PMI was talking to my friend Eris and mentioned your comment. She asked me to post this in response.
"di*vine ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-vn)
adj. di*vin*er, di*vin*est
1. Having the nature of or being a deity.
2. Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the _expression of a deity: sought divine guidance through meditation.
3. Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred.
4. Superhuman; godlike.
5. Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent: a divine performance of the concerto.
6. Extremely pleasant; delightful: had a divine time at the ball.
Heavenly; perfect.
To believe a person was divine is to believe in God or gods. If that belief does not exist then there is no need to "prove" Jesus was divine since it would be impossible. Furthermore, while an individual named Jesus may very well have existed, and may even have fulfilled the secondary defintion of "divine", to build an entire theme park based on the supposed actions and unprovable words of a random individual is both ridiculous and exploitive. The fact that the people who built the theme park do indeed believe in his God-given divinity only makes the rampant commercialism of the theme park that much more exploitive and frankly, disgusting."
-
-
-
-
