I don’t actually have this title category, I just invented the title in honor of what I just stumbled across flipping through channels on DirecTV. I landed on the History Channel. Egads! Some diving guys on a boat haul around some scientist with a “magnetic anomaly detector”, which looks like a Radio Shack electronics kit gone bad, and are looking for black holes (yes the gravitational kind) in the Bermuda Triangle. Yes, really.
Here’s the DVD you can buy from the History Channel.
And here’s the program description:
Explore with us the wonders and mysteries of the Black Holes in our universe. Is it possible that areas on earth might, in fact, show black hole like tendencies?
We take a hard scientific look at an area known as the Bermuda Triangle to see if there are indeed any similarities between the supposed forces in the triangle and the destructive force of a black hole.
From a research boat trip through the triangle to interviews with scientists at the US Geological Survey, Harvard University, and the UK’s Cardiff University, we go far beyond the event horizon to explore the dangers in this area and what relation they might indeed have with its counterpoint in space.
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There’s a line in the TV show where they say “…there’s no question that the climate can change suddenly around the Bermuda triangle”…so for these folks, I guess weather is climate. *Sigh* God help us.
The poor chumps at these prestigious organizations they brought in as experts probably had no idea that they’d appear in a dreckumentary that has the crew of the Minnow looking for black holes under the sea in the Bermuda triangle.
Of course the History Channel also shows “Life after people” and Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth“…so I suppose crap like black hole hunting in the Bermuda Triangle fits right in.
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Yes, of course. Pure dreck. They should have been seeking magnetic anomalies that suck things down into the bowels of the Earth like tractor beams from hell.
The truth is almost always so much more boring than the fantasy. I seem to remember an analysis of shipping and air travel ‘anomalies’ that indicated that the Bermuda triangle area did not have significantly higher numbers of disappearances or irregularities than any other part of the ocean. And now its actually a ‘black hole’.
What is it about the human race that needs to invent the ‘fantastic’ to explain the ‘mundane’ ? Sometimes I wonder if Nigel Lawson was correct when he said that a large part of the AGW scare came about due to the drop of conventional religious belief in Western Europe. When people stop believing in God they don’t believe in ‘nothing’ …… they’ll believe in ANYTHING.
I just Googled “dreckumentary” and this article was the first hit. Cool!
REPLY: I think I may have coined the first usage…we’ll have to check – A
Frakin’ magnets. How do they work?
He’s looking in the wrong place. The black hole is located in New York City, above Tom’s Restaurant.
REPLY: LOL LOL LOL! – Anthony
Lonnie Schubert says: “I just Googled “dreckumentary” and this article was the first hit. Cool!”
REPLY: I think I may have coined the first usage…we’ll have to check – A
Dibs on ‘drivelogue.’
Found some other uses of it… cei la vie.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=dreckumentary&src=IE-SearchBox
REPLY: Oh well, no worries. I also found other usages. It seemed novel for the moment. – Anthony
I understood that the cause of the ‘issues’ with the Bermuda triangle was methane hydrates and undersea earthquakes.
During an earthquake the methane is released and creates a mass of bubbles, if a ship happens to be on top of where the bubbles come to the surface then the ship sinks instantly (less than one second), like a block of wood on foam.
Likewise for planes, the methane cloud in the air will cause a flame out or engine stall due to either insufficient oxygen or too rich (dense) a fuel mixture.
A large earthquake that releases enough methane would create a surface cloud large enough to suffocate and entire ships company on a still day if the ship was in the wrong place.
Are their any other ‘issues’ besides, instantly sinking ships, planes dropping out of the sky of ships found with all the crew dead?
No mystery.
Some diving guys on a boat haul around some scientist with a “magnetic anomaly detector”, which looks like a Radio Shack electronics kit gone bad,
I knew it !!
There really is an anomalymometer. It can detect anything, including cherrypicking a needle in a haystack.
Many years ago one of the more amusing calculations I used to set my students was to determine the period of oscillation of a small black hole as it passed to and fro through the earth. There were extra marks for calculating the loss in the earth’s mass and much bigger credits if you could say why and how the process would become disrupted by the gravitational forces of the other heavenly bodies.
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Is it possible that a small part of the earths core is some of the super heavy material left over from the big bang/brane bump/ pre solar system super novae? The known universe contains lots of super heavy material with quasars/black holes forming the bulk of it.
If the big bang/brane bump spread tiny lumps far and wide through the universe it makes sense that these could form the core of planets and suns as lighter material is attracted to those gravitational focal points. Its possible that a teaspoon of super heavy detritus could form the very centre of our planet. We still do not know for sure the composition of the earths core and until we do then all possibilities should be explored, its what science is all about isnt it?
I saw something similar recently on Discovery or National Geographic with Kerry Emmanuel (he still reminds me of nurse Gladys…) wittering on about ‘hypercanes’ causing the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The bottom line was: “can we have more money for atmospheric research please?”
Interesting.
Scientists enter the area of the Bermuda Triangle and nothing untoward happens. How odd they didn’t disappear. Their timing must be off; it’s a well known fact that the Bermuda Triangle causes people, airplanes, and boats to disappear on a regular basis. Maybe next time …
Hey, can I get funding to vacation in Bermuda too?
BTW, any black hole would have to really tiny to not yank the earth about, which I think we would have noticed by now. It would be so small that normal matter might as well be empty space. The thing would just go on orbiting the center of the earths mass tacking with it an atom or two ever once in a while. The chances of it effecting Bermuda is approximately zero.
Best chuckle of the day!
I have my Interocitor warmed up and ready to receive their findings.
Daniel H says:
October 29, 2010 at 8:58 pm
He’s looking in the wrong place. The black hole is located in New York City, above Tom’s Restaurant.
Repeated for truth…Thanks, that made my evening.
Have you tried Calcutta?
If any of the “Triangle Terrors” existed every Insurance Company would have made massive payouts and increased premiums accordingly.
“Data from Lloyd’s of London records show 428 vessels were reported missing throughout the world between 1955 and 1975, and there was no greater incidence of events occurring in the Bermuda Triangle than anywhere else in the world.”
The Black Hole of Bermuda is the ghostly hunting ground of the ‘Flying Dutchman’ – and of course any ‘real’ spook knows how to avoid ‘real’ scientists! (LOL)
“Marty McFly lives”
The floating scientists were just looking for the plot to fit the storyline
– as they went past the event horizon.
Huh?
My extensive research of Scooby doo tells me it’s usually the old oil well
owner who’s behind any spooky anomalies.
The only black hole I can detect is in their collective IQ. It seems that singularities are comprised of pure stupidity. Who’da thunk it?