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.
There cannot be a black hole in the Bermuda triangle because then this would happen…
The Revisionist History Channel strikes again! They’ve become a gross form of popular entertainment, eyecandy, if you will, similar to the National Enquirer.
I saw part of a History Channel show a while ago that was talking about how the Government was using some kind of waves (I think they called them ELF waves) to change the direction of the Jet Stream in order to affect weather.
I have no idea if this is true or pure bunk, just noting a show that I saw part of…
I’m not saying that I believe it, but there are many articles and books by the New Agers that the myth of Atlantis is true and that there were many other civilizations that have vanished without leaving historal records of their existance. The supposed continent extended from eastern Europe across the Sargasso Sea and down through the Bermuda triangle. According to myth, a large crystal, like the images on several ancient cliff carvings, was developed that provided unlimited energy for aircraft travel, domestic use and for military use at the end.
The crystal was more powerful than laser beams and is said to still exist somewhere in the Bermuda triangle. The stories state that Atlantans were a technologically advanced society that accomplished great things but eventually tried to dominate other cultures with the threat of vaporization via the crystal. They blew themselves up when they tried to direct the beam through the center of the earth in an effort to extend the area of control that was available to the crystal..
Maybe these guys are looking for the crystal but don’t want the ridicule of being New Age believers. I believe some of the current crop of environmentalists have been influenced by these Ruth Montgomery, Edgar Cayce and other psychics writings.
There would be nothing like having a new alternative energy source that could vaporize nonbelievers.
Here’s a youtube video with part of the history channel show on the government trying to manipulate the weather. Here it is:
If they fail to find the Black Hole, maybe they should set forth simultaneously, in search of the East and West Poles instead, and see if meet up
Maybe the History Channel can tie this show in with an episode of Ancient Aliens. Now that would be a ‘hard scientific look’ into reality.
If you interpret Nostradamus correctly you’ll see he talked about those black holes.
;o)
p.s., Ice Road Truckers is on History Channel exactly why?
I served in the US Navy for 24 years flying in P3 and S3 antisubmarine aircraft in various places aroung the world. Over 5000hrs of flight time. I did several stints in Bermuda. ASW aircraft have MAD (magnetic anomoly detectors) attached to the rear of the plane. On the P3 it looks like a stinger. The range of detection is about 1200 feet. We flew hundreds of hours hunting submarines with the MAD and if it could have detected black holes the Navy would have found them already.
@mkelly
Knock it off. We all know you’re involved in a mass conspiracy to hide the truth. The navy probably found the black holes years ago and have been using them as an experimental energy source resulting in massive global warming.
Of course, having publicly said this, my life is probably now in danger.
Mike McMillan says:
October 30, 2010 at 3:00 am
“A few years ago, as I recall, Phillip Klass of Aviation Week did a study and determined that more aircraft disappeared over the continental US than in the Bermuda Triangle.”
That study and a few others showed that the Washington/Oregon Cascades have a higher rate of aircraft disappearances. Even today wrecks from WW2 are still found.
I spend considerable time watching the History Channel, and its HCI counterpart. But you certainly have to pick and choose, since utter superstition and pseudoscience is interspersed with actual ancient and modern history, and real-life shows such as Pawn Stars. I often wonder why they try to be so eclectic.
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
October 30, 2010 at 7:27 am
If you interpret Nostradamus correctly you’ll see he talked about those black holes.
** Gold & Silver are fused by the Arks devastating power.
The one is consumed by the other
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Charlie Barnes: Thirty or more years ago, I read a paperback called something like “The Bermuda Triangle – the mystery explained”.
Do you mean The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved! by Lawrence Kusche? Excellent book. I’d also recommend The Disappearance of Flight 19, same author, which thoroughly debunks the most famous “Bermuda Triangle” incident, the five Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers that disappeared in December 1945.
Anyone who still believes in the myth of the Bermuda Triangle should take notice that as the amount of traffic has increased, and the safety factor has also increased, the number of disappearances in the area has fallen precipitously. A brief websearch found no ‘unexplainable’ disappearances in at least the last thirty years.
God, I love this stuff. After weeks in the field of working hard and stressing out, what better way to zone out than to fill my mind with dross like The Bermuda Triangle or UFO mysteries.
It’s better than Jersey Shore!
JudyW says:
October 30, 2010 at 7:05 am
The crystal was more powerful than laser beams and is said to still exist somewhere in the Bermuda triangle. The stories state that Atlantans were a technologically advanced society that accomplished great things but eventually tried to dominate other cultures with the threat of vaporization via the crystal.
The mistery of the blue water Crystal (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) TV-series (^___^)? Nadia of the mysterious seas, and being under the direction of Anno this means that one of the main-characters is a short-tempered and stubborn 14 year old b*tch with suicidal tendencies.
Nah I guess its more like Fushigi no something for the most of us.
“When will I learn? The answer to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle, they’re on TV!” — Homer Simpson
http://www.homersimpsonquotes.com/
I’m serious: Occam’s Razor: The Bermuda Triangle is the result of magnetic flares known as Tractor-Beams from Hell.
wolfwalker says:
October 30, 2010 at 9:27 am
Charlie Barnes: Thirty or more years ago, I read a paperback called something like “The Bermuda Triangle – the mystery explained”.
“Do you mean The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved! by Lawrence Kusche? Excellent book. I’d also recommend The Disappearance of Flight 19, same author, which thoroughly debunks the most famous “Bermuda Triangle” incident, the five Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers that disappeared in December 1945. ”
I still haven’t found my book but it is almost certainly the one you quote since it included the Navy Avengers’ disappearance.
I think these guys may have it on exactly where the missing heat is – obviously its being sunk in a black hole – and thats why we can’t detect it.
I love the new word. Thank you Anthony.
It is nice to see the subject matter returning to near science instead of Al Gore warming,
I’ve seen this episode and was amused by the guy fretting over his beeping box.
There is a reason that a P-3 Orion has a boom sticking out the back of the aircraft… evidently this guy hasn’t figured that part out yet.
Bermuda Triangle?….Stormy weather?, Electricity anyone?
If they really want to find “black holes” on Earth, they need to go no further than the offices for the History Channel. No real history has been televised from there in years.