How Brilliant Computer Scientists Solved the Bermuda Triangle Mystery

Or

Ocean Farts knock planes out of the sky & sink ships

But who has a match big enough to light it, or a hand big enough to hold the match?

Flame on

Here's another methane related mystery solved

Except for the lack of wreckage, and reliable witnesses to the contrary, the concept is at least logical. But not provable. Oh, well. Nice try though.

Dragon

Junk science squared.

not any crazier than some of the other explanations out there... but not quite as entertaining either.

Chris

Nor any less crazy....

(Yeah, I could be wrong, but I dinna think so, at least yet.)

I'm a bit surprised that this is being put forward as a new theory. I heard this one a few years back.

It might explain how they crashed/sunk, it doesn't as previously mentioned solve how there is no wreckage on the sea bed despite numerous searches

Aussie tax dollars hard at work. Not sure I would use the word 'brilliant' to describe the work (unless we are using the same inflections used by the guinness beer guys). I think the scientists should stick to computer science rather than science fiction. No mention if any one has ever observed one of these giant methane bubbles (near miss or satellite image). If they're right we'll need to rename the bermuda triangle the bermuda lozenge.

Maybe these releases are responsible for global warming climate change and humanity is off the hook? If so, these authors should be nominated for the Nobel Peace prize.

I can see this as a possibility. Flowing air through dirt or sand with cause objects to sink as if it were in quick sand. If this were going on, the wreckage would have sank below the ocean floor. It would take some massive areas of rising methane for this to happen. I think it is a much better explanation than the alien theory.

"I think it is a much better explanation than the alien theory."

Agreed. The jury's still out on whether it's the best, though. My money's on "Nobody has come up with the best answer (the right one) yet". But I sure don't buy the alien theories.

But that seems to be a very good point about percolation. And that would imply that using MAD technology might point out some locations of some of the wreckage, which could be further explored by some of the current Seismological anomaly detection technologies in use for things like oil exploration. But, if the disturbances are more or less continuous, or at least frequent, I would suppose that any wreckage could just keep on sinking, resulting in it being too deep to sense, or too deep to investigate, if it was found. And by "deep", I mean under the sediment/mud/vegetation/whatever that makes up the sea bottom there.

We're probably a LOONNGG way away from proving anything, if the "gas bubble sinkage" is the cause.

Finally, I could buy the effect sinking ships, since it has been proven, at least theoretically, that any size ship could be sunk by a big enough cavitation bubble, but I'm REALLY skeptical about the effect knocking planes out of the sky. MAYBE, if they were flying fairly low (say below 500 feet, maybe?) so that the gas could retain enough concentration to be flammable/explosive (I don't know the dispersion rates of airborne gases, nor what kinds of concentrations would be required to do this), but it seem very iffy to me. Anyone know if all the planes lost were at low altitude? Or at least all the prop planes, since those would seem to be less likely to cause a self-immolating explosion (like a jet could possibly be expected to do) at higher altitudes.