New theory may explain the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/World/2016/10/21/22676567.html

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A new theory aims to explain the mysterious disappearance of planes and ships around the Bermuda Triangle.

Meteorologists revealed that strange clouds linked to super-powerful “air bombs” could be capable of bringing down large objects,while speaking to Science Channel’s “What on Earth?”

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https://www.rt.com/viral/363686-bermuda-triangle-air-bombs/

Researchers analyzed imagery from a NASA satellite and found the hexagon-shaped clouds 240km off the coast of Florida and over the Bahamas.

Speaking to the Science Channel, Dr Steve Miller, a satellite meteorologist from Colorado State University said traditionally, cloud shapes don&#8217;t have straight edges.
&#8220;You don&#8217;t typically see straight edges with clouds,&#8221; Miller explained. &#8220;Most of the time clouds are random in their distribution.&#8221;
With the hexagon shapes differing in sizes between 32 and 88km in width, their location in the western part of the Bermuda triangle could explain why so many aircrafts and ships have gone missing.
Scientists examined similar cloud shapes from the North Sea off the coast of the UK and found sea level winds of up to 160kph, which are powerful enough to create waves more than 45ft (14 meters) high.

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Hexagon-shaped clouds?! Saturn has those! From JPL:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=1328

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..."This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We've never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn's thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you'd expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is."

...The new images taken in thermal-infrared light show the hexagon extends much deeper down into the atmosphere than previously expected, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) below the cloud tops. A system of clouds lies within the hexagon. The clouds appear to be whipping around the hexagon like cars on a racetrack. ..

...The hexagon appears to have remained fixed with Saturn's rotation rate and axis since first glimpsed by Voyager 26 years ago...

...The hexagon images and movie, including the north polar auroras are available at: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu .

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Thanks for this interesting post!
Yikes!

dotr said:

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</time>A new theory aims to explain the mysterious disappearance of planes and ships around the Bermuda Triangle.

Meteorologists revealed that strange clouds linked to super-powerful “air bombs” could be capable of bringing down large objects,while speaking to Science Channel’s “What on Earth?”

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RSBBM

Bombs generated by super-powers are never good. :notgood:

Seriously, thank you for this thread, dotr. I've always been interested in mysteries of the earth like the Bermuda Triangle.

dotr said:

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I like the show "What On Earth",thanks!

New, new theory, who knew?!
Scientists Claim to Have Solved the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
by Mahmood Fazal
|Aug 2 2018

"Dr Simon Boxall, an Oceanographer from the University of Southampton who led the new study, explained on a Channel 5 documentary The Bermuda Triangle Enigma: “there are storms to the South and North, which come together... we’ve measured waves in excess of 30 metres. The bigger the boat gets, the more damage is done.”

His team re-created the intense surges of the 30 metre waves by using indoor simulators. Then to see what such a wave would do to a large ship, they built a model of the USS Cyclops, a carrier that went missing in the Bermuda Triangle in 1918 and claimed the lives of 309 people."

“If you can imagine a rogue waves with peaks at either end, there’s nothing below the boat, so it snaps in two. If it happens, it can sink in two to three minutes,” explained Dr Simon Boxall.