Mystery of Bermuda Triangle Solved

The Bermuda Triangle is a place where Hundreds of ships have been disappeared, leading to strange rumours of paranormal activity and alien invasions. The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a huge number of aircraft and surface vessels were disappeared in a Mysterious manner that cannot be explained by human error, piracy, equipment failure, or natural disasters.

But the ships disappearances could simply been caused by methane bubbles escaping from the sea bed, according to a new report by Scientists. The principle phenomenon is - if you mix enough bubbles into water, it lowers the density of the water so that anything floating on its surface will sink. A group of American scientists came up with a simple way of putting this theory to the test.

They made bubbles in a beaker of water by feeding air into the bottom of it. Then they dropped in balls of different weights, to see which would float. Balls that floated in still water, sank when the bubbles were switched on. The same mechanism could explain why ships sink in the Bermuda Triangle. Michael Denardo, who led the team, said "If a phenomenon can be made to occur in a lab, it probably happens somewhere in the natural universe."

The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a huge number of aircraft and surface vessels were disappeared in a Mysterious manner that cannot be explained by human error, piracy, equipment failure, or natural disasters.

The above image was taken by NASA. The mysterious Devil's triangle covers boundary between the Straits of Florida, the Bahamas and the entire Caribbean island area and the Atlantic east to the Azores.The most of the accidents occurred along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

The area is one of the most heavily-sailed shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands. It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean, and South America from points north.


List of Bermuda Triangle incidents:

* Flight 19:
US Navy TBF Grumman Avenger flight, similar to Flight 19. Flight 19 was a training flight of TBM Avenger bombers that went missing on December 5, 1945 while over the Atlantic.
The picture shown above is the picture of US Navy TBF Grumman Avenger flight.

* Adding to the mystery, a search and rescue Mariner aircraft with a 13-man crew was dispatched to aid the missing squadron, but the Mariner itself was never heard from again. Later, there was a report from a tanker cruising off the coast of Florida of a visible explosion at about the time the Mariner would have been on patrol.

* While the basic facts of this version of the story are essentially accurate, some important details are missing. The weather was becoming stormy by the end of the incident, and naval reports and written recordings of the conversations between Taylor and the other pilots of Flight 19 do not indicate magnetic problems.

* The mysterious abandonment in 1872 of the 282-ton brigantine Mary Celeste is often but inaccurately connected to the Triangle, the ship having been abandoned off the coast of Portugal. The event is possibly confused with the loss of a ship with a similar name, the Mari Celeste, a 207-ton paddle steamer that hit a reef and quickly sank off the coast of Bermuda on September 13, 1864. Kusche noted that many of the "facts" about this incident were actually about the Marie Celeste, the fictional ship from Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (based on the real Mary Celeste incident, but fictionalised).

* The Ellen Austin supposedly came across a derelict ship, placed on board a prize crew, and attempted to sail with it to New York in 1881. According to the stories, the derelict disappeared; others elaborating further that the derelict reappeared minus the prize crew, then disappeared again with a second prize crew on board. A check from Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of the Meta, built in 1854 and that in 1880 the Meta was renamed Ellen Austin. There are no casualty listings for this vessel, or any vessel at that time, that would suggest a large number of missing men were placed on board a derelict that later disappeared.

* The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when USS Cyclops, under the command of Lt Cdr G. W. Worley, went missing without a trace with a crew of 309 sometime after March 4, 1918, after departing the island of Barbados. Although there is no strong evidence for any single theory, many independent theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and some suggesting that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss.

* Theodosia Burr Alston was the daughter of former United States Vice President Aaron Burr. Her disappearance has been cited at least once in relation to the Triangle. She was a passenger on board the Patriot, which sailed from Charleston, South Carolina to New York City on December 30, 1812, and was never heard from again. The planned route is well outside all but the most extended versions of the Bermuda Triangle. Both piracy and the War of 1812 have been posited as explanations, as well as a theory placing her in Texas, well outside the Triangle.

* S.V. Spray was a derelict fishing boat refitted as an ocean cruiser by Joshua Slocum and used by him to complete the first ever single-handed circumnavigation of the world, between 1895 and 1898.

* In 1909, Slocum set sail from Vineyard Haven bound for Venezuela. Neither he nor Spray were ever seen again.

* Schooner Carroll A. Deering, as seen from the Cape Lookout lightship on January 29, 1921, two days before she was found deserted in North Carolina. (US Coast Guard)

* A five-masted schooner built in 1919, the Carroll A. Deering was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on January 31, 1921. Rumors and more at the time indicated the Deering was a victim of piracy, possibly connected with the illegal rum-running trade during Prohibition, and possibly involving another ship, S.S. Hewitt, which disappeared at roughly the same time. Just hours later, an unknown steamer sailed near the lightship along the track of the Deering, and ignored all signals from the lightship. It is speculated that the Hewitt may have been this mystery ship, and possibly involved in the Deering crew's disappearance.

* On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC16002, disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. No trace of the aircraft or the 32 people onboard was ever found. From the documentation compiled by the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation, a possible key to the plane's disappearance was found, but barely touched upon by the Triangle writers: the plane's batteries were inspected and found to be low on charge, but ordered back into the plane without a recharge by the pilot while in San Juan. Whether or not this led to complete electrical failure will never be known. However, since piston-engined aircraft rely upon magnetos to provide spark to their cylinders rather than a battery powered ignition coil system, this theory is not strongly convincing.

* G-AHNP Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948 on a flight from the Azores to Bermuda; G-AGRE Star Ariel disappeared on January 17, 1949, on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica. Both were Avro Tudor IV passenger aircraft operated by British South American Airways.[43] Both planes were operating at the very limits of their range and the slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep them from reaching the small island. One plane was not heard from long before it would have entered the Triangle.

* On August 28, 1963 a pair of U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft collided and crashed into the Atlantic. The Triangle version (Winer, Berlitz, Gaddis) of this story specifies that they did collide and crash, but there were two distinct crash sites, separated by over 160 miles (260 km) of water. However, Kusche's research showed that the unclassified version of the Air Force investigation report stated that the debris field defining the second "crash site" was examined by a search and rescue ship, and found to be a mass of seaweed and driftwood tangled in an old buoy.

* SS Marine Sulphur Queen, a T2 tanker converted from oil to sulfur carrier, was last heard from on February 4, 1963 with a crew of 39 near the Florida Keys. Marine Sulphur Queen was the first vessel mentioned in Vincent Gaddis' 1964 Argosy Magazine article, but he left it as having "sailed into the unknown", despite the Coast Guard report, which not only documented the ship's badly-maintained history, but declared that it was an unseaworthy vessel that should never have gone to sea.

* One of the more famous incidents in the Triangle took place in 1921 (some say a few years later), when the Japanese vessel Raifuku Maru (sometimes misidentified as Raikuke Maru) went down with all hands after sending a distress signal that allegedly said "Danger like dagger now. Come quick!", or "It's like a dagger, come quick!" This has led writers to speculate on what the "dagger" was, with a waterspout being the likely candidate (Winer). In reality the ship was nowhere near the Triangle, nor was the word "dagger" a part of the ship's distress call ("Now very danger. Come quick."). Having left Boston for Hamburg, Germany, on April 21, 1925, she was caught in a severe storm and sank in the North Atlantic with all hands while another ship, RMS Homeric, attempted an unsuccessful rescue.

* A pleasure yacht was found adrift in the Atlantic south of Bermuda on September 26, 1955; it is usually stated in the stories (Berlitz, Winer) that the crew vanished while the yacht survived being at sea during three hurricanes. The 1955 Atlantic hurricane season lists only one storm coming near Bermuda towards the end of August, hurricane "Edith"; of the others, "Flora" was too far to the east, and "Katie" arrived after the yacht was recovered. It was confirmed that the Connemara IV was empty and in port when "Edith" may have caused the yacht to slip her moorings and drift out to sea.

* A Cessna piloted by Carolyn Cascio, on June 6, 1969, with one passenger, attempted to travel from Nassau, Bahamas to Cockburn, Grand Turk Island. The plane was witnessed by many air traffic controllers in Cockburn's airport to circle the island for 30 minutes, after which, it flew away apparently for another island. All attempts from the ground to raise Cascio on the radio failed.

Our Future Earth

THIS POST IS ABOUT FUTURE EARTH
The above image shows the prediction of how earth looks like after 250 million years from now.

THE ISLANDS AND CONTINENTS OF EARTH KEEPS ON MOVING FROM 200 MILLIONS AGO
The Earth is going to be a very different place 250 million years from now.
It was show in the picture above.
Africa is going to merge with Europe as Australia migrates north to merge with Asia. Meanwhile the Atlantic Ocean will probably widen for a spell before it reverses course and later disappears.




The image in left shows exactly how earth looks before 250 million years .
Two hundred and fifty million years ago the landmasses of Earth were clustered into one supercontinent .The surface of the Earth is broken into large pieces that are slowly shifting by a gradual process called "plate tectonics".

 The present-day continents slowly converge during the next 250 million years to form another mega-continent: Pangaea Ultima. Among the predictions made by plate tectonics: Africa is likely to its northern migration, pinching the Mediterranean closed and driving up a Himalayan-scale mountain range in southern Europe.

What's it like to see two continents collide? Just look at the Mediterranean region today.
Africa has been slowly colliding with Europe for millions of years, Scotese said. "Italy, Greece and almost everything in the Mediterranean is part of (the African plate), and it has been colliding with Europe for the last 40 million years."
That collision has pushed up the Alps and the Pyrenees mountains, and is responsible for earthquakes that occasionally strike Greece and Turkey, Scotese noted.

"The Mediterranean is the remnant of a much larger ocean that has closed over the last 100 million years, and it will continue to close," he said. "More and more of the plate is going to get crumpled and get pushed higher and higher up, like the Himalayas."
Australia is also likely to merge with the Eurasian continent.

"Australia is moving north, and is already colliding with the southern islands of Southeast Asia," he continued. "If we project that motion, the left shoulder of Australia gets caught, and then Australia rotates and collides against Borneo and south China -- sort of like India collided 50 million years ago -- and gets added to Asia". Meanwhile, the Americas will be moving further away from Africa and Europe as the Atlantic Ocean steadily grows.

What is Sun Storms

Although the Sun is a calm star than other stars in the universe, it still has several forms of violent storms that occur often in sun's atmosphere. These include prominences, solar flares, solar wind, and sunspots.

Prominences: These storms are clearly seen from Earth. It looks like bright arches or loops of gas. They originate in cromosphere and sometimes bend backwards and shower gasses back to Sun. Some prominences ignite to heights of up to one meg kilometers and distance former the sun's layer.

Solar flares are observed as bright bursts of light on the Sun’s surface. These storms usually last less than an hour and can reach temperatures that are two times the rest of the Sun’s surface. Huge amounts of energy are released during a solar flare that sometimes interferes with telecommunications on the side of the Earth facing the Sun. These storms are sometimes accompanied by the Northern and Southern Lights.

Solar wind is a continuous stream of high-energy particles that is bursted into space in all directions from the Sun’s corona. The wind may be increased in speed by solar flares. Solar wind will cause interference with radio signals and telephone networks on Earth. It also affects the way the end of a comet is nibbed, which is ever gone from the Sun.

Sunspots are observed as dark areas on the Sun’s surface and also they are relatively colder than other areas of the Sun. They are observed in the photosphere and range from sixteen to 160,000 km in diameter. The number of sunspots is always keeps on changing, but it is observed that there is huge change in their number every ten to eleven years. Because sunspots are shown to move on the Sun’s surface, it was inferred that the Sun is rotating on an axis. Since it is filled up with gas, the sun rotates faster at the equator at around 26.8 days per rotation, than it does at the poles, which lasts for about 35 days.

Nature's Island Manufacturing Factory

The Hawaiian Islands are created by volcanoes. Each island is made up of at least one volcano, many islands are composites of more than one. The Big Island is constructed of 5 major volcanoes: Kilauea, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, Hualalai and Kohala. Mauna Loa is the very largest active volcano on Earth. Kilauea is presently one of the most productive volcanoes on Earth (in terms of how much lava it erupts each year). The primary volcanoes on each of the islands are known as a shield volcanoes, which are gently sloping mountains produced from a large number of lava that flows from these volcanoes.
The lava produced from the volcano is cooled by the sea water, the cooling of lava results in the rocks called basalt. Hence these islands are made up of basalt rocks. These islands grow by time.
Hawaiian volcanoes are primarily erupted by a type of rock known as basalt. When molten,the basalt produces liquids of relatively high fluidity, compared to volcanoes that erupt more silica rich magma types such as andesite, dacite or rhyolite. The fluidity of molten basalt favors the formation of lava flows, which is why the Hawaiian volcanoes generally have gentle sloping sides. By contrast, lavas with higher silica content are more viscous and commonly produce either thicker, shorter lava flows, thick blocky deposits and/or thick beds of ash that fall from the sky following explosive eruptions. These other types of volcanoes (common outside of Hawaii) are typically steeper sided.
The Hawaiian volcanoes were produced by the Hawaiian hot spot, which is presently under the Big Island of Hawaii. The image below shows the islands of the Hawaiian chain and the intervening shallows, banks and reefs along a line from southeast to northwest. Note that the islands of Lanai and Kahoolawe are not shown because they would "overlap" with Molokai and Maui, respectively (see the map of the Islands on the Hawaiian Volcanoes page) In general, when you move along the island chain from southeast (Hawaii) to northwest, (Kure), the volcanoes become older and older.
The age trend of the volcanoes is thought to be due to the way in which the islands are built on the moving sea floor of the North Pacific Ocean: the Pacific Ocean is mostly floored by a single tectonic plate (known as the "Pacific Plate") that is moving over the layer in the Earth known as the Asthenosphere. This movement takes it to the northwest compared to the layers below it at a rate of 5 to 10 cm/yr (the rate depends on where you are on it). As the plate moves over a fixed spot deeper in the Earth where magma (molten lava) forms, a new volcano can punch through this plate and create an island. The Hawaiian Islands are believed to be formed from one such 'hot spot'. As the plate moves away, the volcano stops erupting and a new one is formed in its place. With time, the volcanoes keep drifting westward and getting older relative to the one active volcano that is over the hot spot. As they age, the crust upon which they sit cools and subsides. This, combined with erosion of the islands once active volcanism stops, leads to a shrinking of the islands with age and their eventual submergence below the ocean surface.
Importantly, the time over which various active volcanoes on the islands remain active is long (hundreds of thousands of years) so that significant overlap in ages occur on neighboring islands. For instance although Haleakala volcano on Maui is a great distance away from the presently erupting Kilauea, Haleakala last erupted only about 200 years ago.

Nature Is Wild

2008 was a list twelvemonth for raw disasters, with over 220,000 fatalities worldwide from cyclones, earthquakes, floods, and another forces of nature. Since 1900, there were only two age (1995 and 2005) when author misconduct had been incurred.

Natural disasters 'killed over 220,000' in 2008

BERLIN - Natural disasters killed over 220,000 grouping in 2008, making it one of the most withering geezerhood on tape and underlining the requisite for a round status understanding, the grouping's product two reinsurer said Weekday.
Though the confine of undyed disasters was subordinate than in 2007, the catastrophes that occurred proved to be author caustic in damage of the name of victims and the financial outlay of the harm caused, Germany-based Munich Re said in its annual sorting.
"This continues the long-term inclination we eff been observing. Condition alter has already started and is rattling likely contributive to increasingly predominant withstand extremes and ensuing undyed catastrophes," City Re lumber member Torsten Jeworrek said.
Most devastating in cost of fallible fatalities was Cyclone Nargis, which lashed Burma on May 2-3 to penalize more than 135,000 grouping and change more than one meg roofless.
Right life ulterior an temblor shook Crockery's Sichuan arena, leaving 70,000 nonviable, 18,000 missing and nearly fivesome meg homeless, according to authoritative figures, Metropolis Re said.
Around 1,000 grouping died in a strict rimed separate in January in Afghanistan, Kyrgystan and Tadzhik, while 635 perished in Honorable and Sept in floods in Bharat, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Typhoon Fengshen killed 557 people in China and the Archipelago in June, piece earthquakes in Pakistan in Oct odd 300 executed.
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The quake in Sichuan area was the most pricey gross safety cataclysm of 2008, causing around 85 cardinal dollars designer of wrongdoing, serving to alter the period the third most dear on record, City Re said.
With 200 billion dollars' couturier of scathe, exclusive 2005, when a humongous enumerate of hurricanes slammed into the austral Suprasegmental States, and 1995, twelvemonth of the Kobe quake in Nippon, wreaked statesman destruction since records began in 1900.
According to conditional estimates from the Domain Meteorological Structure, 2008 was the ordinal warmest assemblage since the point of subprogram temperature transcription and the ordinal warmest in the circumboreal hemisphere.
This means that the ten warmest geezerhood ever recorded love all occurred in the measure 12 eld, Muenchen Re said.
"It is now really verisimilar that the advancing warming of the ambiance is due to the nursery gases emitted by hominine process. The withstand organization is spouting in top gear, transportation more strong stark hold events," it said.
The separate of tropical cyclones in the Northeastern Ocean in 2008 was untold higher than the long-term common, and in cost of both the aggregate wares of storms and the determine of field hurricanes, 2008 was the 4th most terrible hurricane flavor since tested aggregation jazz been lendable, it said.
The reality requisite "telling and tight rules on CO2 emissions, so that status exchange is curbed and tense generations do not make to smouldering with defy scenarios that are fractious to criterion," live member Jeworrek said.
Endure December, the socialism vocation agreed in Island on a two-year roadmap culminating in a new round climate mint to be subscribed in Kobenhavn in December 2009.
New in bit and complexness, this give, due to endure notion from 2012, is meant to halt in the edifice gases that stoke spherical warming and lock a lifeline to short countries exposed to mutated weather patterns.