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| Subject: | | Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend |
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Guodzilla
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Sun, Sep 20 2009, 9:34am
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Interesting! I was going to mention the possibility of some of the larger ships (Like the Nereus, the Proteus and others) being swallowed up by methane hydrate burps. It's been proven that vast reserves of methane hydrate are collected just offshore of the US, especially in the Gulf of Mexico area and places around Florida. A large chunk of methane hydrate could conceivably sublimate and ruin the bouyancy capabilities of water. A large ship just happening through the area would suddenly goe KA-BLOOSH, with no warning, and no trace ever found. Also, the methane released into the atmosphere could play hell with the oxygen-dependent internal-combustion engines of most aircraft. |
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| Subject: | | Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend |
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Rainbow Medicine Man
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Sun, Sep 20 2009, 11:15am
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With the planes, it is worse, because the lift depends on the square of the air density, and methane is A LOT ligther than air...they will drop suddenly out of the air. That, suppossing they don't ignite the mix methane-air. I suspect the Air France crash of late could be explained because of just that.
Did a methane burp down twa800? |
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| Subject: | | Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend |
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Guodzilla
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Sun, Sep 20 2009, 6:37pm
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I think there was a "Mythbusters" special on that very thing, with the boys trying to sink a boat with bubbles. They tried a perforated grid which pumped a lot of bubbles into the water. The boat settled lower and lower into the water, but didn't sink. Next, they tried a single sudden release with a huge bubble of air. Success! The blast came up right underneath the boat, which literally "fell" into the hole in the water, was swamped, and sank. The key to a methane burp sinking a ship is not the quantity of gas released, but the suddenness. In theory, a large enough methane blast from the ocean floor could crack a ship's keel just as effectively as a depth charge. |
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| Subject: | | Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend |
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Rainbow Medicine Man
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Mon, Sep 21 2009, 1:13am
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That's a nice experiment. As with explosives, it is not so much the quantity of eergy as the release speed. Dynamite releases less energy per pound than gasoline...only X times faster. |
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