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[–] 102 points 3 months ago (15 children)

I remember as a kid having one of those encyclopedias with a bunch of cool illustrations, and it mentioned the Bermuda Triangle. It really scared me! Like wtf why was no-one doing anything about this

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  • [–] 49 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    Must be the same book I had that also warned me about quick sand.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    And my axe And lava flows! I always imagined avoiding lava and quicksand would be a daily occurrence as an adult.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

    So there's this really neat geological structure up by Mt. St. Helens called Ape Caves. You can hike through lava tubes/caves where lava flowed eons ago. It's SO COOL. both metaphorically and i think it's about 40 degrees hamburger inside. there's maybe three miles of hikeable tunnel? i forget.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I personally can't stand 40 degrees hamburger... that's WAAAY too meaty

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  • [–] 85 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Ships and planes went from magnetic compasses to GPS?

    The Bermuda Triangle a geological phenomenon, there’s a lot of ferrous ore close to the surface and that fucks with magnets and radio signals. But equipment went digital, started using satellites, and is generally more powerful and better shielded now. So I’m assuming it’s less of a problem enough to tough through it, or just no longer a problem at all.

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  • [–] 68 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah and why doesn't anyone worry about quicksand anymore?!

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  • [–] 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Lava is a rare counterexample. It's way more dangerous than we thought as kids.

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  • [–] 50 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Kid, excitedly jumping around the room: "The floor is lava!"

    Parent: "You know, Billy, if the floor were really made of lava, jumping from furniture to furniture wouldn't really help you. The volcanic gases alone would be enough to suffocate you. The heat would be no picnic either. You'd be suffering in agony until your final, searing breath."

    Kid stops jumping and stares emptily off into the distance: "I ... I think I'm gonna go play alone in my room now."

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    Bermuda Triangle was an early creepy pasta.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    coast of Venezuela is where boats are disappearing nowadays

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The aura of the Bermuda Triangle and Area 51 have really lost their charm since the introduction of the internet…

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago

    Because we now use GPS instead of compasses lol.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    We don't ever have any spontaneous human combustions either. This is bullshit

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The Bermuda Triangle is so Analog 20th century. We have better conspiracy theories in the Digital Internet Age.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Better? Conspiracy theories today are dumb as shit. When people had to navigate by the stars, they knew the Earth was round. Now you can show someone a hi-res digital images of the Earth taken from space and they'll still insist it's flat.

    Sure people believed that carrying bananas on a ship and/or going through the Bermuda triangle was bad luck, but at least there was correlation between these things and ships sinking. They didn't get the causation right, but there is at least some data there. Now everything is just straight up lies, usually with some kind of racist intent, and most modern conspiracy theories fall apart as soon as you ask "but why would they want to do that?"

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    The aliens living there fixed the bug in their invisibly field that made airplanes crash there. Read the patch notes. SMH.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Way fewer Cubans navigating it in… less than ideal conditions.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They've moved the underwater UFO base to the Catalina islands.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    The Bermuda triangle only extends to about 20,000 ft in elevation. Most flights in the area know to stay above that level.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I'm have to get lost there so I can revive it again eventually!

    Cross-posted to aneurism posting? Quick! RAISE BOTH ARMS!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Why would people go to the Bermuda Triangle if they just disappear there?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure where this revisionist map came from but everyone knows the Bermuda triangle was always scalene.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Its all in the Epstein files

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    One mothers insistence that her son wasn't a fucken idiot who couldn't read a compass and we get a lasting conspiracy theory.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    It's because we ave Bigfoot now, silly.

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