Now clearly CNN hasn’t heard of Ah Huang, or chabuduo-ism.
[quote]Crash revives talk of Asia’s Bermuda Triangle
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – The two-seat Taiwanese fighter jet disappeared last week during a routine training mission over the Taiwan Strait. Debris and body parts were found the next day, but authorities are at a loss to explain what happened.
Coast guard teams search for bodies and wreckage after a China Airlines crash off the Penghu islands in 2002.
Coast guard teams search for bodies and wreckage after a China Airlines crash off the Penghu islands in 2002.
The October 20 crash revived decades-old speculation: Are Taiwan’s Penghu islands the Bermuda Triangle of Asia?
“The Bermuda terror,” boomed a headline in the United Evening News, a Taiwanese newspaper. “Three hundred dead or missing in 40 years over here.”
Cable news stations aired grisly images of earlier plane crashes in the area, sparking debate in Internet chat rooms.
The reports prompted Penghu officials to issue a statement disputing the Bermuda Triangle comparison, which they fear might scare away investors in a casino resort and other projects.
Most experts dismiss the idea and speculation that an irregular magnetic field disrupts navigation instruments. Scientists have found nothing abnormal in the area, says geologist Chen Wen-shan at National Taiwan University.[/quote]
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Now clearly CNN hasn’t heard of Ah Huang, or chabuduo-ism.
[quote]Crash revives talk of Asia’s Bermuda Triangle
Taipei, Taiwan (AP) – The two-seat Taiwanese fighter jet disappeared last week during a routine training mission over the Taiwan Strait. Debris and body parts were found the next day, but authorities are at a loss to explain what happened.
Coast guard teams search for bodies and wreckage after a China Airlines crash off the Penghu islands in 2002.
Coast guard teams search for bodies and wreckage after a China Airlines crash off the Penghu islands in 2002.
The October 20 crash revived decades-old speculation: Are Taiwan’s Penghu islands the Bermuda Triangle of Asia?
“The Bermuda terror,” boomed a headline in the United Evening News, a Taiwanese newspaper. “Three hundred dead or missing in 40 years over here.”
Cable news stations aired grisly images of earlier plane crashes in the area, sparking debate in Internet chat rooms.
The reports prompted Penghu officials to issue a statement disputing the Bermuda Triangle comparison, which they fear might scare away investors in a casino resort and other projects.
Most experts dismiss the idea and speculation that an irregular magnetic field disrupts navigation instruments. Scientists have found nothing abnormal in the area, says geologist Chen Wen-shan at National Taiwan University.[/quote]
When they say “Bermuda Triangle” do they mean the area in the Caribbean that has the same number of disappearances as everywhere else but stupid people still say there are spooky happening?
Compare that area off Penghu with any other area of sea with the same amount of traffic and you will find it identical.
There’s another Bermuda Triangle off the east coast too apparently.
Let’s not forget the Almas Triangle! That’s a triangle between my favourite drinking chair, fridge and toilet. There sure are a lot of unexplained incidents in that small area: we’re talking mystery bruises, disappearing grog, unexplained breakages, and lost hours. I should get a paranormal geek squad in to investigate.
[quote=“Buttercup”]Hmm, many scientists have attributed these phenomena to large amounts of unexplained gas bubbles.[/quote]The gas and bubbles in the Almas Triangle are not so hard to explain.
[quote=“twonavels”]Damn, that’s sharp, BFM! Are you sure you don’t poke badgers with knives?[/quote]The Victorians used to use badger willy bones as tie pins. That’s how sharp I am.
Christ, it’s an f’ing emergency! The triangle just swallowed a dozen brews.
Big Fluffy, get your your silky-haired geek arse and high-tech equipment over here at once.
By the way, what’s all this bubbles and gas stuff? Some kind of obscure reference to Frenchies?
[quote=“almas john”]Christ, it’s an f’ing emergency! The triangle just swallowed a dozen brews.
Big Fluffy, get your your silky-haired geek arse and high-tech equipment over here at once.
By the way, what’s all this bubbles and gas stuff? Some kind of obscure reference to Frenchies?[/quote]Was there any Guinness? The bubbles in the middle go up, pushing the liquid at the edge, with bubbles, downwards. Strange gas bubbles there.
BFM asked: [quote]Was there any Guinness? [/quote] I wish. I’m on the Taiwan Beer.
Fascinating stuff. You could probably teach a whole science class using booze-related science.
Science aside, my wife says there is no Almas Triangle, I’m just a drunken bastard. Bloody women - they have no imagination, no appreciation of science.
Staying within the Bass Triangle can reduce the volume of one’s trouser trumpet, but not so much as to make that 4am rescue in the dark impossible. Bubbles I can’t help you with. But I can recommend Beck’s non-alcoholic beer with Jack Daniel’s added to it for those days when the vicar comes round. (You give it to the vicar obviously and drink proper beer yourself.)
Nah, they can all be explained. A friend’s mother died on that CAl plane that broke up over Penghu. That wasn’t a mystery, that was clearly Ah Huang and chabuduo-ism at work. Mind you at the time, the Minister of Transport said that it was a dragon year and everyone knows dragons like to zhua ji (catch chickens, a play on the Chinese for planes). So I guess anything is possible.
It’s equally possible there is a mystery down that way. Let’s not forget that Almas does mean yeti.
[quote=“almas john”]Christ, it’s an f’ing emergency! The triangle just swallowed a dozen brews.
Big Fluffy, get your your silky-haired geek arse and high-tech equipment over here at once.
By the way, what’s all this bubbles and gas stuff? Some kind of obscure reference to Frenchies?[/quote]
Speaking of which, my personal quest for the triangle in which all the Frenchies disappear continues.
When I find it, I’ll never move again.
