From: kymhorsell@gmail.com   
      
   Just as a pre-introduction --   
      
   I note that a local "TV scientist" in AUS has been  recently reported to have   
   "solved" the Bermuda Triangle.   
      
   From the comments from "Dr Karl" I've read suggest he only says "you can't   
   reject the null hypothesis" -- IOW there is not sufficient data to rule out   
   that "nothing" might be happening and the disappearances in the Devils   
   Triangle are just down to bad    
   luck, ocean storms, and heavy traffic.   
      
   But, OTOH, if we look at the maps associating regions of the world with UFO   
   activity, it does seem there is a big red blotch along one border of the   
   Triangle.   
      
   And in the study posted here we find the appearance of so-called ghost ships   
   is highly predictable from ocean conditions in remote locations and 100m deep   
   near Bermuda, but is not predicable from ocean storms or any surface   
   conditions between the    
   Triangle and said remote points on earth.   
      
   Just like it involved some kind of craft that could fly and travel underwater    
   or something.   
      
   Ghost Ships:   
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   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY   
   - We look at data on ocean and land weather around the world and try   
     to locate regions that robustly predict the dates of discovery of   
     so-called "ghost ships". Ships that turn up seemingly able to sail   
     with life boats still attached. But no crew.   
   - The AI software (plus bugfixes!) used in other studies finds only 3   
     regions seem to highly correlate with the dates of ghost ship   
     discovery.  2 of them are in the Arctic off the Russian coast.   
     Another relates to deep water around the Bermuda region.  The AI's   
     were not told where the data came from. They "discovered" the   
     location themselves. It's one of their impressive tricks.   
   - Of the UFO types examined so far, none seem to closely correspond   
     with the regions found off Russia. But some UFO types are associated   
     with the SW border of the Bermuda Triangle. Not specifically   
     Bermuda.   
   - Crunching continues to identify more specific UFO types that might   
     be related. Up to this point the data suggest if UFOs are involved   
     at all only a select few might be responsible for the   
     disappearances.  If UFO's have been a real thing all along -- as   
     seems increasingly likely as days go by and insiders spill more   
     beans -- they seemingly have "independent businesspeople" like   
     us. Previous work has already suggested there is a UFO military   
     and/or police force.   
      
      
   I know I probably have something broken inside. But I again found   
   myself watching the local "man channel" at the early hours of the   
   morning after watching some lights and light aircraft zooming around   
   the skies for 1/2 the night.   
      
   It was a ep from a repeat of one of those Bermuda Triangle things.   
   There have been a few of them over the years and even recently.  I   
   like this particular take -- a bunch of ex Navy divers going out in   
   boats to see what they can see, with a few informal interviews thrown   
   in and a few off-beat experiments to try to judge how things might be.   
   Seem like a nice bunch of kids and the programs are generally   
   entertaining.  This ep focused on the ghost ships seen in the Triangle   
   over the years and what might explain them. After 60 mins of talking to   
   people where it was revealed an up-tick of boats with missing crews   
   has taken a sharp up-tick since 2000 so much so that locals on one   
   island call the region of their coast a "parking lot" because so many   
   boats have been turning up there in the last few years seemingly left   
   out there on the ocean with no-one found on board, no signs of   
   struggle or distress, and even meals left on tables. But no people.   
      
   The up-shot of the ep was -- no explanation. While people jumping off   
   boats might have been eaten by the huge shark population in the   
   region, what was making them jump off their boats in the first place?   
   No-one really had a good explanation apart from "temporary insanity"   
   induced by unexplained special conditions in the region.   
      
   So -- natch -- my programs have taken a look at this in the past and   
   didn't seem to find too much. But I took another look at what they'd   
   been up to, and found a big error in part of the s/w that tries to   
   digest stuff of the Internet -- in this case a Wikipedia page about   
   ghost ships in general (i.e. not limited just to the Bermuda   
   Triangle). Correcting that bug and getting them to re-do their   
   analysis based on the *complete* data-set they could now get out of the   
   wiki pages they came up with a bunch of totally startling conclusions.   
      
   Again, the basic tool we're using here are correlations of some   
   phenomenon -- in this case the dates when each ghost ship as listed on   
   the wiki page was discovered -- and any other dataset the AI's can   
   dredge up from anywhere about anything. They are especially interested   
   in data that has a specific location attached to them. E.g.  datasets   
   like bucket measurements of ocean temperatures. Over the past 100+   
   years vessels of all types travelling the world's oceans have thrown   
   buckets over the side at irregular intervals, measured the water temp   
   in the retrieved water and written the details down in logbooks that   
   have subsequently been digitized. Nowadays the water measurements are   
   mostly made automatically in the bilges of the larger ocean vessels.   
   But some other boats still drop buckets over the side and do it manually.   
      
   But that is only 1 dataset. The AIs have a growing list well into the   
   10s of 1000s now. And they can also go out and find anything the might   
   need just by using internet search engines and searching web pages   
   themselves. There are a couple of s/w components that just sit on my   
   Internet connection scanning for new stuff they figure might be useful   
   to the other AI components, or things the AI's have specifically put   
   in requests that they need for some part of their work.  It's all very   
   much like an automated office. Except everyone can do sophisticated   
   statistics and has an IQ over 150. :)   
      
   So after chugging for (checking stopwatch) 12 hours they've come up   
   with a set of locations across the Earth where some property that has   
   been monitored at least since 1950 shows a very high correlation with   
   the dates ghost ships have been turning up. All the correlates are   
   checked several different ways to make absolutely sure they are real   
   and not some kind of quirk or error. But even so, I have the final say   
   over whether or not something is accepted as a valid data-point.   
      
   And that is important. Because very quickly (about 6 hrs back :) they   
      
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