OmegaMouse 100 points 2 days ago

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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k0e3 48 points 2 days ago

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

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xbeam 26 points 2 days ago

And killer bees.

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Colonel_Panic_ 15 points 2 days ago

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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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 5 points a day ago

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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ignoble_stigmas 2 points a day ago

It is. Just metaphorically.

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k0e3 1 point a day ago

Playing Mario Bros. 3 non-stop didn't help either with that assumption.

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aeronmelon 85 points 2 days ago

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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SippyCup 26 points 2 days ago

Fun fact, it's not just there. That happens near most coastlines. It's actually more prominent near BC/Washington/Alaska.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 7 points a day ago

huh, i always thought it had more to do with pirates/privateers and slavery

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CallMeAl 69 points 2 days ago

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

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Klear 48 points 2 days ago

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

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Whats_your_reasoning 49 points 2 days ago

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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MonkeMischief 3 points a day ago

[door shuts]

Continues: "Heh, imagine that, Billy. Just, bursting into flames because the stuff got within mere feet of you. Wow. What a way to go..."

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CameronDev 24 points 2 days ago

A woman in South Australia recently got stuck in quicksand.

https://www.abc.net.au/...

So you can keep it on your list if things to worry about.

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Pat_Riot 17 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure it counts since all of Australia is trying to kill you anyway, but there it is, quicksand still a hazard.

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red_tomato 45 points 2 days ago

Bermuda Triangle was an early creepy pasta.

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expatriado 33 points 2 days ago

coast of Venezuela is where boats are disappearing nowadays

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kinther 9 points a day ago

Oof

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realitaetsverlust 18 points 2 days ago

Because we now use GPS instead of compasses lol.

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WanderWisley 17 points a day ago

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

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 5 points a day ago

Who wants to Naruto run the Bermuda triangle

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Abyssian 4 points a day ago

Everyone who runs like that deserves to drown. This is a good plan.

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RagingRobot 15 points a day ago

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

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 6 points a day ago

Maybe all the people who were spontaneous enough to catch fire did so before having children and the gene pool burnt that capability right out of itself

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BarneyPiccolo 11 points 2 days ago

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

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SpaceCowboy 1 point a day 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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idiomaddict 10 points 2 days ago

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

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Xerxos 9 points a day 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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Balldowern 6 points 2 days ago

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