The Philadelphia Experiment

[Rodgers]

Is this real? I heard that in 1944 a US Navy ship in P's harbour disappeared for a few seconds and then reappeared again with all of it's crew either dead or gone mad and it was totally hushed up by the US govt.

It was meant to be some sort of "cloaking devise" they were testing which went horribly wrong. Also, I heard that the ship while "invisible" was sighted at several locations around the planet simultaneously.

Any info or views on this?

 

[.:KNAS:.]

I saw a few minutes of a documentary on this on the Discovery Channel, and it made me qurios aswell...

I thought it was about teleportation though

 

[Magnus]

Here is one of many articles I found about it, for those who wish to explore further.

http://www.unmuseum.org/philex.htm

 

[Rodgers]

Shame - i thought there was something in it. It makes a good story though, so I guess thats why they made a film about it?

 

[Jimcat]

It's not even good science fiction. I read the book when I was 11 and even then it sounded like a lot of hooey.

 

[nixon]

There have been quite a few of those "incidents", one has this book called "Without A Trace" by Charles Berlitz, it's a great book about the Bermuda Triangle. Several USN ships have been victims of these strange phenomenons, all of those reports etc. have been sealed away from the public.

Try do some research about the USS Cyclops and the USS Richard E. Byrd. The stories are phenomenal and convincing, the book itself is very very convincing and it provides a shocking list of those ships and aircraft which have disappeared over the years. The USAF have lost numerous aircraft, don't know if they are able to account for the losses. If this is a government secrecy and a conspiracy, hell it's a masterpiece.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Makes you wonder, doesn't it? About this world we live in. Maybe it still holds more mysteries and dangers than we thought we knew.....

 

[Rodgers]

Yeah - I love weirdness, it's just a shame that those kinds of stories attract so many hoaxers, otherwise I think I'd believe in it all much more readily

 

[D.Shaffer]

Originally posted by nixon
The USAF have lost numerous aircraft, don't know if they are able to account for the losses. If this is a government secrecy and a conspiracy, hell it's a masterpiece.

Yeah, and then you go and read the skeptic replies...and you find out that, statistically, the Bermuda triangle is no less dangerous a stretch of water then any other body of water, it just has better publicity.

Object lesson learned? Any book about a theory, ESPECIALLY kooky ones, is written with the goal of convincing you. It is going to be slanted and will either ignore or gloss over any evidence that doesnt fit their criteria. So before you go accepting that the moon landing is a hoax, or that aliens are in the bermuda triangle, or that the USS Eldridge was the basis of teleportation experiments, do some more reading and then make up your mind.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Originally posted by D.Shaffer
Object lesson learned? Any book about a theory, ESPECIALLY kooky ones, is written with the goal of convincing you. It is going to be slanted and will either ignore or gloss over any evidence that doesnt fit their criteria. So before you go accepting that the moon landing is a hoax, or that aliens are in the bermuda triangle, or that the USS Eldridge was the basis of teleportation experiments, do some more reading and then make up your mind.

That's the fun part. Imagine.... what if it's real. Won't that be interesting, even though deep deep down you think it's crap?

 

[nixon]

Originally posted by D.Shaffer
Yeah, and then you go and read the skeptic replies...and you find out that, statistically, the Bermuda triangle is no less dangerous a stretch of water then any other body of water, it just has better publicity.

Object lesson learned? Any book about a theory, ESPECIALLY kooky ones, is written with the goal of convincing you. It is going to be slanted and will either ignore or gloss over any evidence that doesnt fit their criteria. So before you go accepting that the moon landing is a hoax, or that aliens are in the bermuda triangle, or that the USS Eldridge was the basis of teleportation experiments, do some more reading and then make up your mind.

1) One has, at no time, stated one's opinions and views on the mentioned subject. You grossly miscomprehend one's personal opinions which play no part, whatsoever, in the above posted statements.

2) One knows perfectly well, that books written by convinced authors of a theory, deliberately tend to emphasize less important things, which leads to a soon conviction by the reader.

3) The Moon Landing was and will never be a hoax. It's a shame that such a great human achievement has fallen victim to an extreme misconception which is rooted in the deep and deliberate mistrust towards the U.S. government. Repulsive ideas about a NASA-led conspiracy is a preposterous theory which belongs nowhere.

4) One has made up one's mind a long time ago. One doesn't need your feeble reprimands to make up one's mind.
Your palpable conviction of one, as a naive and dumb spectator of this subject is a silly mistake of yours. One thinks it's an interesting subject with much to be illuminated, thus one only possess the "basic" knowledge about the Bermuda Triangle and the like. Your laughable arrogance is comical, so comical that you actually deserve a spot in a working camp as a potential enemy of state.

 

[Ribannah]

There's a pretty decent movie about the Philadelphia Experiment. Another, also OK movie is Capricorn One about a faked Mars landing.

 

[D.Shaffer]

Originally posted by nixon
4) One has made up one's mind a long time ago. One doesn't need your feeble reprimands to make up one's mind.
Your palpable conviction of one, as a naive and dumb spectator of this subject is a silly mistake of yours. Your laughable arrogance is comical, so comical that you actually deserve a spot in a working camp as a potential enemy of state.

One thinks someone is taking a responce meant to a general public a bit to personally...

One apologises if said person beleives one was trying to insult him, but thinks that THIS sort of reply is uncalled for.

One also wonders if said person would at least agree with the general gist of the statement, that you need to look at both sides before making up your mind.