Triangles

[zorkan]

Apart from the Bermuda Triangle there is also the Derbyshire Triangle in England and the Bonnybridge Triangle in Scotland.
I'm looking for any more you know of., and why triangles and not squares.

https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/video-have-you-seen-the-peak-districts-mysterious-ghost-plane-737396

https://ufos.ac.uk/bonnybridge/


 

[billy rubin]

https://medium.com/@cosmicseasstar/a-graveyard-of-mysteries-why-do-so-many-ships-disappear-in-the-lake-michigan-triangle-5745e1fc54f7

[Recusant]

Triangles are more efficient, that's why.

[Dark Lightning]

I've partially disappeared into some triangles. 

[Asmodean]

why triangles and not squares.

Triangle is the simplest 2D shape that has an area.

If you have a point on a plane, it's useful to mark that coffee shop you like or some such, but far too specific to group local events by.

Two points make a line. Nice for measuring distances, but "little" else.

Now, three points with lines between each one define an area within said lines. You can use additional points to tune the shape and resolution of said area, but for a first degree of approximation, you only need three.

It can be argued that an ellipsoid is an even simpler area-defining shape, but for the pies involved. Personally, I do appreciate a nice point and radius, as I can usually visualise the corresponding circle, but then that Origin may be quite arbitrary. For example, the Origin of the Bermuda circle may (and would) be in "no-place-of-interest, middle of the sea." Harder to visualise than the land masses of Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda with straight lines between them.

So yeah, what Recusant said.

[zorkan]

Not to be outdone on the tourist trail, Wales also has it's very own triangle.

https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/23846324.ufo-sightings-pembrokeshire-broad-haven-triangle-story/

But what is puzzling is that St. Brides Bay is more like a square than a triangle.

Interesting that nearby on a headland a military base called RAF Brawdy was actually a tracking station for Russian submarines in the Irish Sea during the Cold War.
"Is it possible" it was also a tracking station for aliens spacecraft as has been claimed.