Author Topic: Very weird . kinda off topic (Read 1006 times)

Dan Mich Trapper · « **on:** December 02, 2004, 06:27:00 PM »

http://www.softwareartist.biz/philexp.html

Scroll down to "PROJECT RAINBOW "

Greybeard · « **Reply #1 on:** December 03, 2004, 07:19:53 AM »

So did you buy the book and read it? I've long wondered if there is any basis in fact or this story.

Dan Mich Trapper · « **Reply #2 on:** December 03, 2004, 03:03:20 PM »

No , my little brother was telling me about this the other nite . He saw it on the "History " channel . Must be something to it if the History channel played it , never knew them to show anything without some kind of backing .

WorkinStiff · « **Reply #3 on:** December 04, 2004, 04:43:23 AM »

Years ago, when I was in the Navy, I was standing a boring midwatch,(midnight-8AM) on the bridge of a ship...One of the other enlisted guys had read a book about the Philadelphia Experiment and so we were discussing it...A Commander who overheard us came over and said that The Philadelphia Experiment had really occured. That while in Grad school in the 70s an old physics professor confided that as a young scientist, he had worked on it....

michbob · « **Reply #4 on:** December 05, 2004, 01:24:02 PM »

Not to ruffle feathers, but if Charles Berlitz was involved in writing a book, you can immediately transfer that book to the TP category. Was it not Mr. Berlitz who wrote the (hysterical) book "the Great Lakes Triangle"? It was so full of fundamental errors regarding the Great Lakes region (history and geography) that it is used by publications like "The Skeptical Enquirer" as examples of pseudo-science.

My favorite example? The loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald during a horrific November storm, well noted in story and song, and remembered by me. Berlitz wrote that the Fitz disappeared into a mysterious fog bank on a dead calm night! As the book was published about 6 years after the loss, ya'd figure he'd get at least the most basic details right.

Yes, the Philadelphia Experiment hoax was detailed on the History Channel: they recounted the legend, then de-bunked it, interviewing several "plank owners" who were with the ship from launch through the end of the War.

This one is even less plausible than Roswell.

Michbob