The Amazing Spider-Man: Midnight IMAX Poster released

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Via MTV and Cinema Blend, Sony Pictures and Marvel have released a new poster for fans looking forward to the IMAX midnight screening of The Amazing Spider-Man! The new one sheet depicts Spider-Man in full costume, swinging into action as a huge shadowy figure of The Lizard looms in the background! Also, the clock and date for the Midnight Showing in IMAX stateside is set, with 12:01 AM and the date 07.03.12 locked on! For more information and details on the post, visit Cinema Blend and MTV!


The Amazing Spider-Man swings into theaters on June 29th internationally and July 4th in the US!

Bat In The Sun: Batman Vs Wolverine Live Action Battle!

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Bat In The Sun Productions has produced several projects that are both revered and beloved by fans of comics and Batman. They've produced classic fan films that focus on The Dark Knight and his exploits, from Batman: City of Scars to Batman: Seeds of Arkham. Now, their latest offering is in conjunction with a new project called "Super Power Beat Down", pitting two heroic legends against one another in a batte of epic proportions! BATMAN VS WOLVERINE!


The battle here pits none other than the Justice League's own Dark Knight against the X-Men's own Feral Mutant! Who will win: The Caped Crusader or The Ol' Canucklehead? Watch the battle via the video below, and then you decide by voting and visiting the SPBD website!



BATMAN vs WOLVERINE - LIVE ACTION BATTLE

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Dead Space: Catalyst Announced

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The next novel in the Dead Space franchise has been announced, and you can check out the official release from our friends at Tor Books below:









Tor Books and Visceral GamesTeam Up on a New Novel, Dead Space: Catalyst, Set in theDead Space Universe
Edgar Award Finalist and Horror Sensation B.K. Evenson to Pen Second Novel in the Series

New York, NY– June 18, 2012 - Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC—the largest publisher of science fiction in the world—and Visceral Games™, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA), today announced Dead Space™: Catalyst,the second novel based on the award-winningDead Space videogame franchise. Dead Space: Catalyst will be published worldwide on October 2, 2012.
Dead Space: Catalyst takes place three hundred years in the future, where mankind is tampering with the dangerous alien technology gleaned from the Black Marker, an ancient alien artifact discovered on Earth centuries earlier. Hoping to end resource constraints that threaten to make mankind extinct, the urgency sinks the already unscrupulous EarthGov to new lows. At this early stage, the Marker threat is just appearing – and is maybe even contained – except if it finds the catalyst it so desperately seeks. Two brothers, one with a special but broken mind, the other forever conflicted by the impossible chore of keeping him out of trouble, cross paths with EarthGov and the Markers at this critical juncture and forever change the course of the Marker outbreak.
B. K. Evenson is the award-winning author of the new novelImmobility (out from Tor Books on April 10, 2012),Last Days, voted best horror novel of 2009 by the American Library Association,and The Open Curtain, a 2006 Edgar Award finalist andTime Out New York best book of the year.
Since the series debut in 2008,Dead Space has been one of EA’s top rated wholly-owned intellectual properties. With close to 100 industry awards and an average critic score of 89*,Dead Space is loved by videogame fans the world over. In 2009, EA launchedDead Space Extraction, a prequel to the originalDead Space that expanded the fiction and brought the franchise to the Wii™. In 2011, EA launchedDead Space 2 where hero Isaac Clarke returned for another heart-pounding adventure and was heralded as one of the top games of 2011 by Seth Schiesel from theNew York Times and has received over 70 scores of 90+ from top gaming outlets such asOfficial Xbox Magazine, Playstation: The Official Magazine and Game Informer.
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* According to Gamerankings.com and Metacritic.com
About Tor BooksTor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, is a New York-based publisher of hardcover and softcover books. Founded in 1980, Tor annually publishes what is arguably the largest and most diverse line of science fiction and fantasy ever produced by a single English-language publisher.  In 2002, Tor launched Starscape, an imprint dedicated to publishing quality science fiction and fantasy for young readers, including books by critically acclaimed and award winning authors such as Cory Doctorow, Orson Scott Card, and David Lubar. Between an extensive hardcover and trade-softcover line, an Orb backlist program, and a stronghold in mass-market paperbacks, books from Tor have won every major award in the SF and fantasy fields, and the company has been named Best Publisher 24 years in a row in theLocus Poll, the largest consumer poll in SF.

Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut Release Date Announced

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The ending for Mass Effect 3 sparked a significant outrage amongst the gaming community, with many feeling it was too simple and weak to properly finish their Shepard's story.  To help rectify this, BioWare will be releasing a DLC add-on which expands upon the game's ending, free of charge.

This Tuesday, June 26th, gamers will be able to download the Extended Cut for Mass Effect 3.

Weighing in at about 1.9 GB, the add-on will feature additional cinematic scenes and epilogue scenes for the game's ending.  In order to experience the Extended Cut for existing characters who have already completed the game, however, you'll need to load a save from before the attack on the Cerberus Base.

That irks me, as that's far enough back in the story where it'll take me several hours of playtime to complete, and I simply can't invest that kind of time in a game I've already completed.  While I'll see the Extended Cut on subsequent playthroughs, I'm hugely disappointed that I won't be able to with my primary Shepard.  Hugely.  Disappointed.

You can find out full details about Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut here.

Mortal Kombat (Feature Film) Review

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Originally released back in the summer of 1995 towards the height of the franchise's popularity, Mortal Kombat was a campy film even by '90's standards.  I saw the flick in theatres and thought it was alright, and I watched it on TV once a few years later.  Through all the time between then and now I've never bothered to view it since, but a few weeks back I saw it had been added to Zune Marketplace.  So, with my renewed addiction to the franchise thanks to Mortal Kombat (2011), I decided to give it a rent and re-check it out.

Released a few months after Mortal Kombat 3 hit arcades, Mortal Kombat is a film heavily based off of Mortal Kombat (1992) and Mortal Kombat II.  An ancient and mysterious martial arts tournament is being held on a secluded island, hosted by the reclusive Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa).  Throughout the centuries, Shang has manipulated events to win tournament after tournament, where a tenth and final victory will see our world merged with another Realm, that of Outworld, home to Shang Tsung's evil master Shao Khan (Frank Welker).

The Shaolin, under the guidance of the Thunder God, Raiden (Christopher Lambert), send a reluctant champion to compete, Liu Kang (Robin Shou), who is consumed by the desire to avenge his younger brother's death at Shang's hands.  Also manipulated into attending, the martial arts actor Johnny Cage (Linden Ashby) hopes to prove his skills to the media and Special Forces agent Sonya Blade (Bridgette Wilson) is hot on the trail of her nemesis, the crime lord Kano (Trevor Goddard) who is working with Shang.

Goro, of course, is the current tournament champion and a very well done (for the time) animatronic puppet, and Scorpion (Chris Casamassa) and Sub-Zero (Francois Petit) serve as Shang Tsung's enforcers.  Reptile (Keith Cooke) also appears, as one of Shang's spies, rounding out the first game's complete roster.  Kitana (Talisa Soto) from Mortal Kombat II is also featured, and Jax (Gregory McKinney) makes a cameo appearance.

As with most of Paul W.S. Anderson's films, the character development is light and archetypical with little depth, but the action and fight sequences are solid and still enjoyable.  The animatronic special effects are still pretty good and have aged well, while the CG effects were good for their time but of course have aged poorly.

When I was fourteen I remember how cool it was to see all these characters on the big screen, but many of my criticisms from back then still remain.  I was never a fan of Scorpion's Spear being a living creature instead of a traditional kunai and while I didn't mind Reptile being rendered as a little reptilian creature, I did take exception to him becoming his more traditional ninja form by "possessing" of corpse in the Wasteland of Outworld.  I was also disappointed by the basic supporting roles granted to Scorpion and Sub-Zero, though it does make sense plot wise, but their complete lack of conflict with each other seemed extremely out of place.

Watching Mortal Kombat today, what I personally find interesting is how much the film's art design has clearly influenced the art design of Mortal Kombat (2011).  Shang Tsung's Garden, for example, is represented clearly in the film before it ever saw the light of day in a game, and the knife Kano pulls on Sonya during their fight is the exact same one he uses in the current game.  Of course when various visual elements work it makes perfect sense that they cross between mediums, even over fifteen years later, and there's many more examples fans will quickly notice.  Some plot points also carried over into the games, such as the romance between Liu Kang and Kitana and the attraction between Cage and Sonya.

A cheesy yet enjoyable film, Mortal Kombat is worth the rental cost.  It took me back to a simpler time when my biggest worry was how to quickly get through my homework so I could make it to an arcade and practice my moves, and I'm never one to baulk at nostalgia.  Of course, if you have no interest in the franchise or fond memories of it, then Mortal Kombat likely won't entertain you much at all and you'll probably want to pass for something else.

Batman Arkham City Best Buy Pre-Order Question Robin Skins?

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I pre-ordered batman arkham city from best buy to get robin and stuff, and how many alternate costumes do I get for robin, 1 or 2 ? I read I get 2 alternate costumes, but I called them and they said one alternate costume. Which is it ?Batman Arkham City Best Buy Pre-Order Question Robin Skins?
For Best Buy, you get only 1 skin (Red Robin).

When you said 2 alternate skins, you may have been referring to UK Gamestop's pre-order bonus (Red Robin Skin And Animated Series Skin). However, they might change it soon since it seems a lot of people are getting confused...not very likely though.

I'll cite the UK Gamestop trailer in the source.Batman Arkham City Best Buy Pre-Order Question Robin Skins?
Batman: Arkham Asylum is third-person Action-Adventure game that delivers an authentic Dark Knight experience rooted in an original and engrossing story as well as a combination of melee combat, stealth, investigative and speed-based challenge gameplay. A sequel to 2009's Batman: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City features the full range of classic enemies seen in the previous game, in addition to Catwoman, who is a playable character and has her own storyline in the new release. Additional features include: a range of new gadgets, an increased number of possible melee opponents and a range of movement options for Batman that include leaping, sliding, gliding and the grapple hook.Batman Arkham City Best Buy Pre-Order Question Robin Skins?
You get 3 costumes and one challenge map

The original costume for the game

+ The Animated Series Costume DLC

+ Red Robin Costume DLC

+ Two Robin Challenge Maps DLC

Watch Video in link its for game stop in europe BUT BEST BUY IS THE SAME THING cant find best buys add but i have seen it on T.V. same exact one
1 costume I'm pretty sure. It's better to go to best buy to get robin then gamestop for a map You picked the better deal.

How to complete side missions on Batman Arkham City?

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I finished Arkham City story mode but not side missions. Only have 40% shot in the dark, 20% watcher in the wings, 30% enigma conundrum, 0% identity theft done. And right now there's nothing to do but look for riddler trophies, how do I finish these missions? Been running around forever there not coming up.How to complete side missions on Batman Arkham City?
As you get more and more trophies, you will be given hints to proceed with the missions. You must regularly check the map for any new marking. In the watcher mission, always use detective mode and try to find a guy standing in the top of a building alone. I remember one of the places he was standing is on the giant wheel.There are four places in total out of which you found only one yet. I guess you have not solved enough of riddler's challenges, that's why nothing is coming up.

Should i get batman Arkham city or assassins creed revelations?

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I liked the first two assassins creed games. They were great. I loved the stealth and fighting and assassinations.



I seen batman movies but I want to kind of have a game.Should i get batman Arkham city or assassins creed revelations?
you need to get brotherhood. get batman and play that until you play through brotherhoodShould i get batman Arkham city or assassins creed revelations?
seeing that you have played the first two ac games, my question to you is if you have played ac brotherhood yet, if not you can't play revelations until you finish brotherhood completely to understand the story. otherwise get batman arkham city.Should i get batman Arkham city or assassins creed revelations?
The Batman Arkham games are AMAZING! I mean, look at the reviews! some of them were 10/10! The graphics, the storyline has a great twist! I love it!
In my friends opinion, he rented Batman Arkham city and said it was sort of a let down.

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Is there a demo for Batman Arkham Asylum for PS3?

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I've been trying to look for the demo for Batman Arkham Asylum for ps3. Does anyone know if there actually is one, or if it is only for Xbox 360Is there a demo for Batman Arkham Asylum for PS3?
noi right now but its releasing on aug 25

u can have a look at its releasing and other updates on the link





http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/batmanarkhamasylum/index.html?tag=result;title;1Is there a demo for Batman Arkham Asylum for PS3?
NO, sorry

How can I get to the highest tower in Batman: Arkham Asylum when I already completed the game?

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I just finished the Normal level in Batman and I'm getting the rest of the riddles that I missed. The last riddle is, My challenges appear to this with the correct position in life. I know I have to get to the higgest tower, but Ivy's vine is in the way. I can't get up there, is there another way?How can I get to the highest tower in Batman: Arkham Asylum when I already completed the game?
The Riddle should be: My challenges appear to those with the correct position in life



Location is:

Grapple up to the top platform of the clock tower of Arkham Mansion

Stand on the south side, overlooking a rooftop below.

Turn on Detective Mode.

The top part of the question mark is on the roof below you and the bottom

part is at your feet.



and dead space is not better than batman it is two different games.



THANNK YOU Fotherz.



and plus i got the platinum tophy for b-man.How can I get to the highest tower in Batman: Arkham Asylum when I already completed the game?
Well, I've gotten every achievement off the game, look at your riddle challenge screen in your start menu and tell me what area this it is in, there are a few riddles throughout the game with the same description but for different areas.How can I get to the highest tower in Batman: Arkham Asylum when I already completed the game?
just walk around the tower and keep looking up there is a way up.

and remer shut your face you prick
Oh, the answer is simple. Play a better game, like Dead Space.

The Dark Knight Rises: New Exclusive Nokia Trailer

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Turning up the excitement for fans eagerly anticipating the movie next month, Warner Bros. has partnered up with Nokia to present a brand new exclusive trailer for "The Dark Knight Rises"! With brand new footage, scenes, and dialogue that may just be more SPOILERS than fans may want to see, view this one with discretion and at your own risk! For more info on the new trailer, visit the source post at Bleeding Cool!


The Dark Knight Rises - Exclusive Nokia Trailer

The Dark Knight Rises on theaters worldwide on July 20.

Metal Gear Solid 5 confirmed by Hideo Kojima and using Fox Engine

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Despite saying the opposite and stating that the story of Solid Snake is finished, Hideo Kojima apparently isn't done with the legendary soldier yet, and has confirmed in an interview with Eurogamer that Metal Gear Solid 5 is in the works!


According to the interview, the next installment in Konami's Tactical Espionage Action series of stealth games will be built using Kojima Production's proprietary and under development "Fox Engine", with the game being more of an "Infiltration Game" ala Deus EX: Human Revolution. It's not known yet whether Kojima is going to direct or lead the project in some form or way, but his involvement is without question. The next Metal Gear game, a spinoff title starring Raiden called Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, is due for release sometime next year. For more on the story, visit the source post at G4TV.com or Eurogamer!

Taken 2 International Trailer

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First they took his daughter... Now the bad guys want a piece of Bryan Mills.


As the poster shows, Liam Neeson is back to kick ass and take names in 20th Century Fox's sequel to their 2008 action flick Taken, "Taken 2". The new international trailer shows the sequel picking up a year after the first film's events, where Mills' wife is kidnapped and his daughter is on the run, forcing the ex-CIA agent to take matters into his own hands once more to make sure his family is safe. Thanks goes to Bleeding Cool for the scoop!


Taken 2 International Trailer
Taken 2 is set to be released this October 5th!

Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer

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Announced sometime last year and finally coming to fruition, the newest series' incarnation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is almost upon us. With that, Nickelodeon has released a new trailer to promote their upcoming new show based on the 80's Heroes-In-A-Half-Shell franchise. However, does it remain consistent with the original show's roots, or does it take a new spin at things? Find out in the trailer below!


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nickelodeon Series Trailer


A different take indeed with the interesting CGI animation work and "Booyakasha!" joke. Thankfully  it seems to retain the same formula and basic origins as before, and no Michael Bay treatment to be found here either thank goodness (and that one got shelved recently). Be sure to stay tuned and vigilant for more updates as they come.
Coinciding with the release of new merchandise, the new TMNT Nickelodeon series is due for release this fall 2012.

Toronto Batman: Tumbler Tour with Toronto Batman!

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A few weeks ago, Warner Bros. and DC Comics announced a "Tumbler Tour" to promote and coincide with the upcoming release of Christopher Nolan's epic conclusion to The Dark Knight saga, The Dark Knight Rises! Showcasing The Tumbler/ Batmobile and The Batpod on selected locations across the US and Canada, these mighty vehicles are giving fans over there a chance to see them in person.

What they didn't count on was Toronto Batman, and here's how his visit went to check out his rides!


The Tumbler Tour with Toronto Batman
Toronto Batman continues his ever growing crusade of "SWEAR TO ME"! Visit him and know of his adventures on his official Facebook page!

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3rd Jammu Marathon ,,,,,,,,,,,went successfully........

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A lot of gr8 athletes n stars from various fields like ashok masti, soha ali khan, akshay kumar, chetan sharma and lots more... took part in the gr8 Jammu Marathon ,, held today on 13/11/2011 , and went successfully.

 It was a very much controlled event under the supervision of JKP(J&K Police) ,, The traffic of Jammu was suitably routed to cope up with the traffic problems. The participants were provided with the Water facilities and refreshments at various intervals.. the route for the marathon was fixed from satwari chowk,, to Amar singh Palace,, Manda. The helicopters had made a constant vision from above the sky so as to maintain a smooth running for the participants...



Studentsa from various schools and colleges took part ,along with the peaple from different walks of the society,,,People from old age to the young kids everybody was very much enthusiastic about the event and ran with full efforts.
According to the sources, the winners were from the police and army sector....

During the event taken place through the B.C. Road there were a lot of audience to increase and appreciate the efforts of the athletes..

The Devil's Triangle.............

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The BermudaTriangle, also known as the Devil'sTriangle, is a region of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have disappeared. Somepeople have claimed that these disappearances fall beyond the boundaries of human error, equipment failure or natural disasters. Popular culture hasattributed some of these disappearances to theparanormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrialbeings. Though asubstantial body of documentation exists showing numerous incidents to havebeen inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and numerousofficial agencies have gone on record as stating that the number and nature ofdisappearances is similar to any other area of ocean, proponents of paranormalphenomena claim that many have remained unexplained despite considerableinvestigation.
The Triangle AreaThe boundaries of the Triangle vary with the author; some statingits shape is akin to a trapezoid coveringthe Straits of Florida,the Bahamas andthe entire Caribbean islandarea and the Atlantic east to theAzores; others add to itthe Gulf of Mexico. The more familiar triangularboundary in most written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlanticcoast of Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidentsconcentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the FloridaStraits.The area is one of the most heavily-sailed shipping lanes in theworld, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are alsoplentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida andthe islands. It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and privateaircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean and South America from points north.

History of the Triangle story

Origins

The first article of any kind in which the legend of the Trianglebegan appeared in newspapers by E.V.W. Jones on September 16, 1950, through theAssociated Press. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea MysteryAt Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss ofseveral planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a training mission. Sand'sarticle was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where thelosses took place. Flight 19 alone would be covered in the April 1962 issue of American Legion Magazine. It was claimed that the flight leaderhad been heard saying "We are entering white water, nothing seems right.We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white." It was alsoclaimed that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes"flew off to Mars." This was the first article to connect thesupernatural to Flight 19, but it would take another author, Vincent Gaddis,writing in the February 1964 Argosy magazine to take Flight 19 togetherwith other mysterious disappearances and place it under the umbrella of a newcatchy name: "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle"; he would build on that article with amore detailed book, InvisibleHorizons, the next year. Others would follow with their ownworks: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973); Charles Berlitz (The Bermuda Triangle, 1974); Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle, 1974) , and many others, all keeping to someof the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.

Kusche's research

Lawrence David Kusche, a research librarian from Arizona State University and author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery:Solved (1975) has challenged this trend. Kusche's researchrevealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz'saccounts and statements from eyewitnesses, participants, and others involved inthe initial incidents. He noted cases where pertinent information wentunreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, which Berlitz hadpresented as a mystery, despite clear evidence to the contrary. Another examplewas the ore-carrier Berlitz recounted as lost without trace three days out ofan Atlantic port when it had been lost three daysout of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean. Kusche also argued that a largepercentage of the incidents which have sparked the Triangle's mysteriousinfluence actually occurred well outside it. Often his research wassurprisingly simple: he would go over period newspapers and see items likeweather reports that were never mentioned in the stories.Kusche came to a conclusion:§  Thenumber of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantlygreater, proportionally speaking, than in any other part of the ocean.§  Inan area frequented by tropicalstorms, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part,neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious; furthermore, Berlitz andother writers would often fail to mention such storms.§  Thenumbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat listed asmissing would be reported, but its eventual (if belated) return to port may nothave been reported.§  Somedisappearances had in fact, never happened. One plane crash was said to havetaken place in 1937 off DaytonaBeach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses; a check of the local papersrevealed nothing.Kusche concluded that:The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle isa manufactured mystery… perpetuated by writers who either purposely orunknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism.

Further responsesThe marine insurer Lloyd's of London has determined the Triangle to be nomore dangerous than any other area of ocean, and does not charge unusual ratesfor passage through the region.United StatesCoast Guard recordsconfirm their conclusion. In fact, the number of supposed disappearances isrelatively insignificant considering the number of ships and aircraft whichpass through on a regular basis.The Coast Guard is also officially skeptical of the Triangle,noting that they collect and publish, through their inquiries, muchdocumentation contradicting many of the incidents written about by the Triangleauthors. In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of thetanker V.A. Fogg in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guardphotographed the wreck and recovered several bodies in contrast with oneTriangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception ofthe captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffeecup.

 

Supernatural explanations

Triangle writers have used a number of supernatural concepts toexplain the events. One explanation pins the blame on leftover technology fromthe mythical lost continent of Atlantis. Sometimes connected to the Atlantisstory is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Roadoff the island of Bimini in theBahamas, which is in the Triangle by some definitions. Followers of thepurported psychic Edgar Cayce takehis prediction that evidence of Atlantis would be found in 1968 as referring tothe discovery of the Bimini Road. Believers describe the formationas a road, wall, or other structure, though geologists consider it to be ofnatural origin. Other writers attribute the events to UFOs. This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film CloseEncounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19as alien abductees.Charles Berlitz,grandson of a distinguished linguist and author of various additional books onanomalous phenomena, has kept in line with this extraordinary explanation, andattributed the losses in the Triangle to anomalous or unexplained forces. 

 

 Natural explanations

 

      Compass variations

Compass problemsare one of the cited phrases in many Triangle incidents. While some have theorizedthat unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area, such anomalieshave not been shown to exist. It should also be remembered that compasses havenatural magnetic variations in relation to the Magnetic poles. For example, in the United States the only places where magnetic (compass)north and geographic (true) north are exactly the same are on a linerunning from Wisconsin tothe Gulf of Mexico. Navigators have known this forcenturies. But the public may not be as informed, and think there is somethingmysterious about a compass "changing" across an area as large as theTriangle, which it naturally will.Deliberate acts of destructionThis can fall into two categories: acts of war, and acts ofpiracy. Records in enemy files have been checked for numerous losses; whilemany sinkings have been attributed to surface raiders or submarines during the World Wars anddocumented in the various command log books, many others which have beensuspected as falling in that category have not been proven. It is suspectedthat the loss of USS Cyclops in 1918, as well as her sister ships Proteus and Nereus in World War II, were attributed to submarines,but no such link has been found in the German records.Piracy, as defined by the taking of a ship orsmall boat on the high seas, is an act which continues to this day. Whilepiracy for cargo theft is more common in the western Pacific and Indian oceans,drug smugglers do steal pleasure boats for smuggling operations, and may havebeen involved in crew and yacht disappearances in the Caribbean. Historicallyfamous pirates of the Caribbean (where piracy was common from about 1560 to the1760s) include Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and Jean Lafitte. Lafitte is sometimes said to bea Triangle victim himself.Gulf StreamThe Gulf Stream isan ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico, and then through the Straits of Florida,into the North Atlantic. In essence, it is a river within an ocean, and like ariver, it can and does carry floating objects. It has a surface velocity of up toabout 2.5 metres per second (5.6 mph). A small plane making a waterlanding or a boat having engine trouble will be carried away from its reportedposition by the current, as happened to the cabin cruiser Witchcraft on December 22, 1967, when it reportedengine trouble near the Miami buoy marker one mile (1.6 km) from shore, but wasnot there when a Coast Guard cutter arrived.

Humanerror

One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to theloss of any aircraft or vessel is human error. Whether deliberate oraccidental, humans have been known to make mistakes resulting in catastrophe,and losses within the Bermuda Triangle are no exception. For example, the CoastGuard cited a lack of proper training for the cleaning of volatile benzene residueas a reason for the loss of the tanker V.A.Fogg in 1972. Humanstubbornness may have caused businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailingyacht, the Revonoc, as hesailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958. Manylosses remain inconclusive due to the lack of wreckage which could be studied,a fact cited on many official reports.

Area51

Area 51 is a nickname for a military baselocated in the southern portion of Nevada in thewestern United States (83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas). Situated at its center, on thesouthern shore of Groom Lake, is a large secretive militaryairfield. The base's primary purpose is to support development and testing ofexperimental aircraft and weapons systems. The base lies within the United States AirForce's vast Nevada Testand Training Range. Although the facilities at the range are managedby the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base,the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Force Flight TestCenter (AFFTC) at Edwards Air ForceBase in the Mojave Desert, around 186 miles(300 km) southwest of Groom, nd as such the base is known as Air ForceFlight Test Center (Detachment 3) Other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, HomeBase, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport. The area is part of the Nellis MilitaryOperations Area, and the restricted airspace around the field isreferred to as (R-4808N), known by the military pilots in the area as "TheBox."The intense secrecy surrounding the base, the very existence ofwhich the U.S. government barely acknowledges, has led it to become thefrequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component to unidentifiedflying object (UFO)folklore.
GeographyArea 51 shares a border with the Yucca Flat regionof the Nevada Test Site (NTS), the location of 739 of the 928nuclear tests conducted by the UnitedStates Department of Energy atNTS. The YuccaMountain nuclear waste repository isapproximately 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Groom Lake.The same "Area xx"naming scheme is used for other parts of the Nevada Test Site.The area is connected to the internal NTS road network, with pavedroads leading south to Mercury andwest to Yucca Flat. Leading northeast from the lake, the wide andwell-maintained Groom Lake Road runs through a pass in the Jumbled Hills. Theroad formerly led to mines in the Groom basin, but has been improved sincetheir closure. Its winding course runs past a security checkpoint, but therestricted area around the base extends further east. After leaving therestricted area, Groom Lake Road descends eastward to the floor of the TikabooValley, passing the dirt-road entrances to several small ranches, beforeconverging with State Route 375,the "ExtraterrestrialHighway", south ofRachel.

Operations at Groom Lake

Groom Lake is not a conventional airbase, as frontline units arenot normally deployed there. It instead appears to be used during thedevelopment, testing, and training phases for new aircraft. Once these aircrafthave been approved by the United States AirForce or otheragencies such as the CIA,operation of that aircraft is generally conducted from a normal air force base.Groom is reported, however, to be the permanent home for a small number of Soviet-designed aircraft which are analyzed and used fortraining purposes.Soviet spy satellites obtained photographs of the Groom Lake areaduring the height of the Cold War, and later civilian satellites produceddetailed images of the base and its surroundings. These images support onlymodest conclusions about the base; they depict a nondescript base, longairstrip, hangars and the lake, but nothing that supports some of the claimsabout underground facilities.
Though no ICAO identifier for the base appears on anyofficial document, in December 2007, airline pilots noticed that the base hadappeared in their aircraft navigation systems' latest Jeppesen databaserevision as "KXTA".

 

U-2 program

Groom Lake was used for bombing and artillery practice during World War II, but was then abandoned untilApril 1955, when it was selected by Lockheed's Skunk Works teamas the ideal location to test the forthcoming U-2 spyplane. The lakebed made an idealstrip from which they could operate the troublesome test aircraft, and theEmigrant Valley's mountain ranges and the NTS perimeter protected the test sitefrom prying eyes and outside interference.Lockheed constructed a makeshift base at the location, then knownas Site II or "The Ranch", consisting of little more than a fewshelters, workshops and trailer homes in which to house its small team. In onlythree months a 5000-foot runway was constructed and was servicable by July 1955. TheRanch received its first U-2 delivery on July 24, 1955 from Burbank on a C-124 Globemaster II cargo plane, accompanied by Lockheedtechnicians on a Douglas DC-3. The first U-2 lifted off from atGroom on August 4, 1955. A U-2 fleet under the control of the CIA began overflights of Soviet territoryby mid-1956.During this period, the NTS continued to perform a series ofatmospheric nuclear explosions. U-2 operations throughout 1957 were frequentlydisrupted by the Plumbbob series of atomic tests, whichdetonated over two-dozen devices at the NTS. ThePlumbbob-Hood explosion on July 5 scattered fallout acrossGroom and forced a temporary evacuation.

Blackbird programs

Even before U-2 development was complete, Lockheed began work onits successor, the CIA's OXCART project, a Mach-3 high altitudereconnaissance aircraft, a later variant of whichbecame the famed USAF SR-71 Blackbird. The Blackbird's flightcharacteristics and maintenance requirements forced a massive expansion offacilities and runways at Groom Lake. By the time the first A-12 Blackbirdprototype flew at Groom in 1962, the main runway had been lengthened to 8,500ft (2,600 m), and the base boasted a complement of over 1,000 personnel. It hadfueling tanks, a control tower, and a baseball diamond.Security was greatly enhanced, the small civilian mine in the Groom basin wasclosed, and the area surrounding the valley was made an exclusive militarypreserve. Groom saw the first flight of most major Blackbird variants: A-12, the abortive YF-12 interceptorvariant, and the D-21 Blackbird-based drone project. The A-12 would remain atGroom Lake until 1968. (The SR-71 firstflew at Palmdale, California.)

Have Blue/F-117 program

The Lockheed Have Blue prototype stealth fighter (a smallercousin of the F-117 Nighthawk) first flew at Groom inDecember 1977. Testing of aseries of ultra-secret prototypes continued there until mid-1981, when testingtransitioned to the initial production of F-117 stealth fighters. In additionto flight-testing, Groom performed radar profiling, F-117 weapons testing, andwas the location for training of the first group of frontline USAF F-117pilots. Subsequently, the still highly classified active-service F-117operations moved to the nearby Tonopah Test Range,and finally to Holloman Air Force Base
Area51 border and warning sign stating that "photography is prohibited"and that "use of deadly force is authorized" under the terms of the1950 McCarranInternal Security Act. A government vehicle is parked on thehilltop; from there, security agents observe the approach to Groom Lake.Commuter service is provided along Groom Lake Road by a bus,catering to a small number of employees living in several small communitiesbeyond the NTS boundary (although it is not clear whether these workers areemployed at Groom or at other facilities in the NTS). The bus travels GroomLake Road and stops at Crystal Springs, Ash Springs,and Alamo, and parks at the Alamo courthouseovernight.

Runways

The airbase, given the ICAO airport identifier code of KXTA andlisted as "Homey Airport" inaviation GPSdatabases, has seven runways includingone that now appears to be closed. The closed runway, 14R/32L, is also by farthe longest with a total length of approximately 7,100 meters (23,300 ft), notincluding stopway. The other runways are two asphalt runways, the 14L/32R witha length of 3,650 meters (12,000 ft) and 12/30 with a length of 1,650 meters(5,400 ft), and four runways located on the salt lake. These four runways are09L/27R and 09R/27L, which are both approximately 3,500 meters (11,450 ft), and03L/21R and 03R/21L, which are both approximately 3,050 meters (10,000 ft). Thebase also has a helipad.The probably-inadvertent release of the airport dataled to advice by the AircraftOwners and Pilots Association (AOPA)that student pilots should be explicitly warned about KXTA, not to consider itas a waypoint or destination for any flight even though it now appears inpublic navigation databases.

Portrayal in media and popular culture

Popular culture often portrays Area 51 as a haven for extraterrestrials. The numerous conspiracytheories surrounding Area 51 have granted it a fairly high profile in popularculture, specifically in the area of science fiction. Dozens of films andtelevision programs deal with fictionalized events at the site. The followingis list of such media:§  Themost widely seen example is the 1996 actionfilm Independence Day,in which the complex is shown to have been studying the crashed scout ship fromthe Roswell UFO incident of 1947. The heroes of the film latermake their final attack from the airstrips at the base, and in a nod toestablished fact, Randy Quaid's character Russell Casse at onepoint refers to the base not being shown on a state map of Nevada.§  Thetelevision series Seven Days took place largely inside the Area 51complex itself, with the base depicted as being run by a covertNational SecurityAgency (NSA) operationwhich used time travel madepossible by alien technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell incident.§  Lara Croft infiltratesArea 51 in Tomb Raider 3. She must find a specialstone called "Element 115."§  Joanna Dark infiltratesArea 51 in the multi-million selling first person shooter video game Perfect Dark. Her objectives are to meetup with a fellow secret agent, find the autopsy lab of the assumed to be deadalien named Elvis, and to get out successfully.§  Inthe beginning of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,"Hangar 51" is revealed to be the location of the government warehouse where the Ark of the Covenant was stored at the end of Raiders of the LostArk, and where KGB agents go to recover the remains ofthe Roswell alien,eventually revealed to be an interdimensional being with a crystalline skeleton.Writer David Koeppacknowledged the number 51 as areference to popular beliefs about the connection between Roswell and Area 51. §  Inthe television series Stargate SG-1, Area 51 is used as afacility for storage and research of technology brought back to Earth from other planets.§  Inthe Metal Gear series, Area 51 turns out to be one ofthe headquarters of the Illuminati groupknown as The Patriots,who manipulate the government, public, and economy from behind the scenes. Thecharacter Raiden is injured during an attempt to rescue Sunny.§  Inthe comic Superman: Red Son, Abin Sur's body is stored in Area 51 by orderof J. Edgar Hoover. John F. Kennedy later gives Lex Luthoraccess to the base to developweapons to defeat the Soviet Union.§  Forthe finale of the documentary televisionseries UFO Hunters,Season Two, Area 51 was filmed in October 2008. The high definitionfootageaired February 25, 2009 on the History channel.