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Article: <5fmovs$nlg@sjx-ixn11.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: TUNGUSKA
Date: 6 Mar 1997 15:48:12 GMT
In article <331C9D23.60F0@sc.hp.com> Chris Franks
writes:
> What is wrong is that the people who were standing in the
> area did not suffocate from breathing methane, they were
> killed by concussion. Try to calculate the number of cubic
> miles of a methane/air mixture that would have the
> explosive power of hundreds of megatons of TNT at an
> altitude of about 8 miles. How could that many cubic
> miles of methane act as if it was concentrated in a point
> only 100 yards in diameter?
> Chris Franks <cfranks@sc.hp.com>
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
Do dead men talk? Methane was not even considered as an
explanation, nor does methane leave any traces, being a natural
element and easily disbursed in the air. Thus the dead, who were
as affected by the blast as the trees laid on their sides, were
given a quick post mortem. The explosion did indeed occur close
to the ground, in a highly concentrated methane cloud that
consumed all the oxygen in the immediate area during the blast.
Any flash seen leading into the explosion was disbursed methane
carried by the prevailing westerlies, which like the long fuse on
a dynamite stick burned and was visible PRIOR to the blast. The
blast did not occur 8 miles above the Earth, though the fuse may
have run that high.
(End ZetaTalk[TM])