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Article: <5fpeak$l9g@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: TUNGUSKA
Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:04:36 GMT
In article <5fn4b2$6hb@pollux.cmc.ec.gc.ca> Greg Neill
writes:
> Clouds of gas do not explode as you seem to think unless
they
> are very well mixed with the correct amount of reactants.
> Instead they burn over a period of time. Witness the
> Hindenburg accident. The dirigible did not vaporize in a
blink
> of an eye, but burned for several minutes.
> ynecgan@cmc.doe.ca (Greg Neill)
The gas in the Hindenburg was NOT ALLOWED TO MIX WITH THE AIR PRIOR TO the explosion and burning - it was encased, except for the small amount that caused the explosion. In Tunguska, the methane was hissing out and MIXING as it raised up, forming a large MIXED cloud.
In article <5fn4b2$6hb@pollux.cmc.ec.gc.ca> Greg Neill
writes:
>> Methane was not even considered as an explanation, nor
does
>> methane leave any traces, being a natural element and
easily
>> disbursed in the air.
>> ZetaTalk[TM]
>
> The burning of methane would leave plenty of water and lots
> of dirty-combustion byproducts of carbon and nitrogen. Also,
> there's no way a single cloud of methane could burn all at
once.
> It would burn slowly from the outside in, as oxygen would
have
> to rush in for the combustion. The ongoing combustion would
> no doubt have ignited the forest.
> ynecgan@cmc.doe.ca (Greg Neill)
Methane is a component of natural gas! It burns clean, you dope! And what makes you think it would NOT mix with air as it rises and hisses out of the ground? Take a block of buildings in a city, all heated with natural gas. Open all the vents in all the ovens and hot water heaters and furnaces simultaneously. Let them hiss away for about an hour, and then interject a spark. Would you have a city block left? Greg, what do you do to put out a candle, other than act macho and pinch it out with your fingers? You BLOW on it! During a combustion process, the MOST combustible items burn FIRST. This is why a natural gas leak and explosion finds that the house may or may be burning, but the gas surely did! This was a boggy place, soggy ground, scrub forest at best, and the trees were blown flat, and any local burning BLOWN OUT by the explosion. Jim Scotti knows this.
In article: <5fn5qq$11b6@news.ccit.arizona.edu> Jim
Scotti writes:
>> (Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
>> 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.
>> (End ZetaTalk[TM])
>
> The fire that was ignited by the blast was put out by the
shock
> wave the blew past the trees that were ignited in the flash.
> jscottii@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Jim Scotti)