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Article: <5g95cv$mqm@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: TUNGUSKA
Date: 13 Mar 1997 15:10:23 GMT
In article <5ftg7i$gac@news.ccit.arizona.edu> Jim Scotti writes:
>> Explosions blow IN ALL DIRECTIONS, even downward.
>> Why do you find the evidence that there was a downward
>> blast to be inconsistent with a methane gas explosion?
>> (End ZetaTalk[TM])
>
> You described a blast over a large area - not a small
> confined blast as was observed with a highly centrally located
> ground zero. A very small area a few hundred meters across
> contain the trees that remained standing but with limbs broken
> off - your methane blast would result in a large area (several
> kilometers across by the amount of methane needed for such
> a large blast) of chaotically strewn trees, not radially blasted
> as was found near ground zero.
> jscotti@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Jim Scotti)
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
Consider the process of an explosion, which in all cases STARTS in a central site and
travels outwards. This process may happen so rapidly that is seems to be generalized, but
the process in fact is a series of domino tips. We will explain. The methane mixed with air
in the upper strata burns off, as the heat can expand upward. No explosion. The heat in the
middle of the cloud travels in all directions, some up, some down, evenly distributed
because it is trying to equalize. When this heat rises up, it simply causes the hot air above
it to rise faster, move faster, as there IS an open door up above for escape. When this heat
in the middle if forced downward, into the methane and air mix sandwiched between the
ground and the over-burn above, a compression occurs.
The heat ramps up to explosive levels, but ON THE EDGES of this layer as the heat is
pushing away, laying the trees flat as you have stated. In the center of this sandwich layer,
between the over-burning cloud above and the ground below, a type of equalized pressure
exists. Where on the edges of the sandwich, the hot air is rushing away, in the CENTER of
this sandwich layer, compression is tight all around. Does an object in an air compression
chamber blow about? It is immobile, in part due to the equal pressure on all sides. You use
this same principle when you put a post in the ground. You pad earth around all sides of the
post, and thus it stands straight up! Think of the compressed air in the center of this
sandwich of exploding methane as earth, packed around a post. Thus, the trees were not
blown down, they were in fact held upright by equal pressure!
(End ZetaTalk[TM])