Posted on 09/24/2007 6:07:32 PM PDT by xcamel
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Last week’s news and the illness thing seemed to be hysterical.
I really can’t buy the arsenic explanation.
Mining in the area would explain it.
But, but...Pravda and the moonbats assured me that this was a US satellite that the US shot down itself! ...and that it was the radiation from the US satellite that made those people sick. [/sarcasm]
I can think of a few places I would have preferred the impact occur...
One “UN Building” in mind?
Or a refinary in Iran?
You are correct. The high ground water level, as shown in the pic, was the tip off. When I first saw the pic I thought the object hit a spectic leach field and that
whatever sulfur gases were released bothered the locals.
Copper and gold mining in the area and the associated release of chemicals into the ground water were the cause.
Pravda sure pushed it. Said it was shot down in time to foil a US nuke attack on Iran.
I believe there was arsenic in the area but have difficulty accepting that the vapor cloud hung around long enough above ground to sicken these people. Seems unlikely to me. Gasses disperse real quick unless they are trapped somehow.
The wet dust settles on everything - and microparticles remain suspended in the humid air for quite a while. - that thing left a hole about the size of a 2T bomb blast - which makes a pretty big cloud of debris...
The pictures of this hole in the ground always amaze me! Not one picture that I have seen shows a human standing on the rim ... you know to give it perceptive ... the photographer seems to be able to get close ... but everybody else seems to be hundreds of feet away .... WHY?
Arsenic is volatile at high temps. Years ago, some of the copper smelter operations in Butte Montana (e.g., Asarco, Anaconda) had a problem with arsenic gas killing honey bees in the area. This didn’t sit well with the bee farmers.
It should be obvious that the whole is pretty hugh ...
Lock and Load Bro
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