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Massive Explosion Reported at Iran's Fordow Nuclear Facility [plus TXnMA Photo Analysis]
Business Insider Military and Defense ^
| Jan. 28, 2013, 7:03 AM
| Robert Johnson
Posted on 01/29/2013 1:35:14 PM PST by TXnMA
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To: familyop
You’re just trying to cheer me up.
To: TXnMA
...all your basements are belong to us...
42
posted on
01/29/2013 2:25:34 PM PST
by
PeaRidge
To: Strategerist
Well...you COULD tell us but I expect you’d have a hard time killing us all afterward.
43
posted on
01/29/2013 2:27:57 PM PST
by
norton
To: Strategerist
All I can tell you is that Jay Carney wasnt lying.
I guess there's a first for everything.
44
posted on
01/29/2013 2:34:17 PM PST
by
copaliscrossing
(Progressives are Socialists)
To: TXnMA
First, here is the latest publicly- available Google Earth view of the facility, with salient features labeled:
Next, that same view with the relevant portion of the article's image georefenced to the "before" image and rendered with transparecy, allowing both to be visible in the overlay area.
If the article's image is authentic, it is apparent that:
- A significant amount of low-albedo material has been ejected and re-deposited over a large area of the site surface.
- The center of the jecta appears to be associated with the northern pair of tunnel entrances.
- The ejecta deposit extends northward across the highway -- potentially contaminating a section of it.
- I have not been able to identify any evidence of a "bunker buster" bomb being the cause of the damage.
- The facility may be constructed in at least two independent or isolatable sections. There is no visible ejecta directly associated with the southern tunnel entrances or the single tunnel entrance to the east.
- So, only part of the facility may have been directly damaged by the blast. However shock damage may be extnsive throughout the faciity.
- The Iranian nuke program just took a big kick in the teeth -- and they have a big mess on their hands!
45
posted on
01/29/2013 2:36:20 PM PST
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
To: UCANSEE2
Your link is going to a list of January
2012 earthquakes, over a year ago.
Here is a link from the day in question. It shows a 5.5 earthquake about 50 miles east of Kerman and 50 miles north of Qom, about where the nuclear site is reported to be.
-PJ
46
posted on
01/29/2013 2:40:14 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: TXnMA
The ejecta should be radioactive and be detectable from down wind sensors. Hopefully we’ll hear more.
To: TXnMA
To: Political Junkie Too
Kerman is 385 miles ESE of Fordo.
49
posted on
01/29/2013 3:08:49 PM PST
by
WellyP
(question!)
To: TXnMA
If a partial cause was lithium-ion battery banks, well, let’s just say they ALSO blow up real good, with not a lot of goading.. just my professional experience.
Instant hell on earth if enough go up, and it’s real hard to kill the flame.
50
posted on
01/29/2013 3:09:28 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: Strategerist
How far away would the closest non-Iranian sensors be? Possibly far enough that they wouldn’t detect it?
To: mnehring
Unusual image. No blast marks or debris, just a hole (deep underground explosion?) No indication of recovery operation. To me, it looks like a massive sinkhole, something that you'd see on the surface that was caused by a huge subterranean collapse.
52
posted on
01/29/2013 3:18:21 PM PST
by
Bob
To: WellyP
Yeah, I see what I did. I misread Bam as Qom on the map. Still, it was a 5.5 earthquake on the day in question.
-PJ
53
posted on
01/29/2013 3:19:15 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: familyop
They’ll keep doing these nuclear explosions until somebody puts his eye out...
54
posted on
01/29/2013 3:30:27 PM PST
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
To: TXnMA
I figure that the Saudi’s with the clandestine help of the Israeli’s smuggled in a HE a bomb underground that once detonated caused a serious problem. Once the Uranium Hexaflouride breaks down and the HF acid starts to destroy the things the subsequent release of hydrogen gas will further destroy all contained spaces.
Now I would expect the islamonazi’s to send in their special crazies to salvage what’s left.
55
posted on
01/29/2013 3:30:39 PM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Obama has turned America into an aristocracy of the unaccomplished.)
To: TXnMA
Great post, thanks!
(I learned a new word, albedo)
56
posted on
01/29/2013 3:33:43 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: Proud2BeRight
What difference does it make?
That is my new favorite phrase. : )
57
posted on
01/29/2013 3:36:21 PM PST
by
MWestMom
(Will Americans stop someone who views our children as "collateral damage" in their quest for power?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Larry Lucido; battlecry; mnehring; prisoner6; Ray76; Strategerist; ...
My analysis is in
Comment #45.
FYI, I did consider the possibility of cloud shadow, but for a cloud to produce a shoadow anywhere near that dark, the cloud would have to be extremely dense (a very tall cumulonimbus) and very close to the ground, And from the satellite altitude, such a low lying cloud would be visible in the image, In fact, it would have obscured the subject.
If anyone can show me an lmage of an isolated (no visible cloud) cloud shadow on Google Earth that produces that same low albedo and high opacity -- I will reconsider my analysis.
That leaves two alternatives: a dark, dusty deposit -- or Photoshop trickery. I'll see if I can fake the effect on the "before" photo...
58
posted on
01/29/2013 3:37:05 PM PST
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
To: TXnMA
Enlarged, reduced contrast, increased brightness, sharpened.
?????
59
posted on
01/29/2013 3:39:12 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
To: TXnMA
I have not been able to identify any evidence of a "bunker buster" bomb being the cause of the damage.
There were other unconfirmed reports that the facility roof lighting detonated simultaneously in multiple locations. The report went on to say that the explosions were caught on camera prior to the monitoring system going dead.
60
posted on
01/29/2013 3:51:41 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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