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Breaking news - Mushroom cloud?????????

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:17 pm
by GalvestonDuck
Go to off-topic - urgent need for confirmation on this!!!!!!!!

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:18 pm
by yoda
I am doing so... there are reports on the wires and on some websites.... they are coming in slowly....could have been a nuke test by North Korea.....

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:19 pm
by dennis1x1
2 days old = breaking?

looks like another train accident...and any large explosion produces a mushroom cloud...doesnt have to be nuclear.

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:19 pm
by gatorbabe79
Yahoo news has it

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:20 pm
by montrealboy

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:21 pm
by Wnghs2007
gatorbabe79 wrote:Yahoo news has it


A 2.5 mile wide Mushroom cloud from a train explosion????????

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:21 pm
by rxdoc
A train accident does not produce a 2 to 2 1/2 mile wide mushroom cloud and a visible crater by satellite. But then again, if a train wobbled west...

Nevermind

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:22 pm
by dennis1x1
guess you havent seen sat pics of the last train explosion in north korea......they are unreal.

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:23 pm
by gatorbabe79

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:24 pm
by miamijaaz
rxdoc wrote:A train accident does not produce a 2 to 2 1/2 mile wide mushroom cloud and a visible crater by satellite. But then again, if a train wobbled west...

Nevermind


west?? that train definitely wobbled NW! lol.

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:24 pm
by GalvestonDuck
dennis1x1 wrote:2 days old = breaking?

looks like another train accident...and any large explosion produces a mushroom cloud...doesnt have to be nuclear.


Where are you getting that it's two days old? Just came through on my cell phone as a breaking news text message.

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:07 am
by shaner
Because the incident actually happened on the 9th.

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:12 am
by LSUChamps0002
I have no idea what this incident actually was, but in such a small world as we livein now, due to echnology and the media, it is amazing to me that thiis story is breaking on the wires tonight, since it did in fact happen on thursday.

I did not hear about it until tonight. Am I just late to this, or what?

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:15 am
by Tri-State_1925
Here is something from today's/tomorrow's (I believe) NY Times...a little more detail

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/inter ... &position=

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:16 am
by Sean in New Orleans
LSUChamps0002 wrote:I have no idea what this incident actually was, but in such a small world as we livein now, due to echnology and the media, it is amazing to me that thiis story is breaking on the wires tonight, since it did in fact happen on thursday.

I did not hear about it until tonight. Am I just late to this, or what?

Everybody just found out---I'm sure our government kept this quiet until they could get the facts straight. I have the utmost in confidence that our country will handle this properly....the war on terror continues....

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:26 am
by dixiebreeze

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:30 am
by anjou
Here's a thread about the whole thing:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=118125

Still unknown/debatable whether it was a nuke test or not... but it did occur on some big North Korean notable anniversary. And reportedly it occurred at or near the site of an underground missile testing facility.

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:39 am
by HurricaneBill
I read on Google news that a U.S. official has said that it was NOT a nuclear explosion, but possibly a forest fire (?).

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:43 am
by chakalakasp
anjou wrote:Here's a thread about the whole thing:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=118125

Still unknown whether it was a nuke test or not... but it did occur on some big North Korean notable anniversary.

Questions for meteorologists... I stress, a HYPOTHETICAL question. If something went boom on 9-8 U.S. time at the north end of North Korea, when would any particles from said boom waft to L.A.? Seriously.

(I think NK is like 13 hours or something like that ahead of the U.S. East Coast.)


Of course. We have high altitude sensing devices that scoop air and look for just such particles, as they provide intel on nuclear testing and on nuclear explosion characteristics. However, the amount in the air is negligible in terms of health effects. Remember, the U.S. detonated scores of groundbursts in the U.S. Southwest, and this had little effect on the American population (with the exception of those living in New Mexico)

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:16 am
by GalvestonDuck
Mmmkay, when Osama bin Laden's body is found and it's determined that he died 5 days prior, I won't post it as breaking news because it's "5 days old." :roll:

Hey, it's North Korea. Remember -- it takes DAYS for news to get out of that country.