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Originally posted by ikonoklast
Originally posted by Honor93
reply to post by OkieDokie
if you'll recall, there was a Kentucky earthquake, and a relatively shallow one which could have easily enhanced additional gaseous release anywhere along the fault region.
connect a sudden release of "swamp" gas with an incoming fireball and kaboom.
ETA -- in case you don't follow what's happening in the Bayou Corne, LA ... not only is there a sinkhole but the caverns are collapsing underground. these caverns (used to store excess gases) following collapse, will force the gas it can no longer hold, into escaping via the least resistant path ... what's common to both areas ??
the Mississippi River ... and haven't they been experiencing closures to shipping traffic due to exceptionally low levels lately ?
Interesting thought, but the Bayou Corne, Louisiana sinkhole is about 870 miles away from Indianapolis. And Indianapolis is about 300 miles away from the Mississippi River. So leakage from Bayou Corne along the Mississippi River valley and over to Indianapolis is probably not too likely.
But if there is ever a similar explosion from Bayou Corne leakage because of the sinkhole, that may make this look like a tiny firecracker. Hope that doesn't happen.
Well, you are assessing my comment with the assumption that I've only read that article, people are freaked out here about their furnaces their appliances pipelines, it's insane.
Originally posted by Honor93
reply to post by Maskander
sad to read the "mass hysteria" assessment but am glad folks acted and got out safely
it is stories like these that make me wonder how a leaking appliance could possibly generate the disaster in IN.
i didn't doubt you or assess your comment ... i commented on your assessment
Originally posted by Maskander
Well, you are assessing my comment with the assumption that I've only read that article, people are freaked out here about their furnaces their appliances pipelines, it's insane.
Originally posted by Honor93
reply to post by Maskander
sad to read the "mass hysteria" assessment but am glad folks acted and got out safely
it is stories like these that make me wonder how a leaking appliance could possibly generate the disaster in IN.
Originally posted by ikonoklast
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So the experts find it unusual that the blast could have been this big and that it leveled two houses side by side just like some of us do. ...
Originally posted by Honor93
Originally posted by ikonoklast
Originally posted by Honor93
reply to post by OkieDokie
if you'll recall, there was a Kentucky earthquake, and a relatively shallow one which could have easily enhanced additional gaseous release anywhere along the fault region.
connect a sudden release of "swamp" gas with an incoming fireball and kaboom.
ETA -- in case you don't follow what's happening in the Bayou Corne, LA ... not only is there a sinkhole but the caverns are collapsing underground. these caverns (used to store excess gases) following collapse, will force the gas it can no longer hold, into escaping via the least resistant path ... what's common to both areas ??
the Mississippi River ... and haven't they been experiencing closures to shipping traffic due to exceptionally low levels lately ?
Interesting thought, but the Bayou Corne, Louisiana sinkhole is about 870 miles away from Indianapolis. And Indianapolis is about 300 miles away from the Mississippi River. So leakage from Bayou Corne along the Mississippi River valley and over to Indianapolis is probably not too likely.
But if there is ever a similar explosion from Bayou Corne leakage because of the sinkhole, that may make this look like a tiny firecracker. Hope that doesn't happen.
are you suggesting the ONLY pathway for gas to travel around this globe is via the water channels ? i sure hope not.
i don't care if they are 10,000 miles apart above ground, they could be/are still directly connected underground. their relative distance or promity to one another is irrelevant when discussing a release of "swamp" gas in a region as porous as Indianapolis or Lousianna.
Kentucky isn't all that close either, however, do you really think that particular ground movement had -0- effect elsewhere in the world ? (think butterfly effect)
i am not so quick to dismiss the theory and you've provided nothing substantial to change my mind. care to offer anything else ?
i got that, but in it's dismissive presentation, i felt clarification was needed. (maybe not for you)
No, I'm not saying any of that. I simply pointed out that Bayou Corne and the Mississippi river were fairly far away from the explosion(s) in Indianapolis.
we'll have to disagree in this opinion, ok ?
I would suspect that if there is a catastrophic leak caused by the sinkhole, it's likely to blow something up long before it gets to Indianapolis. Big time. But that's just a guess. And I didn't say anything about the Kentucky earthquake.
i apologize if this is directed at me specifically, however, that is exactly how your post came across. (argumentative)
I don't know why people are getting so argumentative on this thread.
let's just say i sure hope not because mine doesn't have an ending anytime soon
Even the experts and investigators can't agree on a cause or even a believable cover story yet. So far all of the possible causes have something about them that makes them unlikely for one reason or another. But obviously something blew up, so one of the unlikely or impossible explanations is likely correct. Who knows, maybe it's yours.
Originally posted by ikonoklast
reply to post by Honor93
If you thought I was being argumentative, it wasn't my intent. I thought maybe you and others thought those locations were closer than they are and just wanted to point out the distances.
For what it's worth, I take in all of the input from everyone on this thread and will eventually make up my own mind what I believe. And I'm not out to change anyone else's mind, especially since I haven't even made up my own mind yet. I am as curious as others what the cause will turn out to be of the Indianapolis explosion(s).
I agree with you on the Bayou Corne sinkhole, that the worst may be yet to come. That's reminiscent of the Fukushima disaster. Both seem headed in slow motion toward potentially catastrophic conclusions, and there may not be much anyone can do to stop either of those.
oilandgas.ky.gov...
Oil and gas are produced from more than 1,500 pools in Kentucky from rocks of Cambrian to Pennsylvanian age. Most oil is produced from Mississippian limestone and sandstone in eastern and western Kentucky or from Ordovician limestone and dolomites in southern Kentucky. Most natural gas is produced from the Devonian black shale in eastern Kentucky.
Originally posted by Larry2323
reply to post by rickymouse
I am in a discussion group call the UFO Awareness Group and one of our members talked about the Indianapolis Explosion last night and she said there was talk about "something coming from above" and also the topic of drones was definitely on the Internet. I googled "Indianapolis Explosion -drones" and found many returns of which this is the best: ______beforeitsnews/events/2012/11/massive-explosion-reported-after-cia-drone-targets-indianapolis-2430294.html In layman language, a AGM-114 Hellfire missile was fired by a U.S. Air Force Prowler that had bee launched from nearby Wright Patterson AFB to track a CIA Drone that had gone off course. More interesting is the original target was a Army facility in the Indianapolis area. Surely if this story is true, then some firefighters or disaster workers would have found some interesting debris. Even if there was a government lock down of this area, there could be some truth to this story. Has anyone in this forum heard about the discovery of "unusual debris" such as parts of a missile?
With workers not finding problems with underground gas pipes, the National Transportation Safety Board has pulled out of the investigation.
Citizen Energy leaders say their workers haven't found the cause either, with no evidence of a leak in the gas lines running to the homes.
Still, Indianapolis Homeland Security is convinced natural gas is behind the blast, and investigators are focusing on home appliances.
Another very interesting article
Dr. John Goodpaster investigates explosions for a living, as the director of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Forensic and Investigative Sciences Program.
At the request of RTV6, he reviewed the aftermath of the deadly south side explosion that engulfed homes in flames late Saturday night, killing two people and creating a ripple of destruction.
"When you look at this damage, it literally does look like a bomb went off. It's catastrophic," said Goodpaster. "In terms of making a parallel, it's equivalent to literally having a bomb dropped on you, so like a military ammunition dropped from an airplane would cause similar damage to this."
"Our results demonstrate the need for baseline studies before the development of gas fields. We suspect that depressurisation (fracking, groundwater pumping) of the coal seams during gas extraction changes the soil structure (i.e., cracks, fissures) that enhance the release of greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide."
... if you look at Ms "Shirley/Roman"'s pictures-you can see its the same person-just older. Also, as someone who lived in Huntsville for 6 years, was also a microbiologist-except I was in Med School at UAH-UAB; AND, who's ex-hubby was/is a computer engineer who was working on the space station project in the early-mid 90's, (with Boeing, but they collaborated with Marshall)...
OK, let's just say that the reason for her divorce was something I can't say because it's supposed to remain "anonymous". It was "on-going" shall we say, would get better, pull out of financial mess, get "worse", go back into financial mess. I will also say that former "friends" of Ms Shirley had thought she was doing better, getting her RN, (with a Masters in Micro btw-hopefully you all will "see" where I'm going with this), divorce. BUT, her friends said she is VERY vulnerable, seems to be insecure without a man, and that they ARE concerned about this latest...relationship-and what may have been going on "inside" it...