BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 10:56 AM

I bet that the North Koreans have been having a good laugh at all the speculation that this incident has produced. It's also shown them that the world probably won't know for certain if they do test a proper nuclear device.

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 09:31 AM

BOOM

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 09:24 AM

But didn't US engineers in the 50's & 60's have articles published in Practical Mechanics et al, about using nukes to do such big geological engineering projects?


Oooohhh! Husha Ma Mouth!


Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 04:08 AM

Just heard on the news that the N Koreans have explained it. The explosion was the demolition of a mountain as part of a new dam project!

Does it for me...

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 11:27 PM

I think, TIA, I read that the dog ate their radiation monitors. Or maybe they left them in their other backpack at home that day...something along those lines.

The thing that is a complete crock, is that they know right now, today, that it was a nuke. They know because you don't determine if an explosion was a nuke by satellite. You confirm it was a nuclear detonation by the seismic readings, and the radiation detected. It doesn't take days or weeks to confirm a test. Certainly not months.

But yes, the reason for the Bush security whores to be claiming it was probably just a forest fire (it is hard to believe this woman holds a PhD from Standford, isn't it?) is that this news ain't so good for the election thang. Especially when they also came out and said today they could "deal with" the Iranian nuke issues diplomatically.

Just like they are North Korea, I'm sure.

And the fact that the North Koreans blew this baby off on the China border...

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 09:32 PM

Geophysicists (great guys and gals - very good looking and incredibly musical) recorded the seismic signature. Latest word is that the spectral content of the tremors could only be consistent with a "very small yield" nuke (and certainly not a forest fire). As someone pointed out above, the particle counters won't lie. Keep your eyes on them....

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 09:18 PM

Rather bemused about the photos on those stories - normally one would see 'nagasaki mushroom cloud like one in Korea!' - but they have this beaming friendly female face 'reading the newspaper' ROFL!

Makes the really paranoid suspect that it really WAS a bomb test, and that the White House is desperate to pretend they are still in control of the situation - at least until after the election, when they will 'discover' that it a was a test....

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 07:42 PM

Colin Powell on Meet the Press this morning, Don.

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: Don Firth
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 07:00 PM

Unless something has come in within the last few minutes, everything I have read and heard says that it is "unlikely" that the blast was nuclear. I have not heard any "definitely" yet, except here.

I wouldn't stop counting my geigers until I was sure they were unhatched.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 05:55 PM

Oddly, no one appears to have had a radiation monitor on them in that neck of the woods. The blast occured last Wed nite/Thurs morn, they say.

Colin says he isn't quite sure what it was, but it definitely WAS NOT A NUKE.

Condi said maybe it was a forest fire (for reals, see the Reuters article at the 'funny looking cloud' link in my opening post).

Don't you feel better now that you know that Condi thinks it might have just been a forest fire, and no one is using the r/m words (that stands for radiation monitors, folks)?

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 05:52 PM

Seems silly to bother making something if you're never gonna use it...

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: GUEST,brucie
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 05:39 PM

If it was an above-ground nuclear blast from a fission bomb, many countries will know within 48 hours--some sooner--because there will be an increase in radiation levels.

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 05:39 PM

British minister Bill Rammell is coincidentally in N.Korea on a 'ground breaking mission.' He has demanded a full explanation...I BET he has.

Subject: RE: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 05:35 PM

...ISN'T A NUKE!!!

Colin Powell said so.

So it must be true. It wasn't a nuke. Just a really big explosion, way bigger than the train explosion NoKorea lied about last April.

But it was cloudy, so the satellite couldn't really tell.

But some anonymous government sources from SoKorea said, well maybe it did look a little like a mushroom cloud.

But it DEFINITELY wasn't a nuke.

Because Colin Powell said so.

And we all know how right Colin Powell is about these weapons of mass destructions, after all.

Subject: BS: Mushroom cloud not a nuke! Hooray!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 05:33 PM

That funny looking cloud which appeared above the site of a huge explosion on the North Korea/China border last week (which some reports even suggested might even have looked a little like this FOR SURE