by wonderboy » Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:25 pm
Chris Peterson wrote:wonderboy wrote:How can you be so sure it wasn't? I know you might have heard of it, or maybe someone else would have seen it. Basically the evidence points more to it NOT being a meteor impact, however, that shouldnt automatically rule out the plume seen by dadman!
What caused this plume, if not a meteor?
I have no idea- since I didn't see it, I don't know what it actually looked like. If I had to guess, I'd say it was some sort of weather effect pushing out a plume of the cloud itself.
A meteoroid large enough to impact the ocean at hypervelocity and produce a water plume thousands of meters high would have destroyed ships for hundreds of kilometers around, would have produced a fireball brighter than the Sun and a smoke trail in the air that would last hours and be seen on satellite images, would probably have produced tsunamis, and would have been recorded on dozens of infrasound and seismic monitors all around the world. None of this happened.
Whatever caused the effect he saw, I am 100% certain it was not a meteoroid impact.
Well I was thinking about it, would a water spout not produce a similar effect if its life had just ended? after all, what goes up must come down, and it would have spread out like a mushroom most probably.
I do agree with the whole tsunami thing though. We would have heard about it had it been a meteor impact, and the devastation would have been quite widespread.
As for the bloop, I don't really think it sounds like a bloop from what I've heard, I don't know what to make of it.
Paul.
[quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="wonderboy"]How can you be so sure it wasn't? I know you might have heard of it, or maybe someone else would have seen it. Basically the evidence points more to it NOT being a meteor impact, however, that shouldnt automatically rule out the plume seen by dadman!
What caused this plume, if not a meteor?[/quote]
I have no idea- since I didn't see it, I don't know what it actually looked like. If I had to guess, I'd say it was some sort of weather effect pushing out a plume of the cloud itself.
A meteoroid large enough to impact the ocean at hypervelocity and produce a water plume thousands of meters high would have destroyed ships for hundreds of kilometers around, would have produced a fireball brighter than the Sun and a smoke trail in the air that would last hours and be seen on satellite images, would probably have produced tsunamis, and would have been recorded on dozens of infrasound and seismic monitors all around the world. None of this happened.
Whatever caused the effect he saw, I am 100% certain it was not a meteoroid impact.[/quote]
Well I was thinking about it, would a water spout not produce a similar effect if its life had just ended? after all, what goes up must come down, and it would have spread out like a mushroom most probably.
I do agree with the whole tsunami thing though. We would have heard about it had it been a meteor impact, and the devastation would have been quite widespread.
As for the bloop, I don't really think it sounds like a bloop from what I've heard, I don't know what to make of it.
Paul.