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Hemel Hempstead Plume Search, Man made objects visible from space |
Dec 11 2005, 09:35 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 30-June 05 From: Bristol, UK Member No.: 423 |
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Dec 11 2005, 10:50 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
We were in London this weeked - and we looked very hard on the train on the way back to Leicester (should have gone fairly close) but we didnt see anything...it was dark so we'd probably only have seen flames, but we saw nothing. Quite a few people injured - million of gallons of fuel went up, supposedly heard in HOLLAND
I'm hoping for a clear day tomorrow so that Modis on Terra and Aqua see something. http://130.92.54.203/rsbern/noaa/dw/realti...ent/n1bcurr.jpg WOHHH http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets....terra.250m.jpg Doug |
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Dec 11 2005, 11:36 PM
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http://saturn.unibe.ch/rsbern/noaa/dw/real...c-corrected.jpg
Another clear view. |
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Dec 11 2005, 11:45 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
We were at the Ice Rink outside the Natural History museum at about 1230 and we saw no sign of anything in the air then - it was a lovely clear day - and the train we took would have gone very close, certainly under all that smoke, but we didnt see a thing. I'm just amazed and glad no one has died.
I'll try and collate all the imagery over the next week and see if I can make a big fading movie. It must be like a horror film down there... Doug |
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Dec 12 2005, 12:40 AM
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Im sure I saw a picture taken high above London, probably from a helicopter and the smoke was clearly visible. I think it was on the BBC website - couldnt find it again though.
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Dec 12 2005, 10:17 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Dec 12 2005, 01:04 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Dec 12 2005, 02:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 12 2005, 08:04 AM) So what happened? I'm in America, we're only told news if an American is involved. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Dec 12 2005, 02:49 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
A major fuel depot caught fire - millions of gallons of fuel burning away. 20 individual fires in all, 10 of which are now out, the remaining ten may take up to a few days to put out.
No sure how or why it went up yet - but the explosions were heard from miles away. Doug |
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Dec 12 2005, 03:29 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
London is completely blanketed by the black plume of smoke from Europe's worst
peacetime fire in this Envisat image, taken within five hours of the blaze beginning. Full story at: http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMTBYVLWFE_planet_0.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Dec 12 2005, 04:56 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 8-August 05 Member No.: 457 |
>>millions of gallons
70 millions of gallons exploded. One explosion measured 2.5 on the Richter scale - its the biggest European fire since WW2. |
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Dec 15 2005, 02:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-June 04 From: Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Member No.: 86 |
WW2? What's that?
I'm in America and I heard about the explosion(s).. |
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Dec 15 2005, 02:56 AM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
QUOTE (mike @ Dec 15 2005, 02:31 AM) World War 2. -------------------- |
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Dec 15 2005, 04:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-June 04 From: Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Member No.: 86 |
I was kidding. But maybe so were you. Oh, what a tangled web I've woven. I shall never joke at another's expense again. Unless the other deserves it.
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Dec 15 2005, 04:42 AM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
QUOTE (mike @ Dec 15 2005, 04:07 AM) I was kidding. But maybe so were you. Oh, what a tangled web I've woven. I shall never joke at another's expense again. Unless the other deserves it. -------------------- |
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