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| Subject: | | Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend |
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Guodzilla
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Sun, Sep 20 2009, 6:37pm
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I think there was a "Mythbusters" special on that very thing, with the boys trying to sink a boat with bubbles. They tried a perforated grid which pumped a lot of bubbles into the water. The boat settled lower and lower into the water, but didn't sink. Next, they tried a single sudden release with a huge bubble of air. Success! The blast came up right underneath the boat, which literally "fell" into the hole in the water, was swamped, and sank. The key to a methane burp sinking a ship is not the quantity of gas released, but the suddenness. In theory, a large enough methane blast from the ocean floor could crack a ship's keel just as effectively as a depth charge. |
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| Subject: | | Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend |
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Rainbow Medicine Man
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Mon, Sep 21 2009, 1:13am
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That's a nice experiment. As with explosives, it is not so much the quantity of eergy as the release speed. Dynamite releases less energy per pound than gasoline...only X times faster. |
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