Mystery Blast in CAN Arctic?

[Snafu-Bar]

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Due to facts not 100% relaible due to old age and lack of DNA evidence i retract any comments and opinions on the territory known as Alaska.

you may continue on without me....



p.s The explosion was due to build up of natural gas venting from new volcano's unleashed from seizmic upheaval in china.... or some such other scientific drabble ... (pure specualtion on my part)

Cheers.

 

[Haggis]

The explosion was due to build up of natural gas venting from new volcano's unleashed from seizmic upheaval in china.... or some such other scientific drabble ... (pure specualtion on my part)

OK, now we're getting somewhere with this thread.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Punishment for our sins as a nation?    ;D

Kidding, kidding.....

 

[Michael OLeary]

Punishment for our sins as a nation?    ;D

Kidding, kidding.....

Not bad.  Now let's ship the members of The Church of Unbound Antagonism north to picket the whales' funerals.

 

[Scoobie Newbie]

http://www.alaska.com/about/facts/faq/culture/v-include/story/4777721p-4721848c.html

well straight from the States own website:

"The United States and Russia signed a treaty on March 30, 1867, to transfer Alaska to the United States. The deal was completed the following Oct. 18, when the Americans raised the Stars and Stripes over Sitka."

I'll speculate it was a breach of a submarine nuclear reactor.

 

[The Bread Guy]

I'll speculate it was a breach of a submarine nuclear reactor.

Anybody going to risk speculating what language the crew was swearing in when it happened?

 

[Michael OLeary]

Nah, the radiation would have been detected and reported on.

How about an exploding pirate meth lab in a black market acquired ex-Russian submarine.  The whales OD'd.

 

[The Bread Guy]

How about an exploding pirate meth lab in a black market acquired ex-Russian submarine.  The whales OD'd.

Good one - very Ludlum-Forsyth-Clancy'esque....

My guess - research vessel problem...

 

[Michael OLeary]

Continuing in a Clancy-esque vein -

Explosion of deteriorated ammunition in a sea-bed cache emplaced during the Cold War by the Russians in anticipation of supporting an over-the-Pole invasion of North America.

 

[Kirkhill]

Nah, the radiation would have been detected and reported on.

How about an exploding pirate meth lab in a black market acquired ex-Russian submarine.  The whales OD'd.

I prefer plot-line A.  Add in the presence of Osama on board and I think you have a blockbuster.  ;D

 

[Blackadder1916]

How about mammalian flatulence?  Whale farts.  Throw in a  Russian researcher who had a bit too much vodka and wanted to conduct the juvenile experiment of igniting digestive tract produced methane and you have as logical an explanation as some here.  Whatever the cause, something about this incident doesn't smell right.

 

[dapaterson]

Personally, I blame the StoneCutters.

 

[cavalryman]

Personally, I blame the StoneCutters.

No real evidence to connect the Stonecutters, is there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdaRuTwWl9I

or is there?

 

[dapaterson]

The lack of evidence is all the proof I need!

... off to find some tinfoil for a hat...

 

[The Bread Guy]

The lack of evidence is all the proof I need!

The absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence, right? 

 

[Michael OLeary]

The lack of evidence is all the proof I need!

... off to find some tinfoil for a hat...

That's what they want you to do.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for ''radio location'' (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites (see, for example, [3]). The 2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though not affiliated by government, these bands are at the hands of multinational corporations.

It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC. We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.

 

[dapaterson]

Ah yes, but MIT takes government funding.  Therefore, their reports telling you not to wear the hats are really part of a ploy to get you to remove your hat.

They're cunning.  Very cunning.  But I won't fall for it...

 

[karl28]

        Probably just a small meteorite from space nothing big

 

[gillbates]

dynamite fishing?

 

[geo]

Check the dead whale for their a$$holes - to see if they've been blown out !

I go for the whale flatulence