'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
thats not true
a meteor of about 10cm in diameter would damage a car, but thats it.
http://www.nyrockman.com/peeks-pics/peekskill_1.jpg
to leave a big crater they would have to be a lot bigger. to leave a decent crater they would have to be like a meter in diameter.
the meteor crater in arizona was made by a meteor of 50 meters in diameter to give you an example.
Last edited by silmarilen; 2012-11-12 at 06:03 PM.
My money is on boiler explosion, with fire resulting from collateral gas line ruptures.
EDIT: The ideal stoichiometric ratio for a devastating natural gas explosion falls within a very narrow band. A boiler explosion on the other hand is a different monster, which requires only the failure of the pressure relief valve on the exploding boiler. Once the boiler tank ruptures, the water will flash boil with predictable consistency and devastation. (and if it's a gas heated boiler, it's immediately coupled with a gas line rupture, causing the initial explosion to be a fiery one).
Given the size of the houses in that neighborhood, I would imagine they have relatively large water heaters, which could make for quite an explosion.
Last edited by Gheld; 2012-11-12 at 06:27 PM.
Oh damn there's been two fatalities and they think one of them was a second grade teacher: http://www.indystar.com/article/2012...napolis%20News.
The blast completely leveled their house and any identifying material.
That fabric softener teddy bear...oooh I'm 'a hunt that little bitch down.
It seems that there are some very strange things here, the home at the center, the people were conveniently not at home for the weekend, the cat was placed in a shelter, they are/were in deep financial trouble, the bodies of the people next door were found buried in debris in their basement, the boom could be heard from 15 miles away, homes at the end of the block were blown 3 feet off their foundations, people reported strange lighting in the sky before the blast, and the smell of sulfur after, the gas mains checked out fine, no explosive residue, the debris field show broken branches pointing up, and there is the lack of furniture in the field. Beside the strange things, the only logical explanation that I can come up with, is insurance fraud gone very wrong, they did too good of a job filling the home with gas to collect the insurance.
I was thinking this since day one. Who boards a cat for a weekend? You put out a bowl of food and a bowl of water and you are good to go with cats since they poop in a box. Who travels when there are local casinos? Great to find out they were indeed way behind on their mortgage payments (yet were at a casino gambling, yay for responsible homeowners). The motive is there, all the circumstances fit down to them boarding their family pet. Its a shame people got killed and it caused millions and millions in damage they won't be responsible for if they are found guilty.
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Apparently, the police are opening a homicide investigation into the explosion. There's reason to believe it wasn't accidental.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20412453
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot.
Who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor.
Who had almost stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol.
And who had personally wet himself, at the Battle of Badon Hill.
You guys in this thread need to get a grip with all the crazy theories, everyone and their gran could tell that man-bear-pig is behind this.
I almost want to say that the jokes in this thread are in bad taste. Then again I've had my share of amusement at the deaths of strangers, so I don't want to look like a hypocrite.
They were terrorist working on a mini bomb, they Broke one cable and it blew up. That's probably what happened.
Update:
Authorities: 3 Set Deadly Ind. Blast For Insurance
Sigh.Three people charged in a gas explosion that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood deliberately set up the deadly blast to collect a big insurance payout, authorities said Friday.
The home's owner, Monserrate Shirley; her boyfriend, Mark Leonard; and his brother, Bob Leonard, were arrested Friday and charged with murder, arson and other counts in the Nov. 10 blast that killed two people.
Shirley, 47, was facing mounting financial woes, including $63,000 in credit card debt and worsening bankruptcy proceedings, court documents say. And a friend of Mark Leonard's told investigators Leonard said he had "lost a ton of money" — about $10,000 — at a casino some three weeks before the explosion.
Investigators believe the trio had actually tried but failed to blow up Shirley's home the weekend before the successful timed explosion, according to Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry. The fiery blast destroyed five homes, including Shirley's, and caused widespread damage to dozens of others in the Richmond Hill subdivision in the far south side of the city.
(P.S.: Maybe the thread title could be updated to something more appropriate.)