On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:04:51 GMT, lid
(John Savard) wrote:

On 12 Sep 2004 05:21:23 GMT, (the bionic glove
chick) wrote, in part:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...12/ap_on_re_as
/nkorea_explosion

http://tinyurl.com/3r6xg

The mushroom cloud occurred near their Daepodong missile base, and the
mushroom cloud was four miles in diameter (or more) and it occurred on
September 9th, the 56th anniversary of the founding of North Korea's
communist regime.

And they're saying they don't think it was an above-ground test of a
nuclear weapon?

Well, I did hear it claimed that there was more energy in the fuel tanks
of a Saturn V rocket than in an atomic bomb. Perhaps North Korea's
attempt to put its first man into space failed?
John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html


I haven't seen comparisons of a Saturn V, but there are many items
around the world that have more energy than an atomic bomb. The ships
that carry liquified natural gas, for example. If terrorists don't
want the cachet of nuclear weapons, setting off an explosion of one of
those ships in the harbor of a large city would be an attractive
alternative. For the explosion in North Korea, rather than a missile
there might simply have been fuel storage tanks in that location.