[nickcarraway]

Manatees are highly flammable.

[SpaceBar]

Sparks from the mooring cables has been a theory for years.

[God luvs America]

Well- it made a great album cover for a great band!!!

[one guy in new jersey]

The huger they are, the brighter they burn...

[sonova]

He produced another theory. I don’t think that counts as “Solves the Mystery of”

Plus no mention of the aluminum flake paint on the fabric, although it does contribute to his capacitive discharge theory.

It is said that the majority of the combustion came from the burning aluminum, more so than the hydrogen combustion..

[ClearCase_guy]

[Fester Chugabrew]

Years ago I pinpointed the exact location of this tragic event. Not hard to do. It was planet earth.

[bosco24]

A large capacitor?

I’m not buying it. I don’t think you could build the Hindenburg without the hydrogen bladder being grounded to the frame, intentionally or not, and therefor, no capacitor.

[bk1000]

“7,000,000 cubic feet of explosive hydrogen”

Greater question is, how would it NOT explode!

[Repeal The 17th]

This does not sound like anything new.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

The key but long-unanswered question was how the fire even began. The Greek scientist built a model of a portion of the zeppelin’s outer surface in his laboratory on the Caltech campus in his attempt to gain insights.

The Hindenburg flying over New York City just before disaster struck. Building a model of the airship The Greek scientist attests that after the ship was grounded, it became more electrically charged. When the mooring ropes were dropped, electrons from Earth’s surface spread to the frame, giving the ship a positively-charged skin and a negatively-charged frame.

In other words, by grounding the frame with the mooring ropes, the landing crew had inadvertently made more “room” for positive charge to gather on the ship, setting the stage for the disaster.

Yeah, I'm going to have to disagree with his theory, mainly because the Hindenburg was not the first hydrogen-filled dirigible the Zeppelin company built.

The Graf Zeppelin, sister ship to the Hindenburg, was built in 1928 and was in regular service until 1937 (590 flights) and used the exact same mooring system. If his theory were true, disaster would have struck much sooner.

[mass55th]

In WWI, it took the intestines of 250,000 cows to build one zeppelin. In order to have enough cow intestines to build the ships, the German government banned the making of sausages.

German Zeppelins Were Made with Cow Intestines And It Led To Sausage Restrictions During WWI

[Paal Gulli]

#1, are we so short on current events that we have to resort to rehashing 3-year-old news?

History's Mysteries: Caltech Professor Helps Solve Hindenburg Disaster

May 17, 2021

Same professor, same theory, THREE YEARS AGO.

#2, He didn't solve JACK-SQUAT, he offers no contemporary evidence, it's just another theory, and IT WASN'T EVEN ORIGINAL.

Static charge, hydrogen caused Hindenburg disaster -report

By Reuters
March 4, 2013 11:30 PM GMT Updated 12 years ago

"...British aeronautical engineer Jem Stansfield and a team of researchers based in San Antonio, Texas, concluded that the airship ignited when the ground crew ran to take the landing ropes, effectively earthing the ship and causing a spark, the newspaper said on its website on Monday...."

Looks to me more like plagiarism than a "solving."

[logi_cal869]

He deserves only derision for making claims he has merely validated of others prior.

I’m not looking it up, but this claim was demonstrated YEARS ago.

He ‘solved’ nothing.

[x]

Did somebody say "Greek scientist?"

Who's the go-to Greek scientist?

[x]

Did somebody say "Greek scientist?"

Who's the go-to Greek scientist?

[PIF]

Heard this explanation for the Hindenburg years ago, with ample scientific proof. This guy is just repeating something that was solved years ago.

[Magnum44]

I have a different theory...