Posted on 08/21/2011 7:21:05 AM PDT by Tina Grazier
The video you are about to watch was filmed by a driver who stopped along the freeway with many others just outside Al-Ahsa City, in Saudi Arabia. Throughout the last few years there have been many theories put forth as to what caused this phenomenon. Along with those theories, various names have been used to describe it, like "Sand Geyser," "Sand Fountain," "Sand Volcano," and "Sand Injectites." The quality of the video is not the best because it was filmed with a cell phone, and the person who filmed it has not ever identified himself. However, the video is good enough to show that something very powerful was taking place in the desert that day.
The video was taken in 2006, but to this day there is very limited information about what exactly happened to create such a spectacular eruption. Try as I have, I could not find any information about the phenomenon that would bring me any closer to understanding what happened that day. So after 5 years it seems that whatever took place is still a mystery.
What I did learn about the phenomenon was that there was no seismic activity recorded at the time, and witnesses reported that no water or oil mixed in the sand. There was also no evidence of a natural gas leak, as many of the people standing around were smoking and no fires erupted. Adding to the mystery is that there have been no reports of another such event happening anywhere in the world since.
At the time, it was reported that the Saudi government sent out scientists and geological experts from the state-run Aramco Oil Company to investigate the phenomenon. However, after 5 years they have yet to release their findings to the public.
This actually falls in line with the way the royal family handles situations about events which they themselves are confused about. The House of Saud keeps a very tight rein on their subjects, and they do so by taking advantage of their religious beliefs.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsblaze.com ...
Yes, I noticed.
I think I’ll take off. Besides, I need to wash cloths.
I got you.
Thanks for clarifying that for me.
Read the first paragraph. I don't know how to make the link clickable, but you can highlight it and open it.
As far as Amos McCoy equating NewsBlaze with The Blaze...
It is the news site Glenn Beck has been supporting and it has many good writers, this guy is good, he just screwed up in this one reference to slaves is all.
This quote is from the 48th comment to the article.
OK, My beef was NOT with the error of the fraction. All of my comments had to do with the slander, which was in the NewsBlaze article, that blacks were considered less than human. My belief is that any so called news organization that will say something like “a man who hails from the very class of people that was once considered only 3/5 human.”, is untrustworthy for finding the truth.
>> It’s all over the 3/5 rule that many misunderstood his reasoning for adding it to his article.
If he had just said that white people used to think that black people were less than human, then he wouldn’t be in so much trouble. It was the use of the often misused “3/5” figure that caused the uproar. Even if your slave-owning ancestors thought blacks as being less human than they were, did they actually quantify how much less human they were and calculate the number to be 60%?? Do their journals show the formula they used? Did they show their work?
I’m a fan of One Vike’s writing, but he really did step in it this time. Refusing to admit his mistake and then sending in apologists is not going to help him regain the high level of credibility he has on FR.
The site which previously contained the oil is no longer capable of supporting the sand above it and collapsed which compressed the air and the pressure from the compressed air is what is blowing the sand out.
If it was only the sand slowly collapsing from the surface, there would be no indication of an earthquake deep down below. I would imagine that the outburst would eventually stop if it hasn't stopped already.
If we consider that there streams of water flowing underground which leave open channels after the water is gone, then there would be open channels which allowed the compressed air to be blown from miles away from where it finally exits at the weakest place.
I noticed while watching the video that there were pulses of air and sand exiting which would be consistent with an ongoing process where once the sandy earth started collapsing, the condition continued in spurts and the site of the collapse kept expanding with new failures,
My thoughts exactly.
Personally, the definition of that word slave got stuck to a specific time period. Now, as of today how much money does each and every American owe as result of ‘government’ borrowing and spending? Who owns US now?
“my own ancestors thought they were less than human. I know because they owned slaves. “
I’ve read some of OneVike’s writing, and a quick sample of yours is above; I’ll defend neither.
I’m stuned
Nobody ever sacrifices a slut.......
Actually, seems like the Muslim's heaven should be able to spare a couple.... if there are 74 for each martyr.
*snort* [giggle]
Some whites may have thought blacks sub-human, but “enlightened thought “in the 18th Century, such as that of Jefferson, merely thought of them as a “lesser breed.” People had a keen sense of hierarchy which present day people embued in egalitarianism, don’t seem to get. So Jefferson, in his “Notes,” classified people in accordance with the crude anthropolgy of the day. So whites were on top.,Indians next and blacks on the bottom. Nineteenth century Americans made finer distinctions. “Whites,” that is British were on top, then came the Germans, the French, the Irish, the Jews, Greeks, Italians, and then the “brown races,”andf the “yellow” races. with again the blacks down lowest. But only those caught up in the depths of race hatred, or racial arrogance actually thought anyone was “sub-human.”
We have more than our share of Race Baiters here, and it appears that 1rader1 may be one of them.
This thin-skinned racebaiterism has no place here.
Saudi sand fart would be my guess
What is going on there is obviously gas venting.
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