Posted on 01/14/2019 4:13:58 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
VLADIMIR Putin has drafted in soldiers to investigate a “collapsed mountain” in a remote region of Siberia amid suggestions it may have been caused by a UFO crash-landing.
Whatever the cause, the event resulted in a massive rockfall which has blocked the nearby Bureya river, and left several villages at risk of flooding. So much rock was shifted it would fill 13,600 Olympic-sized swimming pools, say experts. Meanwhile, the falling 34 million cubic metres of debris left a gash in a mountain which could swallow up all the water used if every American showered at the same time.
A defence ministry source said a group of specialists is en route “to conduct reconnaissance work” at the site, where the rocks fell some 1,280 ft on to the valley floor.
The source added: “Given the significant size of the landslide, units of engineers and railway forces with special equipment, as well as army and transport aviation, will be involved in clearing the rock.”
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Isn’t that the gal from .... “Tomorrow Never Dies”?
(whichever one had the Chinese agent)
Dang LOL!
Windows ME? Wow! That’s a feat!
Oh yes! We hope to do Vista on a NeXT machine, next.
(hehe yes I have a laptop with Vista - but I never used a NeXT box -— friend’s dad had a Kaypro back in the 1980’s)
Nice. I had never seen her before “Tomorrow Never Dies”.
Good gawd if every American showered at the same time would the illegals have any hot water?
If every American showered at the same time it’d possibly vacuum lock the global potable water supply delivery system.
2 GL-G20’s.
ROFL! Had to research that one.
Wonder if we should start stockpiling them. and plastic bags.
“That’s quite a step up in base pay!” - Austin Milbarge
It was a Mexican drug lord digging a new tunnel and he turned let instead of right.
Probably has something to do with the magnetic North moving into Russia.
I was taking a shower with everybody in the U.S. at the same time. Did I miss anything?
Hillary was digging for more votes.
They were hidden there because ........ COLLUSION!!!
A moose tried to bite Putin’s sister but bit a really big mountain.
Or a really, really, really big UFO crashed.
34 million cubic metres of debris left a gash in a mountain which could swallow up all the water used if every American showered at the same time
331 million people in the US. that equates to .1 cubic meter per person .....be an awful short shower.
or a big meteor
That’s still a frikken mountain of rock. Scary.
Think about the kind of tsunami it would generate if it happened under water in the Atlantic, I think there is a undersea mountain like that out there somewhere.
I thought it a bit strange too. But, the shower comparison is “interesting” anyway.
Various sites say the average US “shower” consumes 17 gallons of water, taking around 8 minutes. That seems a bit high for little kids and the elderly, but, we’ll run with it. I don’t think I get out in 8 minutes sometimes, anyway. :-)
17 gallons = 0.064352000328 cubic meters.
Multiple by 326 million people = 21 million cubic meters.
For comparison, the average flow of the Mississippi River @ Baton Rouge, LA, is 16,800 cu. meters / second. 21 million cu. meters would be, coincidentally, about 21 minutes of Mississippi “flow” @ Baton Rouge. Luckily, we don’t all shower at the same time. (!)
OTOH, this is not a HUGE amount of water. A mere 1000 acre lake averaging 17 ft. deep gets you there.
A better comparison to the mountain collapse, I think, is Mt. Pinatubo’s peak eruption, estimated to have blasted out 5 cubic kilometers of material. That’s 5,000 million cu. meters of material. Some of the pyroclastic flows filled valleys to a depth of 200 meters (660 ft.), with material still at 900 deg. F, five years later.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs113-97/
President Putin has a problem, but one not nearly so large as the Filipinos faced!
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