Next, that same view with the relevant portion of the article's image georefenced to the "before" image and rendered with transparecy, allowing both to be visible in the overlay area.
If the article's image is authentic, it is apparent that:
The ejecta should be radioactive and be detectable from down wind sensors. Hopefully we’ll hear more.
Nice work.
If a partial cause was lithium-ion battery banks, well, let’s just say they ALSO blow up real good, with not a lot of goading.. just my professional experience.
Instant hell on earth if enough go up, and it’s real hard to kill the flame.
I figure that the Saudi’s with the clandestine help of the Israeli’s smuggled in a HE a bomb underground that once detonated caused a serious problem. Once the Uranium Hexaflouride breaks down and the HF acid starts to destroy the things the subsequent release of hydrogen gas will further destroy all contained spaces.
Now I would expect the islamonazi’s to send in their special crazies to salvage what’s left.
Great post, thanks!
(I learned a new word, albedo)
FYI, I did consider the possibility of cloud shadow, but for a cloud to produce a shoadow anywhere near that dark, the cloud would have to be extremely dense (a very tall cumulonimbus) and very close to the ground, And from the satellite altitude, such a low lying cloud would be visible in the image, In fact, it would have obscured the subject.
If anyone can show me an lmage of an isolated (no visible cloud) cloud shadow on Google Earth that produces that same low albedo and high opacity -- I will reconsider my analysis.
That leaves two alternatives: a dark, dusty deposit -- or Photoshop trickery. I'll see if I can fake the effect on the "before" photo...
I see no difference
Where are they?
Why would the darkened area have such a distinct edge? It’s like the ejecta is distributed evenly within the coverage area, then falls off quickly at its outer extent. Assuming the ejecta is powdery sooty stuff, I would expect a more gradual tapering off as it billowed out and settled around the area. Also, wouldn’t there have been a “nozzling” effect if the ejecta had been blown out of the tunnels with any force, and wouldn’t we see some sign of that near the tunnel entrances? Other than the north tunnels being near the center of the darkened area, I don’t see any signs that they were the source of it. I’d be more inclined to go with the cloud shadow theory except that there’s no cloud in the pic. So I don’t know, kind of puzzling.
(Deviation from orthogonality [tilting or exaggerating elevation as done for "3-D" viewing] can introduce errors that are unacceptable for accurate mapping.) ...as Apple learned with their aborted "Maps" app...LOL!
Of course, the published "after" image that I was analyzing was orthogonal, so that was the logical place to start. And - georeferencing it and "clamping it to ground" could best be done in the ortho view.
Hence, it wasn't until after I had published my [ortho view] analysis in #45, that I decided to "goof off" and do a 3-D "flyaround look-see" of the Fordo site with Google Earth:
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First of all, the site looks totally different in the 3-D view. If I had published the 3-D view first, there would have been far less misinterpretation and speculation about "craters", "bunker buster impact points", etc. by thread participants.
For example, the round, so-called "crater" area at upper left on the "ortho" views -- when viewed (at lower right) in the 3-D view -- is obviously a mound or "plateau" built up of "spoil" dirt and rock excavated from the subterranean chambers. (FWIW, I probably could calculate the volume of that "spoil pile" and come up with a prety fair estimation of the volume of the excavted spaces -- but no doubt, our "NTM" ("National Technical Means") folks have already done so with far better accuracy... '-)
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Secondly, the "After" view in 3-D makes it obvious that the "soot deposit" was an artificially-added imaging artifact:
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Finally, "just for grins", here is a (somewht enhanced) Google Earth "cruise missile view" of the tunnel entrances at Fordo:
Just think: if a 75 -year old USAF '-) veteran -- in his recliner, out in the Piney Woods boondocks of East Texas -- can produce this view from a website that anyone in the world can access... imagine what today's "NTM" troops are able to do with the "National Technical Means" they have available!! :-)
Pucker-time, Achmadinnerjacket!! <LOL!!!>