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Article: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected](Nancy )
Subject: Re: TUNGUSKA
Date: 28 Mar 1997 14:54:01 GMT
In article <[email protected]> Wavicle writes:
>> (Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
>> The explosion did indeed occur close to the ground, in a
>> highly concentrated methane cloud that consumed all the
>> oxygen in the immediate area during the blast.
>> (End ZetaTalk[TM])
>
> The burning requires more oxygen molecules than methane
> molecules by a factor of 3. Our atmosphere is something like
> 22% oxygen. Just how dense (in moles per cubic feet of
> methane) was this cloud?
> [email protected] (Wavicle)
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
Precisely. Which is why a violent combustion will snuff itself out! The explosion left no
oxygen in the air for smoldering burning of the scrub pine in Siberia. Thus, no forest fire.
(End ZetaTalk[TM])