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The large " slug " projected from the explosion has no stabilization because it has no tail fins and it does not spin like a bullet from a rifle.
A worker disposes of toxic chemicals by blowing up full barrels with a rifle shot ( the reaction to the shot caused an explosion ). On December 11, 2002, a top Department of Energy ( DOE ) official, Mike Lopez, described typical clean-up procedures executed by Field Lab employees in the past.

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In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.
Afterwards, realizing that Clegg had become too notorious, Syn decided to abandon his quest and return to England, and Mipps set up a second " accidental " explosion to destroy the Imogene and her crew.
Initial examination of the debris from the explosion had shown the production of a new isotope of plutonium,, which could only have formed by the absorption of six neutrons by a uranium-238 nucleus followed by two beta decays.
Ghiorso and co-workers analyzed filter papers which had been flown through the explosion cloud on airplanes ( the same sampling technique that had been used to discover ).
In addition to serious explorations of the Soviet past and present situation relaxation of censorship resulted in an explosion of popular culture including popular Western literature and films and books on astrology, religion, and flying saucers, in short, anything official Soviet publishers had not deemed worth publishing.
Measuring devices placed in the chamber to calculate the force of the blast were themselves destroyed by the explosion ; the skull of the dummy representing King James, which had been placed on a throne inside the chamber surrounded by courtiers, peers and bishops, was found a considerable distance from the site.
The killer rabbit dies in the explosion, and the Knights subsequently enter the cave that it had been guarding.
Although it was never able to match the number of ships of the Royal Navy, it had technological advantages, such as better shells and propellant for much of the Great War, meaning that it never lost a ship to a catastrophic magazine explosion from an above-water attack, although the elderly pre-dreadnought Pommern sank rapidly at Jutland after a magazine explosion caused by an underwater attack.
In several accounts, it was explained that the explosion of the planet Krypton had opened a " dimensional warp " ( similar to a wormhole in modern theoretical physics ) which allowed the vehicle carrying the young Kal-El to reach Earth in a relatively brief time, and a large amount of planetary debris had also passed through this " warp " and emerged near Earth at virtually the same time, accounting for the seemingly improbable abundance of kryptonite material and its availability to Superman's enemies.
Of the four hostages in the eastern helicopter, only Ze ' ev Friedman's body was relatively intact ; he had been blown clear of the helicopter by the explosion.
The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
The original punk explosion also had a long-term effect on the music industry, spurring the growth of the independent sector.
There are five military barracks in the city, and after the explosion officials said the government had promised to move all munitions out of the capital.
During the period, secular music had an increasing distribution, with a wide variety of forms, but one must be cautious about assuming an explosion in variety: since printing made music more widely available, much more has survived from this era than from the preceding Medieval era, and probably a rich store of popular music of the late Middle Ages is irretrievably lost.
He concluded that the use of the word empty in connection to the barrels had led the workers to unconsciously regard them as harmless, although consciously they were probably aware of the risk of explosion from the vapors.
In 1921, the Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, visiting the Podkamennaya Tunguska River basin as part of a survey for the Soviet Academy of Sciences, deduced from local accounts that the explosion had been caused by a giant meteorite impact.
While the Magdalene Asylums had been " reforming " prostitutes since the mid-18th century, the years between 1848 and 1870 saw a veritable explosion in the number of institutions working to " reclaim " these " fallen women " from the streets and retrain them for entry into respectable society — usually for work as domestic servants.
By 1886, the German Gustav Bloem of Düsseldorf, Germany had obtained a U. S. patent for hemispherical cavity metal detonators to concentrate the effect of the explosion in an axial direction.
In July 1962, a 1. 44 megaton ( 6. 0 PJ ) United States nuclear test in space, above the mid-Pacific Ocean, called the Starfish Prime test, demonstrated to nuclear scientists that the magnitude and effects of a high altitude nuclear explosion were much larger than had been previously calculated.
In 1690, there was a relative explosion in the population, which had swollen to fourteen.
One such usage occurred in 1970, when the square carbon dioxide filters from Apollo 13's failed command module had to be modified to fit round receptacles in the lunar module, which was being used as a lifeboat after an explosion en route to the moon.

explosion and crashed
The facility houses for training purposes the reconstruction of more than 90 feet of the TWA flight 800 Boeing 747, which was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean after it crashed on July 17, 1996 following a fuel tank explosion.
Their populations crashed during the Snowball Earth episodes, when all or very nearly all of the Earth's surface was covered by ice or snow, but they proliferated in the Cambrian explosion and reached their highest diversity in the Paleozoic.
Parsons climbed into the bomb bay to load the powder charge, so as to avoid the possibility of a nuclear explosion if the aircraft crashed and burned on takeoff.
The twisted wreckage crashed onto Romano, killing him instantly and causing a huge explosion in the ambulance bay.
The aircraft is said to have crashed on a wooded hillside following an in-flight explosion.
On July 7, 2000, her character " died " in a fiery explosion when her car crashed into a gasoline truck when the writers of the show felt the character of Macy no longer contributed to the show's storyline.
The plane crashed into mountainous terrain southeast of Oakland, careening into Tolman Peak and over its knoll, scattering on the downslope and into Dry Gulch Canyon below in a fiery explosion.
To the Japanese observers, it seemed the plane had crashed and they watched, waiting for a fiery explosion.
* A Czechoslovak State Airlines airplane crashed near Russelbach, East Germany after an onboard explosion, killing all 52 persons on board.
Starbuck, Sheba, and Captain Apollo lands on an unexplored planet to investigate a massive explosion, they find a man named Count Iblis, who warns them away from the wreckage of a huge starship which had crashed on the planet some time before.
* 19 March 1973, Douglas C-54D XV-NUI crashed 4. 1 mi S of Buon Ma Thuot Airport after an explosion in the cargo hold, killing all 58 on board.
When the ship crashed as the result of an explosion from Skeletor's homeworld of Infinita, Evelyn wound up on Infinita, where the evil powers of that world turned her knowledge of science into sorcery to aid Skeletor.

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Dust from near-surface explosions against hardened targets also contributes ; each Mt-equivalent of explosion could release up to 5 million tons of dust, but most would quickly fall out ; high altitude dust is estimated at 0. 1-1 million tons per Mt-equivalent of explosion.
When the Romulans examined the wreckage, they discovered the recordings ; assuming the incriminating defects to have been caused by the explosion, the Romulan Star Empire entered the war against the Dominion, joining the Klingon-Federation alliance.
This resulted in an explosion of violence against the Sikh communities in the anti-Sikh riots which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Sikhs throughout India ; Khushwant Singh described the actions as being a Sikh pogrom in which he " felt like a refugee in my country.
* 23 May 1992 – Able to a violent explosion on Autostrada A29 ( Italy ) section between the ' Punta Raisi Airport and Palermo, caused by the Mafia, causing the death of Judge Giovanni Falcone, a hero in the fight against organized crime.
This key business product competed against Cisco's AS5200 access server line in the mid 1990s as the explosion of the Internet led to service provider investment in dialup access server equipment.
After Downing died in July 1852, in a widely publicized steamboat explosion on the Hudson River, Olmsted and Vaux entered the Central Park design competition together, against Egbert Ludovicus Viele among others.
Charles de Gaulle, in the aftermath televised speech of June 7, acknowledged that " This explosion was provoked by groups in revolt against modern consumer and technical society, whether it be the communism of the East or the capitalism of the West.
The force of the explosion expands the tube against the walls of its chamber, while the internal structure of the tube renders it gas-tight, preventing any escape of gas through the vent.
Defending against a car bomb involves keeping vehicles at a distance from vulnerable targets by using Jersey barriers, concrete blocks or bollards, metal barriers, or by hardening buildings to withstand an explosion.
After conversion to Christianity or Islam and anti-headhunting legislation by the colonial powers the practice was banned and disappeared, only to resurface in the mid-1940s, when the Allies encouraged the practice against the Japanese, and the late 90s, when Dayak started to attack Madurese emigrants in an explosion of ethnic violence.
The episode depicts Xander single-handedly saving the school, and potentially the world ( given the Hellmouth beneath it ) from an explosion in simultaneity against glimpses of the other Scoobies ' struggles with the hydra demon.
A disadvantage of using ERA is that each plate can protect against a single strike, and the resulting explosion can be extremely dangerous to nearby personnel and lightly armoured structures.
The interpretation would push back the origin of cephalopods by at least 30 million years, much closer to the first appearance of complex animals, in the Cambrian explosion, and implied that – against the widespread expectation – cephalopods evolved from non-mineralized ancestors.
Although there are claims that participants in the Crossroads tests were well protected against radiation sickness, the Oscar-nominated documentary Radio Bikini showed footage of Navy sailors wearing little or no protection during their inspection of the target ships only hours after the explosions, even though some of the observer ships were caught in the fallout of the Baker explosion.
He proposed dropping an atomic bomb on captured Japanese ships and suggested, " The resulting explosion should prove to us just how effective the atomic bomb is when used against the giant naval ships.
3 Free French SAS paratroopers, 1 woman ( Janine Boitard ) and 1 Resistance fighter against 2 german soldiers on the railroad near the bridge before the explosion.
Shortly after, Burger appeared in a case defending the U. S. against claims from the Texas City ship explosion disaster, successfully arguing that the Federal Tort Claims Act of 1947 did not allow a suit for negligence in policy making ; the U. S. won the case ( Dalehite, et al., vs. United States 346 U. S. 15 ( 1953 )).
In 1934 McCloy found new evidence allowing him to re-open an action for damages against Germany for the destruction caused by the 1916 Black Tom explosion.
However the order for Terra to launch a full-scale attack against the Centaurian Empire ( under the assumption that the majority of the enemy ships and planets would have been destroyed in the Icarus explosion ) had already been given.
The test was originally to confirm that the implosion-type Nuclear weapon design was feasible, and to give an idea of what the actual size and effects of an atomic explosion would be before they were used in combat against Japan.
Sher Shah Suri died from a gunpowder explosion during the siege of Kalinjar fort on May 22, 1545 fighting against the Chandel Rajputs.
The AFRC coup was accompanied by an explosion of violence against civilians throughout the nation ; the key strategic change was that the RUF had immediate access throughout the country, something they had failed to achieve through six years of military action.
As a precaution against a possible explosion, officials in Laurel, Montana evacuated about 140 people on Saturday just after midnight, then allowed them to return at 4 a. m

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