"Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 07:50:35AM +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:
>
> > "No big deal"?  Who are they kidding?
>
> A 2-mile wide cloud is WAY too big to be caused by a single explosion,
> unless REALLY big. The forest fire claim sounds more plausible in this

To make a crater visible from LEO it better had to be big. Does Oppau ring
a bell?

http://www.muenster.org/uiw/fach/chemie/material/gif/oppau.jpg

> regard. An existing cloud could be used for masking, though.

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