>> ^jwray:
Most of the media suck at reporting science.


And most of the people reading it are just as clueless. Such as, for instance, yourself. Your statement regarding abiotic methane betrays a GROSSLY scientifically ignorant idea of the thing. You are obviously unaware of the long term thermodynamic instability of CH4 in the Martian atmosphere as produced by the non-ozone layer shielded high ultraviolet radiation flux on that planet. Further, you are clearly clueless as to the nature of the impossibility of extremely volatile organic compounds in a lithospherically differentiated small rocky planet. In conclusion, stop throwing stones inside your vitreous domicile.

>> ^joedirt:
Holy cow, these people are more nuts then the scientology online brigade of article commenters.
This is sick, and it explains where mharvey came from and why he is posting the official IDF videos.


You two are bufoons. I am a free and independant American.
Get real.
Just because you exhale Hamas talking points upon waking, Dirt, doesn't cause me to think you're a member, just a hapless dupe.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Israeli-spokesman-gets-shut-up-by-CH4-News

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>> ^mharvey42:
This is a sick parody of journalism.
Wtf? Asking the same non-sensical combative questions over and over. It would have been more honest to just have an official Hamas spokesman do the interview.
I give the Israeli a lot of credit for carrying on in the face of the blatently biased press.
And the title is hardly descriptive of the clip: he was not "shut up" in any way. And do you really want your journalists to be shutting people up?


Grow up, it's called asking tough and fair questions when they need to be asked. If Israel is behaving in this way there's no sense in pussyfooting around. They guy denied it but we can draw our own conclusions from the available evidence.

>> ^mharvey42:
I give the Israeli a lot of credit for carrying on in the face of the blatently biased press.


You're an idiot. Stop hating people, it takes a lot less effort and you'll fell better about yourself.

Methane (CH4) burns cleanest of all fossil fuels, if it's pure that is.

The visible pressure wave extending outwards is very low and very high pressured air, born of the rapid displacement of atmosphere occurring as the cloud of explosive propellant is ignited. The rapid displacement of air molecules 'ripples' through the atmosphere in three dimensions, with this pressurized-air wave ramming into and reflecting off of things as the energy is disbursed outwards. It might be conceptually helpful to think of the atmosphere as a fluid, and continue with that 'ripple' and 'wave crashing' analogy, but in three dimensions.

I'm not exactly sure, though, how much atmospheric oxygen these beasts would eat up, as I don't know their size or what the explosive is (though that first cloud before it blows looks pretty huge). Suffocation could conceivably occur relatively close to the explosion, by the explosive robbing nearby O2 (CH4 + 2O2 → heat + CO2 + 2H2O), but I imagine it would be much more likely that your chest cavity would expand/crush under the pressure at that kind of distance anyhow, and then you'd be buried in rubble. Your ears might ring a bit afterwards, too.

... at least, thats my understanding. ... so remember, never use vacuums!