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Post by clockworkgirl21 on Aug 4, 2009 11:10:40 GMT -5
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Post by Tiger on Aug 4, 2009 12:19:50 GMT -5
More than likely eaten out by an animal who came across the bodies. The tongue would have frozen slower than the rest of the body, and also would have been one of the few parts that wasn't covered by several layers of clothing. (Reading on, this is the article's hypothesis as well.)
The only thing I find suspicious is the strange orange spheres. The article dismisses them as "easily explained by weapons testing" but I don't see how that would work. If the victims had radiation poisoning, that doesn't match up with the presence of the spheres, which would most likely have been rockets of some sort. Maybe they were testing dirty bombs? It's also possible the spheres were invented in one of the retellings.
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Post by wmdkitty on Aug 4, 2009 15:17:02 GMT -5
Yeah, but that's a hell of a horror movie set-up, there. I'm thinking something featuring the Wendigo?
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Post by MaybeNever on Aug 6, 2009 18:47:50 GMT -5
Yeah, the Soviet Union in 1959. That's a safe place to be. What a horrible thing to happen.
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Post by Trevelyan on Aug 8, 2009 3:12:25 GMT -5
Well considering that the Soviets actually conducted one nuclear test wherein the deliberatly set off a nuke at the "just" survivable limit of a town to see how the radiation would effect people, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to imagine this was the result of some type of nuclear test.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Aug 8, 2009 3:49:08 GMT -5
Yeah, the Soviet Union had some real sick fucks kicking around in their military. (Hey, a lot like the US! Google "Down-winders" some time...) I wouldn't be surprised in the least if there were weapons tests going on there.
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Post by Trevelyan on Aug 8, 2009 4:01:18 GMT -5
Well an nuclear explosion would explain the blindness, the panic, the radiation, and the broken ribs etc if they were close enough to get caught on the fringe of the over pressure wave.
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Post by MaybeNever on Aug 8, 2009 21:32:55 GMT -5
Well an nuclear explosion would explain the blindness, the panic, the radiation, and the broken ribs etc if they were close enough to get caught on the fringe of the over pressure wave. My grasp of physics is fairly elementary, I admit, but I suspect that anyone close enough to a nuke to be injured by the blast's concussion wave would be, well, ash or something close to it. |
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Aug 8, 2009 22:01:58 GMT -5
Ash? No. Severely burned? Probably.
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Post by Trevelyan on Aug 9, 2009 12:37:46 GMT -5
Look at the table in this chart en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions and you'll see that the blast front moves farther than the thermal front. Yeah, I know wikipedia, so if someone has information that contradicts this and is from a better source, please bring it up. |
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Post by MaybeNever on Aug 9, 2009 13:29:26 GMT -5
Huh. I stand corrected. Just as well, really, but now I must get back to the lab to, um, rework some numbers.
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