Sunday, May 22, 2005
'Splain This!
Scotwise apparently thinks I can explain anything with no data. He reprints this ABC article and challenges me to explain. Iraq the Model found the same article, but he does not even know I exist.
But it's the villager's sinister explanation I find intriguing. She blames it on "the Americans." Well let's see. Lex Luthor tried it in the first Superman movie. The of course, Christopher Walken tried to drain San Francisco Bay in the the Bond movie a "View To A Kill". These are both quite credible sources of information and lend credence to this villager's suspicion.
This however, would be a massive undertaking. No I think this beyond the capabilites of the US military/industrial complex. My money is on aliens.
Actually, lake drainage like this is, while not common, not outside the realm of human experience. It is almost always related to rapid and massive geological change. A landslide, and earthquake, something of the sort that changes the topography of the surrounding land allowing the lake to drain to a lower location.
Ukraine, a few hundred miles from this location, has the deepest caves in the world. There might also be caves in the region of the lake. Wouldn't take much.
A Russian village has been left baffled after its lake disappeared overnight.There is very little data here. If the lake is man-made or controlled, it could be a error on the dam operators part. The official's explanation is quite reasonable as well.
NTV television has shown pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo look on disconsolately.
Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official, says trees also disappeared under the ground as the lake emptied near the Volga river, east of Moscow.
"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival," he said.
He says water in the lake might have been sucked into an underground water-course or cave system but some villagers have more sinister explanations.
But it's the villager's sinister explanation I find intriguing. She blames it on "the Americans." Well let's see. Lex Luthor tried it in the first Superman movie. The of course, Christopher Walken tried to drain San Francisco Bay in the the Bond movie a "View To A Kill". These are both quite credible sources of information and lend credence to this villager's suspicion.
This however, would be a massive undertaking. No I think this beyond the capabilites of the US military/industrial complex. My money is on aliens.
Actually, lake drainage like this is, while not common, not outside the realm of human experience. It is almost always related to rapid and massive geological change. A landslide, and earthquake, something of the sort that changes the topography of the surrounding land allowing the lake to drain to a lower location.
Ukraine, a few hundred miles from this location, has the deepest caves in the world. There might also be caves in the region of the lake. Wouldn't take much.
