Recent content by TCups

Why did the thread start with the example of Mitt Romney's taxes, versus, say, Hillary & Bill Clinton's taxes, or the Clinton foundation's taxes, or say,even Barak Obama's taxes? Should Obama be required to declare the millions of tax dollars spent to cover his golfing outings and family...

I offered up this hypothesis (speculation) on an air rifle forum, but I don't know for sure Agreed. Only one angular momentum for a rigid body. But if the mass is not evenly distributed along the axis of a rotating rigid body (i.e., the rigid body is not a sphere) and the mass is rotating...

Unlike firearm projectiles, air rifle pellets have evolved to a generally typical diabolo configuration. For reference, see: http://www.photosbykev.com/wordpress/2009/01/20/air-rifle-pellet-database/ The initial shape was described as like that of a badminton shuttlecock, and "skirt" at the...

How about the explosion of Unit 3? see: https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3247529&postcount=3766

Perhaps from the reactor pressure vessel acting like a giant clanger in a bell? See post 2935: "If the lateral acceleration forces exceed the design parameters, the pressure vessel risks becoming the upside down clanger in a giant bell shaking at about a 9 on the Richter scale. The key...

The interesting thing, to me, is the perspective. It is easy to underestimate the size of the wave and the amount of water inundating the NPP. Look at the pipes going to the vent towers. They are big enough to drive a SUV through! I didn't appreciate the size and weight of the pipe sections...

The "Presentation" content regarding siphoning from the spent fuel pools seems like new and potentially important information. I don't think this topic or possibility has been previously considered or discussed in this thread, has it? http://tec-sim.de/images/stories/fusfpfail.pdf

Have the recent large volume of new data released by TEPCO shed any further light on the questions of: 1) the possible origin of the explosion of Bldg 3 (ie, origin from the primary containment?), or 2) the nature of the radiation spike resulting from the explosion of Bldg 3 (ie, sudden...

The observations I make are these: the southeast corner of Building 3 three (roof and south wall) visibly expands, blows out, and ejects a relatively small white puff of gas laterally, which almost immediately turns to a somewhat larger, self-consuming orange fireball. This is followed...

Your doubt is noted. But you make several assertions or presumptions not at all needed to support the theory I attempted to outline in Occamiam razor style - sharp and simple. No water from the torus pool is needed. No melting of the corium through the RPV is needed. No sudden criticality...

The shootist was the primary containment. The rifle was the fuel transfer chute. The bullet was superheated steam and hydrogen gas with a lot of radioactive contamination. The target was the southeast corner of the upper floor of Building 3. The initial trajectory more lateral than vertical...

Uhhhh . . . If an explosion of superheated gas blasts out a large hole in the wall and roof of a concrete building, might it be reasonable to assume a quantity of dust and particulate would result from the mechanical damage, and that that dust and particulate, in the presence of heat and air...

@MadderDoc Sir: Surely you know that the history of this thread shows that I and many others have been considering and re-considering evidence from day 1. Your video evidence looks different from my video evidence, hence I must reconsider, and will. But, surely you do not think my comment...

REGARDING THE VISIBILITY OF THE FIREBALL AND IGNITION OUTSIDE OF BLDG 3 CONTAINMENT IMO, I believe I could see ignition occurring outside of Bldg 3. See the prior images I posted some time back. The nature of video compression and image compression is complicated. It is interesting to me...

Or, might it simply imply that the pressure relief valves were bypassed, as by damage and subsequent rupture of one of the connecting feed lines, especially the high pressure steam lines near the top of the RPV? Would that not produce the same observations? It has been reported that lateral...