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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Top 10 Greatest Explosions
Some of the Top 10 Greatest Explosions were not a surprise to me. The Halifax Explosion, of course, and the first atom bomb. Can't forget the K-T Extinction Impact Event (when the dinosaurs were "wiped out").
And the honorable mention for #1 is cute. ;)
But #5... WOW and WOAH:
#2 was also surprising to me. Guess I need to bone up on my interstellar history.
And the honorable mention for #1 is cute. ;)
But #5... WOW and WOAH:
5 Mount Tambora
In 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia exploded with the force of roughly 1,000 megatons of TNT, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The blast hurled out roughly 140 billion tons of magma and not only killed more than 71,000 people on the island of Sumbawa and nearby Lombok, but the ash it released created global climate anomalies. The following year, 1816, became known as the Year Without a Summer, with snow falling in June in Albany, N.Y., river ice seen in July in Pennsylvania, and hundreds of thousands of people dying of famine worldwide.
#2 was also surprising to me. Guess I need to bone up on my interstellar history.
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Posted by: trekker9er : 10:04 AM 
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