Not buying the theory. The scale is totally wrong.
First, we're watching through time-lapse. What's the time interval between ticks on this image? We're used to seeing video at 24 frames per second (film) or higher in video games/digital media. I don't have that frame rate data in front of me, but given how fast the explosion is in this version vs what I've seen in other time-lapses, these images show the cloud expanding over a full day's daylight.
This is something I'd expect to see with a volcano. Volcanoes may erupt spewing ash like this for days or weeks. It's a slow continuous high-volume emission, which is why we end up seeing it in time-lapse to be able to perceive the scale.
A weapons explosion is very different because it releases only the tiniest fraction of energy in comparison to what we're seeing out of the volcano. The energy is released rapidly over seconds, even with MOABs or nuclear weapons. We've all seen those videos of above ground nuclear tests where the mushroom cloud evolves over a minute or two.
The second issue here is visual scale. Other videos show us what the island looks like. It's big enough to house a volcano. Can you identify the right pixels in the blue where the island was pre-explosion in this gif? We're zoomed out, viewing from space. What's being identified as a white object (our presumed explosive) would be larger than an aircraft carrier at this scale, as is that "splash."
I'm not buying the idea that a missile was shot at the volcano to trigger the eruption. Too many things wrong with the video.
Not buying the theory. The scale is totally wrong.
First, we're watching through time-lapse. What's the time interval between ticks on this image? We're used to seeing video at 24 frames per second (film) or higher in video games/digital media. I don't have that frame rate data in front of me, but given how fast the explosion is in this version vs what I've seen in other time-lapses, these images show the cloud expanding over a full day's daylight.
This is something I'd expect to see with a volcano. Volcanoes may erupt spewing ash like this for days or weeks. It's a slow continuous high-volume emission, which is why we end up seeing it in time-lapse to be able to perceive the scale.
A weapons explosion is very different because it releases only the tiniest fraction of energy in comparison to what we're seeing out of the volcano. The energy is released rapidly over seconds, even with MOABs or nuclear weapons. We've all seen those videos of above ground nuclear tests where the mushroom cloud evolves over a minute or two.
The second issue here is visual scale. Other videos show us what the island looks like. It's big enough to house a volcano. Can you identify the right pixels in the blue where the island was pre-explosion in this gif? We're zoomed out, viewing from space. What's being identified as a white object (our presumed explosive) would be larger than an aircraft carrier at this scale, as is that "splash."
I'm not buying the idea that a missile was shot at the volcano to trigger the eruption. Too many things wrong with the video.