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Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:25 am to Golfer
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Well that's the location of the rig. He saw the fireball 30-45 miles Southwest.
30-45 miles is nothing compared to the huge sea.
Plus, we will say the oil rig is max 200 feet tall. Line of Sight will only be 15 miles from that point. So it was most likely closer than that guy is imagining.
ETA: It says 30-45 km, so that would make sense. It would convert to about 18-20 miles
This post was edited on 3/12/14 at 12:29 am
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:28 am to Jim Rockford
Jim, where did you get this picture?
Vung Tau is a perfect location to view the plane coming down if true
Vung Tau is a perfect location to view the plane coming down if true
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:28 am to JAXTiger16
You can see the New Orleans skyline from old Mandeville, what's that? 30-40 miles of water?
This post was edited on 3/12/14 at 12:32 am
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:29 am to MrTide33
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I'll take Q7 please
Ditto
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:29 am to JAXTiger16
Part of me thinks the plane passed through a wrinkle in the timespace continuum and reentered in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:30 am to Jim Rockford
Where'd you get the photo of that email?
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:33 am to Jim Rockford
That rig is on location off the coast of Vietnam.
This post was edited on 3/12/14 at 12:34 am
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:34 am to GeorgeReymond
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You can see the New Orleans skyline from old Mandeville, what's that? 30-40 miles too?
Can you actually see the buildings or just the lights?
Im just using simple math for line of sight. Lights obviously travel a little bit so you could see it a little farther. So it could have been further given it was a huge fireball the guy saw.
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:36 am to JAXTiger16
I know you can see Mandeville from the top of Shell Square....
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:36 am to bluemoons
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Where'd you get the photo of that email?
I want to know this.
And the emails in that picture are going to be bombarded
This post was edited on 3/12/14 at 12:36 am
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:38 am to Butch Baum
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I know you can see Mandeville from the top of Shell Square....
makes sense..the higher you are the further you see
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:38 am to JAXTiger16
It was during the middle of the day Sunday. I could see the silhouette of the buildings.
eta: No lights
eta: No lights
This post was edited on 3/12/14 at 12:46 am
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:42 am to JAXTiger16
I was on a rig in the GOM once when the platform malfunctioned and all three emergency flare booms fired off. We were basically an enormous fire ball. I knew someone on another offshore structure east of me and they phoned me up to see if I could see the fireball from my location. When I told him it was my platform they could hardly believe it. They said we were extremely visible to them. We pulled out the offshore block maps and were able to figure out our locations were a little over 50 miles apart.
This post was edited on 3/12/14 at 12:44 am
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:42 am to JAXTiger16
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Can you actually see the buildings or just the lights?
With the right air you can see the buildings depending on where you are.
Posted on 3/12/14 at 12:50 am to TOKEN
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Jim, where did you get this picture?
It was on another message board. I don't know where they got it. Could be fabricated for all I know. But it fits the original hypothesis.
ETA: and there is a rig called the Songa Mercur and it is off the coast of Vietnam LINK
This post was edited on 3/12/14 at 1:04 am
Posted on 3/12/14 at 1:01 am to Jim Rockford
I believe this email FWIW
Posted on 3/12/14 at 1:06 am to Jim Rockford
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: and there is a rig called the Songa Mercur and it is off the coast of Vietnam LINK
I said that already.
Posted on 3/12/14 at 1:53 am to JAXTiger16
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This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 3/12/14 at 1:54 am to MrBiriwa
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So now the Malaysian military "unable" to release any data. Is this part of them back tracking and not wanting to admit fault?
Wow this is an inside job by Malaysian government.
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