Bad weld caused San Bruno pipeline explosion?

You're sort of new to this whole Internet thing, aren't you?

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here is a more recent speculation by the same author

I read through both, and didn't mention any plane or missile parts being found. There was some talk of 10 55 gal. barrels being removed.

My first impression of the drone theory is that even with high ordinance stuff, shrapnel is blown for miles, and any part of any drone/plane that would have been found would have made the finder an instant celebrity. If there were many pieces found, there would have been a bidding war on them. So far, I see none have come forth. An area that large in a population center would retain a lot of pieces. I don't know the address of the explosion, but San Bruno is what I would call dense, even if the house were on the border of the water or the uninhabited part of the peninsula west of

1. Drawing a five mile radius half circle with its center at 285 and 92 covers a LOT of densely populated space, the other half of the circle going onto what looks like hilly coastland.

When I lived in La Marque, Texas, a friend of mine had a piece of jagged plate steel about the weight of five or six silver dollars. The ships that blew up in 1948 were at Port Rd., Texas City, 4.55 miles from his house according to Google Earth. John said the shrapnel had enough velocity to pierce their front wall and landed in the living room. There must have been many thousands of such pieces within a five mile radius or more of the San Bruno blast if it was an aircraft. I believe an ad in San Bruno would bring out a lot of pieces, and maybe they did recover pieces they found or that were turned in. I think in densely populated California some would have landed in plain sight. And the explosive force on a drone would not vaporize a lot of the titanium components, or even hardly damage some of them. The F 18 mentioned has a lot of thick titanium that surely would survive a jet fuel fire spread over an area.

I don't buy the conspiracy theory, but it makes good Hollywood.

Steve

I find this to be very interesting, and ask myself the same question, what are the chances that the location of the blast was accidental?

Assuming you mean 280 and 92, that 5 mile half-circle is quite lightly populated relative to, say, the City. Large lots, large houses, big parks and exclusive neighborhoods.

scott

The chances are as near to 100% as possible.

How about let's just say a five mile circle around the crosshairs that Google Earth gives you when you enter San Bruno, California? Is that splitting hairs adequately for you?

Does anyone know the cross streets, or exact location of this blast, so that we may correctly, and most importantly, exactly to Scott's satisfaction, technically draw the aforementioned circle?

Sheesh. Did you get anything at all out of what I said, or are you just picking nits?

Steve

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mentions some addresses. For example, if you search on 1701 Earl Avenue, San Bruno, CA at the burned area shows up clearly. (However, if you zoom in tighter than the 200-ft-scale level, older (pre-explosion) photos show up.)

It appears that a 5-mile circle extends about a mile into the Pacific on the west side, and a mile or so into SF Bay on the east. Scott appears to be correct that that area is among the most-lightly-populated places on the SF peninsula; it might well be that the population within 5 miles is less than 100000 people.

I go back to my point. I have owned a metal detector since 1980. I guarantee if there are pieces of a jet or some exploded ordinance casing, I could find it. And if there are theorists out there, they must be too lazy to look for any evidence past the "I feel" and "I think" or "I heard" mentality. Looking at that address on Google Earth, there are plenty of homes around that would have some fragments of shrapnel embedded in soft building materials. Next thing someone is going to come up with is that it was another Bush conspiracy. Plane attack? I think not.

Steve