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To: willcousa who wrote (371486)	3/15/2003 11:44:28 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Munition is 2 foot diameter max. globalsecurity.org This photo show munition just before impact. Munition is 1.5 to 2.5 pixels globalsecurity.org globalsecurity.org Explosion Photo. Explosion is about 180 pixels. How may feet or yards to a pixel. Note shawdow line of what I think are trees. Guess explosion fire ball was about 150 to 250 yards max. Is zoom changing????? Could be less, about or just under 100 yards. It's hard to tell. How close is the visible tree line to the explosion, next to or a distant ridge. But even at a distance it is still a way of guessing the width of the explosion. I guessed the little ridges are trees and guess a 40 foot wide tree was 6 pixels or a yard to a pixel. But munition gives less than a yard per pixel. So it's a wag or fudge and I don't believe any trees were damaged at 1/2 mile or maybe even a 1/3 to 1/4. Building within 1/3 to a 1/4 is a different thing. I don't know.

To: willcousa who wrote (371486)	3/15/2003 6:25:43 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

>>The picture of the bomb dropping into the swamp demonstrates that it has the blast area advertised. Trees were not falling over a mile away.<< Willcousa - Really? I didn't realize that they had advertised a blast radius for it. The news stories I read said that both military officials and Donald Rumsfeld wouldn't divulge that information. Perhaps you have a different source. Do you know how far away the camera was? Do you know what the focal length of the lens they used was? Do you actually have any idea what the scale of that explosion was or its radius? I thought it was kind of silly that they released that footage, designed to frighten Hussein, without giving it any kind of scale to let a person know exactly how big the blast was. By the way, I notice all you guys like to pick out details, but not to respond to the basic arguments being presented. - Allen