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| Southern Cal Hot Spot Hits 812 Degrees, Baffles Experts |
| 2008-08-06 |
| Are experts ever "not baffled"? The ground is so hot in one part of Southern California it can melt the shoes right off your feet. An unexplained "thermal anomaly" caused a patch of land in Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles, to reach a temperature of over 800 degrees on Friday, baffling experts who have been monitoring the area for weeks. Hellgate. Or Halliburton. The anomaly was discovered after the land got so hot that it started a brush fire and burned three acres last month. Firefighters were brought to the scene after reports of a blaze, but by the time they arrived only smoldering dirt and brush remained. Firefighters took no chances with the smoking ground, clearing brush near the fumes and cutting a fire line around the area to prevent a blaze from igniting. "We are a little perplexed at this point, to tell you the truth," the Ventura County Star quoted geologist David Panaro as saying. "This is not your usual geological detective story." Oh, boy! Looks like we'll need a "study'! I'll write up the grant paperwork right now! The area has recorded high temperatures at least five times since 1987, Allen King, a retired geologist with the U.S. Forest Service told the newspaper. Oh, well. It's gotta be an Alien Landing Area then... The hot spot is located in steep, rugged terrain a few miles north of the town of Fillmore on land owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and leased by Seneca Resources Corp. Officials who are familiar with the patch of land, which is near the large Sespe Oil Field, have come up with a few theories as to why the ground soared to 812 degrees fahrenheit on August 1. Evil Big Oil! I knew it! One theory is that natural hydrocarbons, such as oil or gas, are burning deep in the earth and seeping out through cracks in the area, causing the surface to rapidly heat and generate smoke. Maybe there's 26 cheerleaders trapped under it? According to the Star, Allen King, a former geologist with the U.S. Forest Service recently stuck a thermometer into the ground and got a reading of 550 degrees — so hot that it melted the glue holding the sole of his boots together. "After that we were more cautious about standing in one place for too long," he said. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #17 ION PRAVDA > JUPITER AND ITS MOONS PLAN NUCLEAR WINTERS FOR EARTH * Europa - 90-degree "pole shift"? * Callisto - topical ice shell amy explode and rain on Earth, annihilating all life. * Jupiter per se - new "red spots" may be due to active, proto-Star/Sun thermonuclear reactions going on inside Jupiter. Earth will be destroyed in some future time iff Jupiter ever de facto converts into a SUN = OTHER STAR ["2010" Movie]. ** OTHER SYSTEMIC + PLANETARY EFFECTS, DYNAMISMS DUE TO SOLAR WARMING + INTER-GALAXY COLLISION??? Also from RUSSIA > APOPHIS still a'headin Earth's way, you betcha. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-06 23:29 |
| #16 It's a somewhat belated movie promotion ... |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-08-06 21:27 |
| #15 Fillmore - no problem, but when it hit's Piru, I'm panicking! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-08-06 20:29 |
| #14 Oh, just great! Deny it all you want, you global warmening deniers, but the ruthless criminal schemes of Bushitler and Cheneyburton have obviously melted the core of our very planet. Now what? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-08-06 20:23 |
| #13 Geothermal source for power. Put some pipes into it and hook up the steam turbine! |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-06 19:48 |
| #12 This would make sense to Dante Alighieri or the Weekly World News. It's a vent from Hell. Sunnydale, California. Right over the portal to the demonic realm in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-08-06 18:56 |
| #11 Speak for yourself, brass hat. Precisely - we always know exactly what we are doing at least after the fact. |
| Posted by: Haliburton Volcanic Eruption Division 2008-08-06 18:36 |
| #10 "and in other news tonight, Ventura County, citing a lack of respect from the rest of California, threatened to cut off supplies of heat to the Southwest. Now over to Kenneth for the weather." "well, Dan, it's toasty warm in Ventura, ...and cold everywhere else." |
| Posted by: Querent 2008-08-06 18:32 |
| #9 Plausible deniability Steve, we obviously don't know what we're doing. Speak for yourself, brass hat. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Death Ray Division 2008-08-06 18:26 |
| #8 You'd think the various Halliburton divisions would talk to each other, but no-o-o-o-o ... Plausible deniability Steve, we obviously don't know what we're doing. |
| Posted by: Halliburton Executive Offices 2008-08-06 18:22 |
| #7 I think aliens were landing there to probe cows. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-08-06 18:14 |
| #6 You'd think the various Halliburton divisions would talk to each other, but no-o-o-o-o ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-08-06 17:57 |
| #5 Localized global warming? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-08-06 17:46 |
| #4 Need to make improvements to directional targeting systems. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Death Ray Division 2008-08-06 17:35 |
| #3 Oops. Sorry about that.... nothing to see here... move along.... |
| Posted by: Haliburton Volcanic Eruption Division 2008-08-06 17:34 |
| #2 Wow, volcanos near LA and college cheerleaders in Texas being saved by police - a Tommy Lee Jones kind of day. Gonna have to keep an eye out for my Charles Goodnight descendant friend this evening. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-08-06 17:15 |
| #1 See, global warming is REAL, real I tell you! |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-08-06 17:11 |