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2024-10-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

They’re Calling This A 'Helicopter Crash' in Houston

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Posted by NN2N1 2024-10-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Are we blaming the gas tanks again?

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-10-28 01:10|| 2024-10-28 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Sure looks like a MANPAD to me.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-28 01:18|| 2024-10-28 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 4 dead, including a child, after helicopter crashes into Houston radio tower: Police

Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-28 01:22|| 2024-10-28 01:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Nah, I think they hit the radio tower. That streak upward is a freaking electric arc. When they were building SLB's Rig 601, we were exactly half a wavelength away from a radio tower and it was energizing the rig. One of the guys recorded on video a metal pump tag arcing and you can hear the freaking radio station play as it does. They sent out 3 very senior electrical engineers to study it and write papers.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-10-28 02:47|| 2024-10-28 02:47|| Front Page Top

#5 #4, though I understand, first go through looked suspicious.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-10-28 08:19|| 2024-10-28 08:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I looked at it three times. It definitely looks like he hit the radio tower. Before that, there's one place where there appears to be some type of damage to the helicopter, with sparks flying from the rear. NOT a MANPAD explosion. Weird.

Posted by Old Patriot 2024-10-28 09:11|| 2024-10-28 09:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Ok. Based in this discussion, article moved to Page 3: Non-WoT, Short Attention Span Theater. With my thanks for teaching me something new and unexpected about the necessary awareness of wavelengths — that’s one I’ll pass on to Mr. Wife, whose brain works that way. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-28 09:33|| 2024-10-28 09:33|| Front Page Top

#8 OK, facts in hand:
(1) A helicopter did crash, flying at 600ft
(2) It took down a 1000 ft radio mast, and the aviation marker was out. Again.
(3) The 'air tour' company had been in operation 10 whole days.
(4) Other pilots said that the mast was difficult to see against the background of office bulidings.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-10-28 09:53|| 2024-10-28 09:53|| Front Page Top

#9 OK in the clip, there's a white blip where the missle/Hand of God/Tesla's Revenge originated. If I can see it in the clip why couldn't the pilots see it?

Posted by Mercutio 2024-10-28 12:42|| 2024-10-28 12:42|| Front Page Top

#10 The Key Bridge seemed to have some strange arcing as well.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-10-28 12:42|| 2024-10-28 12:42|| Front Page Top

#11 #6, #8 now we're talkin'

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-10-28 14:43|| 2024-10-28 14:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Starting to sound (not like Musk's Tesla but the Tesla that invented AC power and everything) Tesla's lightening experiments...

Disclosure: In a large group of engineers in Motorola in the late 1990s was a man who on the side made huge Tesla Coils for Hollywood (on the side of his regular job). When he told me about electric bolts from his basketball hoop to the ground and lighting light bulbs on little floats with an antenna in the air and a lead into the water 3 miles away from his coil... I MADE DAMN SURE TO ALWAYS KNOW WHERE HE LIVED AS I DIDN"T WANT TO LIVE ANYWHERE NEAR HIS COILS!

His primary coil was usually 1" copper waterpipe with cooling water running through it (to cool it). The secondary was usually a power transformer just like the power company would use...

I learned my lesson in the early 70s when a Tesla Coil in a science room at college blew all the circuits in my turned off TI calculator in a nearby lecture room. EM power travels in mysterious ways...

Posted by 3dc 2024-10-28 14:52|| 2024-10-28 14:52|| Front Page Top

#13 Early in Telsa's work in Long Island his experiments at a lab site caused all the nails in a wooden police station a few miles away to start visible sparking. The police correlated to his visible tests and kicked his experimenting out of Long Island. He moved them to the Rocky Mtns.

Posted by 3dc 2024-10-28 14:57|| 2024-10-28 14:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Another question... did the antenna in Houston have a lawn (grass) growing on it?

Reason.. a customer of Motorola had a cell site in the Indiana Dunes State Park. It wasn't working right and strange stuff was happening around it. It turned out the park had planted grass under it. That took the water out of the sand. Just sand didn't conduct properly and was no longer a ground. The solution was to kill all the grasses and pour salt on the ground to make the sand more conductive...

Posted by 3dc 2024-10-28 15:04|| 2024-10-28 15:04|| Front Page Top

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