babaolofin:


[s]You have only exposed your folly and death of intellectual capacity to understand the deep things of science. Your thought and reasoning are only best rated as a trader at Onitsha main market or Ariara at Aba.

The person whose last paragraph you admired, only posted part of Google document which have very insignificant attachment to the incident at Akure[/s]. Residents along the site of incident, security operatives and the Academic team led by the Prof have given their preliminary submission. The Prof submission remains the only scientific proof that aligned with residents observation and nature. While we await final report from NASA and other institutions, the Prof's report remains valid.

johnlegend01:
Oga Professor, I disagree vehemently!!!

I am a Mining Engineer by study and by profession by God's Grace. I can categorically confirm that commercial explosives were being conveyed from an explosive company in the South west to a quarry in the South south. EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) officers of the Nigeria Police were escorting the said explosives. The explosives detonated because the truck went in flames, according to report. Whether that cause is true or not is another case entirely. The one true fact is that "EXPLOSIVES IN A TRUCK DETONATED". The impact of the explosion is what you saw, while some witnessed ground vibration, air blast and noise.

For those that want to believe Mr Professor, try to check online videos of blasting done in quarries to know what explosives can do to rocks.

Check this video to understand the power of explosives.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkxKX8Z6vhY

In addition, some people said it was a bomb. Bomb explosives are different from commercial explosives. You would notice that there was no trace of fire or burn on and around the location.

trilobite:


You had me at "the deep things of science" Cheers to you.

ignis:
I am a geologist but I disagree with the prof on this.

Humanoid01:
I was wondering if a bomb explosion could cause a crater as wide and deep as that.

Germi9:

Are you an illiterate?

Humanoid01:

No, I'm not. Are you? I can help you if you are (for free).

BlackTemplar001:


If it was an explosive like u allege, I want to believe that they weren't transporting just one commercial ordinance, so why then was it just one huge explosion, how do u explain y there were no corresponding explosions at interval and also how do u explain it blast radius?

SaAyomikun:



You've only repeated the claims we heard in News. Have you no scientific backup for your claim?

Germi9:

Am sorry I didn't mean it that way...it's just annoying how this clueless our government are

careidon:
You are a mining engineer showing a 200,000 tonnes (divide that by a truck of 30 tonnes which the military don't normally use!) explosive impact.
Common, engineer. Learn from those who understand physics, speed, weight and impact.

How many trucks then?
Where are the parts?

What of witnesses?
Please look closely at the blue colored rocks in the pictures - only if those standerbys know the treasure in front of them!!!

doctuw:
Good bless you sir

abumeinben:

You're an art student?

babaolofin:


I am very sorry for being too hard. I know dynamite and I know bomb. I have witnessed the usage of both.

Those going to Google to study what explosive can do to rock should understand Quarrying sites are many in this region, our fathers and brothers who use those explosives have nothing to do with Google . Why was the wreckage of the vehicle not seen? Or, it was taken away before security operatives and people arrived?

onegig:



A truckload of explosives on a surface would never ever cause a crater except they dugged the ground and immersed it in. There are lots of foreign objects entering the Earth's atmosphere in a year. Even NASA can't catch or detect all the space debris coming in.

We don't hear of lots of them because they fall into the ocean and due to the friction against Earth's atmosphere when gaining entry into earth most of them are already small or near dust so the impacts aren't known.


I added images of a what an impact from a meteorite can do and an article from NASA stating exactly how incapable they are as of now to track such entries.

Originalsly:


On second thought.... with what I read from you and others.... I will agree that a truckload of explosives will not cause a crater ... since it will blast towards the area of less resistance.... upward into the atmosphere.
On the meteor.... I hold my position. Not on the grounds that meteorites do not enter earth's atmosphere.... nor all do get burned up and none reaches the earth. My position is based on a meteor not being burnt out and making it all the way to the earth's surface.... and creating that size crater...has to be of a substantial size. Whatever size it was..... the speed at which it traveled had to create sonic booms.... which would be heard.... and more likely the meteor seen...and more likely cause damage to buildings .... as happened in Russia a year or two ago. I find it unbelievable that a meteorite that size.....would land in a residential neighbourhood and nobody heard nor seen it. That pill I cannot swallow.

onegig:


We have eliminated the aspects of bombs or dynamites so what else would cause a crater that large?

Islie:

https://www.thecable.ng/akure-explosion-was-impact-from-meteors-not-explosives-says-oau-prof

ignis:
I am a geologist but I disagree with the prof on this.

2mch:
Prof is right. It looked like a Meteor

doctuw:
Good bless you sir

989900:


Even though I tend to lean more on the bolide (meteorite) side than the bomb story until proven otherwise, I too feel the prof. could do better with his analysis and inference, I mentioned that yesterday.

scally11:
Prof Adepelumi taught me at ife. We still did a geophysical investigation this year. Well read and have great interpretation skill. That cant be a bomb. Its sure is a meteorite. Similar case is the one at Arizona. This one is massive but smaller than the one at Arizona. Moreover people saw a bright light from the sky before the explosion. If it were bomb it will be explosion before fire. Thump up Triple A

IFezki96:



He will be greatly missed, He was my project supervisor. I worked on the mpape earthquake interpretation in Abuja, and he helped me through it. Rest on to the great Prof, One of the few Geology lecturers who always look out for students.