What was the Mike explosion?
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well it was a pretty big explosion, I do not know if I would call it massive, but I guess that depends on what you are comparing it to. Mike was an early test of the H-bomb.\nHere is a little history of the testing \nhttp://www.ratical.org/radiation/KillingOurOwn/KOO4.html\nand here is a pic of it\nhttp://www.zvis.com/nuclear/dimg.php3?ivymike1,ivymike\nhee hee I just burst out laughing when reading the article and discovered the device which exploded was called sausage!
629194
I get it now   ......   you are in love with the MIKE name. You almost had me baffled!!
169798
With only your vague description to go on and a year you arent sure of, it is very hard to ansswer your question, but I assure you, you did not see the "biggest explosion since big bang".\n\nPerhaps it was a meteor exploding in the atmosphere?
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No, do your own homework.  But I'll give you a clue:\n\nWhen someone yells "fire!" or "bomb!" and the entire crowd panicks and runs as one body to wherever the person in front of them is going, THAT's  heard mentality.\n\nBe creative, have fun.
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Mav...\n\nNone of us were there... what appears to be real is that someone was scared.  In this situation, there are no winners, only sadness and confusion.
1123600
Boom goes the dynamite.
1151741
It's questionable. It seems it was hit with some sort of missile. The story is supposedly that an airplane hit it, but the resulting hole is too small and there is no evidence of plane. The government says the explosion was so hot it burned the evidence, but how come the bodies and other things around weren't burned? It's one of the many questionable topics of 9/11 (like how the twin towers free-fell to the earth??) that are explored in the video below.
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it was in your car?hmm...i think i know y.it exploded wen it got to hot i hade an axe can do that cuz it swell with pressure and it cant take any more kinda like wen u get a flat tire.it has to much pressure and it pops
631701
wow, what was THAT all about?
1022741
im a huge fan of the threat alert system!\n\nHA! i remember something happened...not sure what...whatever it was it was emberassing for the bush crew...almost immediately they raised the threat level in hopes that it would take the emperassment out of what happened. that was the last time i ever heard of the alert system...or from it.\n\nthey screamed wolf, no one listened. priceless!
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The story about the tire exploding is the official story the family tells the world.  Actually he was the victim of gay bashing -- he was beaten to death because he was gay -- perhaps he tried to pick up the wrong person, perhaps he was just in the wrong place.  Earlier he had told Ennis about the dangerous activity he was engaged in, and there was a scene of the results of gaybashing from childhood that foreshadowed this death.
666133
WHAT  are you planning on an EXPLOSION
839502
Martyr or possibly Kamikaze.\n\n:)
1187085
YEARS ago I saw a video shot in a lab..   They a kinda of box about 5 feet square and it was all wrapped in cellophane.  Not sure what gas was in the box but it exploded.   A ball about 4 inches floated out of the explosion and out of the room.  The whole thing lasted maybe 3 seconds.\n\nThey said it was ball lighting..
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I was in B. 37 at Johnson Space Center in the Medical Science Division.  About 50 of us who worked in the building were watching the launch on TV as we did every launch.  I had built an experiment box for one of the crewmembers to use. It was a space motion sickness experiment.  The person seated in front of me said "oh no, that's not right" prior to the "explosion".  About 5 seconds later, it broke up.  It wasn't really an explosion by strict definition.  The pressurized crew cabin seperated and it fell into the ocean after reaching about 57000 feet.  It broke up most likely on impact.  The person sitting in front of me noticed the anomalous plume and knew something was terribly wrong.  One of the crewmembers family lives behind me, 2 houses over.  \n\nI am answering this question in a non-official capacity of course, but I have to say it.
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The explosion of the US battleship  "The Maine."  It was blamed on the Spanish, but it was probably an accident.
775302
It is an iconic representation of Mick's mouth.\nI also wanted to say that the first answer is a total load of misinformation.