One of the skeptic explanations is that they're compressed gas tanks that develop a rupture or get their valves or regulators broken off in the event. The escaping gas supposedly drives them crazily over the landscape at high speed.
But the only videos that seem available of incidents like that (in "normal" circumstances) usually involve smaller propane, acetylene, oxygen, argon, etc cylinders -- rather than giant containers. (The latter which I'm purely guessing would tend to explode rather than race like a ground missile.)
The first video below reveals that a cylinder can definitely shoot into the sky like a rocket. The second one shows that they tend to spiral round and round when on a surface.
https://youtu.be/hu62940nMmc
https://youtu.be/qJLf_5RJFG8
Here's a third, but filmed largely after the fact:
'Like a missile.' Bayport residents describe gas tank that hit car and exploded
https://longisland.news12.com/police-fir...in-bayport
I've seen the video of the steam clouds being shot up out of floating gas tanks. That's clearly what that is. (see below) In the videos posted these things are going miles straight over the land without stopping or slowing down. That's not a gas tank. The career skeptics need some fresh material.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJxKzfPuwco
"A busted propane tank, depending on the severity of the damage, can travel a short distance by the force of the escaping propane gas, which can propel the tank itself slightly, but it will quickly lose momentum and fall due to its weight, while the gas disperses rapidly into the air;"
Thrust is powerful but brief..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCLFY0wb7k
(Dec 7, 2024 01:47 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ][...] "A busted propane tank, depending on the severity of the damage, can travel a short distance by the force of the escaping propane gas, which can propel the tank itself slightly, but it will quickly lose momentum and fall due to its weight, while the gas disperses rapidly into the air;"
Thrust is powerful but brief..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCLFY0wb7k
Yeah, the small cylinders aren't going to last a mile or kilometer on the ground, and it's difficult to construe how the giant tanks would "travel" significantly as opposed to either blowing up immediately or at some point soon after the rupture.
It's moving way to fast. Average speed of a tornado, even an unlikely invisible one, is around 30 mph.