Russian Scientists In Bid To Solve Tunguska Event

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7-2-2008 | Adrian Blomfield

[blam]

Russian scientists in bid to solve Tunguska Event

Last Updated: 1:18AM BST 02/07/2008

Russian scientists will this week attempt to solve the mystery of a giant explosion 100 years ago that turned night to day across western Europe and flattened a large swathe of Siberia.

Trees lay strewn across the Siberian countryside, in 1953, 45 years after an 'unexplained explosion' near Tunguska, Russia

A century after reindeer herdsmen saw a column of light that shone with the intensity of the Sun moving across the Siberian dawn sky, the Tunguska Event remains one of the modern era's most abiding scientific riddles.

From the X-Files to Indiana Jones, the makers of films and television programmes have ensured that Tunguska remains a byword for conspiracy in the imagination of science fiction buffs.

But even among serious scientists the cause of the explosion remains an enigma, a fact that has allowed the theories to multiply over the years.

The symposium in Russia has drawn together the proponents of some of the most outlandish, perhaps none more so than Yuri Lavbin.

The head of the Tunguska Space Phenomenon Fund has long blamed extraterrestrials for the explosion and in 2004 claimed to have discovered wreckage from their spacecraft.

What the aliens were up to divides Mr Lavbin's followers. The more orthodox suggest they were coming to Earth's rescue by shooting down a meteorite that would have caused far more damage if it had struck the planet.

Others maintain it was a monumental mix-up after aliens on a planet orbiting the star 61-Sygni mistakenly assumed that the 1883 eruption on Krakatoa was an attempt by earthlings to communicate with them.

[SatinDoll]

Gamma ray burst 40,000 years ago? Yes, but that wasn’t the end of it.

The matter blown off by the supernova arrived here about 13,000 years ago, creating a crater on the bottom of Hudson’s Bay, a crater on the bottom of Lake Superior, and literally thousands of Carolina Bays all around the country. Oh, and the North American ice pack (over Canada) was pretty much blown to smitherines.

The guys who wrote this book present very specific evidence, especially the supporting data of a spike in the amount of iridium and fullerenes in the soil at the 13,000 years ago level, about when mammoths and Clovis man disappeared.

Everyone ridiculed Harlan Bretz when he claimed to have found proof of catastrophic flooding in eastern Washington State. It was decades before his findings were accepted.

Look at the scientific evidence before you scoff.

[Kiss Me Hardy]

Thunder God Ogdy! Why didn’t I name my son after him?

[blam]

"Here’s a puzzler for ya - I was at a meeting a few days ago and Dr. Carl Skinner stated that their investigation of California arboreal history has shown that in 1829, there is not one area of California that did not show that trees had burned. There are even indications it might go up into Oregon. What was that all about?

Evidence Of Tunguska-Type Impacts Over The Pacific Basin Around The Year 1178 AD

[Harrius Magnus]

I have a great article on this event, the possibilities, and let me know if you want me to send it to you.

[colorado tanker]

Someone should ask Cigarette Smoking Man.

[happygrl]

Also this book:http://www.amazon.com/Cataclysm-Compelling-Evidence-Cosmic-Catastrophe/dp/1879181428/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215068709&sr=1-1
Supposes the same supernova.

[Redcitizen]

Can’t do that now. He got nailed by rockets fired by these mysterious black helicopters...