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Have scientists finally found the meteorite which set off the mysterious 1908 Tunguska catastrophe?
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| 08:49 EST, 17 May 2012
| Rob Waugh
Posted on 05/21/2012 9:32:37 PM PDT by null and void
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To: katana
He has special manly sweat that repels Mosquito's. Don't you now anything about the great one? /s :)
Hmm... I wonder if the alien Pod attracts these large swarms of Mosquitos? Seriously, I really have been interested in this site for a long time, and I hope they learn much more about it, and can get samples if it is a meteorite.
To: null and void
“Have scientists finally found the meteorite which set off the mysterious 1908 Tunguska catastrophe?”
“Which” should be “that”.
To: null and void
I bet what they found will be incredibly dense, perhaps a small fragment of dark matter. A piece the size of a baseball would weigh a ton. Or more.
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posted on
05/22/2012 2:55:09 AM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
(Liberals need not reply.)
To: null and void
The explosion sent an atmospheric shockwave twice around the world and turned night into day across Europe. Britain was lit for several days by a beautiful white and yellow sky, bright enough for midnight games of cricket and golf across the country. This phenomenon is now thought to have been due to sunlight scattered by dust from the fireball's plume.
In a letter to a newspaper, one reader wrote: 'I myself was aroused from sleep at 1.15am, and so strong was the light at this hour, that I could read a book by it quite comfortably.
At 1.45am, the whole sky was a delicate salmon pink, and the birds began their morning song.'
It must have been an amazing sight.....far enough away from the impact zone, of course.
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posted on
05/22/2012 3:15:49 AM PDT
by
submarinerswife
(Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
To: jayrunner
Admiral Peary still never got the message.
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posted on
05/22/2012 3:23:08 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: submarinerswife
Even more amazing close up...
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posted on
05/22/2012 8:06:01 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1218 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
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05/22/2012 9:43:57 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/22/2012 9:44:28 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I thought it was a comet which exploded in the air?
The Soviet scientitsts “proved” as much.
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posted on
05/22/2012 9:58:51 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
Whatever the impactor, if this rock chunk turns out to be part of it, the mid-air explosion idea will probably win out. The Barringer Crater/Meteor Crater in Arizona is 3/4 a mile across while the impactor was a hunk of stone about 75 feet across. On impact, the impactor (as well as about the same mass of the surface of the Earth) basically vaporized, with some of it condensing in the vicinity.
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05/22/2012 10:10:24 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I thought this”meteor” changed course on the way in.
To: Citizen Tom Paine
Heh, yeah, in the book “The Fire Came By”, which purports to show that the Tunguska object was actually an extraterrestrial craft attempting to land for repairs in the most remote, unpopulated area the aliens could find, it is claimed (based on a vintage newspaper article from British India) that the bolide must have changed directions. That argument doesn’t hold up though, as much as I’d love some evidence of ET landings. :’)
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05/22/2012 10:39:33 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: null and void
Dr Ray Stantz: Are you okay?
Louis: Who are you guys?
Dr Ray Stantz: We're the Ghostbusters.
Louis: Who does your taxes?
Dr Ray Stantz: You know, Mr. Tully, you are a most fortunate individual.
Louis: I know!
Dr Ray Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1908!
Louis: Felt great.
Dr. Egon Spengler: We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue.
Louis: Okay.
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posted on
05/22/2012 11:00:42 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(FUMR)
To: null and void
I believe you are correct. Documentarian John Carpenter proved it in “The Thing”, based partly on a true story.
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posted on
05/22/2012 1:05:44 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: null and void; SunkenCiv
Mulder, did you hear what they found at Tunguska?
To: going hot
"Or an average sized one doing warp 12, and calculating the trajectory wrong."
"Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, farm boy. Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"
To: SunkenCiv
Not to start a 9/11 conspiracy thread but I was listening on the radio the other day and some guy was going off about the plane that hit the Pentagon and how the gubmints story didn’t add up but they plane was size “x” and the sum of the parts found didn’t equal the whole.
The physics I have seen on that collision say basically the same thing about this meteor, that object “x” accelerating until it collides with immovable object and then basically disenigrates on impact.
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posted on
05/22/2012 4:55:07 PM PDT
by
shotgun
To: shotgun
:') Thanks for not hijackin' the thread. ;')
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05/22/2012 5:45:30 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: null and void
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posted on
05/24/2012 7:31:39 AM PDT
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dennisw
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