Posted on 08/11/2004 8:31:43 PM PDT by HAL9000
Discovered remains of an extraterrestrial vessel in Siberia (scientists)
Russian scientists affirmed to have discovered the remains of an extraterrestrial spaceship fallen in 1908 on the site from Toungouska, in Siberia, brings back Wednesday evening the Russian agency Interfax.
The scientists, who belong to the Fund of the space phenomenon of Toungouska, also on the spot found a stone of 50 kg which they sent for analysis to Krasnoyarsk, town of Siberia.
The cataclysm of Toungouska, which has occurred in a desert area of Siberia, constitutes one of the greatest scientific mysteries of the 20th century.
June 30, 1908, which could have been a meteorite exploded with a few kilometers of the Toungouska river, causing a shock wave perceived to hundreds of kilometers to the round and devastating 2.000 km2 of Siberian forest.
But the exact nature of the body which exploded and its origin remain a mystery.
Bump for later reading.
HO HO!
LOL.
I had forgoteen that you were the B.S. expert!
One of the claims made in that book was that only a nuclear event could produce the ratio of radiant to mechanical energy produced by the Tunguska explosion - that chemical or mechanical processes are incapable of producing that much radiated energy vs. mechanical energy.
I am with you completely. SiFi is what "pushed" me into the space program to begin with. :-)
When we start taking our fantasies of aliens, monsters, ghosts and what not literaly, we are only cheapening our imaginations.
Very well said!
My major appeal for science fiction is that it is based in what Hal Clement called "the disciplined imagination", a mindset based firmly in reason and known fact, and tries to stay in those boundaries-yet still manages to provide the basis for acts of stunning mental creativity. This mindset, of course, is also what leads us to do science as well.
Some people think scientists have no imagination or wonder. However I agree with you on this. I think it is the imagination and wonder that gives them the drive to become scientists.
Oh indeed it is! :-)
I agree with you completely. :o) I've been finding out that imagination and creativity, as long as it is "restrained" by a solid education in the sciences to keep ideas within the realms of possibility, is possibly quite the most valuable trait to have at work. :o)
And he said, "Take me to be your leader."
Spaceship Ruthie is on her way to Moscow to validate the find.
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