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Belinda Pearce
Sergeant
Username: Belinda
Post Number: 41
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 10:48 pm: | 
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What really happened here
http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Cockpit/3240/
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Stanley D. Reid
Inspector
Username: Sreid
Post Number: 261
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 15, 2005 - 6:19 pm: |
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What do you think Belinda, a mid-air collision between two UFOs, a natural nuclear explosion, a mini black hole or Nikola Tesla doing another one of his crazy experiments?
Goodies,
Stan |
Jeffrey Bloomfied
Chief Inspector
Username: Mayerling
Post Number: 797
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 15, 2005 - 7:37 pm: |
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Hi Belinda,
I personally like the idea of Tesla doing an experiment, writing up his findings, and the Federal government impounding the results with his other papers in 1943. However, the old idea of a meteorite or of some mini black hole will do in a pinch.
The only book on Tungusta I read was by Rupert Furneaux.
Do you realize that if, whatever it was, it had gone a few thousand miles west - Europe would have been flattened! It probably would have prevented World War I, because there would have been few European states left to fight it.
Best wishes,
Jeff |
Helge Samuelsen
Inspector
Username: Helge
Post Number: 317
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 3:18 pm: |
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Hi all,
An Italian expedition found in 1991 microspherules from the explosion in treetrunks. The chemical composition seems to corroborate the meteorite theory.
http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/impact/index.html
Thus we most likely have an airbursting bolide on our hands.
And, true, the devastation was extreme, about 2150 square kilometres were affected! Now this is a far cry from a "Europe kiler". UK alone has about a total of 244100 square kilometres, and we see the explosion would only affect less than 1\100th of that. Still, hitting say, London... Well, you all get the point.
The explosion was perhaps as powerful as a 20 megaton hydrogen bomb.
But it gets even worse... seems like stuff like this is hitting us all the time, albeit usually on a smaller scale. In 1994 the US Department of Defense made of public domain its records on energetic bolides over a time span of about twenty years. These data indicate that, from 1975 to 1992, there were 136 airbursts of energy greater than 1 kton (Hiroshima bomb was a little over 20 kton), but the real number was probably at least 10 times higher, because the satellite system does not cover the entire Earth surface.
So, all this time we have been playing russian roulette, and we don't even know it!
Helge
"If Spock were here, he'd say that I was an irrational, illlogical human being for going on a mission like this... Sounds like fun!" -- (Kirk - Generations)
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Stanley D. Reid
Inspector
Username: Sreid
Post Number: 423
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 8:13 pm: |
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Hello all,
This object was estimated to be between 100 and 160 feet in diameter. The scientists can't seem to agree if that makes it a small asteriod or not.
Stan |
Eddie Derrico
Sergeant
Username: Eddie
Post Number: 16
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 11:11 pm: |
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I'm trying to find the website about the animals living in that area before the explosion. Russian scientists said that all the animals left the region 2 months before this happened.
Yours Truly,
Eddie |
Stanley D. Reid
Chief Inspector
Username: Sreid
Post Number: 685
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 7:32 pm: |
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Hi all,
There's an 83 minute documentary about this event that came out this year entitled The Tunguska Project. Has anyone seen it?
Stan |
Dan L. Hollifield
Detective Sergeant
Username: Vila
Post Number: 77
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 11:13 pm: |
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Not seen it yet. I'd like to, though. I studied up on Tunguska for my last novel. I'd like to see what current wisdom has changed since my research materials came out.
Vila
"Extremely difficult. Virtually impossible... However, it should only take me ten minutes or so."
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