Posted on 10/26/2016 9:54:43 AM PDT by C19fan
Jake Tapper: Last time Cubs won the Series, the infamous "Tunguska Event" in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, had just taken place. 'member??
SMOD replies: Oh, I remember.
I don’t ‘member the “Tunguska Event” in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia. Wasssthat?
Huge explosion. Probably an asteroid blowing up re-entering. Blew apart miles of forest and had the trees all in different directions.
The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Stony Tunguska River, in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908 (N.S.). The explosion over the sparsely populated Eastern Siberian Taiga flattened 2,000 km2 (770 sq mi) of forest (it caused no known human casualties). The explosion is generally attributed to the mid-air disruption of a superbolide. It is classified as an impact event, even though no impact crater has been found; the object is thought to have disintegrated at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometres (3 to 6 miles) rather than hit the surface of the Earth.
Egon Spengler’s grandfather, doing field work there, was the sole eye witness.
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