Tunguska, Siberia - Russian scientists claim discovery of alien spaceship

AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | August 11, 2004

[RadioAstronomer]

It is one of this planet's great mysteries.

Take a look at post #31

[garjog]

"The explosion was so massive that it caused damage 400 miles away, and was heard even further."

The Bush administration is behind this event. Newly released data by the Freedom of Information Act shows that Government scientists have built a time machine.

Bush used it to hit the Russians with secret WMD in 1908 and effect their time line in our favor and to destroy the environment by killing a whole bunch of trees. Bush hates trees.

[jeffo]

Do you get joy out of stifling people's imagination?

[mhx]

Bush used it to hit the Russians with secret WMD in 1908 and effect their time line in our favor and to destroy the environment by killing a whole bunch of trees. Bush hates trees.

As well he should. Everyone knows trees give off pollution!

[Conservative4Life]

PING

[RadioAstronomer]

Do you get joy out of stifling people's imagination?

True story. When I was "flying" the Magellan spacecraft to Venus, I had a librarian in a public library get upset with me after she found out what I was doing for a living. She said, "All of you scientists have wrecked my enjoyment of reading SiFi involving the planet Venus". She so wanted it to be a watery swamp with astounding creatures; she truly wished we had never explored that world in reality.

You may want to live in a fantasy world, however; IMHO, there is enough exciting real stuff out there to spark anyone's imagination and wonder.

[sphinx]

If the Russians found alien artifacts, they'd be on ebay ....

[PatrickHenry]

I had a librarian in a public library get upset with me after she found out what I was doing for a living.

I certainly hope you slapped her around, and then had your way with her, ideally right on top of her card catalog cabinet. The only librarian who was ever any good is Laura Bush.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

We should know if the spaceship (Or what's left of it) is still active when Michael Jackson, Al Gore, Howard Dean, and Richard Simmons all feel a strange yearning to go to Siberia.

Dumb aliens, why didn't they just eject the warp core like they were supposed to?

[Caipirabob]

Were there aliens? How long before the rats organize them into an oppressed minority constituency? How long before they blame Bush for disenfranchising them for all these years?

[Rockingham]

This story is part of a larger trend in the Russian press toward Weekly World type stories. The cause of the trend is Russia's diminishing press freedom and the country's increasing criminality, brutality, and corruption.

If a journalist writes on sensitive subjects, they are liable to being fired, beaten, jailed, or killed. But journalists must report news of some sort, so they pursue or invent stories about aliens, ghosts, psychic phenomena, and other mysterious objects and events.

Those kinds of stories are entertaining in themselves and appeal to the Russian public's sense of their country as beset by odd and menacing occurrences that defy good sense and cannot be resolved. Similarly, Russia's current hit film is a dark and atmospheric science fiction story, with a series of follow on films underway. Weimar Russia is forming before our eyes.

[Doctor Stochastic]

There's always Marian the Librarian. (If you're into Music, Man.)

[BlueLancer]

"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."

Part of the ship's ballast?

[RightWingAtheist]

One of the reasons I love reading science fiction and fantasy is not that they are realistic, but that they are not real, and that they are a testament to the almost limitless boundaries of human imagination. When we start taking our fantasies of aliens, monsters, ghosts and what not literaly, we are only cheapening our imaginations.

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.

[RightWingAtheist]

[randog]

LOL!!

[bitt]

got some books for you to read...by allen appel. Historical fiction/time machine/great stuff. 4 of them; Mark Twain and the Missippi River, the Russian Revolution, the Civil War, and Pearl Harbor,WWII. I can tell you like that stuff.

[edwin hubble]

"It doesn't matter, it happened in 1908."

The timing of this is very suspicious.

[edwin hubble]

"You may want to live in a fantasy world, however; IMHO, there is enough exciting real stuff out there to spark anyone's imagination and wonder."

...and in the end it is always "stranger than we can imagine".

[colorado tanker]

Cigarette Smoking Man knows what happened.

The truth is out there.