Posted on 06/09/2008 12:44:01 PM PDT by blam
Catastrophy Ping.
NICE .... think we could schedule one again for this year?
August 25 over Denver please.
Tunguska, a ‘cosmic things that go Bump in the night’
BumP!
Cool.. 100 years and we still don’t know exactly what happ’n..
IMO, right behind Krakatoa as the most intriguing of the latter centuries’ “natural” disasters.
BUSH’S FAULT!!
Man, you guys are slippin’......
Vote Obama '08
Tesla did it!
but...but.. I thought meteorites slamming into the earth this way ALWAYS eliminated a particular species of life on earth!
Wasn’t it something like this that killed off ALL the dinosaurs? How did we ever survive Tunguska???
He was just broadcasting energy around the world, but Edison through in a monkey wrench!
Giuseppe Longo of Bologna
Sounds like a porn star! Is that you Italian name Ron?
“Such an eruption could have injected about 10 million tons of methane into the atmosphere, a plume that if detonated would have released a forest-flattening burst of energy.”
Gaia farts. The Planet has joined “The Blue Flame Club!”
re: my #11
through should be threw! I need a break!
From a related site on Tunguska, I found this:
Repeated testimony of strange sounds before the event.
In terms of the speed of sound in Earths atmosphere, the reports of weird sounds in advance appear absurd. But they are entirely plausible as “electrophonic sounds” heard either before, or simultaneous with, the sighting of brilliant meteor fireballs up to 100km distant. Electrophonic sounds signify the direct conversion, by transduction, of very low frequency electromagnetic energy into audible sounds (through a medium that can be as simple as a gold tooth filling or a pair of glasses). Abundant reports of peculiar sounds in connection with meteors, auroras, earthquakes and even nuclear bomb tests are sufficient to substantiate the effect. The cause is most easily understood as a natural resonance of an extensive plasma discharge in the Earth’s atmosphere (or underground in the case of earthquakes). In the case of an approaching comet, the incoming body is electrified with respect to the Earth.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060203tunguska2.htm
Once, about 20 years ago, my dad, brother & I were out watching a meteor shower in the back yard. We saw a large streak go across the sky, and then explode in a shower of sparks that lit up the sky and ground. To say it was awesome is an understatement. Even though it was probably 10 miles high in the atmosphere, I could have sworn I heard a hissing sound as it went across the sky and then a “pop” as it exploded. But I knew that could not be so; the sound would need many seconds to travel that distance. This seems to provide an explanation.
Off topic: Last year, I was watching NASA TV covering the waking of the Shuttle astronauts (I believe the song was "Good Day Sunshine"). The camera from the shuttle showed the Earth coming out of darkenss, and the clouds had a strange concentric rings formation to them. I assumed that they were formed by a meteor hitting the atmoshphere, and the clouds were the ripple effect from that.
I never saw that picture again, the daily highlights for the day stopped just short of the moment when the concentric rings were visible.
-PJ
I’m using my one phone call.
So Blam - what do you believe was the cause?
I just don’t have another 100 years to wait for the final answer!
My guess was a cloud of chlorine.
I thought Tunguska was the crash site of an alien UFO.
Probably because the media printed more facts than fiction and opinion at the time.
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