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Have scientists finally found the meteorite which set off the mysterious 1908 Tunguska catastrophe?
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| 08:49 EST, 17 May 2012
| Rob Waugh
Posted on 05/21/2012 9:32:37 PM PDT by null and void
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I liked it better as a crashing alien space ship...
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
05/21/2012 9:46:43 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: null and void
What ~Really~ crashed at Tunguska?
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posted on
05/21/2012 9:48:48 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/21/2012 9:51:26 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: null and void
A really, really large spaceship.
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posted on
05/21/2012 9:53:38 PM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: null and void
They claim to have detected a stony fragment in the lake that could be a remnant of the meteorite that caused the explosion. Wow, a rock in the bottom of a lake. Thats pretty impressive evidence. /S
Now if they recover that rock and its pure iridium that would be impressive.
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posted on
05/21/2012 9:55:20 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: null and void
Or an average sized one doing warp 12, and calculating the trajectory wrong. (just a wee bit off, mind you)
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posted on
05/21/2012 9:55:42 PM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: null and void
Seismic reflection and magnetic data revealed an anomaly close to the lake center, about 30ft below the lake floor compatible with the presence of a buried stony object and supports the impact crater origin for Lake Cheko.' Well get some dang drill pipe with a bit on the end and drill into it.
Run a core gun or hydraulics sample taker in the hole and take some samples.
Water and 30' of slush on top shouldn't be too hard to get through.
A very simple *water well* rig powered by a 20 horsepower Briggs and Stratton should be enough.
Unless it really is a ship and we all know how *The Thing* turned out :^)
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posted on
05/21/2012 10:03:14 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
To: The Cajun
Unless it really is a ship and we all know how *The Thing* turned out :^) Not anywhere as well as John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?"...
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posted on
05/21/2012 10:08:28 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1217 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
To: null and void
Not anywhere as well as John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?"... Thought they were just all about one and the same with a few little twists added or subtracted.
Never read Cambell's original.
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posted on
05/21/2012 10:22:22 PM PDT
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The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
To: The Cajun
Both The Things were based on Campbell’s short story, both have their merits, neither does the story justice.
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posted on
05/21/2012 10:38:04 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1217 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
To: null and void
The sky opening wider and wider, distinct from the “fire”? And then slamming shut? And people reading by the light in the middle of the night halfway around the world?
Uh, yeah, meteor. And, uh, dust. Yeah, that’s it.
Yep.
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posted on
05/21/2012 11:27:51 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(He who commands, must obey.)
To: null and void
I thought that the explosion was caused when Nicoli Tesla used his raygun.
To: shibumi
In AFTER the “it was aliens” dude. Geez.
To: JCBreckenridge
Seeking ubiquity equal to the infamous Helen Thomas, he is.
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posted on
05/22/2012 12:26:22 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: shibumi
I told Lt. Malax to run a level three diognostic on the warp plasma inter cooler. But noooooooooo...
To: BigCinBigD
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posted on
05/22/2012 1:03:40 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: null and void
Yeah, and now Putin will take off his shirt and, looking as manly as ever, swim down to it only to find out it's one of the Pod things from War of the Worlds and all hell will break loose... Typical Soviet KGB dude....
To: The Cajun
Democrats said so long as they don’t directionally drill into rock and frac it, go for it.
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posted on
05/22/2012 1:28:12 AM PDT
by
Sea Parrot
(I'll be a nice to you as you'll let me be, or as mean as you make me be.)
To: MacMattico
Based on old film from the first expedition to the site in the 1920’s the mosquitoes there swarm in the billions and bite like piranhas. I would love to see a video of Putin trying to show off his shirtless pecs in that area.
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posted on
05/22/2012 1:46:42 AM PDT
by
katana
(Just my opinions)
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