[null and void]

I liked it better as a crashing alien space ship...

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[shibumi]

What ~Really~ crashed at Tunguska?

[going hot]

A really, really large spaceship.

[Pontiac]

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. That’s pretty impressive evidence. /S

Now if they recover that rock and its pure iridium that would be impressive.

[going hot]

Or an average sized one doing warp 12, and calculating the trajectory wrong. (just a wee bit off, mind you)

[The Cajun]

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 :^)

[Talisker]

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.

[MacMattico]

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....

[Born to Conserve]

“Have scientists finally found the meteorite which set off the mysterious 1908 Tunguska catastrophe?”

“Which” should be “that”.

[Eye of Unk]

I bet what they found will be incredibly dense, perhaps a small fragment of dark matter. A piece the size of a baseball would weigh a ton. Or more.

[submarinerswife]

The explosion sent an atmospheric shockwave twice around the world and turned night into day across Europe. Britain was lit for several days by a beautiful white and yellow sky, bright enough for midnight games of cricket and golf across the country.

This phenomenon is now thought to have been due to sunlight scattered by dust from the fireball's plume.

In a letter to a newspaper, one reader wrote: 'I myself was aroused from sleep at 1.15am, and so strong was the light at this hour, that I could read a book by it quite comfortably.

At 1.45am, the whole sky was a delicate salmon pink, and the birds began their morning song.'

It must have been an amazing sight.....far enough away from the impact zone, of course.

[COBOL2Java]

Dr Ray Stantz: Are you okay?
Louis: Who are you guys?
Dr Ray Stantz: We're the Ghostbusters.
Louis: Who does your taxes?
Dr Ray Stantz: You know, Mr. Tully, you are a most fortunate individual.
Louis: I know!
Dr Ray Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1908!
Louis: Felt great.
Dr. Egon Spengler: We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue.
Louis: Okay.

[1010RD]

I believe you are correct. Documentarian John Carpenter proved it in “The Thing”, based partly on a true story.

[colorado tanker]

Mulder, did you hear what they found at Tunguska?

[dennisw]

bttt