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Tunguska Event

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[Dr. Sivana]

I thought Nikolai Tesla was blamed for that.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I remember The Ghostbusters talked of this...

[Red Badger]

First Time Machine experimental prototype trial run.
Catastrophic destruction of unit and pilot.......................

[Bringbackthedraft]

A huge gas bubble ignited by lightning?

[JRandomFreeper]

Turns out that a meteor doesn't have to actually hit the ground to cause lots of damage. And airburst of a meteor can cause that damage without leaving a crater.

Turns out that airbursts are much more common than previous suspected. The recent Russian meteor did lots of damage (broken windows, collapsing weak structures) without leaving a big crater.

/johnny

[BilLies]

It is strictly a Noory’s Coast to Coast AM topic, also know as
George Noory’s Wacko to Wacko AM.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Tunguska,&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS523US523&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=qpuxU7bsBIWOqAaix4Bg&ved=0CDYQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=585
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

[tumblindice]

It could be seen from space.

[Larry381]

Bush’s fault © ™ ®

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

In fact, at the epicenter of the explosion was a grove of untouched, fully grown trees. Surrounding that tiny grove was around 800 square miles of leveled trees

A huge ball of ice plummets through the atmosphere. The side closest to earth sees the most intense friction. The underside heats up to the point where ice transforms from solid to gas in nearly an instant and finally explodes. Intuition says that the side closest to earth is the hottest where the top is much cooler. Upon exploding the blast would have pushed away from the hot side. The cool side would have resisted and pushed the blast downward like a shaped charge.

We must take into account that upward air pressure resisting the fall would have resisted the downward blast pushing the blast away from the sides where the pressure of the slip stream is minimal. This would have tended to redirect the explosion radially. How much, I don't know.

Trees at the epicenter would have felt a downward pressure whereas the trees to the side would have felt a lateral pressure. I would have guessed that the trees at the epicenter would have been stripped of their branches.

I'm not fully satisfied with the ice ball theory. I'm not a believer in the spaceship theory. Any intelligence that can cross the galaxy should have better quality control against failure. The UFO guys have too many alien crashes for my taste to be believable.

I'm going for a natural event. One that can explode radially with minimal downward blast.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Fascinating. BFL

[angelsonmyside]

bump

[odawg]

Eyewitnesses, the ones who at least heard it, reported more than one explosion.

[rabidralph]

I think this was already covered on the X-Files.

[Hot Tabasco]

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