The real-life Tunguska Event

[Ultimate Houde]

SCIENCE! rules, if we didn't find the crater it was because of other awesonely cool stuff that we were finding in that area

 

[Entropy]

SCIENCE! rules, if we didn't find the crater it was because of other awesonely cool stuff that we were finding in that area

Like all those bottles of vodka you brought along to brace against the cold, and the marionette show you perform using cossack skeletons?

 

[Zombipanda]

So, I've decided that the Tunguska Event is too oversaturated in fiction.

I need to find a new real life Event to exploit.

 

[ProjectX2]

Heh... this thread came up because I wanted to find Zombipanda and Entropy's Pynchon discussion. Someone go talk about him in the book forum and give me some information and recommendations.

 

[Zombipanda]

Heh... this thread came up because I wanted to find Zombipanda and Entropy's Pynchon discussion. Someone go talk about him in the book forum and give me some information and recommendations.

And I was looking at what people were looking at online and piggy-backed here before you could respond. All I've got to say to you is, Vineland.

 

[E]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090702-tunguska-shuttle-comet.html

Space shuttles blasting off from Earth may have helped solve the mystery of what came careening down from space to explode over Russia in June 1908.

The so-called Tunguska event leveled 770 square miles (2,000 square kilometers) of forest in a remote area of Siberia.

What caused the blast has puzzled scientists, because only a handful of people saw the explosion and it left no easily recognizable debris.

(Related: "Crater From 1908 Russian Space Impact Found, Team Says.")

The leading theory has been a mid-air explosion of either a rocky meteor or an icy comet that rocked the region with the force of several hundred atomic bombs.

Now studies of so-called night-shining clouds sometimes linked to space shuttle launches suggest that it was, in fact, a comet that caused Tunguska.

Kind of anti-climactic...

 

[Grocer Man]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090702-tunguska-shuttle-comet.html



Kind of anti-climactic...

Eh. At least it's not Cthulu or some malevolent creature from beyond the stars.

 

[J. Agamemnon]

Eh. At least it's not Cthulu or some malevolent creature from beyond the stars.

Who's to say it wouldn't have blown up causing the accident?

 

[moonmaster]

Who's to say it wouldn't have blown up causing the accident?

 

[ProjectX2]

"Once you're black, you can never go back!"

Except for Michael Jackson... :?

Uncanny.

 

[J. Agamemnon]

perfect.