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The Tunguska Event

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Friday, 25th November 2005

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This orange crescent shaped blur is ground zero of the Tunguska Event. Way out in the Tunguska region of Russia it is where the Tunguska meteor impact is said to have taken place on the morning of June 30th 1908. The size of the blast was estimated to be 10-15 megatons. It felled an estimated 60 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers, that’s a lot of trees. Of course, there are various other tin-foil-hat theories out there as to the cause of the explosion. Some of my favourites are:

  • A black hole
  • An anti-matter explosion (like in star trek)
  • A UFO crash
  • The result of an experiment by Nikola Tesla, on the other side of the world in New York.

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Thanks: Matt, morinox, Tesla_HV, Timo V Tikansalo & Rob

3 Responses to 'The Tunguska Event'

  1. 1. Pierre says:

    Based on the 2150 sq. km affected area and assuming a circular pattern, that equates to a radius of 67 km!! To see this entire area you need to zoom out to the following:

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  2. 2. Enki says:

    Good Stuff, man -it´s very difficult to find s.th. about tunguska, when i need satellite-photos. The best report I`ve ever read about stands in the Australian Magzine NEXUS (now also in german, the first edition in Nov/Dec.2005.)
    If its true, the asteroid was defeated by hidden ancient defense-plasmacanons in the woods around the middlepoint of the explosion, built by an civilization older than the great flood…
    I recommend to search further for earthtomographic insights…
    Greetings from Germany,
    Enki

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