Okay, I don't know if that's spelled right, but I think it is.

Anyhow, what are different people's theories on that little bit of obscure history?

It was no meteorite. It was a super weapon created by Tesla.

It was either an object that disintegrated before hitting the ground, (leaving only the shock-wave of it's passing through the atmosphere to do damage), or a small black hole that passed through the earth. Take your pick, either work.

Well, for those that do not know the situation...

This was a site of some form of 'explosion/impact' that occured in a remoate area of siberia in the early 1900s.

http://www.galenalink.com/~pirates/explode.html
In 1908 hundreds of square miles of Siberian forest were flattened and burned by a mysterious fireball. Only now, nearly nine decades later, are we learning what really happened--and not a minute too soon a vast fireball raced through the dawn sky over Siberia, then exploded with the force of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs. The heat incinerated herds of reindeer and charred tens of thousands of evergreens across hundreds of square moles. For days, and for thousands of miles around, the sky remained bright with an eerie orange glow--as far away as western Europe people were able to read newspapers at night without a lamp. The effect was much like that of a great volcanic eruption, yet there had been no eruption. The only objective indication of the extraordinary event was a quiver on seismographs in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, indicating a moderate quake some 1,000 miles north in a remote region called Tunguska.

img]http://www.galenalink.com/~pirates/treesold.jpg[/img]

The three prevailing theories (ideas) I've read have been asteroid impact, tesla experiment gone wrong (or right?!), or a small blackhole that colided with earth.

The blackhole idea was popularized in the 1970s by scientists but has since been given more scrutiny and deemed improbable/impossible.

I think more than likely it WAS an asteroid impact.

Another theory I remember hearing is that the impact was actually caused by antimatter colliding with the earth. I remember seeing that on The Discovery Channel awhile ago.

My only problem with believing that it was an astoid/meteorite or anything physical for that matter, is that if it was something physical that burned up in the admosphere, wouldn't it have been too small by the time it got close enough to cause an impact like that one to have created one that size?

I'm honestly asking, I don't know the asnwer to this one...

--Zach

Zach-

Im not sure I follow what ya mean...

There have been MANY asteroid impacts on the Earth. Many LARGE craters that can be seen are rememanents of this.

Yearly, I think 5-10 KNOWN impacts occur (but are small, like a 1 meter or smaller scale after passing through the astmosphere.

I think, IF this was an impact, they placed its entering size at 1/4km, or 250 meters.

That has sufficient size/mass to still be hundreds of meters in size before impact.

It was no meteorite. It was a super weapon created by Tesla.
I like that idea too. Tesla was was either a time traveler or an alien.

There was something on Tunguska in New Scientist a while ago, but I can't quite remember what it said. Have to dig it up.


Dan

(Help! The black oil's crawling up my leg! Scully!)

Originally posted by Manu
Well, for those that do not know the situation...

This was a site of some form of 'explosion/impact' that occured in a remoate area of siberia in the early 1900s.

http://www.galenalink.com/~pirates/explode.html


img]http://www.galenalink.com/~pirates/treesold.jpg[/img]

The three prevailing theories (ideas) I've read have been asteroid impact, tesla experiment gone wrong (or right?!), or a small blackhole that colided with earth.

The blackhole idea was popularized in the 1970s by scientists but has since been given more scrutiny and deemed improbable/impossible.

I think more than likely it WAS an asteroid impact.


I've never heard that one about it being a Black Hole and I don't buy it one bit. I think we'd all just be a distant memory if that was true.. Interesting though..

Originally posted by Dilbert
I like that idea too. Tesla was was either a time traveler or an alien.
LOL! An alien definately.


Taken from an earlier thread:
http://www.discussanything.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=90810 #post90810

A conspiracy buddy of mine gave me some info on that. It says that Tesla was working on a rough form of a particle accelerator (or in some other circles a revolutionary wireless trasmission device) and due to the inadequacies of its containment, and lack of testing, he had a "death ray" on his hands. (From this point on, history can prove this) It goes on to say that the ray, on a weak setting, was to contact Robert Peary, who was exploring the arctic at the time. The mutually agreed date was the evening of June 30. When there was no contact by Peary, Tesla announced that the machine was a failure and fully dismantled it. (Up to this point, all of this is accurate.) Also on June 30 the Tunguska incident took place.

Some believe that Tesla overshot his target. Tesla never commented on it, and later died with that secret.

I, personally, haven't done much reading on it, but now my curiousity is peaked.

Here are some pics:
http://www.frank.germano.com/images/Wyclf.gif
http://www.frank.germano.com/images/1testpth.gif

Originally posted by Corporate Avenger



I've never heard that one about it being a Black Hole and I don't buy it one bit. I think we'd all just be a distant memory if that was true.. Interesting though..

On this a agree with CA.

Even if this was a tiny quantum singularity, I would think that the atmosphereic trauma it caused on the way in would have seriously disrupted the whole planet, even before it 'extinguished' itself.

Originally posted by Redfield
It was no meteorite. It was a super weapon created by Tesla.

How I miss Extraordinary Science magazine!!

Kind of crossed my eyes with all the techspeak (and me incredibly right-brained, as it were!), but absolutely fascinating stuff. (Angels don't play no HAARP!!)

Your tinfoil buddy,
Blossom
Former member of the Tesla Society

Originally posted by Blossom
How I miss Extraordinary Science magazine!!

Kind of crossed my eyes with all the techspeak (and me incredibly right-brained, as it were!), but absolutely fascinating stuff. (Angels don't play no HAARP!!)

Your tinfoil buddy,
Blossom
Former member of the Tesla Society
You are the subject of my new sig. :) You rock.


I know, I know, :topic:

Originally posted by Redfield

You are the subject of my new sig. :) You rock.


I know, I know, :topic:

:D Thank you kindly, errrr...sir?

(I was watching one of those home shopping channels...selling some really funky stuff...they had a chunk of what they stated was the "Tunguska meteorite"!! HMMMMM...)

Your esoteric buddy,
Blossom