Tunguska blast
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Tunguska blast
A huge explosion happened in Russia 103 years ago, before the nuclear bomb was invented. It was about 1,000 times more powerful then the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, blasted stuff 3-6 miles in the air, and nobody knows exactly why or how it happens. Cool **** IMO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
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If I recall, some of the weirdness is that given the size of the explosion, you'd expect a pretty massive meteorite, and thus a substantial crater at the epicenter. Instead, the blast pattern was more akin to a bomb detonated before actual impact (can't remember what those are called...aerial burst or something like that?), which was considered unusual for a meteorite.
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Some physicist from NW Europe (can't remember where exactly) thought it might be an explosion caused by gases pushed up from within the earth that detonated once the gases made there way to our atmosphere and where ignited by static electricity (like in a dust storm).
Not aliens.
If I recall, some of the weirdness is that given the size of the explosion, you'd expect a pretty massive meteorite, and thus a substantial crater at the epicenter. Instead, the blast pattern was more akin to a bomb detonated before actual impact (can't remember what those are called...aerial burst or something like that?), which was considered unusual for a meteorite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_burst
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All of the evidence I have seen, and what most people in the scientific community believe is indeed an air burst of a large astronomical fragment. I kind of thought Tunguska was sort of common knowledge...
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Some physicist from NW Europe (can't remember where exactly) thought it might be an explosion caused by gases pushed up from within the earth that detonated once the gases made there way to our atmosphere and where ignited by static electricity (like in a dust storm).
Not aliens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_burst
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Maybe. I'd say most countries with nuclear capabilities have the technology to figure out if a missile is coming at them or not, and assuming it was a meteoroid or comet, these things would be seen coming from space, and even though the end result looks pretty similar to a man made nuclear explosion, I'd say there would be enough of a difference in the characteristics of the blast for it to be known that it was not man made.
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