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Tunguska, on our favorite conspiracy site
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MageSteff
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 		Tunguska, on our favorite conspiracy site
http://cfrg.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11

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It fell from the sky. Most people can at least agree on that. Like a morning star fallen from the grace of God, on June 30th, 1908 something slammed into the taiga in Tunguska, Siberia, exploding with a force estimated between 10 and 40 megatons of TNT, depending on who you listen to. In so doing, it created a mystery that has stood the test of the following ten decades. ....
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I myself once postulated the fancy that a failed attempt at time travel caused the blast...the basic idea was that a time machine appearing in our time would be attempting to materialize in a location that already contained matter, and that inevitably some of the atoms of the materializing time machine would inhabit the same location as oxygen atoms or what have you, causing an explosive annihilation similar to that of a matter/anti-matter contact.


Time to dig....
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Varin
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In 1908, a 200- to 300-foot-diameter (61 to 91 meters) meteorite exploded five miles (eight kilometers) above the ground of the Tunguska region of Siberia. Trees were incinerated in a 9-mile (14.4 km) radius from ground zero and were knocked over in a 25 mile (40 km) radius. If this had occurred over a heavily populated area, the effect would have been catastrophic for the people living there


http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/craters/impact_tunguska.shtml.html
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Varin
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 		see here for a little more info on the conspiracy...

http://www.maxpages.com/roswell47/1908_June_30th_TunguskaSiberia


****EDIT****

Warning, this site is popup city, see below...
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Varin wrote:
see here for a little more info on the conspiracy...

http://www.maxpages.com/roswell47/1908_June_30th_TunguskaSiberia

Hey don't know if this happened for any other players but when I opened this link i got a BUNCH of popups that wouldn't close (they kept popping up again and again)...just a little FYI, perhaps it's just me.

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Varin
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sauceykat wrote:

Hey don't know if this happened for any other players but when I opened this link i got a BUNCH of popups that wouldn't close (they kept popping up again and again)...just a little FYI, perhaps it's just me.


Oops. Sorry Embarassed I didn't get any. If I would have known I never would've posted the site. I hate popups Evil or Very Mad

Here's the text from the site for those of you that don't like them either...

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At 7.00am on 30th June 1908 near the lower Tunguska River, Siberia, a large explosion occurred. The explosion was so massive that it caused damage 400 miles away, and was heard even further. Even the heat that came out from the explosion was felt hundreds of miles away.

For several nights all over northern Europe, the sky glowed enough to light the street of London. At first it was assumed that a massive meteorite had collided with the earth.

Given the remoteness of the area it was not until 1927 that an expedition was mounted to investigate the crash area. The expedition could not locate any bits of meteorite which puzzled them due the size that the meteorite would have to have been to create such a large explosion.

Another puzzle for the expedition was the way the tress were felled in an outward motion and that in the centre an area of trees were still standing, although all their bark and branches have been destroyed.

After the Second World War and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, photos of the cities were compared with aerial photos of the Tunguska blast, and they were stunning similar.

As a result of this various scientists speculated that a nuclear explosion had taken place over the area, hence explaining the tree formation, and because no nation possessed nuclear device the logical conclusion was that it was from an exploding alien nuclear powered craft.

Other theories started to be banded around ranging from pinpoint black holes, and antimatter particles.

Many of the witnesses to the original crash spoke of seeing and oval-shaped mass moving across the sky, as well as seeing the object change course, and of having a very low speed.

Most people today believe that what hit Tunguska was simply a meteorite, but the alien craft theory still has a lot of credibility. As with most of these cases that occurred long ago, we shall probably never know for sure.

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sauceykat
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 		Thanks Varin...that's very nice of you to post the text for us Very Happy

Sorry, I hope you don't think I was coming down on you or anything...didn't want to embarrass you, and it could have been just my computer but I was using the one in our boardroom which is hardly ever used, esp. on the internet.

Thanks again for the post!!

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As a result of this various scientists speculated that a nuclear explosion had taken place over the area, hence explaining the tree formation, and because no nation possessed nuclear device the logical conclusion was that it was from an exploding alien nuclear powered craft.


Laughing
Of course. That's the logical conclusion. What were the far-fetched ones?
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Varin
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sauceykat wrote:
Sorry, I hope you don't think I was coming down on you or anything...didn't want to embarrass you, and it could have been just my computer but I was using the one in our boardroom which is hardly ever used, esp. on the internet.


Nope, didn't think you were coming down on me. I just figure the more people that avoid pop-ups sites the better. I went to the site now and there were pop-ups this time for me too. Odd.
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Varin wrote:
sauceykat wrote:
Sorry, I hope you don't think I was coming down on you or anything...didn't want to embarrass you, and it could have been just my computer but I was using the one in our boardroom which is hardly ever used, esp. on the internet.


Nope, didn't think you were coming down on me. I just figure the more people that avoid pop-ups sites the better. I went to the site now and there were pop-ups this time for me too. Odd.


CNET.com has lots of stuff in their downloads section everything from games to Pop-up blockers. Hotmail has started flooding me whith them now that its MSN pay sites are active. Doesn't catch them all, and misses the java ones completely, but at least there is a big difference in the annoyance factor.
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