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- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -3/+24Buried as inaccurate. No one reputable is "puzzled" by this blast. Just UFO nutters and the 20th century version of "truthers."
FTA "But the generally agreed upon theory is that on the morning of June 30, 1908, a large space rock, about 120 feet across, entered the atmosphere of Siberia and then detonated in the sky."
QED - bosssmiley, on 07/02/2008, -3/+20There is only one possible answer: Chuck Norriski was in Tunguska that day.
- brjohnson789, on 07/02/2008, -5/+16Call me crazy (or bury my comment) but how often do meteorites totally explode in the air and leave absolutely no crater and no debris? I could see tiny metorietes exploding in the air, but this was clearly a massive piece of rock for the explosion to be this big.
The conspiracy theorist in me prefers the possibility it was Tesla. He claimed he coudl do something like this, and was building the machine to try, and bragged to friends it was almost ready to go. A few days later this explosion happens. - irishjays, on 07/02/2008, -1/+10That pesky Odgy, always tearing up my lawn, stealing my dogs, drinking from the hose
- Nath4n, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9"But the harsh conditions of the Siberian outback thwarted his team's attempt to reach the area of the blast. In 1927, a new expedition, again lead by Kulik, reached its goal."
- sockpuppets, on 07/03/2008, -1/+9Gillette Quattro says aliens.
- DeskFlyer, on 07/02/2008, -2/+10Uh.... the general consensus is that it was a large meteor that blew up in the sky, which the above linked article even mentions itself. Nothing really to be puzzled about here folks... for a more technical analysis of the event, go here:
http://web.utk.edu/%7Ecomet/papers/nature/TUNGUSKA ... - NecroSexy, on 07/03/2008, -0/+8y hello thar friction
- UGM2099, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7"If you want to start a conversation with anyone in the asteroid business all you have to say is Tunguska"
Finally! I've been bombing at asteroid speed dating for years. - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -1/+7Stop coming to Digg to try to find 12 year olds.
- MistrBrownstone, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5Ray: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909
Lewis: It felt great...
Egon: We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue.
Lewis: Ok.... - sgiffy, on 07/03/2008, -2/+7The problem is that what Tesla claimed to be able to do is impossible.
As for exploding in air, as far as I understand it, its sort of like doing a belly flop. The speed of the object is so immense that it compresses the air in front of it until the pressure is so much that it essentially runs into the air. - djcreamy, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5Okham's Razor says meteorite.
- hapax, on 07/03/2008, -1/+6Somebody set up us the bombski
- dracostimpy, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5Buried for crazy, then unburied and dugg up since they ARE out to get us (but Tesla wasn't in on it).
- sgiffy, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4You might want to read up a bit on what exactly color is...
- Caleb83, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4here's how I understand things: The meteor was a given density, going a given velocity (which was quite substantial, on both accounts). Once it began entering Earth's atmosphere, it began to slow down. But it wasn't slowing fast enough, and it met the lower atmosphere with incredible resistance. It, in a single moment, halted and exploded once it hit the denser lower atmosphere. It's equivalent of jumping off a bridge, and hitting the surface of the water, more or less.
If this was explained in the article, bury me, I didn't read it. I've read so many articles on Tunguska I could write a book. - wisam, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Even if it's not "puzzling" it's still amazing.
- PabloMac, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3From elsewhere:
"In its 1966 edition, the Guinness Book of Records concluded that, based on the Earth's rotation, had the Tunguska meteorite struck 4 hours, 47 minutes later, it would have obliterated St. Petersburg, then the capital of imperial Russia. Given the events that would shortly torment that nation -- and all of Europe -- for the better part of the 20th century, one is left to wonder how history might have changed in those circumstances." - FishHammer, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4wow, that was really really unfunny
- kewidogg, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3They speak of reindeer...obviously this is the result of some untimely and unfortunate Santa workshop explosion. He promptly moved to the north pole, and left no trace.
- mdoverkill, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Actually one of the more interesting theories that I read about was a microscopic black hole passing 'through' the earth. It may not be correct but it is just so much cooler than a meteorite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event#Black_ ... - Solidus3, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Just research HAARP anywhere and you'll learn that not everything Tesla claimed to do was impossible.
- sgiffy, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2I think the puzzle is what exactly hit us. Was it mostly ice, iron, what? Also I think some of the physics behind why it detonated in the sky and the effect that had are still be explored.
But yah, the ones who seem most obsessed are the nutters. - robbh66, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Yes...in 1908- or even 1930 when they were sending expeditions there, they knew EXACTLY what to look for when it came to meteorite detonations.
- Notsafetoeat, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Hello there, Carlos Mencia.
- Sarsin, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Dug for Ghostbusters! XD
- skunkworker, on 07/03/2008, -1/+3how would a rock of that size have slipped by all of the astronomers?
Tesla personally blamed himself for causing the explosion, because he was experimenting with a "wireless transmission" machine and trying to transmit a message to Fredrick Cook, an explorer at the north pole and overshot his target, on June 30th 1908 which is exactly when the Tunguska Event occurred. - MikeFallopian, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2It was those damn bugs from Klendathu again.
- FlaNative, on 07/03/2008, -1/+2Tesla also perfectly described the Hydrogen atom in his notes.
My personal belief is he accidentally created a form of remote fusion with no bomb. - ZombieInvasion, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1"Would you like to know more?"
- SpinningHead, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1There's a newer hypothesis too:
"In June of 2007 it was announced that scientists from the University of Bologna had identified a lake in the Tunguska region as a possible impact crater from the event. Lake Cheko is a small bowl shaped lake approximately 8 kilometres north-north-west of the hypocenter." - Synova, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1This theory is so much better though:
“Perhaps the earliest widely-held theory for the Tunguska explosion was that the world was about to end. As the minutes passed, this theory was dropped in favor of other, less final theories, until today one is hard-pressed to find anyone who truly believes the world ended on the morning of 30 June 1908...”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event#cite_r ... - TruthTeller50, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0Who is Carlos Mencia? And who is Notsafetoeat?
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -2/+2SPINNING ROUNDHOUSE KICK!!! SF2 STYLE!!!
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -3/+3I won't be impressed with anything from space unless it's a color that's entirely different from any color i've seen.
- GRTWHT, on 07/02/2008, -5/+5And this "large space rock" was entirely vaporized, leaving no trace behind?
This is why reputable scientists are still "puzzled" and continue to investigate the site and search for traces. - EntreLangdon, on 07/03/2008, -1/+0totally an alien ship
- macinit1138, on 07/03/2008, -2/+1I can't help but not care that they still don't know what it was. Call us when you do know.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -2/+1Want a digg?
Yes! Have some! - nraphael, on 07/03/2008, -2/+1YAWN. 12 years old?
- aserer511, on 07/03/2008, -3/+2Chuck Norris farted
- TruthTeller50, on 07/02/2008, -6/+5Wrong. It was an massive attack by Etchisketchistan. Look it up.
- gryphon50, on 07/03/2008, -4/+1tinfoil hat time!
- gerrylazlo, on 07/03/2008, -5/+1Stuff gonna 'splode.
- SuperSneaks, on 07/03/2008, -5/+1It was a Templar experiment.
- lostsymphonies1, on 07/03/2008, -7/+2"While the impact occurred in '08, the first scientific expedition to the area would have to wait for 19 years. In 1921, Leonid Kulik, the chief curator for the meteorite collection of the St. Petersburg museum led an expedition to Tunguska."
someone did their math wrong - suntzusputnik, on 07/03/2008, -6/+1chuck norris farted
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