Tunguska: When the Sky Fell to Earth
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Published 2019-09-23
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Host - Simon Whistler
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All Comments (21)
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Have you checked out my latest channel Business Blaze? It's interesting business stories with a dose of ridiculousness thrown in. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/channel/UCYY5GWf7MHFJ6DZeHreoXgw
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This guy is on so many different channels he's essentially the last vestige of the British Empire
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Theory: Aliens declared war on spruce trees.
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The craziest and EXTREMELY fortunate aspect of this is that it happened in such a remote area versus a much more populated area.
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The fact that humans have been keeping records for a couple thousand years and there hasn't been a single meteor impact in a populated area still astounds me to this day
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"Nothing paranormal happened at Tunguska" "There is no war in Ba Sing Se"
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In russia space explore you
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I did a report on this for my high school astronomy class. I found it both fascinating and scary when you think that an event like this could happen at any time, anywhere in the world.
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I love the idea of Tesla cocking around with his tower and a chunk of Russia just flattens in the background
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It's a bloody good job this didn't happen in the atomic age.
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17:50 "What if this tragedy caused people to set aside their differences and work together for the common good of humanity? Well that's enough science fiction for now."
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Simon touched on something very important for those of us who first heard about this in the 1970s: the air of mystery, invoking anti-matter, mini black holes, aliens. All due to the secrecy of the Soviet Union, which I'd never considered in this specific case until now.
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Here for some lore into the FGO Tunguska event
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When I was a teenager my theory was that the strange blast was Rasputin arriving in this plane of existence...
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fun fact: at ground zero for the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, the building that is now a memorial, withstood the air blast when the bomb detonated above it. This is due to the direction of the force exerted on the building, traveling straight down its supports (so vertically). However outside that central radius of ground zero, the force applied to those buildings were more diagonal or even perpendicular to the supports. Those buildings had practically no chance of withstanding the sweeping blast.
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One of my first introductions to the Tunguska event had the reports of the fireball making a turn and crashed . This was in part suggested as an alien craft. Move forward to the meteorite that was filmed in Russia we saw that the meteorite was coming toward the camera and seemed to turn to the left and exploded. It was perspective due a fast moving object coming toward the viewer but it was always approaching at at oblique angle. When can be assured this is what saw in Tunguska.
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My great-grandmother was a little girl in 1908 and was working in her mother's garden about 200 km away when this happened. She saw it go past, then she saw the explosion, then the blast wave went by.
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The thought of "Tesla doing an oopsie" has got to be one of the most terrifying prospects ever.
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gigantic explosion that can't be explained happens Some Russian: oy blyat
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One fun thing about the Chelyabinsk incident is that we knew about a different asteroid that would pass very close to the Earth that day. The asteroid 367943 Duende was known since Feb. 2012. It passed at a distance of 27700 km at 19:25 UT, about 16 hours after the bolide at Chelyabinsk.
