Comments on: Space Shuttle Exhaust Provides Clues to the Mysterious Tunguska Event

By: Limo Hire

Limo Hire — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:40:28 +0000

Great read!

By: Sturle

Sturle — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:15:19 +0000

Re item 2 and 6: In the beautiful metric system 1 ton equals the mass of 1 m^3 of water (at 25 C, etc). 300 tons of water equals 300 m^3 of water. Knowing this makes your calculations a lot simpler. 1l = 1dm^3 = 1kg water.

By: Eliza Strickland

Eliza Strickland — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:19:05 +0000

Thanks for the catch, Richard, I’ve fixed that typo.

By: Richard Woods

Richard Woods — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:29:11 +0000

At end of second paragraph, “In an usual twist …” was probably intended to be “In an unusual twist …”

By: Chubbee

Chubbee — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:06:50 +0000

It was a methane explosion caused by release of the gas from melting permefrost.
No, really.. I’ve recreated this phenomena right here in my own home!
All you need is a match and some good chili.

By: Larry C

Larry C — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:42:04 +0000

i thought of the possibility that it was a mini-black hole that evaporated right above it…. but ahh.. a comet core sounds pretty reasonable.

By: denis alan de Shon

denis alan de Shon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:15:21 +0000

What must these guys have been smoking.

The icy core of a meteor exploding in the atmosphere indeed.

How does that explain the trees down pattern?

My vote is with Steve.

Regards,

Maj Den

By: Dennis the Mad Scientist

Dennis the Mad Scientist — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:36:26 +0000

re: Item 2, above- A different Dennis figures that 300 (US) tons times 2,000 (US) lb/ton equals 600,000 (US) lb. Water weighs 8.32487 lb/gal (US). 600,000 divided by 8.32487 equals 72,073.2 (US) gal. A 20 ft. by 40 ft. pool (3 ft. to 8 ft. deep) holds about 32,000 (US) gal. Therefore, one would fill about 2.25 real (US) swimming pools. Must have been the ‘metric tons’ that made it off by a factor of “40.8″ (US).

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:21:16 +0000

Every time I see new theories or evidence on the Tunguska-event, I am perplexed that N. Tesla is never brought up in the scientific community. We know he was working on a death ray. We know that the power went out in Colorado and we know that he was trying to demonstrate that power over the North Pole. Tesla is vilified by most because of Edison’s rewriting of history but his death ray has to be taken into the conversation. Behind Max Planck and Albert Einstein, he is the third smartest person from that era! It was Tesla look into it.

By: Andrei Ol'khovatov

Andrei Ol'khovatov — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:06:26 +0000

I can add to the post by ‘limo’ that in reality according to a British astronomer report from UK some brightening of the night sky took place already on the night June 29-30! Moreover there was unusual strong skyglow in Antarctic about 7 hours BEFORE Tunguska!
More at: http://olkhov.narod.ru/tunguska.htm

By: limo

limo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:20:00 +0000

Critics of the comet theory say that ice crystal clouds that formed over Siberia couldn’t travel all the way to London by the next night, when the bright clouds were first sighted.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:44:33 +0000

Assuming metric tons, that’s 6.69 m^3 of water, which for us Americans is 1767 gallons (about half the volume of a small above-ground swimming pool).

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:09:23 +0000

In The Cosmos: Episode 4, didn’t Carl Sagan predict it was an icy core because there was nothing left after contact? Next they’ll prove that floaters and sinkers are real, too. The man was pure genius.