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	<title>Comments on: Aliens saved Tunguska!</title>
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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: Patimus</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/29/aliens-saved-tunguska/comment-page-2/#comment-191548</link>
		<dc:creator>Patimus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Vlarek told me he wasn&#039;t gonna allow the thing to hit earth.  If Vlarek says it, it must be true.  I&#039;ll take Vlarek&#039;s word, science has nothing on aliens.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vlarek told me he wasn&#8217;t gonna allow the thing to hit earth.  If Vlarek says it, it must be true.  I&#8217;ll take Vlarek&#8217;s word, science has nothing on aliens.</p>
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		<title>By: Greg in Austin</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/29/aliens-saved-tunguska/comment-page-2/#comment-190257</link>
		<dc:creator>Greg in Austin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Damon said,

&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;I take it you have photo/video evidence of the meteor exploding above Tungusksa, Phil?&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

There is photo evidence of the after effects and physical evidence to this day that an explosion did occur. And there have been many calculations and simulations made that would explain how an asteroid entering our atmosphere (an event that has been repeatedly recorded and measured) could cause such an explosion.

If you don&#039;t think it was a meteor, then please provide the evidence you have that would explain it.

Oh, and since Phil&#039;s post was filed under &quot;humor,&quot; please feel free to get a sense of one.

8)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damon said,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I take it you have photo/video evidence of the meteor exploding above Tungusksa, Phil?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>There is photo evidence of the after effects and physical evidence to this day that an explosion did occur. And there have been many calculations and simulations made that would explain how an asteroid entering our atmosphere (an event that has been repeatedly recorded and measured) could cause such an explosion.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t think it was a meteor, then please provide the evidence you have that would explain it.</p>
<p>Oh, and since Phil&#8217;s post was filed under &#8220;humor,&#8221; please feel free to get a sense of one.</p>
<p> <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Brian</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/29/aliens-saved-tunguska/comment-page-2/#comment-187833</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I for one welcome our self-terminating alien overlords!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I for one welcome our self-terminating alien overlords!</p>
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		<title>By: Damon</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/29/aliens-saved-tunguska/comment-page-2/#comment-187830</link>
		<dc:creator>Damon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I take it you have photo/video evidence of the meteor exploding above Tungusksa, Phil?

No?

I rest my case. Feel free to drop the smarmy attitude.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I take it you have photo/video evidence of the meteor exploding above Tungusksa, Phil?</p>
<p>No?</p>
<p>I rest my case. Feel free to drop the smarmy attitude.</p>
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		<title>By: JB of Brisbane</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/29/aliens-saved-tunguska/comment-page-2/#comment-187647</link>
		<dc:creator>JB of Brisbane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now that you mention it, the piece in the Reader&#039;s Digest was a condensation of &quot;The Fire Came By&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that you mention it, the piece in the Reader&#8217;s Digest was a condensation of &#8220;The Fire Came By&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Jon Lester</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/29/aliens-saved-tunguska/comment-page-2/#comment-187614</link>
		<dc:creator>Jon Lester</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John Paradox @67: I had that book, too, in the course of the many years I spent familiarizing myself with all the major UFO literature and reporting. The spacecraft hypothesis always seemed much less plausible than a simple comet impact, and the book didn&#039;t even propose a very good scenario for how any possible star drive would yield a thermonuclear explosion in the event of a crash. That ship never would have gotten past OSHA!

As for this new deliberate collision idea: if the visitors commanded the energies needed to get all the way here, couldn&#039;t they accelerate something besides their own craft at the object?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John Paradox @67: I had that book, too, in the course of the many years I spent familiarizing myself with all the major UFO literature and reporting. The spacecraft hypothesis always seemed much less plausible than a simple comet impact, and the book didn&#8217;t even propose a very good scenario for how any possible star drive would yield a thermonuclear explosion in the event of a crash. That ship never would have gotten past OSHA!</p>
<p>As for this new deliberate collision idea: if the visitors commanded the energies needed to get all the way here, couldn&#8217;t they accelerate something besides their own craft at the object?</p>
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		<title>By: John Paradox</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Paradox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@JB of Brisbane:

I recall reading (in my callous youth) a book, I believe it was THE FIRE CAME BY, about the same claims.  It was one of the many things that drove me to skepticism.

J/P=?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@JB of Brisbane:</p>
<p>I recall reading (in my callous youth) a book, I believe it was THE FIRE CAME BY, about the same claims.  It was one of the many things that drove me to skepticism.</p>
<p>J/P=?</p>
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