What happened in TUNGUSKA?

Question

Something happened in TUNGUSKA but no one seems to know for sure.
All will agree that there was a terrible explosion from something striking the earth. What was it?

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Answer 1

There is an urban legend that involves an inventor.
named Nikola Tesla who in 1884 invented the electric alternator.
A electric generator that produces alternating current (AC). Electricity had previously been generated using direct current (DC) from batteries. DC electrical systems were limited in the distance they could send usable power from the battery.
AC current could travel virtually unlimited distances.
The story goes that one night during an experiment with "AC powered", "AC generators" an overload sent a blast of charged particles directly into the sky. The force was so great that the charged particles travel ed high into the atmosphere where it arched and was drawn back to the earth at incredible speed.
Far out of sight of its origin the electrical charge found its ground in Tunguska.
The story reported the blast was the result of a positive electrical sine wave alternating in the atmosphere and finding ground.
In theory if the generators had keep running the charge would have bounced off the ground in Tunguska and shot back up into the sky and landed somewhere else.
What happened in Tunguska? based on the legend it was hit by a very powerful low frequency electrical sine wave.

Answer 2

"The Tunguska event...was a massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at 7:40 AM on June 30, 1908." Wikipedia

Most likely a large but relativly low density meteor exploded over the area. The people in the area reported a blue streak as bright as the sun, then a knocking sound like artilary fire, then they reported feeling a shockwave. This is consistant with a meteor impact. The main influence was the meteors composition, which was most likely a stony material, able to break apart and essentally explode itself as it was coming down thru the atmosphere. An example of a much smaller meteorite doing extensive more damage is the Barringer Meteor Crater. This small iron meteor left a hole a mile wide, thats still very visible today, 49,000 years after impact. The important difference was the Barringer meteor was made of much more dense Iron.

Answer 3

The event was unique, at least in recorded history, so every crackpot can claim that because conventional science hasn't fully explained it, his wild explanation must be the right one instead.

The traces of the event are consistent with a high-altitude airburst explosion from a large meteorite. There are various theories about what the meteorite composition, structure, and flight path must have been, for it to result in that explosion instead of an impact.

As late as 1962, the highly-respected science author Arthur C. Clarke in his book "Profiles of the Future" thought it could still have been caused by the explosion of the nuclear power plant of an alien spaceship in trouble trying to land at Lake Baikal, but he didn't say that it was more likely than a natural explanation, just that it seemed possible.

Answer 4

The Tunguska event was caused by the reentry and explosion of a meteorite.

Answer 5

A meteor which burst before striking the Earth's surface (about 3-6 miles up), with about 2 megatons in force.

Answer 6

Ahh... the conspiracy theorist author is at it again with the usual pattern.

1) Something happened, he says. That's true!

2) "People", he says, "do not agree what happened."
That's false - "people in general" do agree what happened, only he does not.

3) "They say X is the explanation..." and cites the correct explanation, but quickly adds "X can not be the explanation... so what was it"? If a logical argument of such enormous power doesn't get you, what will?

4) Usually the conspiracy theorist will then point to his books which give "the right explanation", but are really full of window putty, but nowadays he points to a his website which is just as full of window putty as the books.

Some things never change. Isn't that beautiful?

;-)

Answer 7

A comet or meteor fragment that blew up at altitude.
The main problem in determining what it was is that no one actually went there for 13 years after the event to examine the site.

Answer 8

Accidental BopGun Discharge for certain.......Oh yeah..I've seen it happen before....whole village wiped out.....yeah....Pretty ugly.
You know thats the thing about those Bop Guns, in the wrong hands they could become a weapon of mass distruction.
I understand only three functioning ones are in existance.
One was buried with Elvis, the other with Jimmy Hoffa and Dick Cheney keeps the third one with him at all times.

Answer 9

A big meteor hit Earth. Lucky it did not hit a city or millions could have died.