BEIJING, Aug.12 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian scientists said they have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion in Siberia almost a hundred years ago, China Daily reported today, citing the Interfax news agency as the source.
The scientists, who belong to the Tunguska space phenomenon public state fund, said they found the remains of an extra-terrestrial device that allegedly crashed near the Tunguska river in Siberia in 1908.
Their findings also include a 50-kilogram (110-pound) rock which they have sent to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for analysis.
The Tunguska blast, in a desolate part of Siberia, remains one of the 20th century's biggest scientific mysteries.
On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometers above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometers (miles) away and devastated over 2,000 square kilometers of Siberian forest. Enditem
You mean 96 years after the event, someone discovers the wreckage that all the other expedidions of the last decade somehow missed? What, was the spaceship hiding behind a tree that no one bothered to look behind? Was it under a rock nobody bothered to look under? Maybe Bigfoot was hiding it all this time.
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Wicked Pilot wrote:You mean 96 years after the event, someone discovers the wreckage that all the other expedidions of the last decade somehow missed? What, was the spaceship hiding behind a tree that no one bothered to look behind? Was it under a rock nobody bothered to look under? Maybe Bigfoot was hiding it all this time.
maybe it was buried and got uncovered by a freak storm
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I thought the Tunguska blast was caused by the delivery of the mystical lock which would open a portal to the netherworld and unleash the Seven Gods of Chaos to usher in Armageddon. Isn't that what they showed us in Hellboy?
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Darth Wong wrote:I thought the Tunguska blast was caused by the delivery of the mystical lock which would open a portal to the netherworld and unleash the Seven Gods of Chaos to usher in Armageddon. Isn't that what they showed us in Hellboy?
How cool would this be if it were true? At least 403 cool.
Will it be? Will it fuck. What the hell is this "device" anyway? Some rock like the other sample?
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Darth Wong wrote:I thought the Tunguska blast was caused by the delivery of the mystical lock which would open a portal to the netherworld and unleash the Seven Gods of Chaos to usher in Armageddon. Isn't that what they showed us in Hellboy?
Exactly. Hence the rock they found. Great, now Rasputin's going to try to steal it.
And I love the picture. Is that a picture of the aliens responsible? I think so.
Darth Wong wrote:I thought the Tunguska blast was caused by the delivery of the mystical lock which would open a portal to the netherworld and unleash the Seven Gods of Chaos to usher in Armageddon. Isn't that what they showed us in Hellboy?
No no no. The Tunguska blast was actually a spacecraft launch belonging aliens that moved backwards in time. At least that's what Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskii say, and I believe them since they're Russian (not to mention awesome sci-fi writers)
What DID cause the Tunguska blast, anyway? Do we know?
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StarshipTitanic wrote:What DID cause the Tunguska blast, anyway? Do we know?
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StarshipTitanic wrote:What DID cause the Tunguska blast, anyway? Do we know?
Current theory is an asteroid, for some reason, detonated above the site.
Don't ask me how an asteroid detonated at a multi-megaton yield, I don't understand it...
What about the micro-black hole theory?
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StarshipTitanic wrote:What DID cause the Tunguska blast, anyway? Do we know?
Current theory is an asteroid, for some reason, detonated above the site.
Don't ask me how an asteroid detonated at a multi-megaton yield, I don't understand it...
The current theory is a comet, actually. Being softer than an asteroid, it is believed that it can become compressed into a pancake shape and accumulate enough compressed air ahead of it to detonate. The example of this cited often is the Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragement detonation events in the Jovian atmosphere. Its believed similar effects in our atmosphere caused the airburst.
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Throw a rock at something with enough velocity and you've got yourself a big bang and jack in terms of radiation. Space is full of nickel-iron rocks, just grab a few, put 'em in a mass driver and fling them at the ants on that nearby planet. Rinse and repeat.
Darth Wong wrote:I thought the Tunguska blast was caused by the delivery of the mystical lock which would open a portal to the netherworld and unleash the Seven Gods of Chaos to usher in Armageddon. Isn't that what they showed us in Hellboy?
Col. Crackpot wrote:all the vodka in Russia wouldn't get me to believe that.
Your prompt death from alcohol poisoning would indeed be a hindrance to your ability to accept this information as the truth it is. The aliens, they are here.
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:Throw a rock at something with enough velocity and you've got yourself a big bang and jack in terms of radiation. Space is full of nickel-iron rocks, just grab a few, put 'em in a mass driver and fling them at the ants on that nearby planet. Rinse and repeat.
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Therefore, God exists.
The problem was getting the right circumstances with a rock so it would blow-up spectacularly without hitting the ground.
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Exactly. An asteroid wouldn't have exploded in air without leaving a crater, which was the biggest part of the puzzle. A comet fits the profile of what happend.
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