Tunguska - 100yrs ago today...

[Neil]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0806/29tunguska/

You have to ask, what would happen if it hit today, if a more populated area!! :eek::eek:

[Mike70]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0806/29tunguska/

You have to ask, what would happen if it hit today, if a more populated area!! :eek::eek:

well, considering that asteroid leveled everything within an 800 square mile area, destroyed millions of trees and countless thousands of animals, and packed the energy of 185 hiroshimas, the results to an urban area would be catastrophic to say the least.

[acealive1]

i cant ever hear the name tunguska without thinking of marita covarrubius, alex krycek and mulder and scully :lol:

[Neil]

well, considering that asteroid leveled everything within an 800 square mile area, destroyed millions of trees and countless thousands of animals, and packed the energy of 185 hiroshimas, the results to an urban area would be catastrophic to say the least.

If it had landed a couple of hours later it could have come in around north europe!!

Supposedly the shock waves were measured going around the world twice, and you could read a newspaper and play cricket (how English!) in London in the middle of the night because of all the stuff thrown into atmosphere!

[Legion2213]

Supposedly the shock waves were measured going around the world twice, and you could read a newspaper and play cricket (how English!) in London in the middle of the night because of all the stuff thrown into atmosphere!

I also heard this.

Something like this hitting a major population center today could kill millions in an intsant, tens of millions within a few days.

[Mike70]

i have been to the barringer crater in arizona, probably the best preserved impact crater since it is only 50,000 years old or so. pretty crazy to think that the damage caused there was done by an asteroid only 50 meters across that still packed the explosive energy of 150 hiroshimas. it wouldn't take something very large to obliterate even a very large city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

[Neil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

On August 8, 1964, a pair of commercial pilots in a Cessna 150 flew into the crater for a closer look but were unable to climb out due to downdrafts. They ended up circling the interior until their fuel was exhausted and crash-landed. They survived their ordeal and a small portion of the wreckage not removed from the crash site remains visible to this day.:eek:

[bassman]

i cant ever hear the name tunguska without thinking of marita covarrubius, alex krycek and mulder and scully :lol:

I can help but think of the end of Ghostbusters. Except they say it was 1909...


Stantz: You know, Mr. Tully, you are a most fortunate individual.
Louis: I know!
Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!
Louis: Felt great.
Spengler: We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue.
Louis: Okie.

[Neil]

I can help but think of the end of Ghostbusters. Except they say it was 1909...

Stantz: You know, Mr. Tully, you are a most fortunate individual.
Louis: I know!
Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!
Louis: Felt great.
Spengler: We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue.
Louis: Okie.

Boy! That must have been one hell of an interdimensional cross rip as it happened in 1908 :D

[acealive1]

I can help but think of the end of Ghostbusters. Except they say it was 1909...

i concur :sneaky: