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A group of maverick Russian scientists gathered in Moscow this week left no doubt that they share a singular passion to find out what caused the huge explosion in a Siberian forest that lit up the night sky as far away as London.
The most commonly held theory is that the blast — hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima — was caused either by the impact of a meteorite or by its explosion above the Earth’s surface.
“The meteorite theory is the main one. We’re like the poor relatives.”
This year, the “alternativists” organised a separate conference: Rodionov said the explosion was most likely caused by US physicist Nikola Tesla detonating an underground volcano in Siberia by harnessing electric charges in the air from his laboratory tower outside New York.Other theories outlined at the conference ranged from the thesis that it was a particularly powerful bolt of lightning to the proposition that it was the result of interaction between yin and yang energy fields in the universe.
As he pointed to multi-coloured drawings of lightning coming from the Earth’s core, Vladimir Mikhailov, a clairvoyant with an intense stare, said: “My theory explains everything. I just needed a place to express myself.”
Here, here, and here, of course, are centers for brave alternative “scientists” to express themselves.
Ancient earth missile defense at its best.
I always liked the UFO theory (book: The Fire Came By).
J/P=?
“US physicist Nikola Tesla”? Since when Tesla became US? He was Serbian…
“It can’t be explained by traditional physics!!!”
The native call of the Wild Crackpot.
Other signs are:
* Web site generally black w/white text
* The “Establishment” is out to discredit him
* “They” are keeping the true results secret
In most pop science fiction, there are two types of dumbass. The first is the religious nut who can’t accept that the devil isn’t at work when really it’ just a virus or an alien or both. The second is the scientist who has the automatic dismissal gene, who simply cannot begin to even imagine that someone outside if his or her scientific method amd received wisdom and perception could be right about anything.
Many of the editors here are the latter.
Good work. You are the new Neo-Cons. And the best thing?
Ah, first weeble-wobble of the morning.
#5.
#3 – Pluto
>>Since when Tesla became US? He was Serbian…
Since 1884, when he came to the US to work for Thomas Edison? Or since 1991 when he became a US citizen?
In any case, he did all the work for which he is known while in the US, so I guess that makes him a “US physicist”.
More proof of global warming.
#8–Hey Mikey==I assume that post is made for the pure humor of it and that you know it and that was the purpose of it and you are to be complimented. Yes, this thread has nothing to do with global warming, so your inconsistent irrelevant posting has an element of humor by design. Bravo!
Now just recognize the same type of posting injecting “thats liberal” is not funny because when you make those irrelevant postings, the subject most often does touch on the libera/conservative continuum of analysis.
I wonder if those posting spring from the same place as this one?==or if not if you can see the similarities and step the humor up a notch?
I love the pic! I always imagine myself like that when I’m working.
WoW! Crackpots unite!
I like these theories better:
http://tinyurl.com/55pb6e
By the Way, one way to root out the crazy’s is to show that even their base presumptions are wrong.
There was an impact crater. Lake Cheko is about 100 years old, “Acoustic-echo soundings of the lake floor provide support for the hypothesis that the lake was formed by the Tunguska event. The soundings revealed a conical shape for the lake bed, which is consistent with an impact crater. Magnetic readings indicate a possible meter-sized chunk of rock below the lake’s deepest point, which may be a fragment of the colliding body. Finally, the lake’s long axis points to the hypocenter of the Tunguska explosion.”
And more here: http://tinyurl.com/57xc82
That blast is just a small reminder that it doesn’t take a planet killer to take out a major urban center and if any of them has our number on it we are about as well prepared to stop it today as we were then.
There have been some lesser but still very large (nuclear bomb size) blasts over the ocean and one over the Greenland ice sheet since then. Not sure how much damage would have been done if people and buildings had been beneath them.
The military likes to know about blasts that size so they triangulate anything big enough to detect.
Mike is more right than he knows. Global warming doesn’t have to be worldwide and gradual. There is also what’s known as an “Instantaneous Localized Global Warming Event”.
There is a common misperception that nuclear explosions (fission or fusion) directly produce fireballs due to the release of energy from the reaction. What’s being missed is that the energy release doesn’t actually directly cause anything. What it does do is trigger an ILGWE which in turn manifests as a fireball.
An meteorite can be another ILGWE trigger. Think about it, if you throw a rock at the ground, you don’t get an explosion so why would you expect one from a bigger rock? However, if a rock is big enough, it can trigger an ILGWE and give you an explosion. This is most likely what happened at Tunguska.
Even if you buy into the Black Hole theory for Tunguska, Black Holes suck matter in, no blow it out, therefore it would have to have been the right kind of Black Hole collision that triggers an ILGWE.
The best crackpot stuff on the ‘net are the sites dedicated to the plan to imprison all Americans.
#14 – No way, religious web sites have them beat hands down.
#15 – Those sites are too repetitive. And everyone knows the shit’s going to hit the fan when the Mayan calendar runs out, anyway…
These guys are just as dumb as the 9/11 nutters.
Clear the Tunguska Event was part of God’s Intelligent Design which involved blowing the shit out of Siberia for some reason.
Hmm, so we had a way to electrically blow the snot out of foreign countries we did not like from New York, but havn’t done it any more since then because…..
Gotta love the Weeble crowd. It’s cool to see the Russian Weebles get out from under the Commie heel to be able to share their wobbliness with the rest of the world.
Don
Bobbo, what makes you think that was a joke? This is proof of global warming. I would cite as evidence post#13, but I think he’s joking.
No Joke. You’re absolutely right. As they say in Garage Logic – more proof of global warming.
I don’t see them using a “Timey-wimey” detector so they can’t be right.
It’s all linked back to Taco Bell.