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Tunguska Blast Was a Small Asteroid
malachiorion writes "The Tunguska event, an explosion on June 30, 1908, cleared an 800-sq.-mi. swath of Siberian forest. Was it a UFO crash? An alien weapons test? Now, Sandia National Laboratories has released its own explanation for the Tunguska event. Using supercomputers to create a 3D simulation of the explosion, the Department of Energy-funded nuke lab has determined that Tunguska was, indeed, the explosion of a relatively small asteroid. The simulation videos are well worth checking out — they show a fireball slamming into the earth from the asteroid's air burst. The researchers caution that we should be keeping watch for many more small, potentially earth-impacting asteroids than we are currently tracking."
In Soviet Russia, the forest flattens the asteroids!
I welcome our new asteroid overlords.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
The CB App. What's your 20?
Everybody knows it was Santa crash landing
Badly.
khasim (12/9/06): In a blind taste test, more people preferred Coke over the Pepsi that I had previously pissed in.
Nothing to see here! Move along!!
A new study has been released proving that the fireball event in the server room was caused by slashdot and not an asteroid
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I'm not a US resident but isn't slashdotting/DoS-attacking a federally owned site a criminal/terror offence in the US?
Break the sound barrier - bring the noise.
42, It was a giant cum shot from god. Bye karma. I wish I could think of shit insightful to say.
I'm not sure about that, most of the asteroid I had seen on television are hitting Kansas, particularly this small village...
Do we have systems in place that will allow us to destroy or divert any large asteroids that are determined to be on a path to impact with earth?
Only one. Be very afraid.
Blank until
The answer's obvious then.
Nuke God.
You've got to admit, it'd solve a hell of a lot of problems.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Yeah, Chuck Norris showed up...
Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est. Omnes castelli tuus nostri sunt. Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
It'll just probably break some windows and throw some chairs around.
You don't know what you don't know.
"What else would it have been?"
The theory I've heard a few times was that it was anti-matter. Doctor Raymond Stanz, however, postulated that it may have been the result of a dimensional crossover. This theory has not been widely accepted, though, because no P.K. readings have been captured to support this claim.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
to destroy the Arachnid threat.
From orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
You must write The Book, and then tear away belief. Only you can save the light of man --Gary Numan
Doesn't London get destroyed by dragons?
My contempt for the behavior and beliefs of the two major political parties cannot be adequately expressed in 120 chara
Asteroid or Hammeroid?
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
This is what happens when you cross the streams. DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!
look, we know flying fat elves and LA being violently destroyed in a day are only dreams, but let us have those dreams, eh? they're beautiful visions that make life worth living...
-- How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
That's called "wishful thinking".
Yes, every asteroid on television will undoubtedly hit over New York or Los Angeles. There must be some exceptionally high gravitational field at those locations.
No, they just suck.
The new simulation which more closely matches the widely known facts of destruction than earlier models shows that the center of mass of an asteroid exploding above the ground is transported downward at speeds faster than sound. It takes the form of a high-temperature jet of expanding gas called a fireball.
Good thing we made the Saving Throw!
Happy people make bad consumers.
3)Something else = ???
4) Profit!!!
There Fixed that for you.
You can't take the sky from me...
Pessimists... *Constantine* would've seen it as a good sign and built an empire on it.
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?