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Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater
#space_on_irc.freenode.net (Dusty) writes "Lake Cheko in Siberia has been noted as the probable crater of the 1908 Siberian Tunguska event. This news was discussed here in December, but details on the crater were scant. Now a new paper written by Luca Gasperini, Enrico Bonatti, and Giuseppe Longo (the same team in Bologna, Italy that made news in December) has a horde of new details on the supposed crater. The team visited Lake Cheko complete with their own catamaran and completed ground-penetrating radar maps, side-scanning sonar images, aerial images, and some sample collection of Lake Cheko. Intriguingly, they also imaged an object under the sediment that may be a fragment of the impacting body. Their paper (PDF) includes a lot more details including images, side-scanning sonar image, a 3-D view of the lake, a morphobathymetric map. It's an interesting read, these dudes are good. They plan to return this summer and drill the core if weather permits, hopefully answering the question once and for all." The same team also has a more discursive article in the current Scientific American that includes some detail on the working conditions in the Siberian summer. Think: mosquitos.
err, post I mean
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BOOOM!!!
What else do we need to know about the Tunguska event?
Ok, maybe it would make a cool short film by some of animation whiz. Preferably starring the squirrel from the Ice Age shorts.
The team visited Lake Cheko complete with their own catamaran
Is it really that hard to spell 'cameraman' correctly? C'mon editors! Get on it!
If you saw that documentary on him called The Prestige, you know he's capable of almost anything.
And vodka, and borst, and potatoes.
Invenio via vel creo
In Soviet Russia, Mosquito suck YOU!
... wait ... nevermind.
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yeah, The X-Files should totally have done an episode where it turns out that the Tunguska event was the land fall of aliens. They could even call the episode Tunguska!
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The Tunguska blast may well have been the biggest interdimensional crossrip up until the Gozer incident of 1984.
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WTF? I can get better zoom resolution on a lake in the middle of nowhere Siberia than I can get at my house!?
Somethings just not right about that.
What self respecting scientist wouldn't go and examine the evidence?
I initially read that as "What self-replicating scientist...". After that, the jokes really write themselves...From the SciAm article's photo caption: "In this artist's conception, Semen Semenov, who witnessed the blast at a distant trading post, starts to feel the heat."
That's... a really, really unfortunate name, dude.
(I love that they managed to work "heat" and "conception" into a sentence about a guy named Semen.)
I'm only wearing black until they come out with something darker.