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SHORTLY AFTER 7 AM IN JUNE 30, 1908, EARLY RISING FARMERS. HERDSMEN, AND TRAPPERS IN
THE SPARESLY SETTLED VASTNESS OF CENTRAL SIBERIAN PLATEU WATCHED IN AWE AS A
CYLINDRICAL OBJECT, GLOWING WITH AN INTENSE BLUISH-WHITE LIGHT AND TRAILING A FIERY
TAIL, RACED ACROSS A CLEAR BLUE SKY TOWARD THE NORTHERN HORIZON. AT 7:17, OVER A
DESOLATE REGION OF BOGS AND LOW, PINE COVERED HILLS TRAVERSED BY THE STONY TUNGUSKA
RIVER , IT DISAPPEARED; INSTANTLY, "A PILLER OF FIRE" LEAPED SKYWARD , SO HIGH IT
WAS SEEN HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY; THE EARTH SHUDDERED UNDER THE IMPACT OF A TITANIC
EXPLOSION; THE AIR WAS WAS WRACKED BY THUNDEROUS CLAPS; AND A SUPERHEATED WIND
RUSHED OUTWARD, SETTING PARTS OF THE TAIGA ON FIRE. AT A TRADING POST FORTY MILES
FROM THE BLAST, A MAN SITTING ON THE STEPS OF HIS HOUSE SAW THE BLINDING FLASH,
COVERED HIS EYES AND EXCLAIMED "OH SNAP!"; HE FELT SCORCHED, AS IF THE SHIRT ON HIS
BACK WERE BURNING, AND THE NEXT MOMENT HE WAS HURLED FROM THE STEPS BY A SHOCK WAVE
AND KNOCKED UNCONSIOUS. FOU
FOUR HUNDRED MILES TO THE SOUTH THE GROUND HEAVED UNDER THE
TRACKS OF THE RECENTLY COMPLETED TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY, THREATENING TO DERIAL AN
EXPRESS. AND ABOVE THE TUNGUSKA REGION A MASS OF BLACK CLOUDS, PILING UP TO A HEIGHT
OF TWELVE MILES, DUMPED A SHOWER OF "BLACK RAIN"(EW) ON THE COUNTRYSIDE - DIRT AND
DEBRIS SUCKED UP BY THE EXPLOSION - WHILE RUMBLING LIKE HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE VIBRATED
THROUGHOUT CENTRAL RUSSIA. SINCE SEISMOGRAPHS AND BAROGRAPHS EVERYWHERE HAD
RECORDED THE EVENT, THE ENTIRE WORLD KNEW THAT SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY OCCURED IN THE
SIBERIAN WILDERNESS. BUT WHAT? SCIENTISTS CONJECTURED THAT A GIANT METEROITE MUST
HAVE FALLEN, EXPLODING FROM THE INTENSE HEAT ITS IMPACT GENERATED. ON HITTING THE
GROUND, SUCH A BODY WOULD, THEORETICALLY, HAVE BLOWN OUT A HUGE CRATER LIKE THE ONE
IN ARIZONA, THREE FEET QUARTERS OF A MILE SQAURE, LEFT BY A METEORITE THAT FELL FIFTY
THOUSAND YEARS AGO, BUT THE SIBERIAN "IMPACT SITE" TURNED OUT TO BE A DISMAL SWAMP:(,
WITH NO TRACE OF A METEORITE TO BE
SEEN. NEVERTHELESS, FOR WANT OF A BETTER EXPLENATION, SCIENTISTS CONTINUED TO
ASCRIBE THE CATACLYSM TO A METEORITE, AND LEONARD KULIK, A MINEROLOGIST WHO HEADED
GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED EXPEDITIONS TO THE TUNGSKA IN THE EARLY 1920'S AND AGAIN IN
1938-39 SEARCHED FOR EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT HIS VIEW. ALTHOUGH THIS SEARCH PROVED
FRUITLESS, KULIK UNCOVERED A WEALTH OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE BLAST. NEAR THE SWAMP
INTO WICH THE METEORITE HAD SOPPOSEDLY PLUMMETED, SCORCHED TREES, STRIPPED OF THEIR
BRANCHES, STILL STOOD, BUT AROUND THESE WIERD "TELEGRAPH-POLE" FORST, EXCEPT WHERE
INTERVENING HILLS HAD SHEILDED THEM, EVERY TREE WITHIN FIFTY MILES HAD BEEN BLOWN
FLAT, ITS TRUNK POINTING AWAY FROM THE SWAMP. FROM THIS - AND FROM FAILURE TO FIND
EVEN A SMALL IMPACT CRATER - KULIK CONCLUDED THAT THE METEORITE HAD NEVER REACHED THE
GROUND BUT HAD EXPLODED TWO OR THREE MILES UP IN THE AIR. THE OTHER CURIOUS DETAILS:
THE BLAST 'S INTENSE HEAT MELTED THE PERMAFROST, CAUSING WATER TRAPPED UNDERGROUND
FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS
OF YEARS TO GUSH FORTH IN FOUNTAINS, AND THOSE REINDEER HAD NOT
BEEN KILLED HAD DEVELOPED MYSTERIOUS BLISTERS AND SCABS ON THEIR HIDES, STRANGER
STILL, EXAMINATION OF THE TREES THAT HAD BEEN GERMANATING IN 1908 REVEALED THAT THEY
HAD GROWN AT SEVERAL TIMES THE NORMAL RATE. DURING WORLD WARii KULIK WAS CAPTURED
BY THE GERMANS AND DIED A PRISONER THE RIDDLE HE HAD WORKED TO SOLVE WAS FORGOTTEN.
ON AUGUST 1945, HOWEVER, CERTAIN RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS WERE ABRUPTLY REMINDED OF IT BY
THE ATM - BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, EVENTS WICH SEEMED UNCANNILY FAMILIAR
IN BOTH MANIFESTATIONS (THE FIREBALL, THE SEARING THERMAL CURRENT, THE TOWERING
"MUSHROOM" CLOUD") AND THEIR EFFECTS (THE INSTANTANEOUS AND NEAR - TOTAL DESTRUCTION,
THE RADIATION BURNS ON LIVING FLESH, THE ACCELERATED GROWTH OF NEW PLANT LIFE(THAT'S
HOW MARICLE GROW WORKS), EVEN THE "TELEGRAPH - POLE[ND]" APPEARENCE OF SCORCHED AND
BRANCHLESS TREES STANDING BELOW AT WHICH AN ATOM BOMB WAS DETONATED). COULD THE
SIBERIAN BLAST HAVE BEEN A
ATOMIC? IN 1958 A RUSSIAN ENGINEER TURNED WRITER, ALEKSANDER(HOW DO I SPELL?)
KAZANTSEV, PUBLISHED A STORY - ARTICLE PINNING THAT DISASTER ON MARTIANS KILLED ON
THEIR WAY TO EARTH BY COSMIC RAYS OR METEORITE BOMBARDMENT, THEIR SHIP, WITH NO ONE
AT THE CONTROLS, HURTLES INTO OUR ATMOSPHERE AT UNREDUCED SPEED AND BURNS UP FROM
FRICTION, TRIGGERING A CHAIN REACTION IN ITS ATOMIC FUEL THAT SETS OFF AN
EXPLOSION(WTF). FEW INFORMED READERS READERS BY THEN STILL EXCEPTED THE METEORITE
THEORY, AND SOME, PARTICULARILY YOUNGER MEN AND WOMEN, FOUND KAZANTEV'S HYPOTHESIS
PERSUASIVE, BUT OTHERS REJECTED IT IN FAVOR OF AN EARLIER ALTERNATE EXPLENATION,
ACCORDING TO WICH THE HEAD OF A COMET HAD PENETRATED THE ATMOSPHERE AT SUCH HUGH
VELOCITY AND THAT THE HEAT IT GENERATED HAD CAUSED THE COMET TO BLOW UP, (SKEPTICS
POINTED OUT, HOWEVER, THAT A COMET COULD HARDLY HAVE APPROACHED EARTH WITHOUT BEING
SEEN.)
TWO FURTHER EXPLENATIONS INVOLVING NATURAL CAUSES HAVE BEEN ADVANCED THE
FIRST IS A TINY "BLACK HOLE" - A CHUNK OF MATTER COLLAPSED TO SUCH MINISCULE
DIMENSIONS AND SO DENSE THAT ITS GRAVITY SUCKS UP EVEN LIGHT - HIT SIBERIA AND PASSED
IN AN INSTANT THROUGH EARTH, EMERGING IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC. THE SECOND ASSERTS AN
"ANTI ROCK" OF ANTIMATTER PLUNGED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AND EXPLODED ON CONTACT WITH
ATOMS OF ORDINARY MATTER, PRODUCING A FIREBALL OF GAMMA RAYS. WHILE THIS WOULD
ACCOUNT FOR THE ABSENCE OF RESIDUAL MATERIAL AT THE SITE, IT IS NOT, MOST EXPERTS
SAY, COMPATIBLE WITH OBSERVABLE PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF THE BLAST. IN THE END, WE DO DO
NOT KNOW WHAT CAUSED THE CATACLYSM IN SIBERIA. WE MAY NEVER KNOW. BUT TODAY, FEWER
SCIENTISTS THAN AT ANY TIME IN THE PAST WOULD BE ASTOUNDED TO RECEIVE A MESSAGE
BEAMED FROM SOME CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE INQUIRING INTO THE FATE OF CERTAIN SPACE
VOYAGERS WHO VANISHED ON OUR PLANET IN WHAT WE CALL THE YEAR 1908.
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