Tunguska: When the Sky Fell to Earth 

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This guy is on so many different channels he's essentially the last vestige of the British Empire

Theory: Aliens declared war on spruce trees.

The fact that humans have been keeping records for a couple thousand years and there hasn't been a single meteor impact in a populated area still astounds me to this day

The craziest and EXTREMELY fortunate aspect of this is that it happened in such a remote area versus a much more populated area.

"Nothing paranormal happened at Tunguska" "There is no war in Ba Sing Se"

In russia space explore you

I did a report on this for my high school astronomy class. I found it both fascinating and scary when you think that an event like this could happen at any time, anywhere in the world.

I love the idea of Tesla cocking around with his tower and a chunk of Russia just flattens in the background

It's a bloody good job this didn't happen in the atomic age.

*gigantic explosion that can't be explained happens* Some Russian: oy blyat

Here for some lore into the FGO Tunguska event

Simon touched on something very important for those of us who first heard about this in the 1970s: the air of mystery, invoking anti-matter, mini black holes, aliens. All due to the secrecy of the Soviet Union, which I'd never considered in this specific case until now.

17:50 "What if this tragedy caused people to set aside their differences and work together for the common good of humanity? Well that's enough science fiction for now."

When I was a teenager my theory was that the strange blast was Rasputin arriving in this plane of existence...

My great-grandmother was a little girl in 1908 and was working in her mother's garden about 200 km away when this happened. She saw it go past, then she saw the explosion, then the blast wave went by.

One of my first introductions to the Tunguska event had the reports of the fireball making a turn and crashed . This was in part suggested as an alien craft. Move forward to the meteorite that was filmed in Russia we saw that the meteorite was coming toward the camera and seemed to turn to the left and exploded. It was perspective due a fast moving object coming toward the viewer but it was always approaching at at oblique angle. When can be assured this is what saw in Tunguska.

"Tesla did an oopsie." I love you guys.

Me finding an entirely new Simon channel: Psychiatrist: what do you see? Me: Simon... Simon is everywhere I look.

One fun thing about the Chelyabinsk incident is that we knew about a *different* asteroid that would pass very close to the Earth that day. The asteroid 367943 Duende was known since Feb. 2012. It passed at a distance of 27700 km at 19:25 UT, about 16 hours after the bolide at Chelyabinsk.

Ever since i found geographic and biographics i’ve done nothing but binge all the videos. simon’s voice is so soothing to listen to as i do a puzzle or crocheting. keep the videos coming I can’t get enough of them!

*Tunguska meteor:* _"I'm going to do a great deal of death to mankind"_ *Earth's atmosphere:* _"Are you sure about that?_

The thought of "Tesla doing an oopsie" has got to be one of the most terrifying prospects ever.

An experiment was done decades ago to explain what happened, I believe it was in the late 50s. The researchers used match sticks for trees set up on a scaled topographic model. They put a explosive charge on a guy wire set at the angle of flight and set it off at the calculated speed and height of the explosion. They not only reproduced the pattern of tree fall with the one's at the center still erect, but also the butterfly shape of the area of devastation.

I always remember the date of the Tunguska Blast as it is mentioned in the Ghostbusters movie “Tunguska blast of 1908” although I believe they state it as an inter-dimensional cross rip. That reminds me, I need to introduce my boys to Ghostbusters, what a film!

fun fact: at ground zero for the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, the building that is now a memorial, withstood the air blast when the bomb detonated above it. This is due to the direction of the force exerted on the building, traveling straight down its supports (so vertically). However outside that central radius of ground zero, the force applied to those buildings were more diagonal or even perpendicular to the supports. Those buildings had practically no chance of withstanding the sweeping blast.

The meteor theory seems sound, but how about this : Tesla deflected and broke the meteor up with his death ray, thus saving thousands of lives!

HAHAHAHAHAHA... The Captions for "nothing paranormal happened at Tunguska" section are hilarious. Thanks for adding that Easter egg!

"You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!"

The Tsar Bomba was so powerful, the blast wave went back into time.

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Can you imagine if the Tunguska meteor strike happened during the cold war? When everyone was on edge and jumpy waiting for first strike. 😳

Chelyabinsk was at least 300 kt, possibly 500. It had already passed its closest approach and was on its way out. It had passed its closest approach to the city. They got very lucky. Nearly 1200 people were medically treated, most for flying or falling debris. It was probably of the "Apollo" grouping, and we know of 10k+ such bodies, most much larger. Something as small as the Chelyabinsk body at~15 meters, is highly unlikely to be spotted, though we routinely see such bodies *after* they've made closest approach. Maybe chunks of the body at Tunguska exist, a crater for a 1 meter chunk (such as is seen in photos after being brought up from a lake near Chelyabinsk) might not be found in a hasty, incomplete examination 19 years later, might be indistinguishable after 70 years. The body they brought up was denser with metals than the Earth's crust. Some meteorites are density 8+, greater than pure iron. King Tutt's rust-proof meteoritic steel dagger is 6% cobalt. A larger comet body of ices, might hit at much greater than 15km/sec, possibly as much as 50 km/sec. The blast energy would be furious, and nothing but tiny fragments of any silicate materials would reach the ground. In his book "Rain of Iron and Ice", John S. Lewis reported a couple of interesting cases. In ancient China, an army was marching and camped near a river. Out of a partly clear blue sky, a bright flash blinded anyone facing it for miles, flash-burned like a sunburn anything with a half mile or so. A titanic blast like thunder flattened everything outwards for half a mile or so, smashed anything directly underneath which was already crisped from the flash, Everything nearby was smote with chunks of red-hot metal and rock. A dark cloud of smoke hung over the area, and a sulphurous stench lingered. Of course since no duly qualified scientist examined the evidence for a rocky/metallic meteorite airburst, it is generally not known of as a case of such an incident. Another case also in China in recent years was when a bolide was seen. Silent and bright at first high up to witnesses up-range. Closer and lower, darker reddish and trailing smoke farther down range. Dull reddish and very smoky, with a sound like a freight train and crackling like thunder further downrange. It was lower and much quieter, less smoky and slower and more nearly vertical downrange. People nearby heard and felt the *thump* through the ground. Witnesses found a brush fire had been started, at the center a smoking hole. At the bottom, about 30cm across, a hot dark lump. As they put out the fire and were digging it out, it cooled rapidly; by the time they had it excavated and were bringing it up, it grew cooler and colder, finally ice cold, and then too cold to handle. A large cooler and some dry ice were found and it was packed away to a university science center. Such fragments of cometary bodies or extremely low density CC asteroids have a little rock or metal, but can be 40% volatiles by mass: H2O, Co2, CH4, NH3. Lots of stinky stuff like various ethanes, ketones, aldehydes, and PAH chemicals. Lots of dark almost organic tarry stuff, almost coal black, slightly reddish with tholins.

Imagine if this has happened 50 years later during the cold War...

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3yrs since this came out and simon looks like such a young baby compared to his large beard self now. And he's open talking about his kids and has videos where he riffs and we can see who he actually is ever so slightly. Cool to see

Before this, all I know was that Tunguska is a Self Propelled Anti Air Gun

I think between all of their channels on RU-vid, The team of Simon, Shell, and their writers have some of the best content.

The description of this event was terrifying enough, can you imagine what the impact was like that took out the dinosaurs.

I remember a few of years ago, watching an episode of "What on Earth" Where they showed a picture of a bright streak of clouds with a bright flash of light at the head of them in the northern pacific. IT was obviously an asteroid streak, but the kicker is that it was GIGANTIC. Some estimates put the asteroid at about the size of the one from Tunguska. Since it happened in the Northern Pacific where NO ONE lives (even shipping lanes are sparse) no one was hurt, but there were sparse reports of loud gunfire like sounds from a few ships in the area. So either we were unlucky (or lucky however you see it since they both missed populated areas) to have had two large asteroids like this airblast on Earth in roughly 100 years instead of the Millennia estimates, or one of these type of airblast events happens more often that once a millennia.

I love his technique of looking from the right to the left and back again to disguise the fact that he’s reading.

Capitan Dathon: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra." Captain Picard: "Tunguska, when the sky fell to Earth."

Only history nerds see the word "Tunguska" and exclaim "Yeeeesss!" Absolutely loving this channel!

You are terrific - very entertaining as you consider events that really happened. I just subscribed. Gimme more!

I was so inspired by this story a whole back that I included it in the beginning of a work-in-progress novel. It has so much potential

This is easily explained. Santa crashed picking up reindeer. Tim Allen then took over from there. There's a documentary on this but the place and events have been changed.

Eyewitness: "... followed by eight loud bangs like gunshots" Me: Sounds like we got an alien turf war.

"Landed in the Southern Swamp" "Confused why there was no crater" Me: [confused why they're confused]

Super informative! I’ve been interested in this and you literally answered questions I didn’t know I had yet!

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Damn that Tesla and his wizardly death rays!

"And no, I'm not going to try and read that!" Simon, you are a true gift to humanity.

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Good job, man. Well put together.

That's a great story and so interestingly told! As someone who lived in Chelyabinsk in 2013 at the time of the meteor impact, I find impossible to imagine what that massive Tunguska meteor would have done to an urban area! Thank you for your work.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

Love your video. I wish you would slow down a bit when speaking, though. The pace when you read the captions is perfect. Thank you.

This story has intrigued me since I was 10 yrs old and I read about it in a science history book. I am 46 now and still just as enthusiastic over this event.

18:37 "one million broken windows" Sounds like the title of a song.

Damn, Simon and the entire team, I'm sure I'm not alone when I say how sincerely I enjoy and appreciate the thoroughness and passion with which you tackle every topic. Please, for all of our sake, keep up the good work.

Just because you think it's science fiction doesn't mean it isn't possible. Tesla was a genius. His creations much like Da Vinci's were far ahead of their time. I am a retired engineer and have studied Tesla's inventions and experiments over many years and what Tesla accomplished was truly amazing. Tesla was not aiming at the north pole, he was aiming where the explosion occurred. It was his last experiment before the tower was to be torn down and he wanted to see just how much power his tower could generate. What he did was send out a pulse of energy so condensed and so large that he was able to bounce it off the moon and directed it to where it landed. When he heard the news of what had happened in Russia, he was satisfied with the results of his experiment and let them do what they wanted with the tower. BTW, the Russian researchers also claim that Dyatlov pass incident was caused by an avalanche which is also wrong. It's easy to claim they found microscopic fragments because no one but them can disprove it. Plus, they don't have to show the proof to anyone. One more note, Putin in the past few years made a law that no one is allowed to speak of Russian atrocities committed during WW2.

Great show, as usual. Love all your channels. And thank you for dumbing down the kilometres to miles for myself and the rest of us Americans that haven't been taught them.

*Kids in 1921:* "A terrible storm, so great it was difficult to stand" *Kids in 2020:* "Aye rite bruv coodnt stand up init"

The rippling ground effect is very interesting. I'm curious about the colourful sunsets and clouds afterwards, and what caused that. Something about the mineral makeup of the meteorite?

I enjoy your videos! Interesting and very well presented!

Humans dodged a (cosmic) bullet that day. My grandfather (1880~1975) used to tell us of an event when he was in his late 20s when he was able to read the newspaper at midnight as there was a very bright night sky and no street lights. This fits 1908 as he'd be 28 that year. The very bright night sky was in all probability a result of the Tunguska event. 7am in Soviet far-east Russia would be about midnight in Western Europe.

I dont know if anyone else had this experience but I remember back when I was 15 and I played COD: world at war nazi zombies religiously, and the word "Tunguska" was written on a wall on one of maps I watched like hundreds of theory videos on RU-vid about it... man those were the days. Lol

We've had a few disagreements, but this channel is pretty happening.

Actually, the theories about the event continued as some now believe it was a heavy iron based meteor that was traveling so fast that it just glanced past Earth, entering and and then exiting the atmosphere.

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Is there anything thing that you cannot narrarate? Dude you are absolutely brilliant as a epic story teller like the bards of old. Love your commentary and show.

The first time I heard about the Tunguska Event was in Ghostbusters 1984. It was laughingly called a "paranormal event". Needless to say that brief mention has intrigued me ever since about what happened there.

Thank you! This was immensely amusing!

this vid could be a drinking game - take a shot everytime Simon says Tunguska 😁🤪

“Nothing paranormal happened at Tunguska”. That’s exactly what they want us to think

This is a perfect idea for an alternate history book

This channel is just fantastic

Great video! Thanks!

Trees in a remote area: Exists Tunguska: That's a nono.

I absolutely LOVE this new format. I appreciate how you take the same level of research and care that you do with Biographics and apply it to places of significance instead of an individual. I just wish it was more than twice a week.

Noted parapsychologists Stantz and Spengler may have mistyped the year but claim, "The Tunguska Blast of 1909 happened as a result of a meeting between John Horace Tobin and Vladimir Belascu in the Tunguska region. Something went terribly wrong and Tobin didn't like talking about it much."

I remember the first time I watched the 2013 russian meteor footage. The sounds it made horrified me. And the way the sounds/shock waves come long after the impact. Those crazy streaks in the sky. I could only imagine what it must have been like in person.

What's interesting me is if the Tunguska event had an impact on global climate, albeit a minor one.

The alien ship was acceptable .. but Tesla's tower was deemed science fiction? Why does the world hate Tesla?

The cleaness of your glasses always freaks me out

Great video!

How were they knocked unconscious if they were already asleep? "I was dreaming and then suddenly I wasn't."

When I was visiting a friend in San Louis Obispo, California in October of 2007 we saw a meteorite fall to earth and it had a really weird, reverse rainbow tail in which the entire tail was rainbow colored, not just the edges like the one in this video. The leading edge at the back of the meteor was violet and the trailing edge at the other end of the tail was deep red/burgundy. It was the most incredible astronomical event I've ever witnessed. I searched the news for days afterward hoping there was some sort of explanation, but there were no stories, and apparently, no other witnesses.

Nice job mate.

Nobody ever considered the theory that ground zero was the location of the world's first Taco Bell.

Tunguska event totally fascinates me. My grandpas was born in western Siberia in Tobolsk, so I am really interested in that remote place. Simon if you would I love you to do one on the Dyatlov pass incident. It’s really creepy and interesting. Thanks

Dude this channel is just as good as biographies. Keep bringing the great work guys

Watching this after years of viewing all of Simon's more recent work and I barely recognize this Simon. He's practically clean shaven here!

Extremely well done, thank you.

Watching this made me think I’d love a video by you on the Dyatlov Pass incident

Was fascinated with rocks as a kid and this is the first time I've seen lonsdalaite mentioned outside my little rock and mineral book. Its properties are one of 3 random science facts I give people.

very nice of you to use both scales !!