Hi Rusty.
rusty wrote:Though I wouldn't totally rule out the possibility of an object of this relatively small size "falling from the sky", it's my personal opinion that there has never - ever - been an impact of a real "killer" meteorite on earth. Not even one that supposedly killed the dinosaurs. The Tunguska-Event in 1908 doesn't look like a meteor impact either.
Yes, the ‘Electric Cosmos’ theory chaps would agree with you on this.
The best place to study so called ‘impact craters’ is of course the Moon whose apparent dents and dings show two distinct traits; that they are generally, roughly circular (which implies the unlikely probability of consistent, vertical strikes) and that more often than not, display a curious little central pinnacle, as we can see here...
EC theory reckons that this is more likely the result of ‘electric arc machining’ than straight forward impact, caused by massive potential differences in charge between the Moon (or any other ‘orbiter’) and a large enough / close enough foreign body capable of retaining a significant opposite charge. In other words, an electrical arc on an unimaginable scale between ‘anode and ‘cathode’ is triggered with proximity that completely destroys the smaller intruder but leaves a tell tale mark (crater) on the larger.
Concerning the Tunguska event..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event ‘eye / ear’ witness accounts suggest that the above scenario is exactly what happened. No evidence of impact was ever discovered and the rather lame explanation for this, was that whatever it was, ‘exploded’ having come into contact with our atmosphere. Dunno why this should happen really (assuming that this wasn’t an earlier piece of psycho-babble). Yeah, anyway, according to the ‘Siki’ link, ‘Tunguska’ released an estimated energy equivalence from anywhere between 3 to 30 megatons of TNT and is naturally compared to ‘nuclear bombs’ of varying magnitude, yet estimates of how large the actual meteor was remain vague in the extreme...
“Different studies have yielded widely varying estimates of the object's size, on the order of 100 metres (330 ft).”
God help me...this is the ‘respected’ British press..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/spac ... ories.html ...
“NASA estimate the object (this of course is the latest intruder)
was around 55 feet across before entering Earth's atmosphere and weighed about 10,000 tons. It exploded miles above Earth, releasing nearly 500 kilotons of energy - about 30 times the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in World War Two, NASA added.”
..what an utter load of shit.