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Chapter 1322 Tunguska Explosion 【Selective Reading】

"That's right, it was the Tunguska explosion." Fatty smiled when he saw everyone's surprise and confusion.

Everyone was very puzzled. On the one hand, they did not understand this matter, and on the other hand, they found it incredible.After a while, seeing that no one spoke, Natasha said: "I have heard similar stories. It is said that a huge explosion occurred decades ago near the Tunguska area not far from here. The energy produced is the sum of thousands of atomic bombs or dozens of hydrogen bombs. Everyone is arguing about the cause of the explosion, and it is still a mystery. However, this matter has passed For decades, this is nothing more than a legend, even here, not many people believe it, just treat it as a story."

"No, it's not a story, it's real." The fat man shook his head, and then the fat man began to tell.

It happened at dawn on June 1908, 6, and people in the Tunguska region of Siberia were sleeping.Suddenly, there was a strong wind, and there was a huge noise in the wind.After the wind stopped, there was an instant of silence, and there was an unusual sound in the distance, and people were awakened by this unusual sound.At 30:7, there was an explosion.A burning monster, dragging a long pyrotechnic tail, streaked across the sky from south to north, disappeared beyond the horizon, and a huge flame rose from the horizon. More than a minute later, people heard the clear roar that seemed to come from afar, and the earth began to tremble.After that, people felt 43 strong explosions.In the days after the explosion, the sky over a radius of 1 miles in the Tunguska area was shrouded in a gloomy orange.The phenomenon of white nights appeared continuously in large areas.

The explosion not only seriously affected the local area, but even other countries.Many lights in London, United Kingdom were suddenly extinguished, and it was dark. The resulting pressure instability was even detected by the automatic barometric pressure recorder, which was just invented in the United Kingdom at that time.People in many countries in Europe saw day-like flashes in the night sky; even in Laomei, who was far away across the ocean, people felt the earth shaking.The Smith Astrophysical Observatory and the Wilson Observatory in the United States have also observed a decrease in the transparency of the atmosphere for at least several months.

Several years after the explosion, scientists successively discovered three explosion craters similar to lunar craters with a diameter of 3-90 meters.A primeval forest covering an area of ​​200 square kilometers was knocked down by the shock wave, at least 2000 trees died in a radial pattern, and the permafrost in some places was melted and turned into swamps.During subsequent expeditions, scientists also found that the soil in the explosion area was magnetized.Radioactive anomalies appeared in tree rings from 30 to 1908, and genetic variation occurred in some animals in the area.According to the measurements of researchers at the seismic station in Irkut, the energy of this strange explosion is equivalent to 1909 million to 1000 million tons of TNT explosives, which is 1500 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion more than 30 years later.

For a century, in order to reveal the secret of the Tunguska explosion, many strange theories have surfaced, including UFO accidents, antimatter, black holes and many other hypotheses.However, there is a theory that is recognized by most people. This mysterious event should be caused by an asteroid that exploded in the earth's atmosphere.The asteroid is about 30 meters wide and weighs about 56 metric tons, about 10 times that of Titanic.

According to scientists, the asteroid exploded before it made contact with the ground, and the debris from the explosion may have hit the ground.But new supercomputer simulations show that the costly asteroid is much smaller than we previously thought.Its weight is only about 1/4 to 1/3 of what was previously thought, and its diameter may only be about 20 meters.

Although the explosion shook the entire world at that time, research and exploration on the explosion has not been carried out for a long time.At that time, the tsarist rule in Russia was in a precarious state, and he was unable to organize an investigation on it.People just refer to this explosion as the "Tunguska explosion" in general.After October, after Su came to power, he sent physicist Kulik to lead an investigation team to the Tunguska area in 1921.They claimed that the explosion was caused by a huge meteorite.However, they never found the deep crater where the meteorite fell, nor did they find the meteorite, only dozens of flat-bottomed shallow craters were found.

Therefore, the "meteor theory" was only a speculation at the time, lacking evidence, and then Kulik led a team to Tunguska twice to investigate, and conducted aerial surveys, and found that the destruction area caused by the explosion reached more than 2000 square kilometers.At the same time, people also discovered many strange phenomena, such as the trees in the center of the explosion did not all fall down, but the leaves were scorched; the growth rate of the trees in the explosion area accelerated; the width of their annual rings increased from 0.4-2 mm to more than 5 mm; The reindeer in the bombing area all got a strange skin disease, pellagra and so on.

Soon after World War II broke out, Kulik, who presided over this investigation and study, joined the army and sacrificed his precious life in the anti-Japanese war.This also forced Su to stop investigating the Tunguska explosion.After World War II, Soviet physicist Kasayev visited Japan, and in December 45, he arrived in Hiroshima.The United States dropped an atomic bomb here four months ago.Looking at the ruins of Hiroshima, Kasayev suddenly thought of Tunguska. The two obviously have many similarities.For example, the death of humans and animals in the explosion was caused by nuclear radiation burns.The mushroom cloud from the explosion had the same shape, except that Tunguska's was much larger.

In particular, the photos of the dead trees and scorched branches taken in Tunguska look very similar to the situation on Guangzhou Island.So Kasayev had a bold idea.He believes that the Tunguska explosion was a nuclear explosion caused by a nuclear-powered spacecraft driven by aliens that failed during the landing process.

However, as soon as this theory came out, it immediately aroused strong reactions in the Soviet scientific community at that time.There is no shortage of supporters and opponents.Sorotov and others further speculated that the spacecraft came to this area to obtain fresh water from Lake Baikal.Others pointed out that the leprosy caused by reindeer in the Tunguska area is very similar to the skin disease caused by radiation in the local cattle herd after the nuclear test in New Mexico in 1945.In the Tunguska area, the growth of trees accelerated, and the genetic variation of plants and insects appeared, which was also the same as the situation after the nuclear test conducted by the US in the Pacific Islands.

In the 60th and [-]s, the Soviet Academy of Sciences sent several expedition teams to the Tunguska area for investigation.Those who believed it was a nuclear explosion and those who insisted on the "meteor theory" both claimed that the investigation had found evidence in their favor, and neither side could convince the other.For the case where the central crater is not found, some people think that what fell was a comet, so it can only produce a dust explosion, but not the central crater.

In 1973, some old American scientists put forward new insights on this. They believed that the explosion was caused by the black hole of the universe.A small black hole caused the explosion as it orbited over the Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and Newfoundland.But little is known about the nature and characteristics of black holes. Whether "miniature black holes" exist is still in question.Therefore, this view also lacks sufficient evidence.To this day, the mystery of the Tunguska explosion remains unsolved.

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