Tuguska has been the focal point of many speculations.
Eric von Daniken in His Book’ Return to The Stars‘ deals with this issue from the angle of extra-terrestrial invasion.
What caused the impact and why has been puzzling.
Still there is no answer.
How the Tunguska object may have appeared.
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One hundred and three years ago today, on the night of 30 June and 1 July, one of the most extraordinary events in modern history occurred.
The first reports of a strange glow in the sky came from across Europe. Shortly after midnight on 1 July 1908, Londoners were intrigued to see a pink phosphorescent night sky over the capital. People who had retired awoke confused as the strange pink glow shone into their bedrooms. The same ruddy luminescence was reported over Belgium. The skies over Germany were curiously said to be bright green, while the heavens over Scotland were of an incredible intense whiteness which tricked the wildlife into believing it was dawn. Birdsong started and cocks crowed – at two o’clock in the morning. The skies over Moscow were so bright, photographs were taken of the streets without using a magnesium flash. A captain on a ship on the River Volga said he could see vessels on the river two miles away by the uncanny astral light. One golf game in England almost went on until four in the morning under the nocturnal glow, and in the following weekThe Times of London was inundated with letters from readers from all over the United Kingdom to report the curious ‘false dawn’. A woman in Huntingdon wrote that she had been able to read a book in her bedroom solely by the peculiar rosy light. There were hundreds of letters from people reporting identical lighting conditions that went on for weeks… (Tom Slemen)
Aftermath of the Tunguska explosion
None of the people witnessing this strange phenomenon had any idea that, in the central Siberian plateau, just after 7:15 a.m. local time, the planet had been hit by a cometary impactor that exploded – as most such impactors do – in the atmosphere just above the Earth’s surface.
A human cannonball is propelled from the barrel moments before he died after a safety net failed during the stunt at the Kent County Showground in Detling, south eastern England on Monday. AP Source: AP
People engage in feats that under normal conditions , in the craziest notion of entering their names in The Guinness Book of World Records.,would cost them their lives
The price they may have to pay is not worth their lives and the agony they put people around them.
When they cross youth, they shall realize how reckless and irresponsible they have been.
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A HUMAN cannonball has been killed when the stunt went tragically wrong in front of a huge crowd.
A human cannonball enters the barrel moments before he died after a safety net failed during the stunt at the Kent County Showground in Detling, south eastern England on Monday. AP Source: AP
Horrified onlookers watched helplessly as the 23-year-old man was fired from the cannon only for his safety net to fail to engage properly.
“The last picture I’ve got of him, you can see the net is flat on the floor,” eye-witness Rob Hutchinson said. “It’s not up in the air, and he is coming down head-first towards the ground. I saw him hit the floor and bounce.
Nothing is more unbecoming in the world of cricket than a captain who has lost his calm. The game, deemed the glorious bastion of ‘gentlemen’, is often far from genteel in its manner.
If an organisation rots first from its head, then the captain’s behaviour is often indicative of a broader malaise.
England’s captain Mike Gatting provided a distinctly ugly side when England toured Pakistan in 1987. An altercation between Gatting and the umpire Shakoor Rana in Faisalabad led to delays in play after the captain exploded at Rana’s refusal to acknowledge Gatting’s catch.
Things rapidly got worse when Rana accused the pugnacious cricketer of cheating. In Rana’s words, ‘I cannot tell you what he did say but he used filthy language.’ Neither ever reconciled. It was not till the winter of 2000 that England toured Pakistan again.
Australia’s list of grumpy, cranky and offensive captains is a long one, but one can derive little joy from it.
Few can forget the Chapelli-orchestrated special of bowling and sledging, or Steve Waugh’s battle of attrition against opponents. Mental and physical erosion was the name of the Waugh game. But when one is winning, the stakes of good behaviour are less.
The focus becomes more acute on a side weakened by defeat. Enter then, the antics of Ricky Ponting, though on this occasion, he kept his antics off the pitch.
Simon Rice gave a colourful description in the Independent (Feb 22): ‘In an incident more sex, drugs and rock n roll than afternoon tea and cucumber sandwiches, cricketer Ricky Ponting stands accused of smashing a television set.’
The opening match of Australia’s campaign in the World Cup against Zimbabwe got more interesting when it was revealed that the captain, after being dismissed by a superb effort from Chris Mpofu, went back to his dressing room and promptly destroyed an LCD TV.
Rooney’s performance in the world cup held recently had not been that great to speak of.
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Rooney, who will celebrate his 25th birthday tomorrow with a party at his £4.5million home, apologised to fans for the ugly spat with Sir Alex, but made no excuses for his £200,000-a-week salary – double his previous pay.
Great Britain-or UK has not been an integrated Nation.Conglomerate of disparate groups whose areas different from Chalk and Cheese; they do not even have the linguistic bond, so necessary to bind a Nation,nor does it have religious bond for different ,often violent divisions of Church, it does not allow integration.Mere brutal power has made Ireland,Scotland to become an unwilling and reluctant partner in UK.Time England realized this or it may face tougher days ahead .
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The Scottish Government is due to publish its white paper on Scotland’s constitutional future, which could pave the way for an independence referendum.
First Minister Alex Salmond is expected to argue Scotland must be independent to meet its full economic potential.
But the minority SNP administration does not have enough support to pass a referendum bill as Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems all oppose the plan.
But the process could see Holyrood gain more power over taxation and spending.
The white paper is being launched on ST Andrew’s Day and comes after the SNP government began its “national conversation” on Scotland’s future. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8385425.stm
No individual is worth this much in a team game.
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