The Cosmic Summit | The Tunguska Event: Nature's 15-Megaton Explosion @cosmicsummit | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
The Tunguska event is the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history, though much larger impacts occurred in prehistoric times. Tunguska exploded five miles up in the atmosphere with the force of about a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb. As a result of that explosion, over 820 miles of old growth Taiga Forest was utterly obliterated. What are the takeaways for future actions as you think about this event?
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#TunguskaEvent #MeteorImpact #NaturalDisaster #SpaceImpact #SiberianExplosion #ScienceHistory #AtmosphericBlast #MysteriousExplosions
The Tunguska event is the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history, though much larger impacts occurred in prehistoric times. Tunguska exploded five miles up in the atmosphere with the force of about a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb. As a result of that explosion, over 820 miles of old growth Taiga Forest was utterly obliterated. What are the takeaways for future actions as you think about this event?
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#TunguskaEvent #MeteorImpact #NaturalDisaster #SpaceImpact #SiberianExplosion #ScienceHistory #AtmosphericBlast #MysteriousExplosions