Horrorflick said:
how hard can it be to find a crater that formed less than a hundred years ago?
Depends what it formed in. In permafrost, it would heat the area around and the whole thing would fill with ice, no?
This is taiga, not tundra. That equals trees+cold, but no permafrost...
True. I retreat, leaving only the comment that I was correct.
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November 2003
NOV 15, 2007 07:43 PM
Outstanding.
I forget, did Pynchon directly connect Tesla and Tunguska? In the book I remember a lot about Tesla, and a bit about Tunguska, but didn't connect the two. And I ain't reading that fucker again any time soon.
There's a good episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos with cool footage from back in the day when Kulik went out to find the crater. The shots of flattened trees are nutty.
In the Hellboy movie that giant stone thingy that Hellboy has to put his hands into at the end of the movie to start the apocalypse is the thing that crashed and wiped out the forest.
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July 2006
NOV 15, 2007 04:45 PM