{"id":12090,"date":"2009-06-29T12:33:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T17:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12090"},"modified":"2009-06-29T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T17:35:26","slug":"100-years-ago-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12090","title":{"rendered":"100 Years Ago Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12091\" title=\"tunguska\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tunguska.png\" alt=\"tunguska\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Those worried about a Tunguska event occurring any time soon can find solace in the words of NASA engineer Orville Reddenbacher MacGillicuddy who said that &#8220;such an event is as unlikely as two original and salient thoughts colliding in the skull of Jon Soltz.&#8221;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/space\/20090629\/sc_space\/spaceshuttleandstrangecloudskeytomysterious1908explosion\">From Space.com:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ever since something generated a huge explosion over Siberia in 1908, flattening an area as big as a large city, scientists have been trying to figure out what caused it.<\/p>\n<p>Among the enduring mysteries: Following the explosion, the night skies shone brightly for several nights across Europe all the way to London, 3,000 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>While there are some wild theories about the Tunguska event &#8212; involving a UFO or black hole or a bizarre death ray &#8212; astronomers have long known the culprit was either a comet or an asteroid. Based on the lack of a crater, scientists say the object did not smack into the ground, but rather exploded above the surface, the damage being done by the resulting shock wave.<\/p>\n<p>But which type of space rock was it?<\/p>\n<p>New evidence from an unlikely source &#8212; water vapor in the exhaust plumes of space shuttles launched a century later &#8212; points to a comet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kind of an interesting article if you are into Science. I had a roommate in college that was inordinately afraid of comet strikes. For me, I always harbored a secret fascination with Tsunamis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Those worried about a Tunguska event occurring any time soon can find solace in the words &hellip; <a title=\"100 Years Ago Tomorrow\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12090\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">100 Years Ago Tomorrow<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}