Today In History (July 01 1908)

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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1908: The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, results in a massive explosion over eastern Siberia.

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The event was mentioned in this ADV:


Our Only Chance

"...That averages somewhat over one mass extinction every 100 million years. While no one can know how long it will be before the next such event, we do know 1) that human beings have definitely polluted the Earth and changed its chemical composition in widespread locations, and 2) that there is a constant flow of rogue asteroids intersecting Earth’s orbit, and the probability of one large enough to threaten our existence hitting that orbit when the Earth is at the same spot — and there are effectively only 365.25 such “spots” per year — is definitely not zero; and, in fact, a smaller but still significant asteroid did impact Earth’s atmosphere in relatively recent times, exploding a few miles above the Earth over Siberia in 1908 — the Tunguska Event, which vaporized or instantly incinerated or flattened trees across 1,200 square miles of forest, and caused eerie lights to be seen in the sky as far away as New York City. The Tunguska asteroid is estimated to have been only 60 yards across, made of material that exploded miles in the air, so it never struck the Earth..."

Source:
https://nationalvanguard.org/2024/02/our-only-chance/