The Tunguska Event was an event that took place on 30 June 1908 in remote Siberia.
[00:00:01] The Rambler Network
[00:00:03] The first episode back in two years
[00:00:46] I am talking about the Tunguska Event
[00:00:49] For this episode
[00:00:55] I thought I would do a historical one
[00:00:59] In fact, a lot of the episodes this season
[00:01:03] Are going to be historical
[00:01:05] Because I just wanted to do historical ones
[00:01:09] Now that I have a movie podcast
[00:01:12] I'll just save a lot of the pop culture-y stuff for that one
[00:01:17] At least for this season
[00:01:19] If you heard the introduction, then I've covered that
[00:01:22] I'm not going to rehash that
[00:01:24] So, I'm just going to start talking about
[00:01:28] The Tunguska Event right off the bat
[00:01:32] So, the Tunguska Event
[00:01:38] It happened on the 30th of June, 1908
[00:01:44] Which was a very long time ago
[00:01:46] It was in a very remote area of Siberia
[00:01:51] In Russia
[00:01:53] So, basically what happened was
[00:01:56] There was
[00:01:57] In the middle of nowhere
[00:01:59] A literal nowhere
[00:02:01] There was
[00:02:04] There was
[00:02:05] This flash
[00:02:05] Across the sky
[00:02:07] And then it exploded
[00:02:09] And it's been described as
[00:02:14] With the force of like
[00:02:16] A thousand Hiroshima's
[00:02:19] And it blew away a bunch of trees
[00:02:21] There's
[00:02:23] There's no crater
[00:02:25] Because whatever this thing was
[00:02:28] Blew up in midair
[00:02:31] And
[00:02:32] It was so remote
[00:02:34] It took well over a decade
[00:02:36] Before anybody actually went to investigate
[00:02:39] There were witnesses
[00:02:41] They were a long ways away
[00:02:44] It's a sparsely populated area
[00:02:49] And it did kill three people
[00:02:56] But considering
[00:02:58] What the event was
[00:03:00] And how like devastating it was
[00:03:03] To the surrounding areas
[00:03:05] And all the
[00:03:06] Like the trees had uprooted
[00:03:07] And everything
[00:03:09] It's amazing
[00:03:10] It only killed three people
[00:03:12] Because if this happened in like
[00:03:15] New York City
[00:03:17] Or something
[00:03:18] I'm pretty sure
[00:03:19] It would have like wiped out
[00:03:21] The whole
[00:03:22] Place
[00:03:23] Like there wouldn't be
[00:03:24] Any survivors
[00:03:25] I would imagine
[00:03:26] If that happened there
[00:03:29] And over the last
[00:03:32] Century
[00:03:33] And
[00:03:34] I was going to say
[00:03:34] Century and a half
[00:03:35] It's been 116 years
[00:03:39] And
[00:03:40] There's been a lot of theories
[00:03:42] And a lot of them
[00:03:43] I hear are
[00:03:44] You know
[00:03:45] Oh it was aliens
[00:03:46] It was
[00:03:47] You know
[00:03:49] It was the aliens
[00:03:51] Testing some nuclear weapon
[00:03:53] But this was
[00:03:53] Long before
[00:03:55] Nuclear weapons
[00:03:56] Were a thing
[00:03:56] Of course it was aliens
[00:03:58] Then
[00:03:59] You know
[00:03:59] They don't
[00:04:00] They're not on the same
[00:04:01] Technological scale as us
[00:04:03] And they're way
[00:04:03] More advanced
[00:04:04] If they can
[00:04:06] Do the whole
[00:04:07] Uh
[00:04:08] Interstellar travel
[00:04:09] But
[00:04:10] Personally
[00:04:11] I do not think
[00:04:12] It was aliens
[00:04:14] My thought
[00:04:15] Is
[00:04:16] The most logical
[00:04:17] In that
[00:04:19] It was
[00:04:20] Most likely
[00:04:23] A meteorite
[00:04:24] That came to earth
[00:04:26] And
[00:04:27] Exploded
[00:04:28] Above the ground
[00:04:30] Before
[00:04:30] Hitting
[00:04:31] That's why
[00:04:32] There is no crater
[00:04:33] If you watch
[00:04:34] Documentaries and stuff
[00:04:35] Sometimes they will
[00:04:36] Talk about
[00:04:37] There's
[00:04:37] Miniature craters
[00:04:39] Where
[00:04:40] Things have hit
[00:04:42] And
[00:04:44] They found
[00:04:46] Microscopic
[00:04:47] Little
[00:04:49] Rocks
[00:04:50] Like little
[00:04:50] Pebbles
[00:04:51] Microscopic
[00:04:52] Like really tiny
[00:04:55] Uh
[00:04:56] Spheres
[00:04:56] Things
[00:04:57] And then they
[00:04:58] They go
[00:04:58] And they take them
[00:05:00] And they like
[00:05:00] Poke and prod
[00:05:01] At them
[00:05:02] And it turns out
[00:05:03] Oh
[00:05:03] This is
[00:05:04] Pieces of a meteorite
[00:05:07] So why are pieces
[00:05:08] Of a meteorite
[00:05:09] At
[00:05:10] At this site
[00:05:11] Unless
[00:05:12] A meteor
[00:05:14] Exploded
[00:05:15] So that's my
[00:05:16] Personal thought
[00:05:17] I mean
[00:05:18] If you don't want to
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[00:05:21] Try to
[00:05:22] Blow up
[00:05:23] Some trees
[00:05:24] You go ahead
[00:05:25] Why would
[00:05:27] Why would the aliens
[00:05:28] Do that
[00:05:30] They
[00:05:30] They attack this
[00:05:32] Random
[00:05:33] Middle of nowhere
[00:05:34] Place
[00:05:35] And they don't
[00:05:36] Do it
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[00:05:38] Do you think
[00:05:39] It was
[00:05:40] Like a test
[00:05:41] Shot
[00:05:42] Like how
[00:05:44] How they like
[00:05:45] Test nukes
[00:05:46] Over and over
[00:05:47] Again
[00:05:47] I don't think
[00:05:48] They do that now
[00:05:49] But like
[00:05:49] When they did
[00:05:52] But if
[00:05:52] Even if that was
[00:05:53] The case
[00:05:54] Like why would
[00:05:55] They do it
[00:05:55] Once
[00:05:56] Like they test
[00:05:57] It once
[00:05:57] And it's like
[00:05:57] Oh okay
[00:05:58] We got it
[00:06:02] No
[00:06:02] No
[00:06:03] It was
[00:06:03] It was
[00:06:03] Definitely a meteorite
[00:06:05] So
[00:06:07] This
[00:06:08] Has been
[00:06:09] Referenced
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[00:06:13] Shows
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[00:06:14] I want to talk
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[00:06:17] There was
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[00:06:21] Tunguska
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[00:06:24] You would
[00:06:25] Think
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[00:06:26] Would follow
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[00:06:34] Trying to
[00:06:35] Start a war
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[00:06:37] But there's
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[00:06:38] It did
[00:06:39] It did talk
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[00:06:49] Like
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[00:06:52] Be introduced
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[00:06:56] Tunguska
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[00:06:58] But
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[00:07:00] Considering
[00:07:01] It was
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[00:07:02] X-Files
[00:07:03] It's a little
[00:07:05] Surprising
[00:07:06] They didn't
[00:07:06] Go all out
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[00:07:07] I
[00:07:08] I didn't
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[00:07:10] I really
[00:07:10] Probably
[00:07:11] Should have
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[00:07:16] The point
[00:07:17] Is
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[00:07:31] No
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[00:07:58] Pictures
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[00:07:59] Trees
[00:08:00] Fallen
[00:08:00] Over
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[00:08:01] Could
[00:08:02] Have
[00:08:02] Caused
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[00:08:04] Had
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[00:08:05] Been
[00:08:05] Aliens
[00:08:06] But
[00:08:06] Then
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[00:08:11] It
[00:08:11] Was
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[00:08:12] It
[00:08:13] Was
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[00:09:00] Before
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[00:09:00] Took
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[00:09:01] Extended
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[00:09:03] I
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