AtDtDA(28): A Heavenwide Blast of Light

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WOW!!!

[To paraphrase Bullwinkle---"Watch me pull a rabbit out of my ass!]
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From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> "A heavenwide blast of light.
> 
> "As of 7:17 A.M. local time on 30 June 1908 ..."  (AtD, Pt. IV, p. 779)
> 
> 
> "A heavenwide blast of light"
> 
> http://www.tunguska.ru/
> 
> http://omzg.sscc.ru/tunguska/
> 
> The Tunguska Event, sometimes called the Tunguska explosion, was a
> massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony)
> Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around
> 7:14 a.m. (0:14 UT, 7:02 a.m. local solar time) on June 30, 1908 (June
> 17 in the Julian calendar, in use locally at the time)....
> 
> [...]
> 
> The explosion felled an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 square
> kilometers (830 square miles). The earthquake from the blast measured
> 5.0 on the Richter scale.
> 
> The Tunguska event was the largest impact event in Earth's recent
> history.  An explosion of this magnitude is capable of destroying a
> large metropolitan area....
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
> 
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071114.html
> 
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_768-791#Page_779
> 
> Sandia supercomputers offer new explanation of Tunguska disaster
> 
> ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The stunning amount of forest devastation at
> Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid
> only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia
> National Laboratories supercomputer simulations suggest....
> 
> http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/asteroid.html
> 
> Associating Tesla with the Tunguska event comes close to putting the
> inventor's power transmission idea in the same speculative category as
> ancient astronauts. However, historical facts point to the possibility
> that this event was caused by a test firing of Tesla's energy
> weapon....
> 
> http://www.frank.germano.com/tunguska.htm
> 
> 
> Padzhitnoff
> 
> Randolph St. Cosmo's "mysterious Russian counterpart"; "semi-mythical
> aeronaut" 761; disappearance in 1914, 1022; c.f. Alexey Pazhitnov,
> inventor of Tetris.
> 
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P
> 
> 
> "a contract employee of the Okhrana"
> 
> The Okhrannoye otdeleniye (Russian: Охранное отделение, 
> literally
> meaning Protection Section), usually called the Okhrana in Western
> sources, or Okhranka by those dissatisfied with the czarist regime,
> was a secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the
> Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in late 1800s, aided by Special
> Corps of Gendarmes....
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhranka
> 
> "contract employee"
> 
> http://foia.fbi.gov/guantanamo/122106.htm
> http://www.americancontractorsiniraq.com/
> http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=10828
> http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/13/3138/
> 
> 
> "at least thirty extra poods, roughly half a ton"
> 
> Russian measure of weight. One pood = 16.38 kilograms; 30 poods = 491
> kg = 1081 pounds, pretty close to half a ton
> 
> 
> ekipazh
> 
> Russian: crew, team.
> 
> 
> "Právil'no!"
> 
> Russian: all right
> 
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_768-791#Page_779
> 
> 
> "Russian design philosophy ..."
> 
> The Soviet space design philosophy has always been evolutionary versus
> the American style of revolutionary. The American manned program went
> from a reliable Apollo system to the quite untried and revolutionary
> lifting body Shuttle system. The Soviet system can be seen in the
> design evolution of both the Soyuz and Salyut space stations....
> 
> http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/AppA/Part1_12.html
> 
> ... as long as it kept working the Russians kept on using it.
> 
> That kind of design philosophy applies to Russian ICBMs as much as it
> did to the Mir space station or the Baikonur launch pad....
> 
> http://www.spacewar.com/news/icbm-05e.html
> 
> "The Russians don't worry about cosmetics or workmanship," says plant
> manager Steve Blake. "They build the thing and test the shit out of
> it...."
> 
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/rd-180.html
> 
> 
> Bol'shaia Igra
> 
> Russian: the Great Game; Padzhy's ship, counterpart to the
> Inconvenience, at the North Pole, 123; in Venice, 245; at Taklamakan,
> having left Tian Shan, 754; at Irkutsk, 779
> 
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=B
> 
> 
> "the aeronautics of other lands"
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronautics
> http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/Science_and_Technology/Aeronautics_Technology.
> htm
> http://www.literature.at/elib/index.php5?title=Aeronautics_History_-_Charles_Viv
> ian_-_1920
> 
> 
> Razvedka
> 
> Russian: intelligence (in the military-political sense).
> 
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_768-791#Page_779
>