AtDtDA(28): A Heavenwide Blast of Light

[Joe Allonby]

"That trick never works."

"I gotta get a new ass."

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 7:12 PM, <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> WOW!!!
>
> [To paraphrase Bullwinkle---"Watch me pull a rabbit out of my ass!]
>   -------------- Original message ----------------------
> 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
> >
>
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