Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:41:52 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Tunguska event centennial today
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 6/29/2008 11:34 PM >>>
>Today (June 30th in the relevant time zone) is the 100th anniversary
>of the Tunguska event, in which nearly a thousand square miles of
>Siberian forest were flattened by a tremendous explosion.  Asteroid?
>Comet?  Starship?  Antimatter?  Time traveler with an H-bomb?  Nobody
>knows.  Could it happen again today, perhaps over a major city?
>Nobody knows.
>
>Discuss among yourselves.

Being aware of the Internets, I went to YouTube and found this History =
Channel presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiXpp-i442s ,
and on the right side with "Related Videos" was this bit of crazed =
conspiracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ2-hQNmeeM&feature=related  -  perhaps =
the results of too many re-readings of Shea & Wilson's Illuminati trilogy?

Going further, I looked up Tunguska in the JHU Press "Search the full text =
of our books" http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/bip_index.html  and found 3 =
references, the first one was from all things: "Theory of the Novel: A =
Historical Approach" dealing with, even more oddly, an Ian Watson story.

Those Internets, 'tis amazing.

mjw