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There's probably a Tunguska-sized event at some point that claims 99.99% of all meteorite victims and wasn't registered because everybody that knew about it die
by marcosdumay 2y ago
There's probably a Tunguska-sized event at some point that claims 99.99% of all meteorite victims and wasn't registered because everybody that knew about it died in it.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoAccording to some witnesses, the Tunguska event itself killed three people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event I wonder if any people died as an indirect result - someone startled by the flash of light or the bang, who stepped into the path of a carriage, or just slipped and fell and cracked their skull.
- somat 2y agoThere is one theory that that the biblical story about the annihilation of the city of Sodom was brought about by a large air-burst meteor, think Chelyabinsk and add a couple of order of magnitude. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8452666/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8452666/ However, note that when I was trying to find the original paper, that is, something more substantial than the popular news blurbs that are everywhere, I found wikipedia was less than impressed with the evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_el-Hammam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_el-Hammam Anyhow, I suspect a lot of our long term generational history gets turned into religion and legend, that is to say, the legendary events probably happened but like a good fish story the facts get shifted over the years.