Author says Tunguska explanation a bunch of bologna
While researching his novel Singularity, Bill DeSmedt learned quite a lot about the Tunguska Event that flattened a huge tract of Siberia a century ago. To this day, nobody knows what caused it. Some say meteorite, some say comet, some crazies say a crashed alien spacecraft.
Today, he wrote to let me know of his blogging crusade against the bogus claims emanating this week from the aptly-named University of Bologna — claims that they’ve finally “solved” the mystery. Tunguska, they say, must have been caused by a meteorite impact, because they’ve found the crater. And they’re pointing to Lake Cheko, a small body of water in the vicinity of the Tunguska epicenter, as the long-sought smoking gun.
Bill, who reads and speaks Russian fluently, checked up on their facts. What he found is described in detail on his “Accidental Author” blog, but the bottom line is: Lake Cheko couldn’t have been a crater formed by the Tunguska impact, because — according to documentary evidence and contemporary eyewitness accounts — the lake was there long before the Tunguska Event happened!
As Bill says:
In contrast to researchers like the ones at Bologna, us fiction writers are like those folks who make the Hebrew National franks: When it comes to getting our story straight, we have to answer to an even Higher Authority.
I highly encourage followers of this Event to check out Bill’s book Singularity, available right here on Podiobooks.com. It’s really more fiction about science than science fiction, and is perfect for those who like action packed spy novels. Plus, Bill has done an outstanding job with the production of the book. It’s one of my favorites!
August 6th, 2009 at 9:22 am
look, the main reson because the lake shoud be old, is that an important russian professor said so when Stalin ruled, and nobody could tell anything different, under the peril to win an holiday in north siberia for 20 or 30 years.
we found no evidence nor record about a lake before 1908 there. and we found many fisical evidences that the lake could be new.
i don’t know if the meteorite lays there, but be sure that something weird is there, and that the lake shape is very unusual.
now i can tell you that the geology of that area is not as the map show. and tha the only way to find out the truth is not to chatter, but to dig and drill the lake bottom.
we hope to do this, and other, soon
ciao
marco – bologna – italy