BINGO User ID: 54062319 Croatia 02/08/2014 01:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled Scientists baffled since 1949! don't tell [ link to www.dailymail.co.uk] When one geologist stumbled across a massive mound 65 years ago, he had no idea his discovery would spark one of the world’s strangest scientific mysteries. The site in Irkutsk, Siberia was discovered in 1949 and is a huge convex cone with a funnel-shaped recess and a rounded hill in the middle, which looks a little like an eagle’s nest with an egg nestled inside it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 54081138 United Kingdom 02/08/2014 01:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled Is this to do with the Siberian "kettles" that are space-alien, anti-meteor defence devices? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 54073344 United States 02/08/2014 02:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled That was the result of the first Russian to use 500 model rocket engines to launch himself into the air |
BINGO (OP) User ID: 54062319 Croatia 02/08/2014 02:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled
The origin of the Patomskiy crater has baffled scientists for decades and theories for its existence have ranged from a nuclear blast to a secret gulag mine and even a meteorite strike. a secret gulag mine? |
BINGO (OP) User ID: 54062319 Croatia 02/08/2014 02:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled Scientists now think that there is something with a high iron content and ferromagnetic materials buried between 100 and 150 metres underneath the crater. They believe it could be a meteorite or another incredibly dense object, but they are not certain. The fact that the crater is ‘alive’ as its shape changes constantly - by rising and falling - and that the trees nearby the site are reported to grow abnormally fast, adds to the mystery. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 54081138 United Kingdom 02/08/2014 02:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled The origin of the Patomskiy crater has baffled scientists for decades and theories for its existence have ranged from a nuclear blast to a secret gulag mine and even a meteorite strike. a secret gulag mine? Quoting: BINGO 54062319 Could be. A lot of zeks died in the mines of Vorkuta so that Joe Stalin could have plenty of gold. |
BINGO (OP) User ID: 54062319 Croatia 02/08/2014 02:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled
The origin of the Patomskiy crater has baffled scientists for decades and theories for its existence have ranged from a nuclear blast to a secret gulag mine and even a meteorite strike. a secret gulag mine? Quoting: BINGO 54062319 Could be. A lot of zeks died in the mines of Vorkuta so that Joe Stalin could have plenty of gold. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 54081138 riiight |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 32501737 United States 02/08/2014 02:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled A meteorite impact would throw out ejecta far from the crater. This looks more like the remains you would see from a boring augur working it's way into the earth. Did the Russians start up an autonomous boring machine and let it go straight down? |
BINGO (OP) User ID: 54062319 Croatia 02/08/2014 03:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled A meteorite impact would throw out ejecta far from the crater. This looks more like the remains you would see from a boring augur working it's way into the earth. Did the Russians start up an autonomous boring machine and let it go straight down?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 32501737 Not yet. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 32501737 United States 02/08/2014 03:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled
The rock is pulverized but it shows little signs of erosion so this has to be a recent event. The rocks are not thrown out but pushed out from the center. Even a low energy impact would throw rocks out and there is no sign of that. There is no sign of heating of the rock. They are broken with sharp edges. The site is a mound and not a crater. Something underneath the mound has displaced the rock up and out but at a very low velocity. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 54077826 United Kingdom 02/08/2014 03:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled solid iron meteorite i reckon
it would have been slowed to just over terminal velocity, and that diameter of that round pile is probably quite close to the diameter of the object below imho |
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Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled good thread. Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |