<a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30jun_tunguska.htm" title="tunguska_kulik_strip.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/tunguska_kulik_strip.jpg" alt="tunguska_kulik_strip.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial"> </span><p style="font-size: small"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>June 30, 2008:</strong> The year is 1908, and it's just after seven in the morning. A man is sitting on the front porch of a trading post at Vanavara in Siberia. Little does he know, in a few moments, he will be hurled from his chair and the heat will be so intense he will feel as though his shirt is on fire.</span></p><p style="font-size: small"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's how the Tunguska event felt <em>40 miles</em> from ground zero.</span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal">Today, June 30, 2008, is the 100th anniversary of that ferocious impact near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in remote Siberia--and after 100 years, scientists are still talking about it.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic">Celebrate the centenary of humanity's closest shave with total annihilation via this nice article at </span><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30jun_tunguska.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic">NASA!</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic"> </span> 