About the village of Vanavara, located north of Krasnoyarsk, with a population of only about three thousand people, hardly any outsider could ever know if it were not for the event that made him famous throughout the world.
A lot of time has passed since the news of the Tunguska meteorite shook the world, but scientists around the world continue to argue, put forward new versions of the event and refute old ones. As the phrase from the famous movie says, the truth is somewhere nearby. Although the meteorite, according to the general opinion, did not leave any "mentions" about itself, such mentions are still in the form of unexpected gizmos that have their rightful owners, or natural wonders that cannot be explained.
Thus, in Krasnodar, a mysterious artifact was discovered, which was codenamed "the holy grail". The goblet found in the area of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite, according to its keepers, has healing properties, and scientists talk about the extraterrestrial ratio of chemical elements that make up this mysterious vessel. The information about the find shocked the whole world. They wrote about him both in the domestic and foreign press, calling it "an ordinary glass", then "greetings from aliens." The owner of the "Grail" tirelessly repeats his story about how his great-grandfather, a nuclear physicist by training, brought this thing from an expedition to the supposed area of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite.
The pensioner sincerely believed that this was not an ordinary cup, but an object with healing properties and a positive effect on the human body. The first owner put the goblet under his pillow at night for many years and drank water from it throughout the day. It is worth recognizing that he really lived a lot - as much as 103 years (it is not known, really thanks to the cup, or for some other reason) and all this time he felt good, did not complain about his health and led an active lifestyle, and while dying he passed on a valuable a thing "inherited" to its descendant.
Then the events developed even more interesting: the new owner was not so kind to the cup and did not believe in its features. For a long time, this item was stored somewhere in the bowels of a garage or basement. But one day, the daughter of the new "owner" of the cup had a serious accident and received terrible injuries incompatible with life. According to the assurances of doctors, it turned out that even if the young girl survived, she would remain disabled for the rest of her life. However, having heard such disappointing forecasts, the girl's father immediately remembered the cup and almost ordered his daughter to drink any drinks, whether it be plain water or hot tea, only from the "Holy Grail". And now, less than two months later, the girl got to her feet and paid a visit to the doctor herself. It is difficult to convey what his amazement was.
After such a miraculous recovery of his daughter, which could not be called anything other than a miracle, the man became seriously interested in the family heirloom and began to make all sorts of attempts to reveal the secrets of this little thing. He took the goblet to the forensic laboratory for research and received an unexpected conclusion.
According to experts, the “holy grail” in terms of chemical composition consists of: silicon 90.5%, and impurities - potassium, iron and nickel, osmium, selenium, neodymium, cobalt. The analysis of the chemical composition was carried out using X-ray spectral analysis. In all likelihood, this object (aka the sample) is unambiguously extraterrestrial in nature, that is, a different isotope ratio.
This was the official conclusion of the experts. Surprisingly, this is one of the isolated cases when the "extraterrestrial" was documented.
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In the area of the Tunguska catastrophe, other unusual anomalous phenomena continue to occur. For example, the forest here grows at an unusual rate, and the number of mutations in trees is very high. In addition, the maximum number of mutations is observed exactly where, according to the calculations of scientists, the epicenter of the explosion was.
There is a version on this score, stating that the Tunguska meteorite damaged the ozone layer of the planet during the explosion and ultraviolet rays began to pass through the hole formed in the area of the disaster. It is these ultraviolet rays that are likely to cause mutations and other biological and ecological anomalies in the area.
As a result of the microelement and isotopic analysis of microparticles, of which, by all accounts, the meteorite actually consists, an increased amount of such elements as arsenic, zinc, selenium, bromine, silver, iodine, etc. was revealed. Probably, it was these substances that settled in the soil and became a stimulant for the rapid growth of the coniferous forest.
One historical fact is interesting, which tells about the resourcefulness of Soviet scientists. So, they did not fail to take advantage of the results of observations of the forest and made a bold attempt to make a fertilizer similar in composition to that found in the area of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite. As a result, their expectations were justified, and the potato yield increased several times, almost doubled, and the other biomass was dozens of times higher than the amount similar to it on the soil plots untreated with new fertilizer.
It turned out to be only one thing, whether in reality all this is directly related to the meteorite on the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. After all, it may be that space dust played its role, which constantly enters the atmosphere and serves as a kind of stimulant for the vital activity of plants. By the way, a lot of "merits" have already been attributed to cosmic dust, such as various diseases of humans and animals, the reproduction of certain types of insect pests, an increase in productivity, or, on the contrary, crop failure. In fact, adding a forest to this list is not difficult.
It is worth mentioning the fact that the explosion on Podkamennaya Tunguska received the greatest resonance in society and became the most memorable, but it was not at all the only one not only in the entire history of the Earth's existence, but even in a specific period of time. For example, it is believed that in the same summer of 1908, when the world observed an amazing phenomenon in the form of bright nights, another cosmic body called the Aleutian meteorite penetrated into the earth's atmosphere. All in the same 1908, in the Aleutian archipelago, another interesting object was scattered in the Earth's atmosphere - an iron-nickel meteorite. It was a 100 thousand-ton "creation" of a dusty composition, which crumbled into tiny particles. As a result, a huge cloud of cosmic dust was formed, which scattered over a huge distance and dispersed in the atmosphere, settling over a large area. The Aleutian meteorite is the predecessor of the Tunguska meteorite, and probably not the only one.
Another sign of a substance that is probably directly related to the Tunguska meteorite is the iridium anomaly observed in the sediments. More precisely, there were several such anomalies and they were observed in two different points of the planet.
A well-known scientist from America, while studying samples of the ice cover in Antarctica, also studied dust particles taken from the deep ice layer. As a result, he was able to establish that iridium in these layers contains much more than the norm and more than in other ice layers. Thanks to such an unexpected discovery as iridium - a rare element on Earth, but common enough for a meteorite, he even managed to guess the scale of the Tunguska "guest". In his opinion, the mass of the Tunguska meteorite was at least seven million tons, and the size was about one hundred and sixty meters.
Data from other researchers studying the ice layer from the South Pole region in the same year indicated that there was no increased content of iridium there.
Another wave of interest in the Tunguska meteorite swept the world after the provocative article of 1946, in which the famous science fiction writer A. Kazantsev expressed his assumption on this issue. Kazantsev's hypothesis was that this phenomenon is nothing more than an explosion over the Tunguska taiga of a spaceship of aliens or aliens, if anyone wants it. Moreover, he drew an analogy between the Tunguska explosion and the explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, noting the fact that in Hiroshima, the buildings that were directly at the epicenter of the explosion were much less damaged, just like on the Tunguska River, where the dead remained unharmed. forest. However, for that time it was too unexpected an approach and the article, as well as the scientist himself, was criticized "to smithereens." It was an unacceptable and frightening version,and it was not accepted to raise questions of this kind, although it is no secret that at the government level, secret development of weapons against aliens was already carried out and their existence, as such, was not refuted and was not a secret "in the highest circles."
Nevertheless, experts vied with each other to say that this could not be and called the statement about an explosion in the air erroneous, illiterate and absurd. It is not surprising, because if the explosion were recognized as nuclear, then there would be nothing left, just as the Tunguska meteorite was recognized as artificial. Neither the government, nor an unprepared society simply could accept such recognition in this difficult time.
However, found a little later, unusual balls with a tiny diameter and unusual structure, the supporters of the version of the aliens instantly "designated" the remains of the body of the space dish.
Modern versions are much more varied. According to some of them, it was the aliens who saved the Earth, preventing a powerful blow that would not leave anything alive on Earth.
Thus, the question of the Tunguska meteorite remained unclear. There are many versions, but the picture of the mysterious, "sensational" phenomenon has not yet been studied. But still, there are still many questions, the main one of which is: "Will anyone protect our Earth if something like this happens next time." It seems that we are only at the very beginning of the path of knowledge of the amazing and incredible, and people still have to learn a lot of interesting things.