In 1908, the most powerful meteoroid explosion in recorded history happened over a remote area of Siberia. But the weird thing is there was no impact crater and no asteroid to be found – so was it an asteroid? (Yes.)
In this episode, Josh and Chuck dive into one of history's most mysterious cosmic explosions: the Tunguska event of 1908, when a massive blast flattened 80 million trees across remote Siberia with a force thousands of times greater than the atomic bomb. They explore how scientist Leonid Kulik pieced together evidence from a site he couldn't even find a crater at, and reveal what scientists now believe actually happened—a meteor exploding miles above the Earth in a devastating airburst. Along the way, they discuss other similar events in history, including a possible connection to the biblical story of Sodom, and explain why we're overdue for another Tunguska-level event somewhere on our planet.
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