Ancient Planetary Collisions, Ocean Mysteries and the Tunguska Event

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0:30 Speaker 2 Sunday Morning, Well with us is Uh Steve Cats, otherwise known as Doctor Sky, and to talk about what the heck is going on with up up in the Yeskies or down below the seas or whatever other mysteries we’re going to talk about today.

0:51 Speaker 3 Well, good morning John, Happy Sunday to you and the listeners. We’ll go down deeper into the oceans because here’s something fascinating. We’re hearing about the destruction of the rainforest, which is a serious concern. But John, the oceans produce half of the Earth’s oxygen, not necessarily the rainforest by something called photosynthesis.

1:09 We all learned about that in school, but more importantly why and how this is happening in the ocean. They’re these marine algae called phytoplankt and they’re so abundant that if you took a small tea spoon to that out of seawater, you could have millions of them. So the important part here, John on Sunday morning, is that the oceans,

1:29 obviously is so critical to so many factors on the Earth. Even though the Earth has a regenerative system as money, we know from extinctions, the mystery of the oceans. They continue to surprise us amazing stuff.

1:41 Speaker 2 Well down in the oceans. You know, people have made comments that we’ve explored the moon more so than what’s down at the bottom of the oceans. And one of the things that they talk about is the possibility in the you know, we don’t know these uf that we’re talking about, upos UFOs, whatever you want to call them. Well,

2:06 the speculation maybe they come from down deep in the oceans.

2:10 Speaker 3 Which is very true, John, It’s amazing.

2:12 Speaker 2 And we don’t really know because we really don’t know what’s down there, because you know, I guess it’s going to take time and we’ll eventually find out.

2:23 Speaker 3 I hope. So we’ll continue on that theme. John, here’s something in the geologic world that it’s a relatively new finding. They’re two large, continent sized structures that sit beneath the Earth’s mantle. They’re name Tuzo and Jason after these two different geologists, one of them onto the Pacific Ocean and one of them near Africa and the Atlantic Ocean. It’s incredible.

2:44 They’re eighteen hundred miles long.

2:47 Speaker 2 So you have to go slowly on that so I can understand it.

2:51 Speaker 4 Underneath the there’s another continent underneath the Atlantic at the Pacific Ocean that may have been a continent above the ocean at one time.

3:03 Speaker 3 John, at No, it’s deeper inside the Earth, and it’s these structures that nobody understands. They’re continent sized, big massive sheets of rock, eighteen hundred miles long, which is six percent of the volume of the Earth, and they’ve been there maybe two hundred million years ago. But here’s one of the theories John, of where this might have come about.

3:22 Many people believe that the ocean, which helped to produce No, not the moon. We thought in school that the moon came out of the Pacific Ocean. There was a planet sized object, maybe the size of Mars, that allegedly struck the Earth, and when it exploded or pushed material into the surface of the Earth, these pieces of that other

3:41 planetary object called FEA, which was the planetary object that hit the Earth. This is what’s still underneath. But John, it has so much to do with how the Earth vibrates. They call them plate tectonics with earthquakes. So once again, just like the oceans, we’re learning so much about these great mysteries of what lies below our feet. And the

4:00 beat goes.

4:01 Speaker 2 On, Wow, okay, incredible. What else?

4:06 Speaker 3 Well, we got something else. We’re celebrating an anniversary that many people may not even know about. On June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, some hundred and eighteen years ago, one of the largest asteroid or slashed comet nuclei explosions in history. It occurred over the northern part of Siberia.

4:22 In history, it’s known as the Tunguska event. Well, what may be happen there, John, is that a small asteroid, maybe a couple one hundred feet or it might have been the nucleus of a comet. It laid down, It didn’t actually hit the Earth. It exploded maybe about seven or eight miles above the Earth, and it leveled an

4:39 area the size of Connecticut. And it wasn’t really discovered until around the nineteen twenties. But if it happened John about a half hour earlier, and this is interesting, it might have hit directly over London, England, So maybe luck is on our side. Nobody really understands. The Tunguska event a totally amazing like a nuclear block from space, giving

5:01 us an indication not even small asteroids, even if they don’t slam into the ground, are concerned for causation because look at the damage they do, just like detonating a nuclear weapon, some say between three and fifty megatons. Nobody’s really heard about this because back then, you know, in the year nineteen oh eight, we didn’t have, of course

5:22 the great technology of communications. But it is a fact, and it’s an amazing story.

5:27 Speaker 2 Absolutely right now, if somebody, if there’s a fire in Tokyo, we know about it thirty seconds later in New York, I.

5:35 Speaker 3 Mean right, absolutely.

5:37 Speaker 2 Well, Steve Kates, doctor skuy, I also enjoy listening to you every Saturday morning from midnight Friday night till two am Saturday morning and every Sunday morning from midnight Saturday night to two o’clock Sunday morning, and keep it going.

5:54 And people enjoy your shows, and I enjoy your shows, and we’ll talk again real soon.

6:00 Speaker 3 Thank you, John. Have a great Sunday, and we’ll talk next week about the great things you can see in the July skies as we celebrate our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the greatest nation, the United States of America.

6:12 Thank you, John, Have a good Sunday.