Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June 30,1908, a giant fireball exploded in Siberia's remote Tunguska region, leveling trees for more than 20 miles around and causing atmospheric shock waves that were detected round the world. At the time, scientists thought that a giant meteorite had crashed into the earth. Later, when they failed to find a major crater or clearly identifiable meteorite fragments at the site, they began to question their earlier theory...
Jackson and Ryan calculate that if such an object (which would have the mass of a moderate-sized asteroid) intercepted the earth's path at a velocity of about 25,000 m.p.h., it would have set off a shock wave quite similar to the one from the Siberian blast. They re port in Nature that the black hole's passage through the atmosphere would have left a deep blue trail of ionized particles like the streak seen by witnesses near the 1908 blast. Finally, the energy released by the black hole (comparable to that of a ten-megaton...
...angle of 30° from the horizon. If the object was actually a black hole, it would have easily penetrated the earth in an almost straight line and emerged eight minutes later on the other side, about 1,000 miles east of Nova Scotia, triggering underwater and atmospheric shock waves and drawing off a thin, geyser-like column of water as it flew into space. Jackson and Ryan suggest that their theory may be supported by a search of oceanographic records and ships' logs for any reports of strange doings in the North Atlantic...
...skilled, indeed, are the performances that it may come as a shock for American audiences to learn that the National Chinese Opera Theater did not exist six months ago. Peking opera has had its hard core of followers on Taiwan, but nothing to match the popular appeal of the Ko Tsai Hsi, the Chinese folk opera company that regularly performs at festivals and on Taiwan...
After the initial shock, Brandon decides he is still in love. They frolic in amusement parks, get caught in a spring shower and just sit around feeling the fetus kick. Their love grows stronger...