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On June 30, 1908, something exploded over Siberia with the force of a nuclear weapon.

No crater.
No impact site.
No warning.

Just 80 million trees flattened, shockwaves that circled the planet, skies that glowed at night across Europe, and a mystery that still hasn’t been fully explained more than a century later.

Officially, we’re told it was a stony asteroid or a comet fragment that detonated midair — an airburst event similar to a nuclear explosion but without radiation.

Unofficially?
Humanity may have narrowly avoided an extinction-level disaster… by sheer geographic luck.

In this episode, we break down:

Why Tunguska flattened forests in a perfect radial pattern

How something with no crater caused global atmospheric effects

Whether this was truly harmless — or just harmless by accident

Why similar events could be far more devastating over a populated area

The uncomfortable reality that we don’t fully understand impacts of this scale

We also dig into the science, the speculation, the dark humor, and the uncomfortable questions:
What if this happened somewhere else?
What if it happens again?
And how close did we really come?

Because sometimes the scariest answer isn’t what happened —
it’s how little it took for us to survive.
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