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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)                   71


               In the early morning hours of June 30, 1908, in Central Siberia, a giant
               fireball was seen moving rapidly across the sky. Where it touched the
               horizon, an enormous explosion took place. It leveled some 2,000 square
               kilometers [770 square miles] of forest and burned thousands of trees in
               a flash fire near the impact site. It produced an atmospheric shock wave
               that twice circled the Earth. For two days afterward, there was so much
               fine dust in the atmosphere that one could read a newspaper at night by

               scattered light in the streets of London, 10,000 kilometers [6,200 miles]
               away. 22
               Eyewitnesses can give us clues about other potential disasters:
               I was sitting on the porch of the house at the trading station of
               Vanovara at breakfast time and looking towards the north. I just raised
               my axe to hoop a cask, when suddenly... the sky was split in two, and
               high above the forest the whole northern part of the sky appeared to be
               covered with fire. At the moment I felt a great heat, as if my shirt had
               caught fire... I wanted to pull off my shirt and throw it away, but at that

               moment there was a bang in the sky, and a mighty crash was heard. I
               was thrown on the ground about three sajenes [about 7 meters or 23
               feet] away from the porch and for a moment I lost consciousness. My
               wife ran out and carried me into the hut. The crash was followed by a
               noise like stones falling from the sky, or guns firing. The Earth
               trembled, and when I lay on the ground I covered my head, because I
               was afraid that stones might hit it. At that moment when the sky
               opened, a hot wind, as from a cannon, blew past the huts from the north.
               It left its mark on the ground... 23

               We do not know from where the next meteor might come or
             strike.
               According to scientists, every 2 centuries a meteor the size of the
             Tunguska one collides with Earth, a fact that illustrates the
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