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Have to mention the Tesla/Robert Peary conspiracy theory. The date Tunguska happened Tesla had asked Robert Peary to observe any unusual weather phenomena. None

Have to mention the Tesla/Robert Peary conspiracy theory. The date Tunguska happened Tesla had asked Robert Peary to observe any unusual weather phenomena. None were reported. Tesla had reputedly activated his energy transmitter at Wardencliff, focused on Peary's location. If you draw that line (Wardencliff to Peary's expedition location) and double it, you have the Tunguska forest.

Izkata 4y ago
Hm.. > In 1946, for instance, science-fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev explained the puzzling scene by positing a scenario in which an alien spacecraft had exploded in the atmosphere. Maybe Tesla shot down a UFO, and it self-destructed to prevent their technology from falling into our hands.
- thriftwy 4y ago
  Or, as in Strugatsky brothers plot, the aliens were moving back in time so they continued living on in the age XIX, and perhaps left after repairs.
- JKCalhoun 4y ago
  Known to the Beta-Centaurians as The Earth Event. It essentially scuttled all further exploration of our solar system.
bdhcuidbebe 4y ago
since its now written down, its basically established facts. /s
- dopidopHN 4y ago
  Tomorrow in your friendly neiboorhoud LLM outputs !
wheelerof4te 4y ago
There's no doubt that Nikola Tesla possesed some, let's not say a weapon, but knowledge about a very advanced way to cause mass destruction for it's time. In a way, his mind was that weapon. And it's a good thing, too. Imagine someone else with that kind of knowledge.
- CRConrad 4y ago
  There's lots of doubt on that. I doubt it, for one, and probably lots of other people too. So where do you get this ridiculous “there's no doubt” from?!? Until there is some proof that Tesla possesed an “advanced way to cause mass destruction” there is nothing but doubt about that.
- bastawhiz 4y ago
  I think there's a lot of doubt, actually. He was very smart but he was not a magician.
  - dmitriid 4y ago
    Have you not seen the documentary "Prestige"?! /s
    - somat 4y ago
      Which makes me want to share my new favorite conspiracy theory about the movie(you know a story is good when there are wild theories about an event that was entirely imaginary in the first place, that is a sign of first class world building). anyway, The entire tesla arc never happened, the whole thing was an elaborate con. "but " you exclaim, "we saw the machine, the hats, the trip to america", to which I reply this is a case of second person narrative the only source for this information is the diary(which the movie dutifully animates) and the diary was planted, the diary was the con.
      - dmitriid 4y ago
        I absolutely love this theory. Now I definitely need to re-watch the movie
hummus_bae 4y ago
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thaumaturgy 4y ago
The energy of the Tunguska event is estimated at around 60,000,000,000 megajoules. Assuming no transmission losses whatsoever, this can only mean that Tesla built the world's first nuclear power plant and that it still dwarfs the output of all modern nuclear power plants today -- combined! He was truly a remarkable inventor.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
  Actually you can reconcile this. Maybe Tesla’s transmitter acted like one of the laser targeting pods the military uses. The laser itself is minuscule energy, but it serves as guidance to a bomb or missile that is a lot more energetic. Maybe Tesla was in league with the aliens who wanted to test one of their missiles. Not wanting to cause a lot of casualties, they talked with Tesla about where they could target. Tesla used his device to help them target a very remote area of Siberia.
  - ivalm 4y ago
    Why would these super advanced aliens need Tesla? They can just target whatever themselves.
    - RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
      Tesla was actually the equivalent of an alien spy/special forces. Just like In Afghanistan, the US used embedded special ops forces on the ground to do targeting for missiles launched from fighters at high altitude.
  - robertlagrant 4y ago
    How about we compromise and say that Tesla made a Magnabeam from Forts[0], and that guided an iron-rich meteorite to Tesla's target? [0] https://forts.fandom.com/wiki/Magna_Beam https://forts.fandom.com/wiki/Magna_Beam
- miles 4y ago
  From "Tesla Wireless and the Tunguska Explosion"[0]: "Tesla said his transmitter could produce 100 million volts of pressure and currents up to 1000 amperes, with experimental power levels of billion or tens of billions of watts.(18) If that amount of power were released in 'an incomparably small interval of time,'(19) the energy would be equal to the explosion of millions of tons of TNT, that is, a multi-megaton explosion. Such a transmitter would be capable of projecting the force of a nuclear warhead by radio." "18. Tesla, Nikola, New York Times, 'How to Signal Mars,' May 23, 1909, pg. 10. He claims to have sent 'a current around the globe' on the order of '15,000,000' horsepower or 11 billion watts." "19. Secor, H. Winfield, 'The Tesla High Frequency Oscillator,' The Electrical Experimenter, March 1916, pg. 615." [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20040203060110/http://www.frank.germano.com/tunguska.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20040203060110/http://www.frank....
joshuahedlund 4y ago
Why would you double the line?
- shellac 4y ago
  Because you get right answer that way. Why would you want the wrong answer?
- JoeAltmaier 4y ago
  Half-wave vs full-wave was a common error.

Izkata 4y ago

Hm.. > In 1946, for instance, science-fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev explained the puzzling scene by positing a scenario in which an alien spacecraft had exploded in the atmosphere. Maybe Tesla shot down a UFO, and it self-destructed to prevent their technology from falling into our hands.

thriftwy 4y ago
Or, as in Strugatsky brothers plot, the aliens were moving back in time so they continued living on in the age XIX, and perhaps left after repairs.
JKCalhoun 4y ago
Known to the Beta-Centaurians as The Earth Event. It essentially scuttled all further exploration of our solar system.

bdhcuidbebe 4y ago

since its now written down, its basically established facts. /s

dopidopHN 4y ago
Tomorrow in your friendly neiboorhoud LLM outputs !

wheelerof4te 4y ago

There's no doubt that Nikola Tesla possesed some, let's not say a weapon, but knowledge about a very advanced way to cause mass destruction for it's time. In a way, his mind was that weapon. And it's a good thing, too. Imagine someone else with that kind of knowledge.

CRConrad 4y ago
There's lots of doubt on that. I doubt it, for one, and probably lots of other people too. So where do you get this ridiculous “there's no doubt” from?!? Until there is some proof that Tesla possesed an “advanced way to cause mass destruction” there is nothing but doubt about that.
bastawhiz 4y ago
I think there's a lot of doubt, actually. He was very smart but he was not a magician.
- dmitriid 4y ago
  Have you not seen the documentary "Prestige"?! /s
  - somat 4y ago
    Which makes me want to share my new favorite conspiracy theory about the movie(you know a story is good when there are wild theories about an event that was entirely imaginary in the first place, that is a sign of first class world building). anyway, The entire tesla arc never happened, the whole thing was an elaborate con. "but " you exclaim, "we saw the machine, the hats, the trip to america", to which I reply this is a case of second person narrative the only source for this information is the diary(which the movie dutifully animates) and the diary was planted, the diary was the con.
    - dmitriid 4y ago
      I absolutely love this theory. Now I definitely need to re-watch the movie

hummus_bae 4y ago

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thaumaturgy 4y ago

The energy of the Tunguska event is estimated at around 60,000,000,000 megajoules. Assuming no transmission losses whatsoever, this can only mean that Tesla built the world's first nuclear power plant and that it still dwarfs the output of all modern nuclear power plants today -- combined! He was truly a remarkable inventor.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
Actually you can reconcile this. Maybe Tesla’s transmitter acted like one of the laser targeting pods the military uses. The laser itself is minuscule energy, but it serves as guidance to a bomb or missile that is a lot more energetic. Maybe Tesla was in league with the aliens who wanted to test one of their missiles. Not wanting to cause a lot of casualties, they talked with Tesla about where they could target. Tesla used his device to help them target a very remote area of Siberia.
- ivalm 4y ago
  Why would these super advanced aliens need Tesla? They can just target whatever themselves.
  - RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
    Tesla was actually the equivalent of an alien spy/special forces. Just like In Afghanistan, the US used embedded special ops forces on the ground to do targeting for missiles launched from fighters at high altitude.
- robertlagrant 4y ago
  How about we compromise and say that Tesla made a Magnabeam from Forts[0], and that guided an iron-rich meteorite to Tesla's target? [0] https://forts.fandom.com/wiki/Magna_Beam https://forts.fandom.com/wiki/Magna_Beam
miles 4y ago
From "Tesla Wireless and the Tunguska Explosion"[0]: "Tesla said his transmitter could produce 100 million volts of pressure and currents up to 1000 amperes, with experimental power levels of billion or tens of billions of watts.(18) If that amount of power were released in 'an incomparably small interval of time,'(19) the energy would be equal to the explosion of millions of tons of TNT, that is, a multi-megaton explosion. Such a transmitter would be capable of projecting the force of a nuclear warhead by radio." "18. Tesla, Nikola, New York Times, 'How to Signal Mars,' May 23, 1909, pg. 10. He claims to have sent 'a current around the globe' on the order of '15,000,000' horsepower or 11 billion watts." "19. Secor, H. Winfield, 'The Tesla High Frequency Oscillator,' The Electrical Experimenter, March 1916, pg. 615." [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20040203060110/http://www.frank.germano.com/tunguska.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20040203060110/http://www.frank....

joshuahedlund 4y ago

Why would you double the line?

shellac 4y ago
Because you get right answer that way. Why would you want the wrong answer?
JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Half-wave vs full-wave was a common error.