What happened at Tunguska Russia?
The explosion over the sparsely populated Eastern Siberian Taiga flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of forest, and eyewitness reports suggest that at least three people may have died in the event.
Did Nikola Tesla cause the Tunguska explosion?
2), a MAX series, it was explained that Nikola Tesla was experimenting with ionizing the Earth’s atmosphere and realized that his “scalar technology” could produce giant bolts of lightning around the globe. It was explained that Tesla was responsible for the Tunguska event in 1908, as a test run for his new weapon.
How powerful was the Tunguska meteor?
The energy of the explosion is estimated to have been equivalent to the explosive force of as much as 15 megatons of TNT—a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.
Did Nikola Tesla create a bomb?
Over the course of his life, Tesla conceived of weapons of such destructive magnitude that they would rival the atom bomb in their devastating power—had they been built and put to use. One such weapon was the Artificial Tidal Wave, which he believed would be the ultimate defense against enemy navies.
What caused the Tunguska explosion?
In the early morning of June 30, 1908, a massive explosion flattened entire forests in a remote region of Eastern Siberia along the Tunguska River. Khrennikov and co say the explosion was caused by an asteroid that grazed the Earth, entering the atmosphere at a shallow angle and then passing out again into space.
Is death ray possible?
It’s possible, if unlikely, that the Government secretly took the Tesla death ray. In his later years, the same time he claimed to have built a death ray, his condition was rapidly growing worse. In fact, the death ray wasn’t the only invention he claimed to have created but never produced for the public.