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But I suspect we'll never know the true cause of this major event, whereby newspapers could be read at midnight without the aid of artificial light as far away as London and where the shockwave is said to have circled the globe twice.

What we do know is that the explosion knocked over an estimated 80 million trees covering 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi) and is estimated that the shock wave from the blast would have measured 5.0 on the Richter scale.

A picture taken 13 years after the event


Interestingly Sibir newspaper, July 2, 1908[18], described these witness accounts aof an event almost 2 weeks before the Tungunska event itself.

On the 17th of June, around 9 a.m. in the morning, we observed an unusual natural occurrence. In the north Karelinski village [200 verst, or about 130 miles, north of Kirensk] the peasants saw to the north west, rather high above the horizon, some strangely bright (impossible to look at) bluish-white heavenly body, which for 10 minutes moved downwards. The body appeared as a "pipe", i.e. a cylinder. The sky was cloudless, only a small dark cloud was observed in the general direction of the bright body. It was hot and dry. As the body neared the ground (forest), the bright body seemed to smudge, and then turned into a giant billow of black smoke, and a loud knocking (not thunder) was heard, as if large stones were falling, or artillery was fired. All buildings shook. At the same time the cloud began emitting flames of uncertain shapes. All villagers were stricken with panic and took to the streets, women cried, thinking it was the end of the world. The author of these lines was meantime in the forest about 6 verst (about four miles) north of Kirensk, and heard to the north east some kind of artillery barrage, that repeated in intervals of 15 minutes at least 10 times. In Kirensk in a few buildings in the walls facing north east window glass shook.



Here's a doco on the event to while away some time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXfvhJoNi90

I'm still up in the air.....HOWEVER, read up on Tesla 's situation and his dialog leading up to the event. There is much circumstantial evidence suggesting that it was caused by Tesla.

We will never know, but I too am fascinated by this event.

Looks like a nuke to me. So does Sodom and Gomorrah.

I got interested in the Tunguska story after reading this:

The momentous event happened at 7.15 a.m. local time on the last day of June 1908. At that precise moment, an object brighter than the morning sun ripped through the atmosphere over Siberia. A trainload of passengers on the trans-Siberian railway stared in horror at the towering pillar of flame roared through the clear blue skies at a phenomenal velocity of around one mile per second. ...

Almost 350 miles to the north of the train, the nomadic hunting tribes of the Evenki people felt the ground shake violently as they witnessed what seemed to be a second sun racing across the heavens. ...

The detonation occurred at a height of five miles, and the 12-mega-ton explosion (it might have even been 30 mega-ton) destroyed everything within a radius of 20 miles. ... At the center of the explosion a monstrous mushroom cloud rose steadily over Siberia. ... The blast from the Tunguska explosion felled trees as if they were matchsticks for 20 miles around and set whole forests alight. The shockwave generated by the mysterious cataclysm traveled around the world twice and shook the recording pens of the microbarographs at three meteorological stations in London, where they were interpreted as seismic jolts from some distant earthquake.

At a distance of 400 miles from the epicenter of the Tunguska blast, the relentless shockwave showed no signs of abating, and knocked fishermen from their boats on the River Kan. By the time the blast had deteriorated into a hurricane-like storm, a strange black rain started to fall over the Tunguska valley. ...

More...

http://www.qsl.net/w5www/tunguska.html

Tesla went broke around the same time as he completed Wardenclyffe Tower in 1904. He needed to raise money as he was being sued. This is supposedly when he went on to develop the military uses of his technology.....because he needed the money.

He was producing 100 million volts and 1000 amps which equals 100 BILLION WATTS. He could then resonate it at 2 MHz and in only one period of it's oscillation it would release....

100,000,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy,

which just so happens to equal the amount of energy released by 10 megatons of TNT.

Many believe that Tesla had a mental breakdown in 1906 and resulted in his uncharacteristic behavior.

Was this Telsa's last ditch effort to get noticed??

Also the sinking of the French ship "Iena" is very strange and some suspect Tesla.

Tesla letter to "The Times" - April 21st, 1908

"When I spoke of future warfare I meant that it should be conducted by direct application of electrical waves without the use of aerial engines or other implements of destruction... This is not a dream. Even now wireless power plants could be constructed by which any region of the globe might be rendered uninhabitable without subjecting the population of other parts to serious danger or inconvenience."

Nine days later....THE TUNGUSKA EVENT.

The strength...almost precisely what I typed above.

No impact crater found and no meteorite constituents found.[/align]

BJ  Wrote:

http://www.qsl.net/w5www/tunguska.html

Great link, thanks.

I got interested when I first heard of it when I was about 8, back in the early 70s, but I was fascinated by everything strange, unusual and unexpected and have been fascinated by the same since.

LoP Guest  Wrote:

Tesla went broke around the same time as he completed Wardenclyffe Tower in 1904. He needed to raise money as he was being sued. This is supposedly when he went on to develop the military uses of his technology.....because he needed the money.

He was producing 100 million volts and 1000 amps which equals 100 BILLION WATTS. He could then resonate it at 2 MHz and in only one period of it's oscillation it would release....

100,000,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy,

which just so happens to equal the amount of energy released by 10 megatons of TNT.

Many believe that Tesla had a mental breakdown in 1906 and resulted in his uncharacteristic behavior.

Was this Telsa's last ditch effort to get noticed??

Also the sinking of the French ship "Iena" is very strange and some suspect Tesla.

Tesla letter to "The Times" - April 21st, 1908

"When I spoke of future warfare I meant that it should be conducted by direct application of electrical waves without the use of aerial engines or other implements of destruction... This is not a dream. Even now wireless power plants could be constructed by which any region of the globe might be rendered uninhabitable without subjecting the population of other parts to serious danger or inconvenience."

Nine days later....THE TUNGUSKA EVENT.

The strength...almost precisely what I typed above.

No impact crater found and no meteorite constituents found.[/align]

I suspect this is amongst the reasons why Tesla's name got thrown into the hat for this event. It was very, very possible that he did indeed posses the technology, however this does not explain the skin sores and sickness reported for hundreds of miles around Tunguska.

Perhaps this was no more than adding 2 and 2 and getting 5 or ...

BJ  Wrote:

http://www.qsl.net/w5www/tunguska.html

Great link, thanks.

I got interested when I first heard of it when I was about 8, back in the early 70s, but I was fascinated by everything strange, unusual and unexpected and have been fascinated by the same since.

Tesla went broke around the same time as he completed Wardenclyffe Tower in 1904. He needed to raise money as he was being sued. This is supposedly when he went on to develop the military uses of his technology.....because he needed the money.

He was producing 100 million volts and 1000 amps which equals 100 BILLION WATTS. He could then resonate it at 2 MHz and in only one period of it's oscillation it would release....

100,000,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy,

which just so happens to equal the amount of energy released by 10 megatons of TNT.

Many believe that Tesla had a mental breakdown in 1906 and resulted in his uncharacteristic behavior.

Was this Telsa's last ditch effort to get noticed??

Also the sinking of the French ship "Iena" is very strange and some suspect Tesla.

Tesla letter to "The Times" - April 21st, 1908

"When I spoke of future warfare I meant that it should be conducted by direct application of electrical waves without the use of aerial engines or other implements of destruction... This is not a dream. Even now wireless power plants could be constructed by which any region of the globe might be rendered uninhabitable without subjecting the population of other parts to serious danger or inconvenience."

Nine days later....THE TUNGUSKA EVENT.

The strength...almost precisely what I typed above.

No impact crater found and no meteorite constituents found.[/align]