Nikola Tesla has often been the source of legend and inspiration for conspiracy theories. The genius loved the limelight and did not run or hide from the media. Therefore, it is rather surprising that he did not take advantage of the colossal interest in the sensational phenomenon to shine. We – why hide – are also into conspiracies and esotericism. But, before that, we mainly aim to protect the truth. And this is the reason for the next text.
According to the theory, Tesla sent an energetic “ring-shaped electrical pulse” thousands of kilometers from his tower on Long Island. Here the versions are divided – according to some, the goal was predetermined by “geographical maps of sparsely populated areas of Central and Eastern Siberia” (that is, he was looking for a safe place for the experiment), and according to others, he wanted to illuminate the path of Piri’s expedition, but messed up the coordinates, creating the Tunguska phenomenon.
The path of the energy torpedo according to the conspirators. No one noticed that in April the polar night had already ended and Piri did not need lighting. Tesla Wireless and the Tunguska Explosion, Oliver Nichelson, 1995
The Tunguska explosion
In 1908, the Siberian taiga was swept away by a space body. When Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik first reached the site, he was stunned by the sight. Over 80 million trees have been destroyed in a vast area of more than 2,000 square kilometers by some unknown force. They are all located in the same way, revealing the epicenter near the Tunguska River. But Kulik found no crater or anything else that would reveal what caused the explosion.
The few eyewitnesses tell of lights in the sky, fireballs and a huge explosion. A nuclear weapon is one of the few things that could cause such destruction, but the atomic bomb had not yet been invented. The Tunguska event remained a mystery.
Scientists accept as the most reliable version that an icy core of a comet of enormous size collided with the earth, which explains the scale of the damage and the absence of fragments or a crater. But that was not the end of the debate. Weird alternative theories soon begin to spring up like mushrooms, and of course, we’re not without alien intervention.
Documents and media
The idea that Tesla caused the Tunguska disaster appeared in 1996 and was authored by the clairvoyant Manfred Dimme. Since then, “disappeared manuscripts” found by chance, and “workbooks” with the promise to be opened after 100 years have appeared. In them, Tesla talked about his intention to do such an experiment. Photographs of documents are not presented, facsimiles are not published, so we must trust only the words of the authors.
In the official biographies of Nikola Tesla, such manuscripts are not mentioned. His only press appearance in the fateful year of 1908 that hinted at the idea of destruction by electric waves was in the April 21 New York Times:
“When I spoke of a future war, I meant that it should be conducted by the direct application of electric waves without the use of air engines or other weapons of destruction.” And he adds: “This is not a dream. Even now, wireless power plants could be constructed by which any region of the globe could be rendered uninhabitable without subjecting the population of other parts to serious danger or inconvenience.”-Tesla, Nikola, New York Times, “Mr. Tesla’s Vision,” April 21, 1908, pg. 5.
Tesla was always looking for an audience, he spoke often to promote his activities, but why didn’t he take advantage of such publicity as the Tunguska explosion?
He is also known for making far-fetched and exaggerated claims that he cannot back up. Like being able to shoot an energy beam to the moon.
But could Tesla have caused the Tunguska disaster? No.
The inventor did build the Wordencliff Tower for experiments on the transmission of electrical signals over long distances, but these experiments, as we know, work only over short distances (Tunguska is over 10,000 miles from New York) and with huge losses. The tower only showed activity in 1903 and never thereafter.
Tesla himself claimed to have built and tested the Death Ray superweapon in the twilight of his career. But by this time he had behaved more and more eccentrically to the point of insanity. There are no documents, prototypes or proofs for this project, only press releases.
Financial and nervous breakdown
Tesla not only theoretically, but also practically could not do something, simply because in 1908 Tesla did not conduct such experiments. In that year, he had no place to take them either, he just didn’t have a suitable laboratory. Experiments in Colorado ended at the end of the XIX century, the transmitter in Wardcliffe worked only a few times in 1903 and was soon taken away by the inventor for debts.
In fact, the contract with Morgan was terminated in 1903, after which Tesla sought financing for 2 years without any result.
All equipment installed before 1903 remained unused. Wardencliffe Tower never operated at full power again. In the year of the Tunguska catastrophe, 1908, neither the land nor the laboratory was his property.
Tesla’s finances quickly melt away as investors’ money goes to Marconi’s radio. Claims appear in the press that the Tesla tower is nothing but an elaborate hoax. In 1904 he mortgaged Wardencliffe, and four years later (1908, the year of the Tunguska disaster) he made a second mortgage. By 1905, his alternating current patents had already expired and the payments stopped. Growing financial problems suffocate the neurotic inventor, leading him to deep depression and eventually a nervous breakdown.
Technically impossible
There have been many attempts over the years to produce Tesla’s proposed death ray, but such a weapon has never been produced, despite its obvious military application. The sheer amount of energy required to operate the Death Ray makes such a device unviable.
It is estimated that to produce the estimated 10 megatons of power of the blast recorded at Tunguska, Wardenclyffe would need to be powered by billions of watts of power – thousands of times more than the capacity to carry the New York power grid on which the tower relies. Of course, no one can convince people ready to believe in miracles…
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