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101: Tesla's Most Destructive Weapon | The Tunguska Event: Comet Impact or Death Ray Experiment?

2023/3/3
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播音员：1908年6月30日，西伯利亚通古斯地区发生了一次神秘的大爆炸，摧毁了800平方英里内的8000万棵树木，所有动植物都被气化，冲击波甚至传到了英国。现场没有陨石坑和碎片，科学家至今无法解释其成因。有人认为，这与尼古拉·特斯拉在同一时间进行的高压电实验有关。特斯拉启动了位于长岛的沃登克里夫塔，向大气中释放了数百万伏特的电力。实验成功了，但威力远超预期，能量束击中了西伯利亚，造成了通古斯大爆炸。 目击者描述了爆炸发生时的场景，以及爆炸后的景象，这与陨石撞击的描述有所不同。例如，空中出现持续时间较长的光束，地震般的震动等。如果类似事件发生在城市上空，后果不堪设想，现代军队正在研发的定向能武器也与特斯拉的死光理念异曲同工。 2013年的车里雅宾斯克陨石事件为我们提供了研究通古斯事件的现代案例，但通古斯事件的威力是车里雅宾斯克事件的1万倍，足以摧毁一座大型城市。NASA的DART任务成功地改变了一个小行星的轨道，这为我们应对潜在的宇宙威胁提供了希望。 特斯拉：我利用宇宙射线制造了一种可以驱动世界机器的装置，这种能量取之不尽，用之不竭。我的死光武器可以将能量投射到地球上的任何特定区域，这并非梦想。我的初衷是为了维护世界和平，但实验失控了，能量束击中了西伯利亚，造成了通古斯大爆炸。

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The episode explores the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia, where a massive explosion flattened 80 million trees. Theories suggest it was either a comet impact or an experiment by Nikola Tesla involving his controversial Tesla death ray.

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On June 30th, 1908, a mysterious explosion shook the remote Siberian region of Tunguska. The blast flattened 80 million trees across 800 square miles. Every plant, every animal, every insect in the blast radius was vaporized. The shockwave was felt as far away as England.

It looked like a comet impact, yet, no crater was found and no debris was discovered. Scientists still can't explain what happened.

But... at that exact moment, on the other side of the world, Nikola Telsa was conducting his latest experiment: transmitting massive amounts of electricity through the atmosphere.

Tesla activated the generators in his lab and fired up Wardenclyffe Tower for one final, dramatic test: and sent millions of volts of electricity into the sky.

After the test was complete, Telsa looked at the readings on his equipment and said: "Oh no."

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