Tunguska Event | 100 Wonders | Atlas Obscura
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- Atlas Obscura co-founder Dylan talks about the Tunguska Event, one of the largest explosions ever recorded! New videos about unusual, wondrous places every Tuesday. Subscribe Yonder - bit.ly/1PcJ14b
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• Rare raw Tunguska footage
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In soviet Russia, stars reach for you
* Soviet Union Anthem Intensifies *
Perfect
😭
At that time it was Imperial Russia....
@@liveforever141 guess we knew why they fell then
just imagine this meteorite hitting a city directly
Well there wouldnt be a city then, would there?
Uchiha Fabio What city?
L.A. or San Fransicko would be great 👍🏼
at that time there were no such thing as advance warning systems
do you think today US still cannot detect any large objects rushing from space?
@@tycoonmaster4606 any city
Thank God it hit in the middle of Siberia than in a city or something.
A little too coincidental to me but alright
@@charlescoryell4239 Why? The earth is huge. Very little land on the earth's surface is inhabited, let alone when you include oceans
@@WeWantYouToStay I think what he meant is that it wasnt a meteorite but a superweapon tested there.
if it was in a city it would have been wiped out of existence. no survivors. the impact was far worse than the Tsar Bomb.
If it did land and kill, it would have benefited us and future generations. We would take these Asteroid sighting more seriously...
NASA only sees a tiny fraction, it's space, asteroid can come in any directio. So they're missing most areas. And what they do see, they find out too late for any reaction time. Cause their budget is limited.
So *When* the next one hits, and if it is a Major City Area. Bet money there's gonna be people reacting "How did this happen?"
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I've heard of this, but never knew the massive size of the explosion! That is just really REALLY big!
Derek Watson Right!?
Far worse than Tsar Bomb
@Mike ferrari Ferrari proof?
Thats what she said 😏
There is a vintage video of an asteroid that struck (or rather exploded) over the alps roughly 5k years ago. The plum was so intense it floated in the sky for quite a while then came down to earth As the plume of fire. When it landed it landed over a large swath of land in the middle east. the cities it destroyed were soddom, gamorrah, and edra. The only way they found out about this is an artifact was found showing the trajectory of the asteroid. th-cam.com/video/66QAnQXgVnU/w-d-xo.html
What if it was caused by a pink haired fox lady
Tamamo Koyanskaya?
This one fascinated me ever since I was a kid. I think I learned about it from Arthur C Clarke.
Me Auntie Nora It's so wild! What is crazy is that this was almost completely forgotten to history. The number of impacts of this size over the last 5000 years is basically an unknown but is looking like it may be much higher than previously estimated!
Atlas Obscura History channel show specials on it occasionally.
By far 100 Wonders is my favorite series on youtube, I hope you get tons of subscribers! :D
mb818575 Thank you so much! Very appreciated!
+Atlas Obscura One of my favorites youtube channels!!keep up the good work!!:D
FGO Tunguska Sanctuary brought me here.
how was the night sky lit up for weeks after? What would cause this?
+FrozenEternity So this is one of the mysteries of the event. One explanation is that it was a comet after all and as it entered the high atmosphere the comet broke up filling the sky with ice particles, which create reflective clouds that can be seen at night. A bit more of a solid scientific explanation here: www.universetoday.com/33367/1908-tunguska-event-caused-by-comet-new-research-says/
Atlas Obscura thanks for the explanation and link! That is really amazing. I have heard about noctilucent clouds before, but never knew they could be linked to a comet entering the atmosphere
Radiation.
Just came after clearing lostbelt 6 . ps: the ending was sad and hearwarming .
Amazing video, just sad that it doesn't use the metric system, most of the world don't have an intuitive sense of what a mile, feet or pound is, have to stop all the time to look up the conversion. I would suggest putting the two measures in the next videos.
No
@@zacharyfloyd3697 Oh hey le 52% Amerifat
I've been trying to learn the metric system. When you grow up with miles, feet and pounds, it's easier to picture how big it is in my head because that's what I'm used to. Considering most channels I've seen use metrics and then convert it, this channel is actually an odd one.
Hiroshima is not an explosion. Just had to point out how that bothered me.
Ikr everyone calls it hiroshima when hiroshima is the city
Fun fact Nikola Tesla claimed to be the cause of the Tunguska Event as well as another weird event that lit up the night sky over the ocean for miles and miles
Its real fact, not fun
@@IScorpion69 It's still fun
@@IScorpion69I’m three years late but stfu
The map of Russia you choosed is wrong..in 1910's Russia was 2 time bigger than today's Russia.
What's most fascinating about this story that isn't mentioned in the video is what the locals say they witnessed prior to the explosion. That's a blast coming from the ground and hitting something coming into our atmosphere. (of course they worded it different) They say, not me, that the blasts came from the Siberian Cauldrons.
I have seen that too.
@@alpha6games751 wait so are they saying something shot out from the ground and blew up something that came into the atmosphere 😮 where can I find this video
It was an air burst. It would appear to someone on the ground that it’s a ground explosion. We now know what it was, look up ‘Taurid Meteor stream’. These thousands of meteors are gravitating around the sun with us.
What are the siberian cauldrons
это что то типа пво планеты
If these events occur every ~300 years what was the one that happened about 300 years before Tunguska?
Kieron George This is probability so thats an average, they could happen way closer or way father apart between any given two AND they will likely happen in a place where no one is there to witness it, say, over the ocean BUT just as an example take this: www.wikiwand.com/en/1490_Ch'ing-yang_event That was about 400 years earlier so, basically in the ball park!
Scientists began by estimating the frequency as once in 1,000 years. The most recent explosion over Russia has led some to now hold that it may be as short as 100 years.
@@borderlineiq maybe its the one that happened and is named the arizona crater idk.
@@Saltiumine Scientists have estimated the crater near Winslow, AZ to be between 5,000 and 50,000 years old.
Me coming here after Lostbelt 6 intermission trailer 👀
Dylan looks way too happy about a new Tunguska event happening any day now ...
Yeah that was pretty weird.
why didn't he mention Tesla's "death ray"as a possible cause? even for fun. 10 years ago on the internet that was definitely on Tunguska's greatest hits.
+sssnacksss I totally regret not running through the alternate theories, exactly because they are so fun! Telsa, mini black hole, antimatter, UFO crash, they are all so great.
@@atlasobscura Because, as some point you'd be moving away from scientific exploration into PT Barnum territory, which erodes credibility as a serious examiner of phenomena. You're too good to be relegated to the pile of Blair Witch Project type "explorers."
Dear me, theatre and imagination running riot in the absence of hard facts.....
Mind blowing! (possibly literally) It's crazy to think that at any moment... BOOM! City gone. Great video, looking forward to the next one.
Thanks so much 3Kittaty! On the plus side, we can now see these things coming a few years out. Hopefully enough time to change their direction, or get out of the way!
Atlas Obscura And thanks for being a regular, I really appreciate it!
Atlas Obscura Space is vast and there are a lot of undetected and hidden metros and asteroids out there that may be heading for Earth as we speak approaching at thousands of mph.
A 20,000 kiloton explosion? Imagine a 50,000 kiloton explosion? Yup that's right. The Tsar bomba was a lot stronger and more powerful than the 15,000 kilotons of TNT that Tunguska produced. It almost 2 times more poweful than this impact
1:56 "Meteoroidor"? 😂 That's definitely NOT a word. You must have meant Meteoroid.
?? That’s not funny you are not going to be done with that one task and I don’t know what if you’re going out to ee
@@LockInRonaldo What? I'm not sure i understand what you're saying. I was talking about the text in the animation at the time stamp. "Meteoroidor" definitely isn't a word.
@@closinginonclosure Yeah no shit I had a stroke
These are why Tuesdays and Thursdays are my favorite days.
Jeremy Lambert Holy moly, thank you so much! I am so glad you are enjoying them!
Correction, it’s a meteor until its hits Earth. Then it’s a meteorite
When humans dont have an explanation to something: it was space
IQ level =9000
Then what do you think it was? A god?
@@Konsertt my butthurt detector is going off.
@@Konsertt More like a certain turn of the century mad scientist leveled a Siberian Forest with his death ray.
"depending on probability, we've got another Tunguska event in our near future"
Honestly I just hope it lands in another relatively uninhabited area, or kills me instantly so I don't have to suffer its aftermath.
Earth is sit under water. Space is water, how can a meteor hit the earth. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
feets, pound, miles... fuck...what kind of sorcery is this?!!!
What if the explosion was plant based like a plant bomb if you will thus why they couldn’t find the meteor fragment
This isn't possible for 2 reasons. Firstly, there was no crater. A plant based explosion would happen on the ground and it would create a crater. Secondly, the explosion was some megatons big. No conventional explosion can ever get this big.
Anyone here after facttechz video
Official story in a Channel 4 documentary years back was it was caused by an exploding meteor. The few survivors who refused to accept or cooperate with the programs version said that wasn't the whole story. They said a meteor was roaring in and would have devastatingly struck the ground when something shot out of the ground at great speed and blew it to bits. Radiation was found all over the area and still the damage is visible. What could fly at great speed and wipe out a meteor with a nuclear weapon in 1908?
One punch man
I have to contradict what you're saying here the time that this happened Tesla was showing his directed energy weapon to the military and this is what caused said event in tunguska my opinion my personal belief though check it out you might be surprised
Yeah, and I have to disagree with you. Light doesn't work this way. It simply doesn't make things go boom. There so many things that don't add up to this death ray thing. Once you learn a few things about light, you will see just how stupid that idea is.
If this or the Chelyabinsk event happened in the 70's, none of us would be alive today.
If the trees stood straight up in the center than you will not find a crater. That would rule out a methane gas explosion or anything terrestrial.
can you believe it hit siberia!? how lucky...
Too lucky. This was definitely man made
Not it wasn't men made you moron
@@joseamaya2697 too lucky? it was in Siberia, one of the largest areas on earth. its not really that lucky
"Tesla activated his "Death Ray" apparatus at the turn of the century. It resulted in an explosion in the remote lands of Siberia that was so vast and destructive that not even an atomic blast could have exceeded its impact. This historic event has been explained away as the crash of a meteor or a comet impacting Earth, but the devastation that remained in the fields of Tunguska was actually the manifestation of the alchemist's mad invention."
sources? Thanks.
Please state your source for this.
@@esyphillis101 Hi there Marcus, if you duck for Galactic Anthropology and search for the menu-item End Notes and then you can read the source at number 116.
From there you can find yet another theory about the cause of the Tunguska event.
A tunguska event in a near future pleas do not land on Belgium
Why is this dude so creepy
It didn't explode, it flew through the atmosphere and continued on back into space.
without leaving a trace ,, idiotic comment
I heard that nothing grows on the area it hit- for unknown reasons...
This is an amazing series!
Jakub Fabo Thanks so much for saying so!
Interesting story
Ah, so this is Red from OSP's doing, caused by plugging a power brick into itself to attain infinite energy.........
....the good news is it worked.
So...it could have been a giant earth fart?
Yep, it totally could have been!
I am 44 years old, when I was very young around 3 or 4 maybe younger not sure but my mother and father would bring me to see a very old women, her name was "Aunty flo", she was very old, would sit in bed all of the time, she was a beautiful women from another age obviously. People that would live their whole lives and never steal or lie their whole lives, that kind of "old school".
Any way she saw it, She said, it was night time and then it just became day time again. It was as if some one flicked a switch and then it went from night to day.
That was her impression, what ever happened over there it was so massive it made it in London like it was day and that is a lot of power to do that.
“ It was twenty years before a scientist could visit the site..”
- narrator.
“ I’m not sure why my ray gun didnt work?”
- Nikola Tesla atop the the Waldof Astoria an hour before the Siberian event.
Note: there has never been an impact of a meteorite, which with a footprint as large as this there should have been.
@mcchickenz calm down fuck wit!!! 😂😂😂 there is absolutely zero evidence of a meteriorite. It’s the most likely cause but don’t say shit like evidence “was found “ now that’s shyte and you’re talking through that hole at the back of your other hole.
@mcchickenz LOL!!!! Bulshit buddy McChicken burger fries. Thee is zero nothing nada zilch evidence of any kind. You're talking chicken shyte!! Go to sleep pfffftttttttt!!!!
bruh it wasnt no death ray, theres been fragments found of them meteor
There is also another theory.... and one which would account for ALL the purported effects: that it was an atmospheric seismic shock explosion from a micro-intensity (concentrated) earthquake that had generated a build-up of electromagnetic energy in the cosmically charged atmosphere, which finally resulted in a THERMAL explosion; hence the intense HEAT reportedly felt by some and the intense LIGHT of a fireball seen by others. The residual piezoelectromagnetic discharge created the reported atmospheric auroral effect for weeks afterwards.... something it does NOT make sense an incoming bolide exploding would do. THAT would simply act like a bomb and go "BOOM" for a moment and glow as long as the explosion lasted and then immediately fade away. It would NOT linger in a photoelectric effect like the Aurora Borealis or the colorful light discharges seen on the horizon before and after some EARTHQUAKES. THIS detail is the KEY to understanding the nature of the event and is also why some think it was caused by Nikola Tesla's electromagnetic earth energy tower "death ray"; because he claimed he could do something like THAT with it. Regardless of whether it was spontaneously natural or artificially induced the bottom line is it was EARTH generated, NOT atmospherically. This conclusion is what the witness reports lead us to. The photographic evidence of the site shows there was NO impact crater and NO inferno caused by the impact of a burning body. The trees were NOT incinerated nor charred and they were NOT ALL laid flat. Many were left standing. And amazingly NONE were broken! THIS would definitely NOT be the case IF they had either been impacted by a big fast-falling body, OR they had been laid by a sonic blast wave. Therefore this suggests something in the way of a vast electrically-charged gas wave. In other words, they were hit by an electrified blast of air!! The unevenness of the terrain "broke" it's force which is why some were left standing next to others that weren't. A normal thermal induced explosion would NOT do this because it's force would not be destabilized or "diluted" by ground level but would remain consistent/equal..... hence the mysteriousness of what caused the event.
NIkola Tesla.
Yup I have seen in his documentary
45000 degrees celsius?.... we would not have existed now...... this explanation is not correct...
It was shot out the sky by an ancient surface ti air missile. If it had hit earth...that would have been extinction level event. You are welcome.
Not that there is anything wrong with it, but is this guy stoned? He just looks it. I don't mind learning from a stoned guy on TH-cam though... just wondering.
John Locke Ha, I was not stoned, though, wow, doing one of these stoned would be an interesting experience. It would be about 8X longer and way more confusing. This may happen.
Wow, I'm literally clicking subscribe after this reply just to see that.
Atlas Obscura OMG that would be epic please so do it.
No entendi ni merga
The 'Tunguska Event' was not caused by Tesla, nor the impact of a celestial object, since Tesla lacked the technological ability to construct a particle beam weapon and there was no impact crater. However, the radioactive measurement of the area indicates that some nuclear explosion occurred. While our civilization lacked the ability to construct a nuclear device in 1907, this does not eliminate the possibility of another more advanced race had such technology and visited earth numerous times throughout history, including in 1907. Notwithstanding, such visitors would almost assuredly developed time-travel technology and harnessed the power of anti-matter. Indeed, the extended damage witnessed by the Tunguska Event suggests the exact kind of release of energy that would occur during an anti-matter electromagnetic containment chamber failure. The Tunguska Event was the likely result of a release of antimatter from an alien time-travel machine.
If one of these today hit on or near a major city, it would probably cause mass paranoia and a nuclear war.
I know this is from 7 years ago, but it’s most likely the Taurid meteor stream that Earth flies through every 2 years, twice. Around June and July, the we pass around the sun n we fly through it again in October through December. So it’s technically a Taurid-Scorpio stream. Constellations, cmon pple!
But... how are the trees in the "Center" upright?
i understand if people at that time didnt suspect this tunguska event was nuclear explosion. but why nobody nowadays (after 1945) didnt suspect it was a nuclear test/nuclear facility exploded? i mean in 1945 theres a nuclear bombing in hiroshima. surely some people (like me) would suspect this tunguska event was nuclear explosion,
Si es lo que pienso... Por los Viajeros y toda La Tierra ... Que todo se resuelva HERE AND NOW.
And we all know that that’s something that’s more powerful than the bomb on Hiroshima the The nuclear Soviet Star Bamba
This guys too enthusiatic about a weaponized rock. Smells like conspiracy.
Thanks to the aliens for saving us on this one.
Sorsha Cat How do you know it wasn't a damaged nuclear power UFO spacecraft that exploded in midair?
The town of Sodom a similar thing happened. Read the Bible. Genesis 29...
@@TheMusketITuckedIt204 Sorry, no UFO's... 😱. That was all created on radio and early TV -from1934-1954 for the character Flash Gordon!🚀🛸
Every 300 years huh? We been here for how long? Where are the other "tunguska events" thats happened in the past? Lol like where is the recorded proof of every 300 years worth of tunguska events in the post billion that mankind has been here? 🤣
It was teslas death ray. Tesla was responsible for the tunguska event. But it wasnt to harm people. He was testing it.
Who's here because of metallica's All nightmare long music video. So creepy.
no metoerite explow all the tree to evenly lay down on the same side with out scatter everything flying everywhere plus the force to uproot a healthy jungle of big tree like that would be enormous and would leave some form of a craetor or hole at the point of impact them tree would be flying everywhere or in pieces not lying flat down evenly like that...try another theory
Not according to an extremely reliable channeled source. It was an enormous ET craft which had a large population of different exploratory ET beings who were diseased and could not leave the earth quarantine. The malfunctioning craft landed, rose up again only to self destruct after descending a little bit. No way to prove this of course, but it is what it is…
It wasn't any of them if not the bell from Hitler or cern.
It was the first and only time teslas death ray was fired. Scalar weapon thats why no pieces were found. They weren't any.
Imagine that a similar meteotite or comet etc will Strike moscow or petersburg etc.
Look into teslas connection with this event.. he was running a test same time this happened
why? why aren't there millions of subscribers? should make a video on that because its baffling
Thanks +Donald Browning! It is the mystery I will never be able to solve...Just kidding this channel is pretty dang new. Thanks so much for the encouragement!
You go to sleep. Don't talk. You are scary of our future.🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🙄🙄🙄😆
Tesla destroyed asteroid over Tunguska.
Source: Trust me bro.
That's what happens when a time traveller spawns 💀💀
Lands in the middle of nowhere, what are the chances. North Korea would of been nice,
Or maybe some atomic motor engine of an UFO that just blew away...
Why haven't they found a single fragment or speck of space stuff
Today is Asteroid day . So I google this I found about it and I am shocked to listen it.
You have a face made for radio ...please just narrate without your video.
"...if they didn't happen....then something went wrong." 😆 Great video. I'm loving this channel! 👍
Overly pumped up and excited. Like history on crack.
So are you saying words wrong or are they misspelled on the video?
Doesn't explain it .. Trees fell in one direction. Not circular
Book of Alien Races states it was a battle between the Maitre and Pleadians
Imagine if that fuckin rock was 5 times as big! There would have never been a cold war.
the mother nature hates russia: chelyabinsk and tunguska???
Element 115
It’s probably a microburst.
At 0:41 he said Siberia is in Europe. China Is much closer
Anyone here after watching Coherence (2013)?
You know imperial units are actually based on metric now? just use metric!
Dude why do you care
Just learned that an event like this was what destroyed the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah in Bible times
I came here because ultraman orb rusalka explosion event
that was a Tesla's experiment!
I heard that in a movie about master tesla
True, to clean the area
Hm, june 30th is also my birthday. Is this an omen?
Dr Argyle Blackstone did a thing about this too.
That was Tesla testing something on the sky.
Not a meteor.
Scientist have and are proposing various theories about what caused the blast that destroyed a large area of the Tunguska forest in Russia in 1908. Could it be, it occurred when the Devil was cast out of Heaven to the Earth?
This is a time (1908), when Nazism and the germ of atheistic communism appeared on earth and began to spread?
The New Testament mentions Satan 36 times in 33 verses, and the Book of Revelation tells of "that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world," being thrown down to the earth together with his angels. In Luke 10:18 Jesus says: "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven." (Emphasis is added). “Like lightning”, suggest the devastation and loud explosion heard around Tunguska, Russia.
Luke 10:18
“18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.“ (Luke 10:18, King James Version (KJV)).
Devil cast down to Earth
“7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Emphasis is added).
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” Revelation 12:7-12 King James Version (KJV).
this happened thousands of years before, not in Tunguska... but you are not that far from what really happened there...
Check out Nicola tesla. It was his weapon that hit Russia.
1927......3327.....27 Tesla told Woodrow Wilson