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Interestingly enough an ancient city was destroyed by an air burst meteor. They believe it was the city of Sodom, a city in the Bible that God destroyed with fire from the sky.
The fact that humans have been keeping records for a couple thousand years and there hasn't been a single meteor impact in a populated area still astounds me to this day
When you start studying geography you realize just how widely scattered our major population centers are compared to the total surface area of the planet. That means that, even today, the odds of a heavily populated area taking a direct hit from an incoming object are pretty low. Before the 20th century it would've been even lower.
Although it would be interesting to find one related to the Late Bronze Age Collapse (a small scale impact prompting a forced migration, or cutting off some critical piece of international trade).
I did a report on this for my high school astronomy class. I found it both fascinating and scary when you think that an event like this could happen at any time, anywhere in the world.
NASA is keeping track of a concerningly big Asteroid heading towards the Earth. They suspect if it does end up hitting the planet it wouldn’t reach us for another 20 years
I do think something like that has happened in the past many great civilizations have come and gone in earths ancient past. There's several sites around the world where archaeologists find melted sand and building stones melted and scorched from very high temperatures, like a nuclear bomb or Atomic bomb blast would've produced.
@@geographicstravel (aka VSauce?), thank you for your generally interesting and thorough content. BTW, the British pronounciation of schedule is schedule; 'skedule' is the US.
@Wasabi Warrior Because we've seen solar flares and coronal mass ejections in the past and they've never caused anything this exaggerated. Big EM pulse, electrocute a few telegraph operators and fry lines of communication for a few weeks, but no massive explosions or anything similar.
Simon touched on something very important for those of us who first heard about this in the 1970s: the air of mystery, invoking anti-matter, mini black holes, aliens. All due to the secrecy of the Soviet Union, which I'd never considered in this specific case until now.
my theory was a bunch of tsarist scientists were creating a nuclear bomb and not expecting a big explosion, set it of and ended killing themselves in the process, setting back the nuclear age by 40 years.
Imagine as the blast levels all those trees, you hear not an apocalyptic explosion but the sound of . . . RA-RA-RASPUTIN LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEEEEN!
@@weedypop9032 Nikola Tesla was the stereotypical mad scientist from pop culture, a Serb (I think, somewhere in the Balkans anyway) living in the US in the late 1800's-early 1900's. His best known invention is alternating current (what powers homes and industries across the world), however he had a few totally bonkers projects and eventually went bankrupt. Nowadays some conspiracy theorists say he managed to "invent free wireless energy" and that this wonder was shutdown by occult powers for profit or whatever, but known physics say that particular thing is totally impossible and Tesla was, indeed, mostly bonkers. All of this was off the top of my head and Wikipedia is probably your friend to get additional information and double-check what I said. Knowing the type of guy he was he probably had plans for a death ray or lightning conjuration system or something of the sort, would fit the bill.
17:50 "What if this tragedy caused people to set aside their differences and work together for the common good of humanity? Well that's enough science fiction for now."
i am pretty sure that's how it was throughout human history, uniting to stand against something that can cause mutual destruction is a common theme in human history.
This does seem like sometime Tesla would do in his spare time. develop a machine that can level a small forest in 12 seconds without having to muck about with saws and axes. He probably gave up when he realized it would vaporize entire reindeer herds
And that's why the military confiscated all of his notes upon his death. Fun fact some company in texas has built a new tesla tower in central Texas , people can see it from I35. It wasn't supposed to be a death ray , it was supposed to deliver electricity wirelessly ... which is also why Rockefeller withdrew funding because while AC current was clearly the future he had just bought ever copper mine on earth that he could so that all electricity would be delivered on his lines... he stood to lose his fortune with wireless transmission. Tesla tried to prove work, he didn't account for the differnt magnetic intensity at the poles. How could he know? It was unexplored. Opps.
fun fact: at ground zero for the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, the building that is now a memorial, withstood the air blast when the bomb detonated above it. This is due to the direction of the force exerted on the building, traveling straight down its supports (so vertically). However outside that central radius of ground zero, the force applied to those buildings were more diagonal or even perpendicular to the supports. Those buildings had practically no chance of withstanding the sweeping blast.
Ever since i found geographic and biographics i’ve done nothing but binge all the videos. simon’s voice is so soothing to listen to as i do a puzzle or crocheting. keep the videos coming I can’t get enough of them!
It's missing Campaii Fregeri it's modern activity and ancient, sinking two cities Thonis and Baeie 8th century, and Calli Albani and some other interesting things that have been popping up lately.
@@serbronnoftheblackwater798 th-cam.com/video/JZ4GVc88jTU/w-d-xo.html depends on your definition of explode. Rapid Unplanned Disassembly can occur due to superheated water expanding and shattering the rock leaving just fragments. The meteor would have been hot enough to melt the rock itself let alone ices.
My great-grandmother was a little girl in 1908 and was working in her mother's garden about 200 km away when this happened. She saw it go past, then she saw the explosion, then the blast wave went by.
An experiment was done decades ago to explain what happened, I believe it was in the late 50s. The researchers used match sticks for trees set up on a scaled topographic model. They put a explosive charge on a guy wire set at the angle of flight and set it off at the calculated speed and height of the explosion. They not only reproduced the pattern of tree fall with the one's at the center still erect, but also the butterfly shape of the area of devastation.
nah it was aliens dude... tesla was shooting his death ray and it like hit the aliens and both the death ray ball and the aliens fell to the ground and blew up.
the biggest problem with the meteor theory,is eyewitnesses on the ground reported seeing the object maneuver.Meteors follow a strictly ballistic trajectory.There’s also the mysterious illness that befell a number of the indigenous Tungus people.From the descriptions of the sick,it sounds like radiation poisoning.When all the evidence is taken as a whole,it suggests the explosion was caused by a mishap aboard a nuclear powered craft of extraterrestrial origin.For a while that was the official theory of the Soviet Union.
One fun thing about the Chelyabinsk incident is that we knew about a *different* asteroid that would pass very close to the Earth that day. The asteroid 367943 Duende was known since Feb. 2012. It passed at a distance of 27700 km at 19:25 UT, about 16 hours after the bolide at Chelyabinsk.
Horrible. Also, the dino killer was rock, and it's crater has been found. It's huge. Paleontolologists have described the area as being like turning your oven on broil and sticking your head in. The dividing line is seen in digs all over the world with as a layer of charcoal from the planet wide forest fires. It was hell.
Much much worse, The KT impact makes the Tunguska event look like a fire cracker, that rock was the szie of a mountain coming in and smashing the earth so hard that it effected the whole Earth ( even the rotation and axial tilt is thought to have been affected) it left a fingerprint around the whole planet called the KT boundary, below this is where we find all the dinosaur fossil's none have ever been found above and the impact was likely so ridiculous it wouldn't matter where you were you would have felt the whole Earth tremble The worst part is because of the size of the asteroid it was most likely visible to the naked eye for months before impact, slowly becoming a larger and brighter star in the sky until it was so birght it could be seen during the day, so all the life on Earth with eyes could see it coming with our current technology we would see such a asteroid decades in advance now if we could do anything about it is another story
Satellites would have picked it up. If no satellites then hopefully some one does a spectroscopy of the fallout to determine whether the blast was nuclear or not. If no one checks the ussr may be confused as to why america would strike a uninhabited part of the ussr to drop "only one" nuke on, instead of dropping numerous warheads on strategic military/civilian targets. Final scenario would see russia launch a perceived counter strike against America leading to a hot ww3.
This is what's so scary. Like how utterly random the whole event was. Like the same thing could start rocketing towards Tokyo, London, Los Angeles right now in 2021 and there's nothing we could do about it. Even the contemporary scientists in this video were like "Hehe we're monitoring things to get a better understanding lul" dude we'd be so screwed
I always remember the date of the Tunguska Blast as it is mentioned in the Ghostbusters movie “Tunguska blast of 1908” although I believe they state it as an inter-dimensional cross rip. That reminds me, I need to introduce my boys to Ghostbusters, what a film!
That's a great story and so interestingly told! As someone who lived in Chelyabinsk in 2013 at the time of the meteor impact, I find impossible to imagine what that massive Tunguska meteor would have done to an urban area! Thank you for your work.
_I'm still disturbed after almost 40yrs, that Superman would smile while saying, "NO.....Don't Do It!!", when Non and Ursa lift the Bus full of people._
...realizes he landed in Russia, then opts to re-launch and float through the vast emptiness of interstellar space for a few more millennia instead. Hence, no crater.
Chelyabinsk was at least 300 kt, possibly 500. It had already passed its closest approach and was on its way out. It had passed its closest approach to the city. They got very lucky. Nearly 1200 people were medically treated, most for flying or falling debris. It was probably of the "Apollo" grouping, and we know of 10k+ such bodies, most much larger. Something as small as the Chelyabinsk body at~15 meters, is highly unlikely to be spotted, though we routinely see such bodies *after* they've made closest approach. Maybe chunks of the body at Tunguska exist, a crater for a 1 meter chunk (such as is seen in photos after being brought up from a lake near Chelyabinsk) might not be found in a hasty, incomplete examination 19 years later, might be indistinguishable after 70 years. The body they brought up was denser with metals than the Earth's crust. Some meteorites are density 8+, greater than pure iron. King Tutt's rust-proof meteoritic steel dagger is 6% cobalt. A larger comet body of ices, might hit at much greater than 15km/sec, possibly as much as 50 km/sec. The blast energy would be furious, and nothing but tiny fragments of any silicate materials would reach the ground. In his book "Rain of Iron and Ice", John S. Lewis reported a couple of interesting cases. In ancient China, an army was marching and camped near a river. Out of a partly clear blue sky, a bright flash blinded anyone facing it for miles, flash-burned like a sunburn anything with a half mile or so. A titanic blast like thunder flattened everything outwards for half a mile or so, smashed anything directly underneath which was already crisped from the flash, Everything nearby was smote with chunks of red-hot metal and rock. A dark cloud of smoke hung over the area, and a sulphurous stench lingered. Of course since no duly qualified scientist examined the evidence for a rocky/metallic meteorite airburst, it is generally not known of as a case of such an incident. Another case also in China in recent years was when a bolide was seen. Silent and bright at first high up to witnesses up-range. Closer and lower, darker reddish and trailing smoke farther down range. Dull reddish and very smoky, with a sound like a freight train and crackling like thunder further downrange. It was lower and much quieter, less smoky and slower and more nearly vertical downrange. People nearby heard and felt the *thump* through the ground. Witnesses found a brush fire had been started, at the center a smoking hole. At the bottom, about 30cm across, a hot dark lump. As they put out the fire and were digging it out, it cooled rapidly; by the time they had it excavated and were bringing it up, it grew cooler and colder, finally ice cold, and then too cold to handle. A large cooler and some dry ice were found and it was packed away to a university science center. Such fragments of cometary bodies or extremely low density CC asteroids have a little rock or metal, but can be 40% volatiles by mass: H2O, Co2, CH4, NH3. Lots of stinky stuff like various ethanes, ketones, aldehydes, and PAH chemicals. Lots of dark almost organic tarry stuff, almost coal black, slightly reddish with tholins.
Damn, Simon and the entire team, I'm sure I'm not alone when I say how sincerely I enjoy and appreciate the thoroughness and passion with which you tackle every topic. Please, for all of our sake, keep up the good work.
And not even just Geographics but Biographics and TopTenz and the rest of them too, you guys really make sure I always have something to add to even the most random of conversations when the appropriate topic pops up.
What thoroughness? There's no scientific proof to any of this let alone supposed seismic activity without any equipment to record it. Its conspiracy theory nut ball shit.
Actually this conspiracy theory has some juice in it namely Tesla studied intensively non habitatet areas in the world in that time he even bought some maps of Russia Siberia aprox year before tunguska happened, there was rumors that he need a non inhabited space for some tests
@@altergreenhorn Got any proof of Tesla's "intense" study of uninhabited areas, specifically Russia/Siberia? Or is it something you read in a comment on some forum? Why would finding an uninhabited part of Siberia even require intense study to begin with?
This is easily explained. Santa crashed picking up reindeer. Tim Allen then took over from there. There's a documentary on this but the place and events have been changed.
I absolutely LOVE this new format. I appreciate how you take the same level of research and care that you do with Biographics and apply it to places of significance instead of an individual. I just wish it was more than twice a week.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
Is there anything thing that you cannot narrarate? Dude you are absolutely brilliant as a epic story teller like the bards of old. Love your commentary and show.
I remember a few of years ago, watching an episode of "What on Earth" Where they showed a picture of a bright streak of clouds with a bright flash of light at the head of them in the northern pacific. IT was obviously an asteroid streak, but the kicker is that it was GIGANTIC. Some estimates put the asteroid at about the size of the one from Tunguska. Since it happened in the Northern Pacific where NO ONE lives (even shipping lanes are sparse) no one was hurt, but there were sparse reports of loud gunfire like sounds from a few ships in the area. So either we were unlucky (or lucky however you see it since they both missed populated areas) to have had two large asteroids like this airblast on Earth in roughly 100 years instead of the Millennia estimates, or one of these type of airblast events happens more often that once a millennia.
The first time I heard about the Tunguska Event was in Ghostbusters 1984. It was laughingly called a "paranormal event". Needless to say that brief mention has intrigued me ever since about what happened there.
I'd hear of it beforehand, and when the character (Egan?) said the line it really popped out! So I looked up a number of the things they'd mentioned; they mostly were fact, or a version of a fact. Like the Spirit Guide exists, but it's something else.
3yrs since this came out and simon looks like such a young baby compared to his large beard self now. And he's open talking about his kids and has videos where he riffs and we can see who he actually is ever so slightly. Cool to see
I think it’s so funny how viscerally people react to the mere possibility that something beyond our current understanding may have happened at Tunguska or anywhere. Keep in mind that the meteorite explanation is still only a hypothesis-just like the rest of the potential explanations. No evidence has been found to corroborate that explanation it just fits with the nature of the damage and was elevated above the others because it conforms to our current understandings of the universe. Not saying it’s a guarantee something paranormal happened there but it is a possibility.
Great show, as usual. Love all your channels. And thank you for dumbing down the kilometres to miles for myself and the rest of us Americans that haven't been taught them.
Yes he does, but we’re so ignorant do we even know what 100 miles is? He needs to tell us how many football fields or for us Californians, how long it would take to drive, or something like that lol
To be fair, miles are used for distance more commonly in the UK than kilometres. We use a pretty heavy mix of the metric and imperial systems based on context. We'll weigh most things in grams/kilograms, but people in stone and pounds. Likewise we still refer to human height in feet and inches, rather than centimetres. We'll order a pint at the bar, speed is measured in mph, etc. There are a few other places who use both systems too - Canada, notably. So it's not really just a dumbing down for Americans, but using both systems because both systems are still in use in multiple countries.
I'm stupid as it gets and I have no trouble doing the conversion in my head. Just times the kilometres by 1.6... What i do, though, is halve the number of kilometres, and add that number plus 10% of the total. So say, you have 75km...50% of 75 is 37.5. So I add 37.5 to 75, thats 112.5. Then add 10% of 75, 7.5 and you get 120. 75 km = 120 miles. This can be done really quickly. You don't need to be taught it, just use common sense 🤭 Even easier the other way round. Just halve then take away 10%.
I dont know if anyone else had this experience but I remember back when I was 15 and I played COD: world at war nazi zombies religiously, and the word "Tunguska" was written on a wall on one of maps I watched like hundreds of theory videos on TH-cam about it... man those were the days. Lol
Just because you think it's science fiction doesn't mean it isn't possible. Tesla was a genius. His creations much like Da Vinci's were far ahead of their time. I am a retired engineer and have studied Tesla's inventions and experiments over many years and what Tesla accomplished was truly amazing. Tesla was not aiming at the north pole, he was aiming where the explosion occurred. It was his last experiment before the tower was to be torn down and he wanted to see just how much power his tower could generate. What he did was send out a pulse of energy so condensed and so large that he was able to bounce it off the moon and directed it to where it landed. When he heard the news of what had happened in Russia, he was satisfied with the results of his experiment and let them do what they wanted with the tower. BTW, the Russian researchers also claim that Dyatlov pass incident was caused by an avalanche which is also wrong. It's easy to claim they found microscopic fragments because no one but them can disprove it. Plus, they don't have to show the proof to anyone. One more note, Putin in the past few years made a law that no one is allowed to speak of Russian atrocities committed during WW2.
Because teslas tower was just a giant radio tower. Why would it.suddenly start shooting shit? At least an alien ship catching itself and booking it in the ol' "hit and run" tactic would make a bit more sense since it came from the sky.
I think it's because he was the real life mad scientist. While Tesla did discover and build many revolutionary things (alternating current being his most well known), he was constantly being smeared and undercut by Edison. To secure funding Tesla would put on a show, and boy could he put one on. If I remember right, he was probably very paranoid about his ideas being stolen and didn't keep many notes. He was also a bit of a social recluse and would spend a lot of time working on his own projects. I'd say that because Tesla did some crazy stuff, it's difficult to tell what he did and didn't do sometimes.
Tunguska event totally fascinates me. My grandpas was born in western Siberia in Tobolsk, so I am really interested in that remote place. Simon if you would I love you to do one on the Dyatlov pass incident. It’s really creepy and interesting. Thanks
@@cosmicblondelover6830 It was a skiing trip in Russia where everybody died. They were all experienced and should have known better, but they appeared to have done a lot of odd or dumb things that contributed to them dying. Also, I think some of the bodies were orange when they found them.
Cosmicblonde Lover there’s some great documentaries on TH-cam that cover the incident. There actions weren’t dumb, they weren’t dumb hikers, they were expert and extremely experienced at it and wouldn’t have done what they did for no good reason. Something terrified them so much that they cut through there tent in the middle of the night in -18 half naked (most of them) some bare footed and some in socks 🧦 and fled down the hillside into a valley. Best to check out the TH-cam documentaries on it. But they all died a horrible painfull death. The Russian authorities said in there conclusion that it was a “unidentifiable. compelling force”
Could you do the Elephants Foot, or the Aokigahara forest, Angkor Wat, or Puma Punku? Another great episode, the writers seem to be having a great time, thank you to the whole team behind these.
This story has intrigued me since I was 10 yrs old and I read about it in a science history book. I am 46 now and still just as enthusiastic over this event.
When I was visiting a friend in San Louis Obispo, California in October of 2007 we saw a meteorite fall to earth and it had a really weird, reverse rainbow tail in which the entire tail was rainbow colored, not just the edges like the one in this video. The leading edge at the back of the meteor was violet and the trailing edge at the other end of the tail was deep red/burgundy. It was the most incredible astronomical event I've ever witnessed. I searched the news for days afterward hoping there was some sort of explanation, but there were no stories, and apparently, no other witnesses.
Was fascinated with rocks as a kid and this is the first time I've seen lonsdalaite mentioned outside my little rock and mineral book. Its properties are one of 3 random science facts I give people.
Noted parapsychologists Stantz and Spengler may have mistyped the year but claim, "The Tunguska Blast of 1909 happened as a result of a meeting between John Horace Tobin and Vladimir Belascu in the Tunguska region. Something went terribly wrong and Tobin didn't like talking about it much."
I can see the theory videos, endless speculation. Matter of Fact, the 4 things he said might inspire new conspiracy videos, oh god, that's the world we live in...
Really starting to love this channel. You kill it on the narration aspect man. Keep up the good work with the seriously addicting content. All the way from Texas “Cheers Y’all”.
According to Wikipedia, the Tunguska meteorite was 100 meters/330 feet across. That's one big-assed chunk of rock! The same source quotes an equivalent explosion of 3-30 megatons, or the equivalent of the largest nuclear weapons ever produced. Great video!
Not true, the largest nuclear bomb was the Tsar Bomba but it wasn't it's true potential explosive yield, the soviets were so scared that the bomb might actually destroy the whole surface of earth that they reduced the atomic yield of the nuclear bomb. So the "true" Tsar Bomba could've been many megatons more powerful.
Many years ago I saw a daytime meteor come very close to replicating Tunguska. It fell low enough into the atmosphere that I could actually hear it burning up as it tumbled toward the ground. The sound was incredible. After a second or so it then exploded into 5 or 6 smaller pieces with a deafening boom. These smaller pieces burnt up and disappeared almost immediately. Thankfully it was a remote area with no buildings around so I don’t think anything was damaged by the shockwave created when it popped. I definitely felt it though!
that last stab at Armageddon was golden. Thank you for this vid! I do think meteors such as the one that exploded over Tunguska are the universe's way of throwing a small pebble at us to test how far our space program has come along.
To be fair, in the movie they have only 14 days to prevent the impact. So yes, with a decent amount of time any astronauts would probably become an amazing driller. But in 14 days, the better plan is to just sent some guys with years of expertise, they don't need to pilot the ship after all. I really hate that movie, for a lot of reasons but I've honestly never understood that specific complain about it.
"You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!" Ray may have gotten the year wrong, but hey, you can't have everything! :) We all know that it was really an interdimensional cross rip of PK Energy, no matter what anyone else says.....
Well, this is my first time coming to this channel, tho I'm a fan of ur Today I Found Out. Glad I decided to come stop by. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks Simon.
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It was Tesla and Einstein researching, such as Philadelphia experiment using various scalar beams ...
That was concluded by USNavy
Is it possible to have a meteor made up of ice and metals and stone?
Simon Whistler. King of multi tasking. You have so many channels lol. How do you do it? Love it all either way!
I prefer the Resistance: Games theory behind Tunguska as explained by the Fictional Doctor Malikov
This guy talks like Bryan Callen in disguise 😂
This guy is on so many different channels he's essentially the last vestige of the British Empire
He is the British empire! ... oh wait... he isn't wearing a turban. Nevermind.
@@TacDyne What on earth possessed you to spread xenophobic bullshit in the youtube replies to a bad joke
The sun never sets on the infographics empire.
"Emp Aahh"
@@fisher9841 What's xenophobic or bullshit about a fact?
The craziest and EXTREMELY fortunate aspect of this is that it happened in such a remote area versus a much more populated area.
Even in 1908 there were few places left on Earth (excluding ocean) where it could of caused as little damage as it did.
Exactly, the UFO scientists didn’t want to hurt humanity. Excellent observation! Read beyond the light barrier pag 122
Yeah almost like a test site eh ...thar wasnt a meteor
Interestingly enough an ancient city was destroyed by an air burst meteor. They believe it was the city of Sodom, a city in the Bible that God destroyed with fire from the sky.
That describes most of Earth. 70% chance it happens over the ocean.
The fact that humans have been keeping records for a couple thousand years and there hasn't been a single meteor impact in a populated area still astounds me to this day
Thank Jupiter, also the dinosaurs would like a word with you.
When you start studying geography you realize just how widely scattered our major population centers are compared to the total surface area of the planet. That means that, even today, the odds of a heavily populated area taking a direct hit from an incoming object are pretty low. Before the 20th century it would've been even lower.
Dunno... If you read the descriptions of what happened at Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible...
Although it would be interesting to find one related to the Late Bronze Age Collapse (a small scale impact prompting a forced migration, or cutting off some critical piece of international trade).
maybe it did happen but there was nothing left to be recorded
"Nothing paranormal happened at Tunguska"
"There is no war in Ba Sing Se"
The accuracy!!
Ayyye avatar the last Airbender. Aang was my 2nd favorite uncle Iroh was my all time favorite followed by zuko
"Nothing happened at Tiananmam Square in 1989"
... This is not part of the events of the sixth seal referred to in the book of revelations ... Yeah, probably is though.
Nothing of note happened in downtown Manhattan in September of 2001.
It's a bloody good job this didn't happen in the atomic age.
bloody indeed!!
Thats a pretty explosive statement
man the effects of such an event would radiate out across the world.
damnit bert, we weren't supposed to launch that bomb until 1950
Especially during the cold war.
I did a report on this for my high school astronomy class. I found it both fascinating and scary when you think that an event like this could happen at any time, anywhere in the world.
NASA is keeping track of a concerningly big Asteroid heading towards the Earth. They suspect if it does end up hitting the planet it wouldn’t reach us for another 20 years
I do think something like that has happened in the past many great civilizations have come and gone in earths ancient past. There's several sites around the world where archaeologists find melted sand and building stones melted and scorched from very high temperatures, like a nuclear bomb or Atomic bomb blast would've produced.
i heard a discussion on NPR yesterday about the possibility that this was a tiny black hole that hit earth and went straight through the earth
Theory: Aliens declared war on spruce trees.
Hey if the space overlords say we can't have trees then I guess we can't have trees
Makes a change from pinching people's pooches. Aliens have such strange aspirations.
NOT SO TALL NOW YOU ARBOREAL FREAKS!
the aliens are dwarves who have declared war on their mortal enemies, trees.
@@seanpeacock4290 Is that an Order of the Stick reference?
In russia space explore you
Best comment I've read all day.
that's actually clever use of the meme for a change.
@@geographicstravel (aka VSauce?), thank you for your generally interesting and thorough content. BTW, the British pronounciation of schedule is schedule; 'skedule' is the US.
@@geographicstravelSorry but I just cannot listen to this man.
@Wasabi Warrior Because we've seen solar flares and coronal mass ejections in the past and they've never caused anything this exaggerated.
Big EM pulse, electrocute a few telegraph operators and fry lines of communication for a few weeks, but no massive explosions or anything similar.
Simon touched on something very important for those of us who first heard about this in the 1970s: the air of mystery, invoking anti-matter, mini black holes, aliens. All due to the secrecy of the Soviet Union, which I'd never considered in this specific case until now.
When I was a teenager my theory was that the strange blast was Rasputin arriving in this plane of existence...
Even I knew the year rasputin was born he was born in 1869 and he died in 1916 so he was alive currently in 1905 when the blast happened
my theory was a bunch of tsarist scientists were creating a nuclear bomb and not expecting a big explosion, set it of and ended killing themselves in the process, setting back the nuclear age by 40 years.
@@wellthen.......9384 he was alive, yes. But not in our dimension (if this theory is true)
Imagine as the blast levels all those trees, you hear not an apocalyptic explosion but the sound of . . .
RA-RA-RASPUTIN LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEEEEN!
What is your theory now?
The thought of "Tesla doing an oopsie" has got to be one of the most terrifying prospects ever.
OMG I know.
Isn't there an SCP based on a Tesla doing an opsie on the entire universe.
Checkout Nicola tesla weapon
@@fredgiarraputo7189 who is he?
@@weedypop9032 Nikola Tesla was the stereotypical mad scientist from pop culture, a Serb (I think, somewhere in the Balkans anyway) living in the US in the late 1800's-early 1900's. His best known invention is alternating current (what powers homes and industries across the world), however he had a few totally bonkers projects and eventually went bankrupt. Nowadays some conspiracy theorists say he managed to "invent free wireless energy" and that this wonder was shutdown by occult powers for profit or whatever, but known physics say that particular thing is totally impossible and Tesla was, indeed, mostly bonkers. All of this was off the top of my head and Wikipedia is probably your friend to get additional information and double-check what I said.
Knowing the type of guy he was he probably had plans for a death ray or lightning conjuration system or something of the sort, would fit the bill.
I love the idea of Tesla cocking around with his tower and a chunk of Russia just flattens in the background
Best comment today 👌
17:50
"What if this tragedy caused people to set aside their differences and work together for the common good of humanity?
Well that's enough science fiction for now."
For the common good of ETERNITY.
this is the same reason trump and nixon gave for making a space army
New world order ?
You guys should watch some acecombat. That's a take on what would happen.
i am pretty sure that's how it was throughout human history, uniting to stand against something that can cause mutual destruction is a common theme in human history.
"Tesla did an oopsie."
I love you guys.
This does seem like sometime Tesla would do in his spare time. develop a machine that can level a small forest in 12 seconds without having to muck about with saws and axes. He probably gave up when he realized it would vaporize entire reindeer herds
My old roommate thoroughly believed it was Tesla. The History Channel told him so.
And that's why the military confiscated all of his notes upon his death. Fun fact some company in texas has built a new tesla tower in central Texas , people can see it from I35. It wasn't supposed to be a death ray , it was supposed to deliver electricity wirelessly ... which is also why Rockefeller withdrew funding because while AC current was clearly the future he had just bought ever copper mine on earth that he could so that all electricity would be delivered on his lines... he stood to lose his fortune with wireless transmission. Tesla tried to prove work, he didn't account for the differnt magnetic intensity at the poles. How could he know? It was unexplored. Opps.
@@arthas640 It was probably the harm it did to the pigeons that made him realize it wasn't something he wanted to muck around with.
He opened a portal. He also opened a portal in Colorado
Here for some lore into the FGO Tunguska event
*gigantic explosion that can't be explained happens*
Some Russian: oy blyat
Cyka blyat
O Pah
@PlebzOr Blapparapp why do you care so much? It'll eventually be phased out anyway
@PlebzOr Blapparapp tbh, i've never found this joke anywhere else
@IFunny Watermark comedy
fun fact: at ground zero for the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, the building that is now a memorial, withstood the air blast when the bomb detonated above it. This is due to the direction of the force exerted on the building, traveling straight down its supports (so vertically). However outside that central radius of ground zero, the force applied to those buildings were more diagonal or even perpendicular to the supports. Those buildings had practically no chance of withstanding the sweeping blast.
Ever since i found geographic and biographics i’ve done nothing but binge all the videos. simon’s voice is so soothing to listen to as i do a puzzle or crocheting. keep the videos coming I can’t get enough of them!
i listen to these at work. great thing to pass time
@@hotpocketoverlord7800 I’m a sahm but same, listening to history and science docs keeps my mind occupied through the more mindless tasks
Me too, as I embroider.😊
*Tunguska meteor:* _"I'm going to do a great deal of death to mankind"_
*Earth's atmosphere:* _"Are you sure about that?_
Earth's Atmosphere ~ "...and so I took that personally."
*Siberia:* _"Come @ me bro...! Everybody else CHILL! He's barely gonna leave a scratch on me."_
It was saitama actually
our atmosphere is like a force field
Ironically the atmosphere is what made the explosion so unexplainably powerful.
That's a fun thought.
Fukushima, Area 51, Pompeii, Catacombs and this?! This channel is coming in guns blazing🔥👀
It's missing Campaii Fregeri it's modern activity and ancient, sinking two cities Thonis and Baeie 8th century, and Calli Albani and some other interesting things that have been popping up lately.
Agreed I love it!
Rocks just don't blow up. They disintegrate and break up.. But not explode. That's ridiculous.
@@serbronnoftheblackwater798 th-cam.com/video/JZ4GVc88jTU/w-d-xo.html depends on your definition of explode. Rapid Unplanned Disassembly can occur due to superheated water expanding and shattering the rock leaving just fragments. The meteor would have been hot enough to melt the rock itself let alone ices.
@@razorransom1795 he has one on Thonis...i watched it yesterday
My great-grandmother was a little girl in 1908 and was working in her mother's garden about 200 km away when this happened. She saw it go past, then she saw the explosion, then the blast wave went by.
I think between all of their channels on TH-cam, The team of Simon, Shell, and their writers have some of the best content.
Agreed, together with knowing better
Agreed
What is Shell channel?
@@goldwein Shell is a producer! And who usually posts the community posts, polls and such.
Agreed I spend a lovely part of my day watching Simon.
Capitan Dathon: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra."
Captain Picard: "Tunguska, when the sky fell to Earth."
Berlin when the wall came down
@@generalhammond461 they also say 'Shaka, When the walls fell." in the episode.
Now there's a reference.
Comments arms open .
OxHorn did a groovy Fallout 76 video referencing that Star Trek episode.
An experiment was done decades ago to explain what happened, I believe it was in the late 50s. The researchers used match sticks for trees set up on a scaled topographic model. They put a explosive charge on a guy wire set at the angle of flight and set it off at the calculated speed and height of the explosion. They not only reproduced the pattern of tree fall with the one's at the center still erect, but also the butterfly shape of the area of devastation.
nah it was aliens dude... tesla was shooting his death ray and it like hit the aliens and both the death ray ball and the aliens fell to the ground and blew up.
@@iraniansuperhacker4382😂😂😂
@naturalcreature6317they recreated the event and where proven right
The meteor theory seems sound, but how about this : Tesla deflected and broke the meteor up with his death ray, thus saving thousands of lives!
the biggest problem with the meteor theory,is eyewitnesses on the ground reported seeing the object maneuver.Meteors follow a strictly ballistic trajectory.There’s also the mysterious illness that befell a number of the indigenous Tungus people.From the descriptions of the sick,it sounds like radiation poisoning.When all the evidence is taken as a whole,it suggests the explosion was caused by a mishap aboard a nuclear powered craft of extraterrestrial origin.For a while that was the official theory of the Soviet Union.
Even Tesla, the allmighty misterious scientist could not target an object traveling at 15m/s. We can barely do that today...
@@mancamiatipoola Tesla did it, prove me wrong.
@@SuperMonkei Tesla didn't do it, prove me wrong.
@@scottgibson6735 Eyewitness testimony is one of the most unreliable sources of "evidence". No problem there.
The Tsar Bomba was so powerful, the blast wave went back into time.
That even sounds possible considering how ridiculously massive that thing was 😄
@@boratsagdiyev5679 it does lol
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One fun thing about the Chelyabinsk incident is that we knew about a *different* asteroid that would pass very close to the Earth that day. The asteroid 367943 Duende was known since Feb. 2012. It passed at a distance of 27700 km at 19:25 UT, about 16 hours after the bolide at Chelyabinsk.
The description of this event was terrifying enough, can you imagine what the impact was like that took out the dinosaurs.
"The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World" by Stephen Brusatte describes exactly that.
People weren't flesh yet.
The katabole.
Horrible. Also, the dino killer was rock, and it's crater has been found. It's huge. Paleontolologists have described the area as being like turning your oven on broil and sticking your head in. The dividing line is seen in digs all over the world with as a layer of charcoal from the planet wide forest fires.
It was hell.
Much much worse, The KT impact makes the Tunguska event look like a fire cracker, that rock was the szie of a mountain coming in and smashing the earth so hard that it effected the whole Earth ( even the rotation and axial tilt is thought to have been affected) it left a fingerprint around the whole planet called the KT boundary, below this is where we find all the dinosaur fossil's none have ever been found above and the impact was likely so ridiculous it wouldn't matter where you were you would have felt the whole Earth tremble
The worst part is because of the size of the asteroid it was most likely visible to the naked eye for months before impact, slowly becoming a larger and brighter star in the sky until it was so birght it could be seen during the day, so all the life on Earth with eyes could see it coming with our current technology we would see such a asteroid decades in advance now if we could do anything about it is another story
Now imagine the fact that the dino killer asteroid isn't the biggest to ever crash into the Earth.
HAHAHAHAHAHA... The Captions for "nothing paranormal happened at Tunguska" section are hilarious. Thanks for adding that Easter egg!
Only history nerds see the word "Tunguska" and exclaim "Yeeeesss!" Absolutely loving this channel!
digapygmy70 I did the same!
digapygmy70 it never hurts to feed ones mind! Keeps us intellectually sharp!
History nerd here 😊 Tunguska has been one of my favourite "mysteries" for years.
Another history nerd here!
I’ve been fascinated with Tunguska ever since reading about it in one of Carl Sagan‘s books.
Also Ghostbusters fans...
Stanz: You have been part of the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909
Louise: Sounds great.
Imagine if this has happened 50 years later during the cold War...
Satellites would have picked it up. If no satellites then hopefully some one does a spectroscopy of the fallout to determine whether the blast was nuclear or not. If no one checks the ussr may be confused as to why america would strike a uninhabited part of the ussr to drop "only one" nuke on, instead of dropping numerous warheads on strategic military/civilian targets. Final scenario would see russia launch a perceived counter strike against America leading to a hot ww3.
We'd still be arguing that the CIA did it.
Imagine if this happened 5 hours later and came down right in the middle of Europe.
This is what's so scary. Like how utterly random the whole event was. Like the same thing could start rocketing towards Tokyo, London, Los Angeles right now in 2021 and there's nothing we could do about it. Even the contemporary scientists in this video were like "Hehe we're monitoring things to get a better understanding lul" dude we'd be so screwed
We'd all be playing harps or balalaikas, as the case may be.
I always remember the date of the Tunguska Blast as it is mentioned in the Ghostbusters movie “Tunguska blast of 1908” although I believe they state it as an inter-dimensional cross rip. That reminds me, I need to introduce my boys to Ghostbusters, what a film!
"And no, I'm not going to try and read that!"
Simon, you are a true gift to humanity.
That's a great story and so interestingly told! As someone who lived in Chelyabinsk in 2013 at the time of the meteor impact, I find impossible to imagine what that massive Tunguska meteor would have done to an urban area! Thank you for your work.
All those urban restructuring projects suddenly get approved!
It's not necessary to imagine it, just look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
There was no meteor due to NO CRATER! There was no fireball - nothing was burnt. Check out Why Files story on Tesla's works.
It change itsdirection how can a meteorite change its direction
its funny because of the paper wall
a little baby named Kal-El lands on Earth in a rocket...
Imagine Superman, raised by some babushka i dedushka in Siberian taiga... Wait, i think that's partly Red Son mini series 😅
_I'm still disturbed after almost 40yrs, that Superman would smile while saying, "NO.....Don't Do It!!", when Non and Ursa lift the Bus full of people._
...realizes he landed in Russia, then opts to re-launch and float through the vast emptiness of interstellar space for a few more millennia instead. Hence, no crater.
The arrival of Zod
Mun dee
Eyewitness: "... followed by eight loud bangs like gunshots"
Me: Sounds like we got an alien turf war.
Main explosion + 1 per each piece it broke into +1 for each mountain echo.
Maybe it was an alien driveby.
Can you imagine if the Tunguska meteor strike happened during the cold war? When everyone was on edge and jumpy waiting for first strike. 😳
_"Hey Lev.......Have ya ever heard of Evel Knievel?"_
_Lev: "No, I never saw Star Wars"_
Russian parts, American parts ...
ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!!
18:37 "one million broken windows"
Sounds like the title of a song.
Nine million bicycles in Beijing - Katie Melua
But only for a Death Metal band... 😂
Blue Oyster Cult
Or like a night of terror in Germany on November 9th, 1938.
Or a typical day for Microsoft.
Chelyabinsk was at least 300 kt, possibly 500.
It had already passed its closest approach and was on its way out. It had passed its closest approach to the city. They got very lucky.
Nearly 1200 people were medically treated, most for flying or falling debris.
It was probably of the "Apollo" grouping, and we know of 10k+ such bodies, most much larger. Something as small as the Chelyabinsk body at~15 meters, is highly unlikely to be spotted, though we routinely see such bodies *after* they've made closest approach.
Maybe chunks of the body at Tunguska exist, a crater for a 1 meter chunk (such as is seen in photos after being brought up from a lake near Chelyabinsk) might not be found in a hasty, incomplete examination 19 years later, might be indistinguishable after 70 years.
The body they brought up was denser with metals than the Earth's crust. Some meteorites are density 8+, greater than pure iron. King Tutt's rust-proof meteoritic steel dagger is 6% cobalt.
A larger comet body of ices, might hit at much greater than 15km/sec, possibly as much as 50 km/sec. The blast energy would be furious, and nothing but tiny fragments of any silicate materials would reach the ground.
In his book "Rain of Iron and Ice", John S. Lewis reported a couple of interesting cases.
In ancient China, an army was marching and camped near a river.
Out of a partly clear blue sky, a bright flash blinded anyone facing it for miles, flash-burned like a sunburn anything with a half mile or so. A titanic blast like thunder flattened everything outwards for half a mile or so, smashed anything directly underneath which was already crisped from the flash, Everything nearby was smote with chunks of red-hot metal and rock. A dark cloud of smoke hung over the area, and a sulphurous stench lingered.
Of course since no duly qualified scientist examined the evidence for a rocky/metallic meteorite airburst, it is generally not known of as a case of such an incident.
Another case also in China in recent years was when a bolide was seen. Silent and bright at first high up to witnesses up-range. Closer and lower, darker reddish and trailing smoke farther down range. Dull reddish and very smoky, with a sound like a freight train and crackling like thunder further downrange. It was lower and much quieter, less smoky and slower and more nearly vertical downrange. People nearby heard and felt the *thump* through the ground.
Witnesses found a brush fire had been started, at the center a smoking hole. At the bottom, about 30cm across, a hot dark lump. As they put out the fire and were digging it out, it cooled rapidly; by the time they had it excavated and were bringing it up, it grew cooler and colder, finally ice cold, and then too cold to handle.
A large cooler and some dry ice were found and it was packed away to a university science center.
Such fragments of cometary bodies or extremely low density CC asteroids have a little rock or metal, but can be 40% volatiles by mass: H2O, Co2, CH4, NH3. Lots of stinky stuff like various ethanes, ketones, aldehydes, and PAH chemicals. Lots of dark almost organic tarry stuff, almost coal black, slightly reddish with tholins.
Damn, Simon and the entire team, I'm sure I'm not alone when I say how sincerely I enjoy and appreciate the thoroughness and passion with which you tackle every topic. Please, for all of our sake, keep up the good work.
And not even just Geographics but Biographics and TopTenz and the rest of them too, you guys really make sure I always have something to add to even the most random of conversations when the appropriate topic pops up.
Thank you :)
agree !! love this channel, i only have keep 3 subscriptions and now they are one.
What thoroughness? There's no scientific proof to any of this let alone supposed seismic activity without any equipment to record it. Its conspiracy theory nut ball shit.
And he's HOT..
Damn that Tesla and his wizardly death rays!
Claudio Bizama a wizard using a futuristic laser death ray would be a great novel.
Wet dreams about tesla!
Actually this conspiracy theory has some juice in it namely Tesla studied intensively non habitatet areas in the world in that time he even bought some maps of Russia Siberia aprox year before tunguska happened, there was rumors that he need a non inhabited space for some tests
@@altergreenhorn Got any proof of Tesla's "intense" study of uninhabited areas, specifically Russia/Siberia? Or is it something you read in a comment on some forum? Why would finding an uninhabited part of Siberia even require intense study to begin with?
Tesla, and not Emperor Ming?
Guys, it was me - sorry.
*Kids in 1921:* "A terrible storm, so great it was difficult to stand"
*Kids in 2020:* "Aye rite bruv coodnt stand up init"
".....aye"
Ye instead of yes or ya instead of yes so tru lol
This hurt so much to read lol. It seems like communication skills are a thing of the past. I think it was my generation that started this decline.
@@prodbydominikm I'm not a boomer I'm 29. I understand that not every person is going to agree with me. I prefer the way people spoke in early 1900s.
@@sunray9060 but you do know that the sentence from the 1900's was not verbatim
Before this, all I know was that Tunguska is a Self Propelled Anti Air Gun
This is easily explained. Santa crashed picking up reindeer. Tim Allen then took over from there. There's a documentary on this but the place and events have been changed.
LMFAO and remember a reindeer gets hooked on sweets lol
Santa's Nuclear Sled.
Your comment made me smile 😆
That's not even funny, completely idiotic
@@slowstang88 most exquisite, your highness
I absolutely LOVE this new format. I appreciate how you take the same level of research and care that you do with Biographics and apply it to places of significance instead of an individual. I just wish it was more than twice a week.
Maybe one day, once we get established. Videos are expensive to produce so we want to grow responsibly. - Shell
I love his technique of looking from the right to the left and back again to disguise the fact that he’s reading.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
That's the spirit!
Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner?
Watch "soldier" with Kurt Russell. He has campaign tattoos on his shoulder. One says "Tannhauser Gate".
What do you mean, "you people"?
@@jakahl1470 humans, dear boy, humans.
"Landed in the Southern Swamp" "Confused why there was no crater"
Me: [confused why they're confused]
Is there anything thing that you cannot narrarate? Dude you are absolutely brilliant as a epic story teller like the bards of old. Love your commentary and show.
Thank you :)
We've had a few disagreements, but this channel is pretty happening.
I remember a few of years ago, watching an episode of "What on Earth" Where they showed a picture of a bright streak of clouds with a bright flash of light at the head of them in the northern pacific. IT was obviously an asteroid streak, but the kicker is that it was GIGANTIC. Some estimates put the asteroid at about the size of the one from Tunguska. Since it happened in the Northern Pacific where NO ONE lives (even shipping lanes are sparse) no one was hurt, but there were sparse reports of loud gunfire like sounds from a few ships in the area.
So either we were unlucky (or lucky however you see it since they both missed populated areas) to have had two large asteroids like this airblast on Earth in roughly 100 years instead of the Millennia estimates, or one of these type of airblast events happens more often that once a millennia.
Trees in a remote area: Exists
Tunguska: That's a nono.
The first time I heard about the Tunguska Event was in Ghostbusters 1984. It was laughingly called a "paranormal event". Needless to say that brief mention has intrigued me ever since about what happened there.
I'd hear of it beforehand, and when the character (Egan?) said the line it really popped out! So I looked up a number of the things they'd mentioned; they mostly were fact, or a version of a fact. Like the Spirit Guide exists, but it's something else.
3yrs since this came out and simon looks like such a young baby compared to his large beard self now. And he's open talking about his kids and has videos where he riffs and we can see who he actually is ever so slightly. Cool to see
This is a perfect idea for an alternate history book
@Josh Jones there are so many different situations in which I feel this could make a very good story
“Nothing paranormal happened at Tunguska”. That’s exactly what they want us to think
The Truth is Out There
Yer tinfoil hat seems crooked
Yeah, the CIA & NASA hid it all, again, cos they daren't let us find the truth, blah, blah.
I think it’s so funny how viscerally people react to the mere possibility that something beyond our current understanding may have happened at Tunguska or anywhere. Keep in mind that the meteorite explanation is still only a hypothesis-just like the rest of the potential explanations. No evidence has been found to corroborate that explanation it just fits with the nature of the damage and was elevated above the others because it conforms to our current understandings of the universe. Not saying it’s a guarantee something paranormal happened there but it is a possibility.
@@lexaproqueen9681 what the hell does a explosion from a meteor have to do with paranormal ? Sniffing glue?
Great show, as usual. Love all your channels.
And thank you for dumbing down the kilometres to miles for myself and the rest of us Americans that haven't been taught them.
I spent some small time living in Germany in college, and I still have to stop and do the math in my head, unless Simon does it for me.
Yes he does, but we’re so ignorant do we even know what 100 miles is? He needs to tell us how many football fields or for us Californians, how long it would take to drive, or something like that lol
To be fair, miles are used for distance more commonly in the UK than kilometres. We use a pretty heavy mix of the metric and imperial systems based on context. We'll weigh most things in grams/kilograms, but people in stone and pounds. Likewise we still refer to human height in feet and inches, rather than centimetres. We'll order a pint at the bar, speed is measured in mph, etc. There are a few other places who use both systems too - Canada, notably. So it's not really just a dumbing down for Americans, but using both systems because both systems are still in use in multiple countries.
I'm stupid as it gets and I have no trouble doing the conversion in my head.
Just times the kilometres by 1.6...
What i do, though, is halve the number of kilometres, and add that number plus 10% of the total.
So say, you have 75km...50% of 75 is 37.5. So I add 37.5 to 75, thats 112.5. Then add 10% of 75, 7.5 and you get 120.
75 km = 120 miles.
This can be done really quickly. You don't need to be taught it, just use common sense 🤭
Even easier the other way round. Just halve then take away 10%.
75km is only 46 miles. 75 miles is 120km. Miles are bigger. @@Wawawalulu
Dude this channel is just as good as biographies. Keep bringing the great work guys
You make history fun to watch! You've got an awesome sense of humour!
I dont know if anyone else had this experience but I remember back when I was 15 and I played COD: world at war nazi zombies religiously, and the word "Tunguska" was written on a wall on one of maps I watched like hundreds of theory videos on TH-cam about it... man those were the days. Lol
the ole "easier to train a mechanic to be an astronaut than vice versa" joke had me rolling hahaha
Just because you think it's science fiction doesn't mean it isn't possible. Tesla was a genius. His creations much like Da Vinci's were far ahead of their time. I am a retired engineer and have studied Tesla's inventions and experiments over many years and what Tesla accomplished was truly amazing. Tesla was not aiming at the north pole, he was aiming where the explosion occurred. It was his last experiment before the tower was to be torn down and he wanted to see just how much power his tower could generate. What he did was send out a pulse of energy so condensed and so large that he was able to bounce it off the moon and directed it to where it landed. When he heard the news of what had happened in Russia, he was satisfied with the results of his experiment and let them do what they wanted with the tower. BTW, the Russian researchers also claim that Dyatlov pass incident was caused by an avalanche which is also wrong. It's easy to claim they found microscopic fragments because no one but them can disprove it. Plus, they don't have to show the proof to anyone. One more note, Putin in the past few years made a law that no one is allowed to speak of Russian atrocities committed during WW2.
The alien ship was acceptable .. but Tesla's tower was deemed science fiction? Why does the world hate Tesla?
Because teslas tower was just a giant radio tower.
Why would it.suddenly start shooting shit?
At least an alien ship catching itself and booking it in the ol' "hit and run" tactic would make a bit more sense since it came from the sky.
Because he was a huge threat to industrialists. And big industry made sure to discredit him which carried on through the decades.
@@ColdNorth0628 meteors explode in the atmosphere high in the exosphere this meteor vaporised in the troposphere
I think it's because he was the real life mad scientist. While Tesla did discover and build many revolutionary things (alternating current being his most well known), he was constantly being smeared and undercut by Edison. To secure funding Tesla would put on a show, and boy could he put one on. If I remember right, he was probably very paranoid about his ideas being stolen and didn't keep many notes. He was also a bit of a social recluse and would spend a lot of time working on his own projects. I'd say that because Tesla did some crazy stuff, it's difficult to tell what he did and didn't do sometimes.
Tunguska event totally fascinates me. My grandpas was born in western Siberia in Tobolsk, so I am really interested in that remote place. Simon if you would I love you to do one on the Dyatlov pass incident. It’s really creepy and interesting. Thanks
Yeah, Dyatlov Pass kinda freaks me out.
And me 😀😃
What happened ??
@@cosmicblondelover6830 It was a skiing trip in Russia where everybody died. They were all experienced and should have known better, but they appeared to have done a lot of odd or dumb things that contributed to them dying. Also, I think some of the bodies were orange when they found them.
Cosmicblonde Lover there’s some great documentaries on TH-cam that cover the incident. There actions weren’t dumb, they weren’t dumb hikers, they were expert and extremely experienced at it and wouldn’t have done what they did for no good reason. Something terrified them so much that they cut through there tent in the middle of the night in -18 half naked (most of them) some bare footed and some in socks 🧦 and fled down the hillside into a valley. Best to check out the TH-cam documentaries on it. But they all died a horrible painfull death. The Russian authorities said in there conclusion that it was a “unidentifiable. compelling force”
I was so inspired by this story a whole back that I included it in the beginning of a work-in-progress novel. It has so much potential
I would love to read a novel like that 😮
Could you do the Elephants Foot, or the Aokigahara forest, Angkor Wat, or Puma Punku? Another great episode, the writers seem to be having a great time, thank you to the whole team behind these.
Jon New if you want some good videos on Angkor wat. I’d recommend visiting Extra credits series on it
@@anewspinonthings 10 points if they actually visit and touch the Elephant's Foot.
Aokigahara forest is just a forest
The elephants foot would be sick
Or the Immoveable Ladder.
4:54
"I.M. Suslov."
"I am Steve Rogers"
"I Am Groot."
This story has intrigued me since I was 10 yrs old and I read about it in a science history book. I am 46 now and still just as enthusiastic over this event.
When I was visiting a friend in San Louis Obispo, California in October of 2007 we saw a meteorite fall to earth and it had a really weird, reverse rainbow tail in which the entire tail was rainbow colored, not just the edges like the one in this video. The leading edge at the back of the meteor was violet and the trailing edge at the other end of the tail was deep red/burgundy. It was the most incredible astronomical event I've ever witnessed. I searched the news for days afterward hoping there was some sort of explanation, but there were no stories, and apparently, no other witnesses.
It was a satellite
@Bill Zussman You saw a meteor. You couldn't find a meteorite.
That's why you shouldn't do drugs you see things that are not really happening lmfao
Helpful comment. Stuff burns yellow/orange hot, than red, than white, than magenta/fusha. Relative to how many 1,000s F its burning.
Chicken little was running all over the place trying to warn people! They didn't listen! Chicken little was blown to bits.
for a second I was expecting to hear ''Hey VSauce, Michael here.''
Only thats like 5 years to late since VSauce was last trending
@@RegulareoldNorseBoy I meant because they look alike
@@YourSaddestDeer they do hahahaha ha
@@RegulareoldNorseBoy that's cause he went youtube premium exclusively :(
I didn't know what to think, looks like Johnny Sins to me x)
Was fascinated with rocks as a kid and this is the first time I've seen lonsdalaite mentioned outside my little rock and mineral book. Its properties are one of 3 random science facts I give people.
Noted parapsychologists Stantz and Spengler may have mistyped the year but claim, "The Tunguska Blast of 1909 happened as a result of a meeting between John Horace Tobin and Vladimir Belascu in the Tunguska region. Something went terribly wrong and Tobin didn't like talking about it much."
If this happened today, TH-cam would be swamped with videos on stupid conspiracy theories.
@Jonathan Williams Lots of folks in Chelyabinsk thought it was a US missile attack.
Aliens did this to test humans technology.
But it happened a century before You Tube and still developed conspiracy theories. So, duh.
I can see the theory videos, endless speculation. Matter of Fact, the 4 things he said might inspire new conspiracy videos, oh god, that's the world we live in...
You mean like this one?
Watching this made me think I’d love a video by you on the Dyatlov Pass incident
Super informative! I’ve been interested in this and you literally answered questions I didn’t know I had yet!
Really starting to love this channel.
You kill it on the narration aspect man. Keep up the good work with the seriously addicting content.
All the way from Texas “Cheers Y’all”.
Thank you :)
Ogdy the God of Thunder. Sounds more like a character from CBBC than Chris Hemsworth
As I read this, a thunderstorm is directly overhead ⛈
Hi Simon, can you do a Geographics on Krakatoa 1883 eruption? Loved this one on Tunguska ❤
Ok - you got me with "Alien-ola Gay." That got a laugh out of me. Well played :) I thoroughly enjoy your Biographics, and now this channel as well.
That single guy dying to the meteorite has to be litterally the most unlucky man on Earth.
According to Wikipedia, the Tunguska meteorite was 100 meters/330 feet across. That's one big-assed chunk of rock! The same source quotes an equivalent explosion of 3-30 megatons, or the equivalent of the largest nuclear weapons ever produced.
Great video!
Not true, the largest nuclear bomb was the Tsar Bomba but it wasn't it's true potential explosive yield, the soviets were so scared that the bomb might actually destroy the whole surface of earth that they reduced the atomic yield of the nuclear bomb. So the "true" Tsar Bomba could've been many megatons more powerful.
Nobody ever considered the theory that ground zero was the location of the world's first Taco Bell.
Thank you, looking forward to this one, got my interest back when I first saw Ghostbusters and they made a passing reference to it.
An uninhabited area might be concidered highly populated if the "aliens" thought that trees were the dominant species of Earth.
Remember the X files ep when Mulder went to Tunguska and was given that black oil? Good times
Engineers black goo...
And was betrayed by Comrade Krycek with his fake hand dipping a teabag...lol. Man, I love that show.
@@Maverick_682 brilliant.
Hahaha I am rewatching the episodes. It's so cool to find even more information about the inspiration of the Xfiles.
I remember that one
Many years ago I saw a daytime meteor come very close to replicating Tunguska. It fell low enough into the atmosphere that I could actually hear it burning up as it tumbled toward the ground. The sound was incredible. After a second or so it then exploded into 5 or 6 smaller pieces with a deafening boom. These smaller pieces burnt up and disappeared almost immediately.
Thankfully it was a remote area with no buildings around so I don’t think anything was damaged by the shockwave created when it popped. I definitely felt it though!
Hmm? Where and when.
Here after the DART mission’s success, hurray for humanity, and hurray for the scientists!
Best and most detailed account I've heard of this event ever. Well done and thanks for all your videos.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
that last stab at Armageddon was golden. Thank you for this vid! I do think meteors such as the one that exploded over Tunguska are the universe's way of throwing a small pebble at us to test how far our space program has come along.
To be fair, in the movie they have only 14 days to prevent the impact. So yes, with a decent amount of time any astronauts would probably become an amazing driller. But in 14 days, the better plan is to just sent some guys with years of expertise, they don't need to pilot the ship after all.
I really hate that movie, for a lot of reasons but I've honestly never understood that specific complain about it.
Watching this after years of viewing all of Simon's more recent work and I barely recognize this Simon. He's practically clean shaven here!
Ray and Egon had a theory back in the early 80s.
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"You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!" Ray may have gotten the year wrong, but hey, you can't have everything! :) We all know that it was really an interdimensional cross rip of PK Energy, no matter what anyone else says.....
Title card: A song of Ice and Fire
Me: It’s a Game of Thrones
Now let’s do a geographics of Easter island from Chile!
Well, this is my first time coming to this channel, tho I'm a fan of ur Today I Found Out. Glad I decided to come stop by. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks Simon.
The original Tsar Bomba, Stalin would have been proud
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Only 1% of the tested Tsar Bomba yield, but certainly spectacularly powerful for the time.
Ironically he was in Siberia at the time.
Benson Adams stalin never lived to see the tsar bomba
The shock wave is so powerful . Knocked unconscious 30 km away from the impact point...
When you live in such a desolate and awful place that even meteors dont want to land there