Let's face it, the man was nuts. Yes very possibly genius but clearly quite
crazy, and toward the end of his life I would say 'mad'.
Still, I'd rather be a mad genius like Tesla than someone such as Edison,
who I absolutely despise (as a person).
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018, 7:56 AM Myfirstteslacoil via Tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Thanks for telling what happened.
> I don’t live in the US and I could not watch it. I cannot even watch
> Science Channel where I live. I watched parts of episodes on other
> platforms.
>
> I never realized the fact about the Faraday Case with airplanes. This also
> means that cars act like Faraday Cages?
>
> Never heard about the earthquake machines theory surrounding Tesla btw.
> One of the most laughable ones that I heard from someone is that Tesla was
> assasinated by personell of Hitler. Arguing with a theorist is always hard
> since any argument braught up against them is considered ‘brainwashing’ of
> the media by them.
>
> Altough I diverge from what this list is usefull for (sorry), is there
> even a theory surrounding him that is truthful or had a grain of truth? I
> don’t see the point of spreading lies about Tesla. It only undermines Tesla
> in public eyes while he was so important for our world.
>
> Sincerely, Yesn
>
> Sent from ProtonMail Mobile
>
> Aan zo, feb. 25, 2018 om 16:21, Steve White <steve.white1@xxxxxxxxx>
> schreef:
>
> > I finally watched the last episode on-line. Thanks for posting the link.
> I skipped the gibberish and went to the final 15 minutes. I am not
> convinced that the streamer actually destroyed the drone. It looks to me
> like the obvious flash-powder is what actually destroyed it. The ramblings
> of these people about this being a viable weapon are laughable. If the
> range is no more than 10 feet something MIGHT happen. Here are some of the
> many reasons this is not a viable weapon. 1. You can't direct a streamer.
> 2. The range is severely limited. 3. Modern planes act like a Faraday cage.
> Number 3 is probably the biggest. Planes get struck by lightning all the
> time and nothing happens because they act like a Faraday cage and are not
> grounded. A lightning bolt has orders of magnitude more energy in it than
> the largest tesla coil and capacitor bank ever will. So even if you could
> steer the streamer and make the range sufficiently large and deliver a
> large pulse of energy, it would not do anything to a modern plane. I have o
> say that the tesla coil and capacitor bank were impressive to watch. Does
> anyone know how he routed the 100K joules from the capacitor bank through
> the secondary? I would think that the secondary wire would have to be huge
> to handle the thousands of amps of peak current when fired. If the
> secondary wire is a very large gauge, then it seems like you couldn't get
> many turns on the secondary. I wish they would have provided some more
> detail about how this was actually built. ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Kunkel" To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" Sent: Saturday,
> February 24, 2018 11:18:00 PM Subject: Re: [TCML] Death Ray? You can watch
> the last episode for free online. It shows the final form of the "Death
> Ray" destroying a couple of drones.
> https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/teslas-death-ray-a-murder-declassified-on-science/full-episodes/fbis-secret-scheme
> I know we all have our problems with the show's content and in general how
> modern day reality TV portrays/ruins topics we are passionate about, but
> let's face it, these days we don't have any Tesla based content to choose
> from on TV. ~Dan Kansas City area On Sat, Feb 24, 2018, 1:20 PM Teslalabor
> wrote: > Same here. Without any doubt he was a genius, but 99% of the
> strange > things you can read about Tesla is just "bullshit". > > > Am
> 24.02.2018 um 18:10 schrieb Steve White: > > Any back-of-the-envelope
> analysis of the amount of energy required to > cause something like the
> Tunguska explosion would quickly discount this > idea. We are talking
> energy levels that are contained in many hydrogen > bombs to cause such
> destruction. Whatever it did or didn't do Tesla' > Waredencliff tower, or
> any of his other large coils, in the end was merely > a way of transporting
> energy produced by a power plant from one location to > another. It
> produced no energy and was a very inefficient way to transmit > wireless
> power. That is why wireless power transmission over long distances > never
> worked and still doesn't work. There are no power plants then, now, > or in
> the foreseeable future producing energy levels on the level of > multiple
> hydrogen bombs. The current theory is probably the correct one: a > large
> comet or meteor strike. > > > > Tesla should be remembered for what his
> actual achievements were: the AC > power generation and distribution system
> and induction motors. These > achievements were monumental and form the
> background of our modern world. > That other nonsense about death rays,
> earthquake machines, the Tunguska > event, etc. is just an insult to his
> memory and detracts from his real > accomplishments. > > > > ----- Original
> Message ----- > > From: "Myfirstteslacoil via Tesla" > > To: "Tesla Coil
> Mailing List" > > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 3:47:38 AM > >
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Death Ray? > > > > Altough I have found Tesla’s life
> intruiging I never was able to > completely believe any theories
> surrounding him. > > Why are there so many? > > I can recall one about the
> Tunguska explosion. It was said to be caused > by Tesla’s Wardenclyffe
> tower. If I remember correctly the theory stated > that Tesla made an
> expedition to the North Pole and build a receiver tower > there. > > And if
> one draws a line from Shoreham (Long Island) to the area of > Tunguska
> explosion it crosses the North Pole. > > I think the reason for this theory
> is the lack of information about the > Tunguska explosion, especially the
> cause. It is a fun theory notheless. > > > > ,Yesn > > > > Sent from
> ProtonMail Mobile > > > > Aan za, feb. 24, 2018 om 01:24, Steve White >
> schreef: > > > >> The military already has a "Death Ray". It is called a
> CO2 laser or > other chemically excited laser. It actually works. -----
> Original Message > ----- From: "doug" To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" Sent:
> Friday, February > 23, 2018 5:14:57 PM Subject: Re: [TCML] Death Ray?
> Popular Science, > Jan/Feb- 2018 Page 18, Robert Afzal, Working for
> Lockheed Martin! The Death > ray is real! But They call it a "PHASER" Yes a
> PHASER! It's coming! Doug > -----Original Message----- From: charles rakes
> Sent: Friday, February 23, > 2018 5:21 PM To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Death Ray? I > don't think the final episode has been
> shown. I had my recorder set for the > last episode and it didn't happen.
> Would like to know, if and when it might > be seen? Charles Virus-free.
> www.avast.com > <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, Feb 23,
> 2018 at 1:29 PM, > Steve White wrote: > To Aron's credit I didn't see him
> engage in any of the > wacko conspiracy > theory talk. The most I saw him
> do was to sit around a > work table > listening > to the crazy ideas of the
> two "investigators". He > basically just looked at > them while they
> talked, not affirming anything > that they said, so I would > say that he
> came out of it with his integrity > intact. Considering he was > paid to
> build something cool and probably got > to keep the equipment, I > would
> say that he made a reasonable compromise. > > > I need to see the final
> episode to see what he finally built since I > > missed that one. > > -----
> Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew > Robinson" > To: "Tesla Coil
> Mailing List" > Sent: Friday, February 23, > 2018 11:59:07 AM > Subject:
> Re: [TCML] Death Ray? > > The person you speak > of in the show building
> the coil is Aron Koscho. He > owns and operates > aTTi (
> www.appliedteslatech.com) as well as what was > KVA effects ( >
> www.teslacoil.com) for you older guys out there. Aron has > been part of
> > the tesla community for years and has intentionally stepped > away from
> the > list and the hobbiest side of coiling. He actually used to > moderate
> the > list years ago. He is a very close friend of mine and we > have had >
> multiple discussions concerning the show. He was approached a > while ago >
> to do that show and actually turned down Discovery several > times for a >
> lot of the reasons you guys have already mentioned. Yes, I > agree (as does
> > Aron), there are several portions of the show that are > cringe worthy.
> At > the end of the day, Discovery needed to introduce some > drama into
> the > show which is why there are so many cringy scenes. We > should all be
> > grateful though. Aron stood by his guns during the > production process
> and > flat out refused multiple times to say certain > things on camera
> that were > just flat out lies or too on the conspiracy > theory side of
> things. While > yes, there were LOTS of cringy scenes that > any veteran
> tesla people on > here should have been able to immediately > point out as
> fake, it could > have gone a LOT worse if Aron had let > Discovery do the
> REAL conspiracy > theory show they wanted to do. So be > thankful lol. > >
> PS, Some good did > come of the show. The documents from the archive >
> (while behind the scenes > were already preselected) were in fact never >
> before published. Aron, > Cameron, and the Discovery are currently the >
> only individuals from the > public currently known have copies of those >
> documents. Of course they > don't say anything useful, but still pretty >
> neat. I need to remind Aron > again to send me the PDF's he has of the >
> documents, including the ones > that were not shared on the TV show! > >
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