The forest awakes as daylight starts
The fresh night air give way to a soft heat
This moment, he wouldn’t trade it for anything
It is a privileged moment,
where he takes the time to feel life in the forest
There are obviously quickest roads to join the field of the old Constantin
But this road known by him only is way more pleasant
It is the occasion for him to relax and empty his mind
without anyone bothering him
But suddenly, a huge detonation is heard,
and a fraction of second later, a terrible blast knocks him over
In the air, there is like an elusive smell
the forest became terribly silent
A low rumble is heard
But what he sees in the sky throw away all his certainty
The sky seem to tear
Would the world be ending today ?
English subtitles by Léa Néglia
The name Toungouska comes from the river above which there was the explosion
We are receiving today Mario and Michel, hello to you both
Now, the first word !
So, my dear Mario, what do you have to say
3 letters
3 letters ? Okay, which gives us
Ska. S-k-a
Ska yes, it is totally acceptable
we can congratulate him
So, dear Michel, what is it for you
10 letters
That much ? What is the word ?
Toungouska
Toungouska, is it good ?
Yes, Toungouska is totally admissible
Well, I guess we can clap !
This river is situated in one of the most isolated zone of the world,
the Siberian Taiga
Some witnesses mentioned a fireball along with the explosion
Between 50 and 100 meters of diameter
On the ground, the explosion had huge consequences
2000 km2 of forest destroyed,
80 millions of trees annihilated
Without mentioning hundreds of deers who were burned alive
The multiple fires have transformed the forest into a huge bonfire
The earth also shook
1000km away from there, the Irkoutsk observatory felt a seism
of magnitude 4,5 to 5
It’s a small one
but 1000km away
it remains a seism
The shock wave was recorded until the west of Europe
It created a sort of huge vortex of ashes and dust
which travelled until Spain
where in the sky you can see beautiful halos of light
Anyway, it is an exceptional event,
and fortunately it happened in a zone sparsely populated
Because if it happened a bit more to the west, it would have entirely blown St Petersburg
What is strange in this case, is that almost nobody talked about it
With an event like this, we could think that the media coverage would have been important
Barely,
there are a few mentions in a few local newspaper
But that’s all
Questioned way later, people of this area were reluctant to talk about the event
These animists populations
thought that it was a visit from the God Ogdy
Ogdy was the god of fire of the Evenks
He would have cursed the place,
and would come back if anybody mentioned the event
The Siberian shamans have in common with the amerindians
the respect of the Father of heaven, of Mother Earth, of spirits,
of animals   and of sacred forms of creation
Meanwhile, in Europe and elsewhere in the world,
nobody have any idea about the explosion that happened
The only clues remains in the sunrises that are extremely colored for several days,
and nights there are extremely clear
So much so that you can read the newspaper at night without any additional light
Some scientists are indeed interested in these unusual atmospherical phenomenons
But the only hypothesis is that a volcano probably woke up somewhere in the world
The case is buried after a few days, as luminosity becomes normal again
After this we have to wait another 20 years for this event to get interest
The first scientific expedition on the site of Toungouska
doesn’t happen before 1927
Yeah, but scientists, to make them get out of their lab…
Then again, the explosion happened in one of the most remote parts of the world
Where sometimes, in winter, the temperature reaches -50, 60°c
And it’s true that at this period in Russia there was a revolution,
which resulted in a huge civil war
Then an economic collapse which resulted in a an extremely murderous famine
Yeah well it doesn’t excuse everything !
That’s what he says when he doesn’t have any arguments
I can hear you !
This first expedition is conducted by a Russian team, led by Leonid Koulik
Intrigued by the testimonies talking about a fireball in the sky in 1908,
the mineralogist assumes that it is a meteor strike in the area
And convinces the Academia of sciences that it is necessary to go check
When they arrive at the location, scientists discovered an apocalyptic landscape
On a cercle of 60km of diameter approximately,
dozens of millions of conifers are broken,
ripped appart, burnt
The roots of the dead trees all point at the same direction
Probably the epicenter of the explosion
Scientists decide to follow the lead
and walk for days in the sadly died forest
When they approach the marshy area,
the scientists discover with stupor that there is nothing
No crater, trace of impact, nor scraps
are on the area where the explosion happened
Only a few trees up without any leaves here and there, and a few holes
So Uri ?
I don’t see anything boss
It’s normal, we are in the lock
Oh....
How did a meteor could do that much damage ?
The following expeditions in 1928, 1930 and 1938,
don’t bring a lot of new elements
Only confirming the absence of residues and material
If there was a meteor, it completely vanished
And didn’t leave any material trace of its existence
Let’s be serious for a minute
How long yet ?
At my top, 3,37 seconds
…yeah, let’s do this faster
There are approximately 230 meteors falling every day on earth
But nothing compared to the Toungouska
To cause that much damages, the meteor’s weight must have been,
according to researchers,
1 million tons
And measuring between 50 and 100 meters of diameter
Yet, there, on the site, nothing was found
So, the object of interest here couldn’t have gone unnoticed
And is certainly still on earth
In the 90s, some researchers like the Danish  researcher Kaare Rasmussen
Have extracted some peat to try and find chemical anomalies
I love my job
I love my job
According to him, they found a peat layer corresponding to 1908,
a huge concentration of iridium, which is typical of iron meteors
Nevertheless, these researchers are not unanimously agreed in the community,
and some scientists find the samples of peat imprecise
Some time later, a team of Italian researchers,
who tried to find other elements in the peat,
discover a lake close to the epicenter
The Cheko lake
And for them, everything become clear
The lake must be the falling point of the meteor
So they investigate, search the archives
No mention of the lake before the 30th of June 1908
According to this hypothesis, the meteor would be deep down in the lake
Using acoustic waves,
they discover an area with a strange density,
10 meters under the lake
Once more, the Cheko lake hypothesis is not unanimously agreed  by the scientists
Indeed, most of the lakes that form with impacts like this one have a circular shape,
which is not the case for the Cheko lake
Other hypothesis have been initiated
Most of them have been published in serious scientific journals
Among the most famous ones, in 1973,
2 American astrophysicist suggest that the Toungouska event
could have been caused by a collision between the earth and a small blackhole
Well known by physicist at the time,
blackholes are objects which concentrate a huge mass
in a tiny radius
They are so compact that no material nor light can escape it
Yeah so, you can’t say it’s a blackhole, it’s more like huge black things,
they’re not holes
Yes I agree, but as an astrophysicist imagine someone asks
« What are you working on lately ? »
And you say
« It’s great, it’s huge black things »
Not too cool
Yes indeed
An object that would concentrate the equivalent of a million of billions tons in space with only a few atoms
It would have gotten into the earth like a spoon in a flamby
And would have gotten out in the North Atlantic, 12 minutes later
We’re gonna have to talk about the budget
This hypothesis would explain why they didn’t find anything on site
But for now nothing allows us to confirm it
More recently, the australien researcher Robert Foot
proposed the idea of a collision with an asteroid made of mirror material
It is a hypothetical type of material that physicists claimed the existence in the early 2000s
The particles in which the material is made
presents a certain asymmetry
Which means that they form more interaction on a side, the left one
This material, invisible for us
would have hit the earth
provoking the event of Toungouska
But once again, no proof supports this hypothesis
Some people considered solutions a little bit more esoteric to this problem
Involving in particular a well known scientist at the time,
Nikola Tesla
Tesla, that’s him
Frankly, if this guy isn’t the archetype of crazy scientists,
I’m willing to play the whole collection of Johnny on an old banjo
In Japanese
Nikola Tesla is a Serbian genius inventor who immigrated to the USA
in order to work with another big name of this era
Thomas Edison
It is in the USA that he made himself known
Nikola, Tesla ? (Are you there in French)
Yeah, I’m coming
Hold on, Edison (Eddy is ringing),
I’m running to the door
(Joke with the direct current)
After a longue war without mercy against Thomas Edison,
he ended up creating the alternative current, which is still known and used nowadays
He persists
And after discovering the radar,
he creates the first remote-controlled robots
And the wireless power transmission
Tesla wasn’t only a scientist
He was especially a great showman
During an exhibition in Chicago,
he inflicts to himself 250 000 volts in front of a dumbfounded public
You see ?
A few years later, in 1899,
he presents the first radio controlled boats
You see ?
A hell of an achievement at the time
But let’s go back to our story
Tesla worked on the wireless power transmission
Tesla thought that it was possible to create a transmitting station
which would draw its energy
in the electricity contained in the earth’s crust
With this energy,
and with a certain frequency,
he could make the entire planet vibrate
And so, receive his signal everywhere on earth
In Colorado Springs, he tests his theory
And, he is persuaded, he succeeded
Unfortunately, his experiment is stopped by his lack of funs
But we can imagine he tried his experiment again ,
let’s say in a place maybe
a little bit more remote from the New York buzz
A little bit more isolated, where construction costs would be, less high ?
So yes, for me Tesla tried again his experiment
Unfortunately it turned out to be a disaster
It was in 1908, and it was the Toungouska event
Do you want more proofs ?
Well, Tesla would have contacted an explorer in 1908,
a certain Robert E Peary
Who was heading to the North Pole
Tesla would have asked him to write down every strange fact
during his journey
Yesterday, I saw on the bridge
a seagull
taking a shit on the head of another one
What does it mean ?
In 1931, as he lost all the prestige he used to have,
Tesla contacted a few journalists
He raised awareness on the risk of global conflict
For him there is only one solution
One of the actor has to get a weapon with an incredible power
He imagined then a charged particle beam
A terrible death-ray
capable of canalizing powerful energies toward enemy troops
You see ?
In 2013, Russian scientist Andrei Zlobin
made a surprising announcement
After going through a collection of rocks found in the Toungouska in 1988,
he claimed finding 3 rocks of extraterrestrial origins
For an unexplained reason,
Andrei Zlobin waited for around 20 years to examine his discovery
And 5 more years before publishing the first results
The researcher hasn’t studied in details yet  the chemical composition of these rocks
But announced anyway that he found traces of fusion,
which are most of the time synonym of a violent choc with the earth
If this discovery is confirmed,
it could very well confirm a theory emitted decades earlier
It would indeed be a collision between earth and a massive star
The debate is still going on in between the scientists concerning the nature of this object
Would it be an asteroid like most Americans think
Or a comet, privileged hypothesis by the Russian
This cold war hasn’t been solved yet
But maybe the analysis of the Zlobin rocks will help to decide
Anyway, most scientists agree on one point :
The event of Toungouska has probably been caused by an impact with an extraterrestrial body
An impact with an extraterrestrial body
Come on, it’s a good one
…Okay, it’s a good one
It’s a good one right ?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
