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Rahvin
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Message 24 of 81 (462789)
04-09-2008 12:45 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by randman
04-09-2008 11:56 AM


Re: Tesla and conspiracies
I think there is a 3rd option you are not considering. His technology was supressed or abandoned because we were in the midst of working with his first generation stuff and those financing that didn't want to see all that investment go down the toilet.
So the technology was lost to a degree except that Tesla lived a long time after that. In the 40s, he sent plans for various weapons designs to all the Allies including the Soviets.
The theory is that research on his stuff picked up some in the 50s and in the US, picked up in the 80s under Reagan. So it's not that it was kept secret for decades by the government or anything although the denial of his patent rights did serve that function as Tesla could have self-financed the project. Just like in the 50s when the military rediscovered over the horizon radar, it may well be they looked into some of his other ideas....or that's the theory.
Problem is the existence of scalar weapons really is either a well-kept secret or a myth. The strongest public statement of anyone verifying their existence was made by Defense Secretary Cohen who stated they were real and that terrorists were seeking to use such weapons to trigger earth-quakes and other disasters from remote locations by electro-magnetic means.....pretty much fit exactly what conspiracy people stated scalar weapons can do. So Cohen's statement makes me think there is something up, as well as Tesla's claims.
I tend to think if Tesla could do it and gave some hints on how to do it, that others with enough effort and research could develop some of this technology and weaponize it. Whether that's the case though, it's hard to say.
The problem is that you're taking the word of a Defense Secretary as absolute fact, and taking his words to mean that he has actual knowledge pertaining to Tesla's technology.
The fact is, some people are idiots, and will mention things they don't completely understand and make an ass of themselves. I'm reminded of a general about to witness the first nuclear weapons test who said "I've witnessed every form of combustion known to man, and I can tel you that this thing cannot and will not explode." This includes individuals in a position where they can potentially posess classified information - but it's silly to assume that every comment regarding "fringe" technology somehow refers to secret projects.
It's entirely possible that the US or Soviet governments posess Tesla-based technology that they are keeping secret for national security reasons. However, it's also possible that the scientific community as a whole shunned Tesla becasue of some of hs more "off-the-wall" comments. He made some very harsh criticisms of Einstein's relativity, for instance, and we know now that relativity is a highly accurate model.
But here's the real damage regarding the possibility of Tesla weapons and technology posessed by the military: why haven't they been using it? All of the Tesla stuff I've heard about would be fantastically useful to military forces, and would both save countless dollars but also eliminate the need for a very large chunk of the logistics currently used for ammunition and power generation in the field.
Previous "top secret" projects have been revealed when used in conflicts, like the stealth fighter and bomber in the first Gulf War. If Tesla technology is actually possessed and supressed by the government, they are not using it. That is the real reason such a conspiracy is unlikely - any general with an IQ above freezing would be jumping at the chance to use weaponry as strategically and tactically advantageous as Tesla's inventions are rumored to be. Keeping its existence a secret when it could instead be used to frighten or force enemies into submission is so ridiculously stupid that the whole conspiracy theory falls apart without any sort of evidence in its favor.

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