This looks like it should be in daft, but just follow me for a second, i'm going somewhere....

Nikola Tesla was a Croatian inventor that was born in 1857, and lived in manhattan. he always told people he could build a death ray, and most people believed him because he already had cracked how to use alternating current to invent radio.

Buildings and water pipes began to shake in manhattan police went to his house and saw him smashing up a tiny machine which was his death ray.........or ''telegeodynamic oscillator''....

Police never found any proof of whether or not he really did build his machine as he kept all records in his head up to his death.

Anyway, now that im done explaining what i'm on about, if he did build a ray and then NY police found him, its a bit too much of a coincedence that they found no records at all. what if they did, and kept it from us?

So, you decide what you think happened.....

I wouldnt put it past them... the government is sneaky.. but more than likely he made a low frequency transmiter. Much like the ones that are used now to sicking your enemy using sound waves.. just a guess though.

I've read quite a bit about his death ray because it really interested me when I first heard about it but I've forgotten a lot of what I read.. *goes to search on google*
He was a really interesting person. I'd love to see his big experiment with the Tesla coil but you couldn't do it nowadays because it sends huge surges of electricity through the earth that almost all electrical appliances use for grounding.

Bump. This is really interesting. Quite useless, but interesting o_o; I still don't know what to answer!

http://images.burningman.com/index.cgi?ima...&q_photog=regan

This is an image from the Burning Man festival the year before I first went. I didn't see this one but I have seen others being driven around in the desert and stood right by one as it was running. They're amazing machines!

I'm still not sure if this should be in issues but for want of somewhere better for it I guess it can stay here!

Well, its a question of conspiricy.....

I find it pretty darned unlikely, given the vast amount that technology and scientific knowledge has advanced since then, and the fact that untold billions upon billions have been poured into weapons research and design since then also. If it was possible, it would have been done.

Of course, the conspiricists among us may well say that it has , but it's been kept secret by the government/FBI/CIA/MI5/greys/Masons/Illuminati/Spanish Inquisition.

You forgot the Jews, Jonman. Buggers for conspiracy, they are.

I heard of the thing for providing everyone electricity, and the radio thing, but death rays is news to me...

I know - next thing, they'll be telling us we'll have telephones that don't plug in, and cars that do.

Whatever next eh?

he most likely did but i belive no theoy is right till proven

i nulled my vote, i havent ever heard about this before, muy interesante! but i dont trust the NY gov't to give us all the information, so you never know!

ive read a bit on this stuff a while ago too... I was very intruiged about the so called Death Ray, and i dont doubt that he had plans for it, or at least that he had the theory down in his head. Tesla was a damn fine thinker and i reckon he could have done it with more time. so i voted yes, in a sort of "maybe not yet, but would have eventually" way.

I've read that he tested it the same day that huge explosion happened in somewhere like siberia that was supposed to be from a meteor or something (not sure exactly though). He was certain that he'd overshot his target and caused it. Still, I think that a toned down version of it would have been a good alternative to the atomic bomb.

no, that sounds like a conspiracy theory, I did know he was working to provide everyone with a means of distributing energy without "cables" which with the technology at the time would have been cost prohibitive...

today a "death ray" would not be practical , the use of biological weapons that can eliminate living organisms and leave structured intact is a more attractive solution... no cost involved in reconstruction...

you keep the spoils...

yes, I do believe someone has been working on such a thing at anytime... doesn't mean it will ever come to the open...

thats a good point, either that or im being chased by the fbi at the moment....

knock knock Sun ...hehehe

*gasp!*

Cheese it!