Chapter 80: Investigating the Tunguska Explosion
In Novosibirsk, the headquarters of the Chinese army's resistance to Russia ushered in a group of special domestic visitors, including Germans, British, and Americans, and more Chinese, and those foreigners were scientists found by Qin Yutong Guò Pan Asia Oil all over the world, especially physicists and chemists, they were a group of scientific maniacs, attracted by what Qin Yu took out, and all joined the Chinese nationality and became the scientific personnel of the Chinese Empire.
Jiang Fangzhen personally went to greet these people, and only brought a few core officers with him, and even the soldiers in the barracks were transferred to distant places for training, in order to keep secrets. These scientists are the most precious things in the Chinese Empire, and they are protected by the most elite special forces of the empire along the way, and all kinds of sophisticated mechanical instruments are also carefully transported by the airship troops.
The leader of the scientists was Tang Yu, a Chinese scientist, who was sponsored by the Qin Group to study chemistry in Germany and returned to China to join the Imperial Ministry of Science after graduating with honors.
"Captain Tang, Your Majesty has already spoken to me, I will fully support your research this time, just say what you need, don't be polite." Jiang Fangzhen and Tang Yu exchanged pleasantries and went straight to the topic.
"Well, the place we went to this time is very dangerous, and these special forces alone can't do it, so I hope that there will be an army of more than a thousand people to protect us, and they just need to watch from the outside. In addition, we need a batch of military binoculars, water bottles and dry food, a small number of cattle and sheep and other animals, and a pistol for each person, so much for the time being. ”
"No problem, I'll let people prepare immediately, there are already people guarding the periphery there, no less than five thousand people, I hope you can have a good harvest, pay attention to safety."
These scientists just chatted with Jiang Fangzhen for a while and immediately left on the airship, escorted by several airships along the way, and Jiang Fangzhen prepared the things and immediately sent them to the destination.
The destination of Tang Yu and others was Tunguska in Tsarist Russia, which had been surrounded by the Chinese army, and all the Russian and Russian civilians in the vicinity were forcibly relocated to other places. Qin Yu sent them to investigate the Tunguska explosion, hoping to gain something from it.
The Tunguska explosion was a massive explosion that occurred at 7:17 a.m. on June 30, 1908 in the Evenki Autonomous Region of Siberia, Tsarist Russia. The explosion occurred near the Tunguska River, 800 kilometers northwest of Lake Baikal, at 60.55 degrees north latitude and 101.57 degrees east longitude, and the power of the explosion was estimated to be equivalent to 10 million ~ 15 million tons of TNT explosives, and 60 million trees in more than 2,150 square kilometers were burned and fell. It is one of the three natural mysteries of the world.
Locals in the northwestern part of Lake Baikal that morning observed a huge fireball streaked across the sky, the brightness of which was comparable to that of the sun, and a few minutes later, a bright light illuminated the entire sky, and later the blast wave from the explosion shattered the window glass within 650 kilometers of the vicinity, and the phenomenon of mushroom clouds was observed.
The first investigation of the Tunguska explosion area was led by the later Soviet mineralogist Anid Kulik, who found that the charred and dead trees stretched about 50 kilometers. The few trees near the center of the explosion did not fall, and their branches and bark were removed. The toppled tree was dumped in the opposite direction to the center of the explosion. They didn't find any meteorites until the end.
Later, people came to investigate one after another, but there were no progressive gains, but some small glass balls were found, and after research, it was determined that they contained the most common species of meteorites
elements, scientists believe that these things come from outside the earth. There were also no signs of radiation anomalies in the Tunguska region, indicating that this was not a natural nuclear explosion.
During this period, there were also many hypotheses, such as the meteorite explosion theory, the comet impact theory, the Martian spacecraft explosion theory, etc., but none of them could be explained clearly, and there was no progress in the century-long research until Qin Yu crossed over, just like a mystery.
Qin Yu has read various hypotheses about the Tunguska explosion on the Internet, but most people are speculating that it was an alien spacecraft that hit the earth, because the high-tech development of the Soviet Union in later generations was too fast, and it could be compared with the United States in just a few decades, and various technologies, especially military science and technology, emerged in endlessly, so some people think that the Soviet Union obtained alien technology in the study of the Tunguska explosion.
Regardless of whether it was caused by the impact of an alien spaceship or not, Qin Yu had to send someone to study it, this was a rare opportunity.
Tang Yu and the others sat on the airship while discussing academic issues, while occasionally looking at the scenery, they were very excited when they took the airship for the first time, but fortunately, no one had symptoms of fear of heights.
"Sir, Tunguska is coming, where do we land?" A soldier asked Tang Yu.
Tang Yu thought for a moment and said: "Don't land yet, you guys are flying slowly over Tunguska at a low altitude, we have to observe the current situation of the entire Tunguska in the air, it is estimated that it will take a day or two, do you have enough water and food?" ”
"Report sir, the airship is equipped with water and food, which is enough for us to support us not to go down to the ground for five days, so please rest assured."
Tang Yu nodded and didn't speak, just took a map of Tunguska drawn by the Russian Empire and drew circles on it with a pen, and after drawing no less than ten circles, he handed it to the soldiers and said, "When you get to these places, slow down and let us observe." After speaking, he smiled at a group of scientists, "Guys, it's going to work, what about the tools?" ”
Scientists went to rummage through their belongings, telescopes were taken out one by one, and several large cameras were placed in various parts of the airship, which they were preparing for aerial photography.
"Report sir, that's it." After the soldier finished speaking, he took the map and pointed it to Tang Yu in a circle.
Tang Yu nodded and picked up his binoculars to look down, this was just the outermost part of the Tunguska explosion, the reason why they wanted to observe here was because there was a small village here, and they wanted to see if there were any dead human corpses.
I saw that there was a ruin below, and some were only traces of ash and charcoal left by those wooden houses that had not burned out, the trees were all scorched and dead, and there was no green grass on the ground, only a piece of gray and black.
"Bang! Boom! Boom! ”
Several cameras flashed white and took pictures below, and several scientists were collecting air with bottles, all wearing masks and changing into overalls designed by His Majesty the Emperor himself.
"Oh God, it's incredible! If it was in a bustling city, I don't know how many people would have died, but fortunately it was in the middle of nowhere. ”
"Hell, there's more to what happened here than we can fathom, it's terrifying if it's a weapon, I'm a little creepy, but I love it, quack!"
"It is really impossible for the earth to produce such an explosion, I hope it is a natural phenomenon, otherwise it is likely to be a disaster for the earth! Descent, a little more descent, fifty meters is fine. Tang Yu sighed and let the soldiers descend.
As the airship descended, Tang Yu could see more clearly, the ground was desolate, there was no life at all, and occasionally a wind blew a burst of black charcoal ash, and then revealed the yellowed earth.
From 1908 to 1913, five years had passed, and it was difficult to find out what was going on.
"Oh my God, look, I saw several corpses, they weren't decomposing, they looked shriveled." A scientist shouted loudly and pointed his finger in the direction he was looking.
The other scientists looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, they saw a few corpses lying quietly in a small pit, the mud and sand had buried part of their bodies, their hair and clothes were gone, and the surface of their skin was charred and blackened, giving the impression that it was shriveled and shriveled.
"Soldier, let the airship next to you fly near these corpses and drop the tag."
"Yes, sir!"
A soldier held a small iron ball with a ring tied to a two-meter-long red cloth, and the iron ball was thrown in a straight line, like a red ray of light running towards the place near the corpse. After a while, it fell to the ground, and a puff of dust kicked up, and then I looked through the binoculars, and the iron ball was gone, only the red cloth was still exposed on the ground.
Tang Yu's face was very solemn, "According to the situation after the iron ball fell to the ground, it shows that the land there is desertified and desertified. By the way, if the air here is collected, it will rise 100 meters or 200 meters and collect it again. ”
Several scientists raised the air collection bottle in their hands and said, "It's collected here, just wait for it to rise to a higher height." Hey, have you tested your temperature, tell me about it? ”
"The temperature after the drop of 50 meters is obviously two degrees Celsius higher than when it has not dropped, this is very abnormal, can you continue to drop a little bit to test?" Said two other scientists who were testing with thermometers.
"We can't go down any more, it's weird everywhere, we can't go down, let's try it again after we look at a few more locations." Ascend, ascend another hundred meters, collect air and temperature values and go to the next place. Tang Yu refused without hesitation.
Soon after the airship rose a hundred meters, it hurried to the next location, and the scientists took the telescope to observe the environment below and record various numbers.
"Captain Tang, the temperature number just now has come out, it is very unscientific, the temperature rises by two degrees Celsius when it drops by fifty meters, and it drops by one degree Celsius when it rises by fifty meters. It was our dereliction of duty to forget to collect everyone's human body temperature just now. Said the scientist who had just tested the temperature.
Tang Yu was shocked when he heard it, it turned out to be so weird, this is indeed a bit against science, with their current knowledge, they can't understand it, he can only shake his head and comfort: "It may be that our knowledge level is limited, and there are still many things that science can't explain, don't be discouraged, the next observation point will comprehensively measure everyone's temperature." ”