Nikola Tesla on The Oatmeal [NSFW]

[IantheBlueMan]

This is a really brilliant infographic/comic/thing about the life of Nikola Tesla. Yes, the song did start playing in my head as I read it: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

[jjmini]

Love me some nikola tesla. Ill give this a read in a little bit


Oh yeah I figured id throw this here too. This is what happens when I have a broken foot and back all summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOdwN-iLIQ8

[xoxos]

expected a cover using fuzzpilz oatmeal vst :p

[Dave]

Drunken history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOR91oentQ

[seedsower]

Back To The Future 4: Marty McFly goes back to Thomas Edison's lab and bashes his skull with a hoverboard.

[NEnns]

"...an electrical system known as alternating current was invented and to this day is what powers every home on the planet." ~from the above linked comic.

Either an ethnocentric/ignorant view of the world or a comment funded by your local power company saying "If you don't use AC your house will never be a home."

1.6 billion people live without electricity:

Breaking that down further:
Number of people living without electricity
Region - Millions without electricity
South Asia - 706
Sub-Saharan Africa - 547
East Asia - 224
Other - 101

If you count up the broken down math it comes out 1.5 something actually.

[Dave]

We can all play the bleeding heart, PC person with ease.

Let us strictly define home. Is a home a place where someone constantly resides or where someone is comfortable? If we base it off of longevity, then how long? If we base it off of comfort then how do we define homeless? Now take the square root of that and multiple it by **** you and suck a dick.

[NEnns]

Ha. That math seems to make sense... Hold on. I'll have the answer in a minute....

But seriously though, I seem to have touched a nerve, and I am sorry. I wasn't making my comment to make anyone uncomfortable. I was poking fun at the wide brush used to paint the comic, not trying to guilt the "haves".

[xoxos]

"now hold on a minute there, pardoner"



if pc is an easy role to play, how about the guy who !@(* the !@)(*^ in the !)@(

good advice today is never snub someone for being overly sympathetic. in any case it's always preferable to do something constructive rather than issue remarks about others choi.. *exits*

[Dave]

Oh how I miss the by gone days of The Bomb Shelter...

[Nikmis]

also worth reading
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2 ... the-devil/

[xoxos]

but tesla is culturally significant for a reason that is more valid than any of his inventions.

tesla was suppressed.

by capitalism and by the government. we know that tesla was your buddy - all he was interested in was helping people, but both the overt cultural form (capitalism) and the covert held him down for his entire life, and today, all we really know of tesla is what capitalism and the government wants us to know.. that he is the person we attribute ac to.

this is why tesla is an icon, because we are all tired of having our nice, synergetic, pleasant and helpful asses kept in the dirt by filthy money and power.

i'm tired of that. i'm ready to punch someone. and i'll do whatever is necessary to reauthorise people helping each other, including iconising a dude as the potential for what we could all be if we didn't have fat bulging nasty masons sitting on top of us.

[WhiteSongBoy]

I suppose I could say that Tesla is a "hero" to me. I want to invent things that will significantly improve the world. The only problem is that these kinds of devices would be very hard to market effectively, as the "free energy through the sky" thing that Tesla made.

This is also the problem I have with everything. We can see that Tesla really had a love and passion for what he did. He was so passionate to invent things that he neglected his own sanity for the purpose of helping people. Honestly, he is more impressive than the "great heroes" of the past, like Edison, Washington, Lincoln, etc.

I wish that I could have that same passion for something, anything really. Instead, I think about the possible outcomes and find that most anything will end up taken by money-hungry businessmen and distributed only to the wealthy when so many people could be helped. Then there's the point that these people will take it for granted and dismiss the real value of what has been done.

It's sad. I hate humanity. Yet I still love people. It conflicts.

[xoxos]

not to inflame dialectic on the issue,

as a for'ner, the u.s. (meant in the larger sense, since the u.s. is establishing itself memetically in other geographic regions) is quite singularly antithetic to synergy and "helping people". it's only really within this cultural scope that one's "sanity" is compromised via acts of goodwill.

i could expound on the issue, and the Noble Defenders of What We Know Is All There Is could retaliate, buuuut, let's not...............