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Ilikethepixies
5870 Posts
17 years, 4 months ago
Where my Tesla fans at???

WOOT WOOT!!! Holla if you hear the train comin!

He was an awesome guy with great ideas. He seems like he'd be a jerk if you met him in real life, but he was pretty cool nevertheless.

Here's the most famous thing he did:




ZAP!
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    Captain_Howdy30
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    17 years, 4 months ago
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      jujubeeme
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      17 years, 4 months ago
      I love how David Bowie played Tesla in The Prestige.
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        voltron82
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        17 years, 4 months ago
        jujubeeme
        I love how David Bowie played Tesla in The Prestige.


        i agree.. he was amazing in that role!!
        "In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
        Friedrich Nietzsche
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          ghiti
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          17 years, 4 months ago
          I admire Tesla for being a very important and influential scientist, especially for his work in electricity.

          I could do without the 80's band of the same (last) name.

          I would argue that the Tesla coil was the "most important" thing he did during his career, though it is currently (pun intended) what he is best known for.
          GHITI is pronounced "fish".

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          ghiti
          I know some people who would say they were a child of the 60's even though they were born well a
            System
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            17 years, 4 months ago
            The most important thing Tesla ever did was develop alternating current. I consider Tesla the father of modern electricity and not Edison.
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              17 years, 4 months ago
              I like Tesla, he's an awesome genius. I've read about his inventions and discoveries, but there was one about him developing some kind of Death Beam or something along those lines, but I don't know how much truth there is in that. He may have theorized about one, but I don't remember anything else. He's an interesting guy to read about.
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                Ilikethepixies
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                17 years, 4 months ago
                really? he came up with AC?

                damn. I didn't know that. Or at least I knew and forgot it. That's huge. Without that, AC/DC would just been DC... :(
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                  17 years, 4 months ago
                  Ilikethepixies
                  really? he came up with AC?

                  damn. I didn't know that. Or at least I knew and forgot it. That's huge. Without that, AC/DC would just been DC... :(


                  Tesla and Edison were at odds with each other for years. Edison wanted DC electricity to be pumped into households. Tesla knew that the public needed the safer AC electricity. Tesla was one of the most important men of the 20th century. Its a shame he died in poverty and insane.
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                    Ilikethepixies
                    5870 Posts
                    17 years, 4 months ago
                    Oh yeah, you're bringing back memories now.

                    Yeah, fuck edison. Tesla was way cooler.
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                      17 years, 4 months ago
                      Ilikethepixies
                      Oh yeah, you're bringing back memories now.

                      Yeah, fuck edison. Tesla was way cooler.


                      Damn right he was! I'm waiting for a Nikola Tesla biopic. I mean a big budget one that will bring his name back to people.
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                        Ilikethepixies
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                        17 years, 4 months ago
                        it sucks how half the people that responded to this thread were like "duh david bowie wuz cool as him duh fart"
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                          Ilikethepixies
                          it sucks how half the people that responded to this thread were like "duh david bowie wuz cool as him duh fart"


                          Bowie is cool and all, but that wasn't Tesla.
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