Posted on 01/13/2005 8:04:25 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
Inventor Nikola Tesla is beginning to remind me of the Michigan Mushroom—that underground fungus, nearly as large as its native state. He keeps cropping up unexpectedly like a truth suppressed. In 2004 this once forgotten scientist peppered films as motley as the smoky Coffee and Cigarettes, the silicone-sleek Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and the shoestring Primer. Tesla, beside inventing the radio (check with the Supreme Court, Marconi fans), the radar, remote control, and alternating current (AC electricity), also tinkered with a series of dreamy though equally ingenious ideas: plans to light the oceans, photograph thoughts, use insects to create a harnessable power supply, communicate with life in outer space, harvest free energy from the Earth's atmosphere, control the weather with electricity, even build a ring about the equator that, by remaining stationary while the planet rotates, would make it possible to travel around the entire world in one day.
At the start of the last century, Tesla's mind-bending inventions foreshadowed a future in which an enlightened citizenry, wardrobed in silver space suits, would travel about a world where no one was ever hungry and war existed only in memory—where scientific wonders were invented every day in backyards, garages, and small workshops. Tesla, the cult hero of independent invention, is materializing again, a bright-red streak on the gray background of corporatized science, to remind us that something went awry.
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Michael Moore needs to make a documentary of the life and times of Clint Eastwood first...
& Get alot of good closeups at Clint's home...
Love that picture.
What wonderful fun!
Any other Tesla experiments you'd care to share about publically or privately?
It's a good thing Edison kept his shares in General Electric, even after he was forced out of the company he founded.
I had to dig DEEEEP into Google images for that one LOL
Good thing, how? 'splain, Lucy.
I didn't realize he was the source of that story.
Bandler and Grinder cite the story without credit as justification for a therapist charging for his knowledge.
Only they had it that the expert tapped a boiler with a hammer or some such.
LOL!
Pure unscientific drivel.
Government mandated research has been spectacularly unsuccessful next to the private sector. Look at realms of research undertaken by greedy capitalists: semiconductors, software, medicine, drugs. Incredible progress has been made in the last forty years.
Compare that to two big government research projects: space and fusion (physics). Neither one is noticeably different from forty years ago.
Are they still playing as "Sofa Kings"?
I have no idea. I happened on some of their songs today while going through the vast MP3 database.
Seen that one before... when I can afford it, I'll run many volts through my family. In a non-harmful way, of course.
Edison had his flaws and so did Tesla. The difference is Edison was able to minimize their effects and went on to bigger and better things.
Download "Possum Kingdom"
Err.
The biggest difference was Edison's money.
Great read. Thanks for posting this. He truly was a genius and an inspiration to me in my own studies.
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