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[Captain Fabulous]

TESLA:
Thomas
Edison
Sucked
Large
A**holes


What does TESLA mean to you, fellow MechWarriors?

[Landeraxe]

Think
Everyone
Should
Leave (Edison)
Alone

[Garth Erlam]

[Captain Fabulous]

Garth Erlam, on 10 July 2012 - 07:52 AM, said:

I'll see your Tesla Coil and add one Earthquake machine... that probably never actually worked.

[Derek Icelord]

Landeraxe, on 10 July 2012 - 07:51 AM, said:

Think
Everyone
Should
Leave (Edison)
Alone

No. The man was about as low-down and dirty as you can get without being a politician. He ruined Tesla, and never actually invented a damned thing. Yes, that includes the incandescent light bulb he's widely credited for. He didn't create it, he just improved upon it and, more importantly, patented it. Edison was a CEO, not an inventor.

Tesla was a genius. Even today, we still don't understand how he did a lot of the amazing things he accomplished. He created/discovered AC (alternating current) power, which is vastly superior to the DC (direct current) power Edison tried to force on everyone.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

http://www.badassoft....com/tesla.html

EDIT: Wrong type of light bulb....

Edited by Derek Icelord, 10 July 2012 - 08:08 AM.

[Hayashi]

[Captain Fabulous]

[Hawkeye 72]

Derek Icelord, on 10 July 2012 - 08:03 AM, said:

Tesla was a genius. Even today, we still don't understand how he did a lot of the amazing things he accomplished.

As an engineer and a man of science, I am devastated we never saw his supposed Unified Field Theory.

Oh the possibilities...

Edited by Hawkeye 72, 10 July 2012 - 08:37 AM.

[SinMachine]

I love Garth's post hahaha.

Tesla is without a doubt my favorite inventor. He is extremely underated and barely known by many people despite being amazing.
Most people i know in the U.S. seem to think Edison invented everything and is a national hero.
It is unfortunate so very few find out for themselves that Edison was a scumbag. He went out of his way to ruin other inventors he viewed as competition. He would have children collect animals just to electrocute them with AC power ( the power format Tesla supported) in order to make Tesla's choice look dangerous.
In multiple cases there were inventors soon to be patenting their technology, but somehow they dissapeared completely.... Of course who was it that claimed the patent a bit later? ...Edison

... Of course Tesla did not help his case much by building tesla coils and shooting bolts back and forth overtop peoples heads... Which really only freaked them the hell out and increased their belief of him being a mad man.

To anyone reading this, you should actually take a moment out of your day to look into what Tesla did. He gave up the majority of his life to further technology for everyone, the least you can do is give up an hour or so.

[Hayashi]

SinMachine, on 10 July 2012 - 08:35 AM, said:

the least you can do is give up an hour or so.

[CCC Dober]

Necron Heavy Destroyer + Tesla Cannon. I'm sure Nikola would approve

[wanderer]

Tesla did suffer from some level of mental illness, though frankly I think that's part of the burden of some forms of genius.

He'd have loved the modern era of particle accelerators, I like to think.

[Captain Fabulous]

CCC Dober, on 10 July 2012 - 09:15 AM, said:

Necron Heavy Destroyer + Tesla Cannon. I'm sure Nikola would approve

I must ask; what game is that?

[wanderer]

Captain Fabulous, on 10 July 2012 - 10:51 AM, said:

I must ask; what game is that?

Warhammer 40K.

[Bongo TauKat]

Without Tesla, we would not have the first generation of power armor for Elementals to exist.

[Dredrik Salkon Kerensky]

If you know the game, you get 1000 free useless Dred Points!

When i think Tesla, this is the first thing to come to mind.

[CCC Dober]

Yeah and you better be rich and idle because 40k sucks money and time harder than a blackhole. In a good way that is
The background is easily on par with Battletech and shares the same noble heritage.

[Reyge]

Captain Fabulous, on 10 July 2012 - 07:54 AM, said:

I'll see your Tesla Coil and add one Earthquake machine... that probably never actually worked.

Trumped:

[Derek Icelord]

Captain Fabulous, on 10 July 2012 - 07:54 AM, said:

I'll see your Tesla Coil and add one Earthquake machine... that probably never actually worked.

Actually it did. Tesla figured out resonate frequencies and almost leveled a block in New York City with a device that became stuck in the "on" position. He had to smash it to shut it off.

[Vashts1985]

Derek Icelord, on 10 July 2012 - 02:57 PM, said:

Actually it did. Tesla figured out resonate frequencies and almost leveled a block in New York City with a device that became stuck in the "on" position. He had to smash it to shut it off.

you should ask Einstein how well it worked.

after he gets back from the outhouse.