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Read this (quite hilarious) comic here http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla and celebrate Nikola Tesla day on July 10th

Electrifying news.


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Good stuff, that, by the way.

Definitely one of the coolest inventors of the time.

My birthday just got awesome

Go Tesla

n0t_u wrote:Definitely one of the coolest ALIEN inventors of the time.

Agreed. I was rather surprised when MythBusters did his earthquake machine on that bridge, and once they got it fine tuned, that TINY instrument was actually shaking the hell out of that bridge. Pretty cool shtuff. DOWN WITH EDISON!!!!

Aaaaaand this is why I love The Oatmeal :3

Edison can kick rocks!

Not to mention he is actually a necron is disquise. HE invented their tesla weapons, got exiled, and came to earth to live out the rest of his life.
Tesla earthshaking machine=tremor staff.

Maybe someone needs to make a Teslacron, basically a Necron in a suit from the late 1800s with a moustache. Edison can go under the leg of the Triach Stalker he stands on.

Not to mention he built an electromagnetic cannon in Kazakhstan and blew up half of Tunguska in an experiment.

n0t_u wrote:Maybe someone needs to make a Teslacron, basically a Necron in a suit from the late 1800s with a moustache. Edison can go under the leg of the Triach Stalker he stands on.

It's on. It's so on. I'm gonna do this now.

He also had ideas on how to do forcefields and death rays. You can bet the notebook the US government had led to all the great things in area 51

This guy was a genius...
Shame...

Why is it the people who are always great inventors always trying to kill you in new imaginable ways?

sirlynchmob wrote:He also had ideas on how to do forcefields and death rays. You can bet the notebook the US government had led to all the great things in area 51

As well as that, he was trying to make warfare non-lethal.

hotsauceman1 wrote:Why is it the people who are always great inventors always trying to kill you in new imaginable ways?

Because warfare tends to advance technology like nothing else...

purplefood wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:Why is it the people who are always great inventors always trying to kill you in new imaginable ways?

Because warfare tends to advance technology like nothing else...

Not to mention we have ALL fried ants and such with a magnifying glass death ray. Now imagine having a super brain, and realizing you could do that to larger ants, with much better, much cooler weapons. Wouldnt you try?

KingCracker wrote:

purplefood wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:Why is it the people who are always great inventors always trying to kill you in new imaginable ways?

Because warfare tends to advance technology like nothing else...

Not to mention we have ALL fried ants and such with a magnifying glass death ray. Now imagine having a super brain, and realizing you could do that to larger ants, with much better, much cooler weapons. Wouldnt you try?

I think the answer to that is hell yes.
Though if someone finds a way to make raisins bigger i'd be all for that...

I knew thatd be your answer feth, your probably posting on DAKKA while in space trying to align your giant lens of death right now!

KingCracker wrote:I knew thatd be your answer feth, your probably posting on DAKKA while in space trying to align your giant lens of death right now!

Death rays are overrated...
I'd try and find a way to push the moon into the Earth...
Either really massive rocket boosters or some kind of large scale tractor beam...

Well rockets would certainly be the easier method. But then youve got to ask yourself, "if this fails, which would be more memorable? Plain old rockets......or a fething tractor beam?"


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Wait a tic....is this the evil lair?

A tractor beam does has more resale value...
Though there's something delightfully basic about strapping a really big rocket to something...

Thats true, its the Orky way of doing things. Smash it with a big ass rock. And the Moon is a BIG. FETHING. ROCK.

Telsa was a crap out, the idea that he was gods gift to successful science is slowed.

Edison went down as one of the richest and most successful men of all time, Telsa died broke and alone in a hotel room in New York.

I'm an Edison man myself, science is not just inventing, it's all if you can market what you invent into it being a successful product.

Edison died a rich man, because he was a fething snake. I guess it really depends on how you want to live your life. Personally, I dont much care for greedy snakes

KingCracker wrote:Edison died a rich man, because he was a fething snake. I guess it really depends on how you want to live your life. Personally, I dont much care for greedy snakes

Agreed, but he was a successful snake! I'm not saying I admire him for his morals but he did have good market sense.

Alexzandvar wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Edison died a rich man, because he was a fething snake. I guess it really depends on how you want to live your life. Personally, I dont much care for greedy snakes

Agreed, but he was a successful snake! I'm not saying I admire him for his morals but he did have good market sense.

And tesla had good scientific sense, if we had implemented half his ideas the world would be a different, and much better place. Edison understood the world as it was and worked within that, tesla probably didn't have a clue about marketing and margins, but he was a visionary and a genius. Edison could claim neither of those titles and wasn't fit to lick tesla's boots.

Alexzandvar wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Edison died a rich man, because he was a fething snake. I guess it really depends on how you want to live your life. Personally, I dont much care for greedy snakes

Agreed, but he was a successful snake! I'm not saying I admire him for his morals but he did have good market sense.

He was a greedy fething snake. Saying anything good about someone that made money off the backs of others is pretty shameful in my book

KingCracker wrote:

Alexzandvar wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Edison died a rich man, because he was a fething snake. I guess it really depends on how you want to live your life. Personally, I dont much care for greedy snakes

Agreed, but he was a successful snake! I'm not saying I admire him for his morals but he did have good market sense.

He was a greedy fething snake. Saying anything good about someone that made money off the backs of others is pretty shameful in my book

Too true.
As for slamming the moon into the earth, why not just blow the moon up? The magnetic disruption would cause catastrophic damage and probably cause all life to go extinct...slowly. In the meantime, you would get to amuse yourself feeding on the misery of an entire planet...

Tesla also invented the first free energy device, but it was suppressed because the industrial giants of the day couldn't figure out how to put a meter on it and charge people every month. That's what you get for trying to do good deeds for all of Humanity.