Am I the only person left on the Internet who doesn't think Nikola Tesla was a goddamn God?

If you propose theories but never get them working, that NOBODY has ever gotten working, that doesn't make you a genius.

Fark the oatmeal, their smugness, and that they stole the name of a breakfast meal.

revrendjim: So a museum has lots of signs, right?

and 5 men with acoustic guitars.

ecmoRandomNumbers: How do quotes just break on a website?

WHAT DID YOU PEOPLE DO?

You didn't notice the new "preview" button? It's shiny. Clearly they're tinkering with stuff right now.

/donated $10
//not much, but if it keeps rising I might do the $25 option after payday
///loves me some Tesla

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: Quote is totally broken.

Not anymore!

SEE

ecmoRandomNumbers: How do quotes just break on a website?

According to his Facebook, Drew is at the bar. So that could explain things.

David Bowie's rich...maybe he can help out...

GAT_00: Am I the only person left on the Internet who doesn't think Nikola Tesla was a goddamn God?

If you propose theories but never get them working, that NOBODY has ever gotten working, that doesn't make you a genius.

I more or less agree with you. He had some good ideas, but the hero worship is getting pretty old.

I refuse to support this museum unless it is an exact replica of the workshop and creepy mountain retreat of Tesla featured in the famed documentary, The Prestige.

/Top hats as far as the eye can see
//and cats and lightbulbs
///they all said I was crazy......
////that I had too many slashies.......
//SLASHIES!!!!1

Ehh - tried it earlier myself and lost an entire post using quote. Just plain old disappeared out of Fark like it was never made. Firefox latest so... yeah. Something at least earlier this morning was not working properly at all at all.

I contributed in memory of the Topsy, the elephant Thomas Edison electrocuted.

Asshole *

/ * OK mostly Edison was not an asshole but fark you Edison for electrocuting Topsy

So the Oatmeal is part of a team that will own the Tesla Museum?

Capt. Sparkles: GAT_00: Am I the only person left on the Internet who doesn't think Nikola Tesla was a goddamn God?

If you propose theories but never get them working, that NOBODY has ever gotten working, that doesn't make you a genius.

I more or less agree with you. He had some good ideas, but the hero worship is getting pretty old.

Thirded. He was a talented engineer but some of the things he believed he could do seem to require a surprising ignorance of physics.

Chipped in $10; I've spent that on stupider things, I suppose.

Meh, people "dead before their time" usually get more recognition than they deserve. Given enough time he probably would have been running around with cats in his pants.

Robert1966: Capt. Sparkles: GAT_00: Am I the only person left on the Internet who doesn't think Nikola Tesla was a goddamn God?

If you propose theories but never get them working, that NOBODY has ever gotten working, that doesn't make you a genius.

I more or less agree with you. He had some good ideas, but the hero worship is getting pretty old.

Thirded. He was a talented engineer but some of the things he believed he could do seem to require a surprising ignorance of physics.

If they can be made to work, then he is actually a genius. But theories that can't be made to work does not make someone a genius.

Love will find a way.

Indiegogo at 106k already. This will be awesome! Go internet!

vodka: Meh, people "dead before their time" usually get more recognition than they deserve.

True.

MrEricSir: vodka: Meh, people "dead before their time" usually get more recognition than they deserve.

True.

WIN!

jayhawk88: OK can we please stop with the "Tesla was going to build a moderately tall tower that would somehow supply the state/country/world with free wireless power" crap? Tesla was a genius and awesome but this is science fiction.

Does anybody actually believe that? I think mostly people like to promote him because he is an under-rated compared to Edison.

/ Edison had the technical PLUS business PLUS self-promotion skills I think is the difference

I think most of the hero worship is simply a knee-jerk reaction after having the supposed greatness of Edison shoved down everyone's throat.

/I spent twelve years of hard time. . .

A decent movie about Tesla, (with Orson Welles!) that somewhat accurately depicts how very odd he was socially.

The Secret of Nicola Tesla

Had his funding not been cut off by politics, today we would probably have those flying cars everyone keeps biatching about.

GreenAdder: To paraphrase Adam Savage, there were basically two Teslas, the scientist and the crackpot.

Yes, and exactly the same thing can be said of Isaac Newton. He spent huge amounts of time on real tinfoil hat stuff.....astrology, pyramid crap, etc., but along the way he managed to do all that gravity and calculus stuff, invented the reflecting telescope, etc.

Moral: If you're brilliant enough, you probably look like a loony in some ways to the rest of us.

Robert1966: Capt. Sparkles: GAT_00: Am I the only person left on the Internet who doesn't think Nikola Tesla was a goddamn God?

If you propose theories but never get them working, that NOBODY has ever gotten working, that doesn't make you a genius.

I more or less agree with you. He had some good ideas, but the hero worship is getting pretty old.

Thirded. He was a talented engineer but some of the things he believed he could do seem to require a surprising ignorance of physics.

Alternating current laughs at your voting. He did invent that. We still use it. And AC motors, Arc lighting (fluorescent lights anyone?) and the ever popular Tesla coil.

I don't get the The Oatmeal hate. WTF guys? The contrarian-for-the-sake-of-being-contrarian shiat is an old schtick.

And I think that this is a damned good cause. If you're an American, you live in a country with some really silly museums already in it. I don't see how a Tesla museum would be anything less than awesome.

I always wanted to make a terrible Tesla coverband and call it "Edison".

/bow

This was at $25k when I submitted it two hours ago, the funding for this is nuts.

/subby

Everyone's opinions on Tesla aside, I'd rather see the space become a science museum than a shopping center. Science museums are just so much cooler.

3 hours.

/typo

I know some girls who need to contribute.

Tesla Girls

Clicked for creating lightning in my microwave.

/ have to go back to aluminium foil chips
// slashies means I really did think before posting
/// amidoingthisright
//// sigh

Keyser_Soze_Death: A decent movie about Tesla, (with Orson Welles!) that somewhat accurately depicts how very odd he was socially.

The Secret of Nicola Tesla

Had his funding not been cut off by politics, today we would probably have those flying cars everyone keeps biatching about.

And power armor.

GAT_00: Am I the only person left on the Internet who doesn't think Nikola Tesla was a goddamn God?

If you propose theories but never get them working, that NOBODY has ever gotten working, that doesn't make you a genius.

I think he was both a lunatic and a genius. He had some brilliant ideas that are still foundations of modern technology, and he had some batshiat crazy ideas that may have been a good idea at the time.

I'm not letting a little mental illness override the good he did. At least he used his crazy for good instead of shooting up a crowd.