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theacoustician
07-10-2006, 12:53 PM
You probably know him better as Nikola Tesla though, champion of AC power and inventor of the loudspeaker, induction motor, spark plug, bladeless turbine, radio, wireless communications, VTOL vehicles, fluorescent lights, and countless other projects that were lost when the FBI seized his all his documents and research upon his death in 1943. He was and still is the premier electrical engineer of the US. Without him, you wouldn't be able to read this message right now. Celebrate him by reading a bit about him : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla He may have been slightly off his rocker, but most geniuses generally are.

Happy Birthday Nik, hopefully one day you'll get the real credit you're due.
JPatrick
07-10-2006, 12:58 PM
Without this guy, I never would have been shocked repeatedly throughout my childhood!Thanks Nikola!
theacoustician
07-10-2006, 01:01 PM
Without this guy, I never would have been shocked repeatedly throughout my childhood!Thanks Nikola!
If you'd learn not to piddle on the floor, then daddy wouldn't have had to use the taser.
Sarcasmo
07-10-2006, 01:15 PM
I thought he just dropped a hair dryer in the piddle while Drool was busy tasting it.
itburnswhenipee
07-10-2006, 01:22 PM
If the man hadn't suppressed all his best work we'd all have unlimited energy and flying cars by now. Oh, and time machines and spaceships and american cheese would be real cheese, dammit, not that nasty, orange oil emulsion we eat today.
w_a_w
07-10-2006, 01:26 PM
don't forget his contributions to the game command & conquer!
http://uselessforums.com/files/120505/teslacoil.jpg
BeerAd
07-10-2006, 01:39 PM
don't forget his contributions to the game command & conquer!
http://uselessforums.com/files/120505/tesacoil.jpg

BWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

i miss that game:(
w_a_w
07-10-2006, 02:02 PM
BWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

i miss that game:(


every year or two I go back and play one of the versions from start to finish again for old times sake
BeerAd
07-10-2006, 02:08 PM
every year or two I go back and play one of the versions from start to finish again for old times sake

i should too, last one i had was Generals i think
w_a_w
07-10-2006, 02:17 PM
i should too, last one i had was Generals i think


I did red alert tiberian sun like 6 months ago
b_sinning
07-10-2006, 03:12 PM
Thanks Tesla for giving your name to one of the best hair bands ever! Actually no they weren't but Love Song was decent.

Tesla was way ahead of his time.
fly
07-10-2006, 03:18 PM
My hats off to a true genius. I've been meaning to pick up a book I keep seeing at B&N on him.
theacoustician
07-10-2006, 03:26 PM
My hats off to a true genius. I've been meaning to pick up a book I keep seeing at B&N on him.
Which book?
Sarcasmo
07-10-2006, 03:42 PM
Sometimes I think I'm pretty smart, and then I remember guys like Tesla who invented 5,436 amazing life-changing devices. :(
fly
07-10-2006, 03:56 PM
Which book?
I couldn't tell you the title, it just always seems to be staring at me when I go to the bookstore.
Desslock
07-10-2006, 04:40 PM
I kissed my Tesla coil. It tingles.
InnerMuse
07-11-2006, 02:15 PM
Mmmm, I need my harmonics resonated.:drool:
elpmis
07-11-2006, 02:21 PM
it's a shame that guy couldn't live forever

we could be owning iraq right now with death rays
JPatrick
07-11-2006, 03:04 PM
Whats sad is that the FBI confiscated all his shit, and probably turned it over to some govt egghead that couldnt make heads or tails of it all so they just sealed it up and filed it away somewhere and now its probably lost forever.
elpmis
07-11-2006, 03:18 PM
Whats sad is that the FBI confiscated all his shit, and probably turned it over to some govt egghead that couldnt make heads or tails of it all so they just sealed it up and filed it away somewhere and now its probably lost forever.
they probably turned it over to the church, and stashed it in the Vatican Library. Dan Brown should be all over that, I can see it now, The DaVinchi Code 2: Angels and Tesla
Desslock
07-11-2006, 03:19 PM
Whats sad is that the FBI confiscated all his shit, and probably turned it over to some govt egghead that couldnt make heads or tails of it all so they just sealed it up and filed it away somewhere and now its probably lost forever.

In that big warehouse where they have the Ark of the Convenant.
w_a_w
07-11-2006, 03:24 PM
In that big warehouse where they have the Ark of the Convenant.


and the x-files
itburnswhenipee
07-11-2006, 03:34 PM
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/itburnswhenipee/warehouse.jpg
InnerMuse
07-11-2006, 04:56 PM
In that big warehouse where they have the Ark of the Convenant.

BLASTED! I was beat to the punch!!
itburnswhenipee
07-11-2006, 06:40 PM
BLASTED! I was beat to the punch!!

My GIS+photobucket-fu > yuo! :P