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The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« on: August 22, 2012, 08:49:38 AM »
http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2012/08/21/the-oatmeal-raises-880000-to-buy-tesla-museum/

Earlier this year, the Oatmeal did a webcomic on Nikola Tesla.  Recently, Mathew Inman has spearheaded an effort to buy the Wardenclyffe laboratory site for an eventual museum.  I hope they name the Inman wing after him. 
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2012, 09:30:51 AM »
I'm offended by Matthew Inman forcing his beliefs about Nikola Tesla on the rest of us.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2012, 10:51:12 AM »
Shocking!   :O
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2012, 10:56:57 AM »
Is that a current article?
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2012, 11:04:47 AM »
he failed to mod the Edison wiki page on Tesla's birthday
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2012, 11:22:36 AM »
Tesla had such a magnetic personality.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2012, 12:03:48 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on August 22, 2012, 11:22:36 AM
Tesla had such a magnetic personality.
:facepalm:

His inventivenness was .... shocking ....    :lol:
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2012, 12:34:38 PM »

I'll be donating as well. Tesla gave the world so much. AC power, radar, radi, sentry coils in Red Alert, etc etc.

I'll be visiting the site as well once the museum is up and running.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2012, 12:38:53 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on August 22, 2012, 12:34:38 PM
sentry coils in Red Alert, etc etc.

I see what you did there. I approve.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2012, 12:41:02 PM »
I keep alternating my current feelings about this whole thing.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2012, 12:53:41 PM »
Ohm my god. Watt are you doing to a perfectly good thread? My resistance to this place grows every time I see y'alls terrible punnery. Please rectify this current mess.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2012, 01:02:25 PM »
Quote from: French G. on August 22, 2012, 12:53:41 PM
Ohm my god. Watt are you doing to a perfectly good thread? My resistance to this place grows every time I see y'alls terrible punnery. Please rectify this current mess.

You're shock and outrage indicates high stress levels.

You should try meditation. Just sit quietly and say "Ohm".
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2012, 02:05:26 PM »
Quote from: French G. on August 22, 2012, 12:53:41 PM
Ohm my god. Watt are you doing to a perfectly good thread? My resistance to this place grows every time I see y'alls terrible punnery. Please rectify this current mess.

This thread had so much potential  =(
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« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2012, 02:12:47 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on August 22, 2012, 01:02:25 PM
You're shock and outrage indicates high stress levels.

You should try meditation. Just sit quietly and say "Ohm".
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2012, 02:17:32 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on August 22, 2012, 01:02:25 PM
You're shock and outrage indicates high stress levels.

You should try meditation. Just sit quietly and say "Ohm".
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Indeed.  With everyone all amped up around here, there has been quite a lot of tension.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2012, 05:04:59 PM »
I'm neutral on this thread: neither positive nor negative.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2012, 05:11:42 PM »
Now I wish he had invented a better indirect power supply so I could remotely tase each of you.   =D
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2012, 06:15:06 PM »
This thread is inducing feedback.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2012, 06:20:56 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on August 22, 2012, 06:15:06 PM
This thread is inducing feedback.

Only because some posters aren't very well grounded.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #19 on: August 22, 2012, 06:25:37 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on August 22, 2012, 05:11:42 PM
Now I wish he had invented a better indirect power supply so I could remotely tase each of you.   =D

He purportedly invented a death ray, but the .gov grabbed it. It's probably in the basement of the White House ...
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #20 on: August 22, 2012, 06:58:35 PM »
Don't forget his brother Noah Tesla, who invented the arc.

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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #21 on: August 22, 2012, 08:17:45 PM »
Resistance is futile.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #22 on: August 22, 2012, 09:32:13 PM »
It's just a phase that we're going through.  =)
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #23 on: August 22, 2012, 09:43:03 PM »
I've been reading some of Tesla's writings lately. Dude was weird.  No coffee, no sex (EVER), and he had weird flashes where he saw himself in different places.
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Re: The Oatmeal and Nikola Tesla
« Reply #24 on: August 22, 2012, 09:45:40 PM »
These puns could get revolting.
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