Tesla Oatmeal

[Abzu]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

[zim]

i read this the other day



it was most

[deckard]

science

[Abzu]

[vega]

dying alone

[Hallucinating dead]

[quote name="toozey"]science [/quote]

[Verbal]

he also invented science

[Holocaust]

My girlfriend StumbledUpon this the other day and so we named our new kitten Tesla

[droidspawn]

[quote name="Demon seed"]
[quote name="toozey"]science [/quote][/quote]

[Abzu]

[quote name="Skinoperable"]it's amazing how quickly you can lose respect for someone



edison [/quote]

Yeah, really. Now I'm just waiting for Erik to hit the school age where Edison is first mentioned so I can wait outside the classroom and burst in at the first mention of his name and angrily correct the teacher.

[Hallucinating dead]

Where is the proof tesla invented all that ?

thats what the teacher will say.

[zim]

as far as i know, grade-school teachers have to follow a very specific lesson plan. i'm sure a lot of educators are aware of how much of a dickbag edison was. (i hope they know)

[Haunty]

i read tesla's autobiography (you should too! ). there really aren't words to describe what that man was. he had a really one-of-a-kind synesthesia, where if he heard someone speak the name of an object, it would appear in front of him. as he grew older, the only way to get rid of these visions was to imagine something else. that evolved into being able to tinker with and move these objects. from this, he was able to build a working prototype of an invention the first time, every time.



he also, apparently, had an older brother who was (as tesla himself describes) much smarter, but died in his teens.

[Paste Human]

Is the obsession of a supposed tortured genius an American thing, or do all nations join in reading way too far into this?

[Verbal]

that post gained you some points

[vega]

[quote name="Abzu"]angrily correct the teacher.[/quote]



shoryuken the teacher

[Abzu]

[quote name="Skinoperable"]even better would be to wait until he is given homework on herr edison, then have mini-abzu hand in his assignment with the correct answers. when he "fails" said assignment, you can show them this and bask in the glory of having made multiple persons in a public school district look stupid [/quote]

That's a beautiful idea and I will do exactly that.



[quote name="Haunty"]i read tesla's autobiography (you should too! ). there really aren't words to describe what that man was. he had a really one-of-a-kind synesthesia, where if he heard someone speak the name of an object, it would appear in front of him. as he grew older, the only way to get rid of these visions was to imagine something else. that evolved into being able to tinker with and move these objects. from this, he was able to build a working prototype of an invention the first time, every time.



he also, apparently, had an older brother who was (as tesla himself describes) much smarter, but died in his teens.[/quote]

I have Tesla: Man Out Of Time and The Problem of Increasing Human Energy in my amazon cart right now, though I'm headed to Burlington on Saturday and may pick them up there instead.



[quote name="Paste Human"]Is the obsession of a supposed tortured genius an American thing, or do all nations join in reading way too far into this?[/quote]

The man was remarkable. How is celebrating his genius and contributions while chiding the cuntitude of Edison reading too far into anything? (Or am I misinterpreting what you're saying?)

[Haunty]

I think he's implying fanboyism.

[Abzu]

[quote name="Haunty"]I think he's implying fanboyism.[/quote]

I don't think fanboyism is relevant here. The fact just is that Nikola Tesla was a brilliant man who developed a good many technologies that were far ahead of the time. One doesn't have to be a fanboy to recognize and admire that.



Also, he was a close fellating lover of Mark Twain.

[Hugo.]

Acknowledging a genius who was usurped at almost every juncture and just went about continuing to be awesome does not a fanboy make.



We all need it the heroes

[vega]

[quote name="Zilly Toid"]

We all need it the heroes [/quote]





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[Hugo.]

You gain point of course for posting nickleback, but lose them instantly for not posting Hero by Enrique Iglesias.

[Devy]

[quote name="Haunty"]he also, apparently, had an older brother who was (as tesla himself describes) much smarter, but died in his teens.[/quote]



If he was so smart, how come he's dead?

[deckard]

[quote name="Devy"]
[quote name="Haunty"]he also, apparently, had an older brother who was (as tesla himself describes) much smarter, but died in his teens.[/quote]



If he was so smart, how come he's dead?[/quote]



BOOYA

[Holocaust]

Not dead, but dreaming

[Abzu]

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[Hugo.]

I prefer the sounds of the words in the oatmeal one.

[Meat Engine]

The Wardenclyffe Tower thing is definitely for the conspiracy theory nuts. Tesla is without a doubt one of the best engineering minds to have ever lived, but he did make some fantastic claims that have not yet been proved.

[Paste Human]

That's sort of what I was getting at earlier. It's pretty obvious that most people are more interested in the man's eccentricities and misfortunes than his actual accomplishments. Plus it's not like anyone ever stops and thinks "You know, I'm really glad Tesla sat down and thought about Radar all those years ago." His intellect is appreciable and all that, but let's not get nuts.

[Haunty]

[quote name="Skinoperable"]well now, didn't we all just look like a bunch of idiots



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And I still insist on reading Tesla's autobiography, it's far more interesting than that Oatmeal bit.

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[Hugo.]

Oh ne he di'nt