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07-01-2008, 02:21 AM
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Tesla wrote poetry too!
I live this nugget!
"Fragments of Olympian Gossip"
By: Nikola Tesla, 1920s
While listening on my cosmic phone
I caught words from the Olympus blown.
A newcomer was shown around;
That much I could guess, aided by sound.
"There's Archimedes with his lever
Still busy on problems as ever.
Says: matter and force are transmutable
And wrong the laws you thought immutable."
"Below, on Earth, they work at full blast
And news are coming in thick and fast.
The latest tells of a cosmic gun.
To be pelted is very poor fun.
We are wary with so much at stake,
Those beggars are a pest—no mistake."
"Too bad, Sir Isaac, they dimmed your renown
And turned your great science upside down.
Now a long haired crank, Einstein by name,
Puts on your high teaching all the blame.
Says: matter and force are transmutable
And wrong the laws you thought immutable."
"I am much too ignorant, my son,
For grasping schemes so finely spun.
My followers are of stronger mind
And I am content to stay behind,
Perhaps I failed, but I did my best,
These masters of mine may do the rest.
Come, Kelvin, I have finished my cup.
When is your friend Tesla coming up."
"Oh, quoth Kelvin, he is always late,
It would be useless to remonstrate."
Then silence—shuffle of soft slippered feet—
I knock and—the bedlam of the street.
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07-01-2008, 02:25 AM
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Tesla talks dismissively about Einstein’s relativity work saying:
A magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king ... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.
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07-01-2008, 03:14 AM
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That does look like something Tesla would write. 
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07-01-2008, 04:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Miss Cogs
That does look like something Tesla would write. |
What do you mean by that Miss Cogs?
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07-01-2008, 11:48 AM
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How come nobody's interested? What? Not Goth enough!?
Tesla's life toward the end was pretty lonley and gloomy!
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07-02-2008, 04:26 PM
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07-02-2008, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
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Wisconsin singing Tesla Coils>Oklahoma 15 ft Tesla Coil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ_1j...eature=related
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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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07-02-2008, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Renatus
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That was cool!
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07-02-2008, 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
That was cool!
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I've considered hunting it down and seeing it live for myself.
http://www.resonanceresearch.com/index.html
I just don't know if they still do the exact thing that was shown in that video. I'll have to remember earplugs however because like the comments said those coils are over 110 db.
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"The chaos of the world viewed from a distance reveals perfection."- me
"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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07-02-2008, 08:55 PM
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Which reminds me. Milwaukee's Discovery world museum (an interactive museum), already host to Wisconsin's flagship the 19th century great lakes schooner Denis Sullivan is now going to be host to a brand new PBS show. The show which has already recorded it's first episode is called "Secret labs" and will be featuring an actor portraying Tesla as one of the main characters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRHhlasUPmQ
Frankly I am rather impressed. Our local PBS station is run purely by publicly funded college students from MATC(Milwaukee area Technecal College). It has basicaly 3 sources of funding, PBS membership, corperate sponsorship, and the "Great TV Auction" (Milwaukee currently has the biggest one in the country).
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"The chaos of the world viewed from a distance reveals perfection."- me
"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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07-03-2008, 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Renatus
Which reminds me. Milwaukee's Discovery world museum (an interactive museum), already host to Wisconsin's flagship the 19th century great lakes schooner Denis Sullivan is now going to be host to a brand new PBS show. The show which has already recorded it's first episode is called "Secret labs" and will be featuring an actor portraying Tesla as one of the main characters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRHhlasUPmQ
Frankly I am rather impressed. Our local PBS station is run purely by publicly funded college students from MATC(Milwaukee area Technecal College). It has basicaly 3 sources of funding, PBS membership, corperate sponsorship, and the "Great TV Auction" (Milwaukee currently has the biggest one in the country). |
I fucking lol'd at Tesla's Tea Bar.
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07-03-2008, 11:09 AM
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Ah! I am glad that gothicus has joined this particular thread!
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07-03-2008, 11:58 AM
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Tesla needs moar fishnets and dead black roses...
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07-05-2008, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Anonymoose
Tesla needs moar fishnets and dead black roses...
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True so true.
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