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Tesla Special on PBS
Halvy writes "Nicola Tesla was one of those men involved with experiments with electricity and radio waves that the goverment 'feared' so much that they still keep much of his work and ideas from the public.
PBS is to broadcast a show on him this April. Goto
pbs.org/tesla/ for local times and listing. It should be interesting to see what kind of tid-bits PBS came up with, considering that there is so little available about him, which just adds to his cult-like admiration in the scientific and tech fields."
The government is not keeping anything invented by Tesla secret.
I suppose next you are going to tell me that some guy in the midwest invented a 100 mpg drip-feed carburetor and was kidnapped by oil companies, and that Texas A&M bought Nazi technology for making synthetic gasoline from grass after WWII and has it locked up somewhere gaurded by the Corp.
These kinds of stupid psuedo-science mythologies are bad because they allow people to sit around and blame others instead of getting to work solving problems. They also obscur and distract from the real techno-conspiracies out there, such as chips in ink carts, region encoding, the Clipper Chip, a variety of schemes involving RFIDs, etc.
I saw a quote of Tesla's regarding Edison. I'm paraphrasing here - "He could have saved himself a whole bunch of time with a few calculations."
Edison said "Invention is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Yeah, maybe if you ignore basic science.
Edison got a lot of credit for ideas that he bulldozed into practicality. He had the ultimate work-ethic. Sweat your ass off - don't take too much time to think.
- Bill
Face it. The first place I encountered books about Tesla was on the remainder tables at the bookstore
Aha!!! Absolute proof that the man was a quack!! You're a genius, man.
You obviously don't know a thing about the history of electrical distribution in the US.
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