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The Oatmeal Begins a Fundraiser for a Nikola Tesla Museum
Quince alPillan writes "The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman is once again collecting money for a good cause. This time, he's collecting money for the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe to purchase the original location of the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York so that it can be rebuilt into a Tesla Museum. The fundraiser, titled Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum has already started."
... who's going to start a kickstarter project to build an Edison museum across from the Tesla one?
But they have to build his death ray
-- Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong. - Dire Straits
Is it just me or is their about page infested with spam?
George Westinghouse was the one who lied to Tesla to get him to fork over his share of the company for peanuts.
I want the museam to be made to look like a middle finger with a plaque that says "Up Yours George!"
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But seriously, in this era of re-discovering and correctly honouring scientists for their hard-work and genius (like Alan Turing is now rightly getting, for example) why is Tesla still languishing? I mean, either, way, it was god-damn American* guy who made the light bulb, who cares which one it was? I think the US govt should buck up and admit they dun goofed, just like the Uk govt did with Turing.
*Wikipedia says he was an american citizen
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But, what the fuck is "the oatmeal"?
This Oatmeal guy sure is milking his Tesla fetish and the Forbes "controversy" for all it's worth. Good for him.
The Oatmeal is not getting any money from this kickstarter (not really a kickstarter but you know what I mean).
I really get way more of a sense, that he's on a real mission here regardless of what it does for income.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Just as long as the museum isn't filled with as many inaccuracies as the Oatmeal piece was. Otherwise we're going to have a museum filled with "facts" that paint Tesla as a god who would have given the world free power, ended all wars, solved world hunger, and developed the ultimate recipe for apple pie, and Edison as a drooling idiot who couldn't have tied his shoes, let alone improve on the lightbulb, aid in the development of a system to deliver electrical current across long distances, and severely advance the technology of the basis of our modern medical imaging technology. (cue the rants about Clarence Dally, who had been victimized by Edison, despite the fact that Dally was a willing participant and we simply didn't know how dangerous X-rays were at the time. Look into every advance the science of radioactive materials in the first half of the 20th century, and you will find at least one Dally in each of them).
They both were geniuses. They both were flawed.
Without both of their contributions to science, I wouldn't be typing this (electricity is efficiently delivered to my house in the form of alternating current. A nifty little device translates that alternating current into direct current, which is what runs my computer).
From what I've read, Tesla and ol' Sam were fair pals. I actually don't see how they couldn't have been. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Twain_in_Tesla's_Lab.jpg
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Just a quick 90-100 minute jaunt in traffic from Manhattan into the heart of one of the least exciting places in all of New York. There is literally NOTHING out there unless you're on your way to the vineyards. I can't see this being a big tourist attraction which something like a Tesla museum deserves. Boo.
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That's just super. Maybe after that, they can do a fundraiser to hire someone to come up with a less moronic name for their weblog.
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.... what happens if they get the money, get the matching contribution from NY, and the other party simply raises their bid and gets the property? At that point the funds are committed and there's no way to get them back to the contributors who contributed via indiegogo.
Too, indiegogo charges a fee, don't they? That further complicates it (and also means the 850k goal is not enough).
A lot of people make fun of the Tesla vs. Edison thing but, think about it: this man invented the modern world and nobody knows (or cares). I went through elementary, middle, and high school in America. Then, I went to college. I never once learned about Nikola Tesla. I didn't find out who he was until I was in my mid twenties. I read a biography about him and was blown away. This guy helped to create everything that I used on a daily basis and I had no idea who he was. It was sad really.
It's about time that the geeks and scientists of the world step up and pay this man some respect. He DESERVES a museum in his honor in the USA. He deserves a place in the science curriculum. Children of today deserve to learn the truth about Tesla and all the ideas that he gave us. I just chipped in and I'm going to help to spread the word. It's time to give Telsa the recognition he deserves.
Maybe if you would listen to what he's saying and stop getting hung up on his name you'd understand why people like him.
Dude didn't get hung up on his name.
You're either dyslexic or as nuts as your fapfodder Tesla was in the autumn of his life.
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I'm giving $10, not only because I believe in the validity of the project, but because off the goddamn name.
My kingdom for a donkey!
...but if I donate $5,000 I have to stay at a hotel in NY in January? ;)
I wrote a paper on him for this gorgeous blonde who was struggling for one of her requisite classes for nursing. I got to help the world have another pretty, dumb blonde nurse, you are welcome world. I also got to read up on this guy, he's the superhero of science. The reason we don't know about him is because of the Cold War, you couldn't say nice things about people from that neighborhood. If you are my age or older and went through it, you will know wtf I am on about.
Sadly we've never given credit where credit is due. What I want to know is, have the FBI ever turned loose all of his papers that they ransacked from his dwelling when he died? I don't want whacked for asking, forget I said anything if it's sensitive. At some point in time as a student of things engineering since I was a crafty ornery lad, I would love to see his later works that he kept. Or not, you know what I mean. They are probably in a PDF some place, and I have missed them, like walking by a barn looking for it.
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TheOatmeal is dead wrong...
There is no Tesla Museum in the United States
Really? Not even this one? Tesla moved to Colorado to continue his experiments and to stupid lightening. Maybe Matthew Inman should learn to use that Google thingie on the intertubes.
Tesla was possibly one of the most brightly shining anti-proprietary knights in history -- intrinsically opposed to patent-trollery and obsessed with the upliftment and betterment of society. Yes, he took patents, as Stallman might willingly defile himself on an internet running through proprietary cables in order to do his work. Even the Buddha made a compromise along the way. Survival is especially tempting when you have epic (to say the least ) ideas. But I can think of no greater example than Tesla when considering the concept of open-source contributions to society. Ravaged and cabbaged by Morgans, Westinghouses, Edisons and government zombies, he lived humbly and ceaselessly contemplative to his last day, and on that day, a pigeon trumped humanity, as a deep and special etch in the key of utopia nearly died alone, if not for his feathered friend.
And yet his name goes generally unmentioned throughout academia. In the realm of geeks his name is reminiscent not of a champion of transparent innovation, but of tinfoil and jokes. Yet he came to the US and was handed a shovel, with which he toiled and dug while thinking of how such labor might be accomplished without breaking not his own back, but the backs of his fellows.
With no less honor than another ever had, Tesla sat beside and discussed the world with Einstein. And though not always eye to eye, a mutual respect was held. Mark Twain was also a friend of Tesla, and I'd myself not dare pass through a harsher judge of character than his.
But maybe one is best judged not by their friends, but by their foes. And it may be worth asking what these foes have given to society without receiving their plunder and more. By the very gift that innovation is supposed to be, the variety pandered by some has brought luxury to others, but a sure promise of suffering to many more if persistent in the same direction. While the gap between now and then is wide and filled with complexities, I think a solid look into Tesla will reveal that this path we've chosen is something entirely different at the very core from what he had in mind. My guess is that in a world where super-geniuses don't die in poverty beside pigeons, but live well amongst their peers and share their creativity freely, that although it's not the world we're in, it's the world we should strive for. A museum seems a pittance, but a due and positive one anyway.
Forward! -- Emperor Norton, 2012
So what's this then from over three years ago (also with a listed price of $1.6 million)?
http://slashdot.org/story/09/05/05/2146246/teslas-new-york-laboratory-up-for-sale
Anyone who knows more, please let me/us know.
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I prefer to use terms like darn, heck, and farshing spagma machine.
will it have Tesla coils towering over the parking lot?
What the hell? I've visited America, and I was not struck by any great shortage of a) land or b) retail outlets. Why do they have to try and build one on this historic site?
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The people who actually own the land want to sell it to serious investors who would make a true museum in tribute to Tesla. They recently said in a Newsday story how they get a lot of crackpot types wanting to exploit the land and Tesla's name for their own purposes. The Tesla tower was sold for scrap long ago, and cement used to seal up the entrance leading to the underground lab area, though the original red brick lab building still remains onsite. Here's a link..., http://www.newsday.com/opinion/viewsday-1.3683911/nikola-tesla-s-former-lab-home-to-a-brilliant-scientist-deserves-preservation-1.3896651 If that link does not work try this one http://www.newsday.com/opinion/viewsday-1.3683911/nikola-tesla-s-former-lab-home-to-a-brilliant-scientist-deserves-preservation-1.3896651
yes tesla really was an all time genius, while edison was a good business man, reminds a little bit on Jobs vs. Gates :) See this cool TED talk on tesla: www.smartlab.at/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla/
Youtube has this program about the life of Nikola Tesla http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=eoY_7mbm5ng PBS has this interactive page on the man... http://www.pbs.org/tesla/
Outside of the historic connections, is this really the site for a serious museum of high-voltage physics and hi-power wireless engineering? Used to be cow pastures, probably, but now is suburbs. Just think of the RF interference. Make your own Carringtion event. Think of the liablility concerns, too.
Don't think the neighbors that probably kick about cell towers are going to be too happy with a working reproduction of the Tesla's transmitter, and if it ain't working, why bother? There are other venues in the region more suited, really.
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