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The Oatmeal's Fundraiser Tops $1M Toward Tesla Museum

Posted by timothy on from the how-many-cars-will-fit? dept.

The Oatmeal's call to raise funds for a museum celebrating Nikola Tesla seems to have electrified enough people. From Digital Trends: "The Oatmeal has raised over $1 million on IndieGoGo in an effort to secure Wardenclyffe, the site of Tesla's final laboratory, to build a museum dedicated to Tesla. ... [Oatmeal founder and artist Matthew] Inman’s original goal of $850,000 would buy just half of the cost of the property, but the state of New York has agreed to match contributions, bringing total funds up to $1.7 million. Raising the capital to build a museum from the property will be another cost, but from the looks of it, with 36 days left and having already surpassed the $1 million mark, there should be funds to spare."

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  1. Good thing Edison is not alive... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He would probably buy it and install a McDonald's...

    1. Re:Good thing Edison is not alive... by DevotedSkeptic · · Score: 3, Funny

      If so, then Tesla would sneak in and tweak the food so that the food would make people skinnier

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  2. Obviously... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's meant for the 10 year old electrical engineers working on homeopathic crystal therapies for vampires.