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Oatmeal Fundraiser a Success; Non-Profit Buys Land For Tesla Museum

Posted by timothy on from the visit-scenic-long-island dept.

Ars Technica reports that The Oatmeal's successful fund-raiser has borne fruit; on Friday the non-profit to which Oatmeal founder Matthew Inman's Indiegogo campaign's money was directed completed part of its goal to purchase and turn into a museum Nikola Tesla's former estate Wardenclyffe. There's plenty of work before the land can be a proper museum, but now it is in the hands of the non-profit organization Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe.

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  1. Re:Oatmeally goodness by craigminah · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope you're referring to Tesla the engineer and not Tesla the rock band. If so I concur...

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

    Tesla this, Tesla that.

    When will we have some recognition for the world's greatest inventor, Thomas Edison?

  3. Fun with Tesla by Clueless+Moron · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you meet a Croat, tell him Tesla was Serbian. If you meet a Serb, tell him Tesla was Croatian. Watch the sparks fly.

    (Tesla was born in what is now Croatia, but was ethnically Serbian).

    1. Re:Fun with Tesla by TimHunter · · Score: 4, Funny

      Watch the sparks fly.

      I see what you did there.

  4. Re:Truly looking forward to this by Forty+Two+Tenfold · · Score: 2, Funny

    We would still be [...] saying that a phone that calls and texts is good enough.

    A phone with the ability to make and answer calls is good enough.

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    Upward mobility is a slippery slope - the higher you climb the more you show your ass.