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The Oatmeal Convinces Elon Musk To Donate $1 Million To Tesla Museum

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 10, 2014 @10:00AM from the carreon-should-donate-too dept.

Ars Technica notes (as does Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman) that Elon Musk has agreed to donate $1 million towards the restoration of Nikola Tesla's old lab as a museum, a project that Inman has been pushing for some time now. And if you happen to get there in a Tesla, you're in luck: Musk is also planning to install one of his company's superchargers in the parking lot. (At the other end of the east coast, you can visit a very different kind of Tesla museum.)

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On his Birthday, even... by bughunter · 2014-07-10 10:26 · Score: 5, Informative

Happy birthday, Nikola, you crazy bastard!

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The hero Gotham needs by RyoShin · 2014-07-10 10:39 · Score: 5, Interesting

PayPal, rockets, electric cars, solar panels, paying $1 million for oatmeal or something in the name of a Tesla museum. While he doesn't have absolute control of any one of those industries, he's sounding more and more like a modern Andrew Carnegie, maybe with some Benjamin Franklin mixed in.