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Tesla Museum

08/17/2012 1:39 AM

I am so totally stoked about this...I will let the site explain it...

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_museum
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08/17/2012 2:24 AM

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the link! Some interesting stuff, but I think there is more hype than reality about Nikola Tesla in the archives.

You can actually make a clickable link in your posts by selecting the site address and then clicking the button. Just makes it easier for others to see the object of your post.

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Re: Tesla Museum

08/17/2012 10:19 AM

Yeah, my iPad misbehaves with some Java...it ran it all together and didn't hot link it.
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08/17/2012 9:41 AM

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild yield, and government to gain ground"
This is a misleading statement...more accurately stated....Freedom becomes more and more constrained as population density increases is a natural progression...The closer people live together the more likely it is that your actions interfere with your neighbors freedoms, is a natural progression of societal growth in free nations...Government becomes larger out of necessity as population increases...

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Re: Tesla Museum

08/17/2012 10:06 AM

Horse squeeze.

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08/18/2012 1:25 AM

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08/18/2012 3:37 PM

You should be ashamed of the profanity. Get the truth. Your link reminds me of the political commercials in politics today.

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08/19/2012 12:31 AM

You're kidding surely?

Wimsical, yes, but profane? Must be a cultural thing. How dare you look down on my culture!!!!

Anywho, I was just the postman. That bit of "profanity" came straight from the OP's citation and it reappeared on yours. Go figure?

My point would have been, if the thought-police hadn't decided to have a hissy fit, ....how does this campaigner hope to garner any support for his charity by openly publishing this sort of purile nonsense? (in a strange font no less!!)

Respect.

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08/20/2012 3:54 PM

Your remark got deleted before I saw it...but I assume was in reaction to The Oatmeal's "GD" remarks. I didn't like the way he went about it either...but I am putting that aside for the greater good.

I did not, however, put that link on my Facebook for just that reason. My mom would have chided me!
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08/18/2012 3:27 AM

The controversy between Edison's DC and Westinghouse's/Tesla's AC figured in the novel and play "A Peep into the Twentieth Century." The Seattle Repertory Theater put on a brilliant performance, but unfortunately the play never really caught on.

http://wordsandstone.com/fiction.php?id=a_peep

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08/18/2012 3:49 PM

There is a nice movie about Tesla called Tesla: Master of Lightning available here along with others. Everyone note that to build somebody up doesn't require tearing somebody else down.

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08/18/2012 3:57 PM

Does that apply to anything I have said here? (Granted, it may apply elsewhere.)

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#11

Re: Tesla Museum

08/19/2012 2:39 AM

Hey Pete... If it makes you feel any better, I just threw them a couple of bucks.

I think it's a good cause.
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08/20/2012 3:52 PM

Cool...they are almost to the goal...so fast, yet not surprising really.
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