I'm just gonna say it. Tesla was a pimp.
And celibate.
Nikola Tesla's letterhead circa 1900
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#12I'm just gonna say it. Tesla was a pimp.
For the uninitiated (or nonnative speakers) out there: the parent comment uses pimp as a strong compliment, in the sense 6(1) at http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pimp:
1)something badass or new and fresh.
1. badass
The epitome of the American male. He radiates confidence
in everything he does, whether it's ordering a drink,
buying a set of wheels, or dealing with women. He's slow
to anger, brutally efficient when fighting back.
Indeed, Tesla was a badass pimp.
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#13I'm just gonna say it. Tesla was a pimp.
Indeed Tesla seems to have been part scientist, part engineer and part showman.
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#14My grandfather, whose background was in economics, became very interested in science later in life and built a fully functional Tesla Coil [1] in his basement in his 60's (this was before wide-spread availability of information on the internet; he did research in libraries and universities and built it out of hardware store parts). I was about 7 at the time. We would do experiments with it such as lighting up free-st…
Please breed.
A lot.
Re: Nikola Tesla's letterhead circa 1900
#15I'm just gonna say it. Tesla was a pimp.
And celibate.
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#16http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVzEfR6wL70
(worth it)
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#17My grandfather, whose background was in economics, became very interested in science later in life and built a fully functional Tesla Coil [1] in his basement in his 60's (this was before wide-spread availability of information on the internet; he did research in libraries and universities and built it out of hardware store parts). I was about 7 at the time. We would do experiments with it such as lighting up free-st…
An good friend of mine toys around with tesla coils quite a bit. Here's his tesla coil page: http://dzl.dk/projects/tesla/tesla.html
A few years ago he got involved in a pretty crazy project: Another friend (artist type) had heard that as long as you didn't touch the ground you could actually sit on top of a tesla coil and have huge sparks coming out of your fingers. He promptly went out and got some funding to make a 3 meter tall coil, and toured around Copenhagen sitting on top of it with lighting coming out of his outstretched hands. I'm somewhat surprised he survived, but it looked damn cool.
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#19My grandfather, whose background was in economics, became very interested in science later in life and built a fully functional Tesla Coil [1] in his basement in his 60's (this was before wide-spread availability of information on the internet; he did research in libraries and universities and built it out of hardware store parts). I was about 7 at the time. We would do experiments with it such as lighting up free-st…
An good friend of mine toys around with tesla coils quite a bit. Here's his tesla coil page: http://dzl.dk/projects/tesla/tesla.html A few years ago he got involved in a pretty crazy project: Another friend (artist type) had heard that as long as you didn't touch the ground you could actually sit on top of a tesla coil and have huge sparks coming out of your fingers. He promptly went out and got some funding to make…
There's a man that went around music festivals here in new zealand for a couple of years - he'd put himself in a custom-made suit (faraday cage) and would then stand on a platform and hook himself up to a coupla thousand volts... Bloody impressive, except for the day he didn't do his suit up properly. He survived that one, but I haven't seen him perform in a while...
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#20My grandfather, whose background was in economics, became very interested in science later in life and built a fully functional Tesla Coil [1] in his basement in his 60's (this was before wide-spread availability of information on the internet; he did research in libraries and universities and built it out of hardware store parts). I was about 7 at the time. We would do experiments with it such as lighting up free-st…
Normally male teens learn about physics/engineering/mechanics by working on cars. Complicated stuff, and also a practical skill that girls like.
I hope these odd ventures haven't turned you into a horrendous nerd, because if they did then you should be very angry at your grandfather.