/sci/ - Science & Math

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>>5393403
Back to Reddit for you

Greatest man who ever lived.

>>5393424

agreed

srbijafag reporting in

>>5393424
>>5393481
Tesla je bio Hrvat

>>5393403
becasue people who don't understand any physics latch on to him and think he had all sorts of inventions that would be imposable and which have no evidence that it r3ealy even existed, then they claim everything is just a coverup and shit. its like the mayans predicting the end of the world, we dont hate tesla or the mayan calender, but mentioning it is a very good indication the person does not know what the fuck he is talking about.

1. It's a reddit meme and annoying.
2. A lot of his "inventions" were nothing more than ramblings of a madman.
3. Tesla fans constantly bitch that Edison stole credit for all his inventions, yet they fail to realise that they're doing the EXACT SAME THING when they claimed he invented things like radar (or was it sonar?).
4. You keep posting threads about him. Nobody except you cares, and there's no discussion to be had except arguments and circle jerking.

>>5393403

/sci/ loves tesla. he was the greatest american scientist ever.

look at this picture. it just screams genius.

>>5393403
>protip: all modern inventors in one way or another based their invention on existing discoveries
still doesnt change the fact that edison practically invented the modern incandescent lightbulb as we know it, not to mention all his other inventions

he may have been a huge selfish douche, but give the man his due

Tesla = Bill Gates
Edison = Steve Jobs

/thread

I don't get mad, who could hate a man with a baller haircut like that?
on the other hand I can see why other people would get mad, since everyone worships him like sheep without appreciating the fact that half of his stuff probably didn't work.

>>5393610
It's all so clear now.

>>5393403

There are a couple of Tesla books which make him look like real kook. Personally, I suspect his weirdness has been exaggerated (but none of us really know).

Add to this, the fact that he DID get screwed over by Edison and didn't get credit he was due for his role in the invention of radio.

He is the favorite scientist* of many weirdos.

*"inventor" and "engineer" describe him far better than "scientist" but he deserves all three titles.

Tesla is great character and was very bright. Sci doesn't hate Tesla, they hate the people that talk utter bull crap facts about him

>>5393610
NO, NO, NO!

Gates is a businessman (not to take away from his role in developing software and computers, but Gates is also a businessman). Tesla was far, far from having any skill in business.

Because Teslafags who repeatedly make threads about him are all fanboy devotees who didn't complete high school and think he was some kind of oppressed super genius who died for all mankind's sins.

>>5393629
>NO, NO, NO!
seriously, take your meds mate.

>>5393632
>Because Teslafags who repeatedly make threads about him are all fanboy devotees who didn't complete high school and think he was some kind of oppressed super genius who died for all mankind's sins

>super genius
that he was
>oppressed
I'd say "screwed over", but "oppressed" works too. He was. He was no businessman and did some of this to himself, but Edison DID screw up and Westinghouse mostly abandoned him.

>>5393646
>confirming my statement
case closed

>>5393629
>Tesla was far, far from having any skill in business
This is patently untrue and ludicrously naive. Tesla routinely entered into marketing wars, pitched products, and sued people for copyright infringement. He was a very savvy and aggressive businessman

>>5393655
>entered into marketing wars, pitched products, and sued people for copyright infringement

He did all these things. He did not do them well. Marconi got credit for the invention of radio. If you were to give credit for radio to only one person*, Tesla is more deserving of this honor than is Marconi.

Tesla developed AC, but made a poor deal with Westinghouse and received little reward for it.

He had important roles in the development of two inventions which became widely used but died almost pennyless.

>>5393653
>>confirming my statement
>case closed

Merely acknowledging that he was a very important inventor and that he was screwed, even if you criticize his lack of business skill gets one labeled ad a "fanboy".

* no ONE person deserves all the credit for radio, IMHO

For me it's not so much anything about Tesla himself, but why people like him.

A few months ago that oatmeal guy made your (quite manipulative) infographic and it got shared online, and suddenly every dumb fuck who didn't even know who tesla was claimed him to be a forgotten hero.

No questioning, no thought, just blindly walking along the masses to like the cool new thing and maybe seem a bit "nerdy". Overnight he became the "best scientist evur and totes my idol."

It's not a bout tesla, it's the fact that if you mention him online there is a chance you are one of these dumbfucks.

Kosovo je Serbia!!!

Tesla je bio Vlah.

>>5393655
[citation needed]

OP because no one except a few idiots actually gives a shit about anything Tesla did, it was all gay engineering stuff.

Nothing theoretical, nothing of any real consequence that wouldnt have happened anyway if he was never born.

Also he was too into eugenics to be comfortable about

I don't. It's the other faggots.

>>5393762

when we get over our PC think and embrace eugenics we will be able to perfect the human race same as with wheat or race horses.

tesla did nothing wrong.

>>5393762
>OP because no one except a few idiots actually gives a shit about anything Tesla did


>engineering stuff. Nothing theoretical,

Agree that Tesla was way, way more of an engineer. Said that already.

We need both engineering and theoretical stuff. I don't even get why people don't get this and want to view one as "better" than the other.

>nothing of any real consequence that wouldnt have happened anyway if he was never born.

I give you that, but could make the same argument about any scientist, engineer, inventor or explorer.

If that is the logic you are using, artists would be "better" than scientists. If not for Newton, someone else would have formulated his theories but if not for Shakespeare no one else would have written his plays. If not for Einstein someone else would have eventually come up with his theories but if not for Michelangelo, no one would have sculpted his David.

>>5393823
If you call yourself a scientist or a sciencefag, I'll argee. If you are a history buff, then it depents upon your specific area of interest.

(I'm more of a history buff, but my area of interest is the history of science and technology. So I do know, but don't expect many other do)

>>5393610
I believe you mean Steve Wozniak.
That said, Tesla's work was not completed, he was only one man. However, technology doesn't have to conform to every eccentric's toy. Take babbage's difference engine and calc. Tesla was creative, but technology is at a point where he's terribly outdated. We don't jack off about Eli Whitney. His later liking for automata should be reviewed again, as well as static propulsion.

>>5393823

I give up....

>>5393943
want a hint?


nobel prize physics x2

>>5393931
>Steve Wozniak.
Better analogy.

Whitney and Sam Colt interest me, but again I'm a history guy.

For those interested, Fulton didn't invent the steamboat. He ran the first commercially successful one, albeit only for a short time.

>implying that all scientists weren't the biggest badasses of the ages
except van der Waals who was a pussy

>>5393989
>except van der Waals who was a pussy
? I know his work, but don't get the joke. Something 'bout his personal life?

>>5393823
>tfw you will never make the greatest physics and engineering breakthrough of all time in hallowed Bell Labs ;_;
Then he went and won again for superconductivity research...

based Bardeen confirmed for GOAT.

>>5393837

He's just some jew