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5066008 No.5066008 [Reply] [Original]

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

>> No.5066012

We would be if the fucking hippies would let us use thorium energy plants.

>> No.5066015

>>5066012

thorium energy is unnecessary all the power we need comes from solar rays. Not our suns rays even, mostly the solar rays of distant stars.

>> No.5066018

>>5066015
I'd love to hear your explanation for this falsehood.

Is this /sci/ trolling? I'm new here.

>> No.5066043

>>5066018

Rays are not generated by the process of generating new matter in space, a process which would be like water running up a hill. They come from all of the suns of the universe and in such abundance that the part contributed by our own sun is very insignificant by percentage. Some of these rays are of such terrific power that they can traverse through thousands of miles of solid matter.

>> No.5066050

>>5066043
You have yet to answer my question.

>> No.5066053

>>5066050

you have yet to obtain any intelligence

>> No.5066059

>>5066053
Golly gee, you sure showed me.

>> No.5066067

>>5066012
lol i love how people think that the very same hippies who get ignored on every environmental issue are somehow powerful enough to grind the entire nuclear industry to a halt. couldn't possibly be the enormous startup costs or pressure from the fossil fuel industries. nope, it's definitely being held up by a bunch of white people with dreadlocks.

>> No.5066124

10/10

>> No.5066175

>cosmic rays
>reliable source of energy
Nope.

>> No.5066189

>>5066175

enjoy your stone age mentality

>> No.5066198

>>5066189

tesla. always good for a laugh.

i bet tesla was the hit of every long island party, before that ass robert moses FUCKING RUINED THE PLACE.

>> No.5066236

tesla invented the following:

power grid
radar
x-rays
wireless telegraphy
remote control
induction motor
neon lamps

and yet people on /sci/ always seem to think they no more.

I will believe tesla over you neck beards thank you.

>> No.5066289

>>5066236
He contributed to many of the components of a power grid but it was not his idea. He did not discover x-rays or invent radar, wireless transmission or neon lamps.

>> No.5066304

>>5066236
We do know more. There are lots of things common to modern science that he would not know.

>> No.5067663 [DELETED] 

lol ignrant crakpot

>> No.5069299

lel

>> No.5070584

>>5066304

Good joke. Tesla predicted all the thinks we have now. He also knew of technology that is currently being suppressed by governments that the public is not even allowed to know about.

>> No.5070628

>>5070584
I don't fully get the whole suppressing technology thing. Is everything tesla made capable of being used as a planet destroying weapon or something.

>> No.5070731

>>5066067
more like the lawyers of the upper middle class NIMBYs who listen to the white people with dreadlocks
part of those startup costs and times are the huge legal expenses to even get a building permit.
and yes, they are very large startup costs, but the maintenance and refueling cost isn't much compared to the gross profit from continuous operation

>> No.5070764

>>5070628

That and it would bankrupt our wealthy overlords.

>> No.5070787

>>>/x/

>> No.5070791

>>5066053
Ego: unknown to most; expressed mostly by you

>> No.5070797

>tfw no death ray

>> No.5071005

>>5070797

Did he develop a fucking DEATH RAY?

details, plox!

>> No.5071009
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5071009

>>5071005

http://rense.com/general10/deathray.htm

>> No.5071016

Tesla was smart
That doesn't mean every single one of his batshit uninformed quotes is fact

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5071021

>>5071016

>implying a man such as tesla makes uninformed statements

>> No.5071089

>>5071021

Tesla tended to think outside the box, which set him apart, and is why he is revered by today's younger scientists.

>> No.5071114

>>5071005
First man to enter teslas apartment after his death was some relative of his, but also kgb agent. He picked up some documents and whole fucking cia and shit chased him to Moscow or something like that, they say it was one of the biggest chases. What he picked up we don't know, + Tesla kept most of his shit in his mind so it could happen that data they got is pretty much useless.
And about death ray, i know he offered his country to make couple of those and he claimed that couple of those rays could protect whole Yugoslavia. But government from Yugoslavia just told him to fuck of or something, they didn't believe him...

>> No.5071177

>>5071114

We should build one. If an asteroid were to attack earth, would it help?

>> No.5071196

>>5071177
You are asking me like i know something.
But my opinion, death ray would protect against metal shit like planes, tanks and stuff like that. Doubt you could blow asteroid with electricity, but who am i to tell that..

>> No.5071231
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5071231

Death ray for downing incoming fleets of aircraft.
>mfw we have that.

>> No.5071446

>>5071231

Reagan was developing one but Bill Clinton cancelled it. see SDI.

>> No.5072408

>>5071446

Thats was just bullshit disinformation to make people think we didn't already have it.

>> No.5073560

Tesla is the greatest man to have lived in known history

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5073576

>>5071446
>3.6 million Watts of radio frequency power.
>Not weaponizable?
>Are you kidding me?

>> No.5074947

>>5071446

i love tesla threads. they are the only real science content on /sci/.

>> No.5074958

>>5073560
Cai Lun and Euclid would like a word out back about all that.

>> No.5074962

Why do hipsters think Tesla was some sort of unappreciated secret science god. I mean, he has magnetic field strength named after him, give me a break, he isn't that obscure.

Yes, he was smart. No, he didn't secretly invent magical super technology that could destroy the world. /x/ is the board for this.

>> No.5074983

>>5074962
>implying anything your professor doesn't teach you about belongs in /x/

>> No.5074996

>weaponizable?

of course, but not in the way usually pushed (weather and such)

Bernard Eastlund (search patents)

AAC9973167 (Beat wave excitation by HAARP and HIPAS)

those who understand will dig deeper

>> No.5075000

>>5074996
Yea, I see what you're getting at, but it would also make a fine focused beam for targeting aerospace vehicles.

>> No.5075032

>>5075000
>fine focused beam for targeting aerospace vehicles.
It's not a god damned laser, and the emitter array is fucking enormous and will not be able to focus much beyond its footprint.
And it's radio frequency, most objects are transparent to that.

A plain old surface to air missile costs a fraction of the emitter assembly and will be much more effective.

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5075111

>targeting aerospace vehicles

>> No.5075123

>>>/x/
>>>/x/
>>>/x/
>>>/x/

Please leave /sci/ with this stuff.

>> No.5075129

>>5075032
>Implying the antennae cannot be pointed.
>High frequency passes through objects...
EXCEPT MAYBE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT.

>> No.5075180

>>5066008

Tesla: A fun little paranoid schizophrenic.

>> No.5075198

>>5075180
[citation needed]

>> No.5075204

>>5075198

He spent the last few decades of his life totally unproductive, talking to pigeons, and making ridiculous claims about inventions.

>> No.5075213

>>5075204
He was broke. His earlier success was due to capital investment in the research.
Also, he always made ridiculous claims, a great many of which turned out to be true when prototyped.
Lastly, what does attempting to communicate with other creatures have to do with being sane or not?
OCD? I'll give you that. Insomnia. I'll give you that. Arrogant and and sensationalist? I'll give you that as well, but paranoid schitzophrenic? C'mon.

>> No.5075236

>>5075213

you can look at his picture and see that he is cracked like that james holmes guy.

>> No.5075239

>>5075236
[citation needed]
I've never heard of the science of "look at them to see how "cracked" they are"...
Is that anything like measuring the skull shape to determine criminality?

>> No.5075243

>>5075239

lol u sound like pc american liberal.

the isralites use it to scan airline passengers and have never failed to catch the arab terorests

u could learn from them and save america

>> No.5075246

>>5075243
That has nothing to do with some mysterious "crazy eyes" voodoo. That's called profiling and detective work.

>> No.5075251

>>5075239
http://everything2.com/title/Nikola+Tesla

What, you think he was a Magic Wizard and his Miracle Inventions are being Suppressed?

>> No.5075259

>>5075251
No, the only argument I'm making is that he made contributions to the modern world, and was not paranoid schitzophrenic.

>> No.5075260

>>5075246

same thing, semitics is all

>> No.5075266

>>5075260
I've got to call bullshit on this one.
[citation needed]

>> No.5075270

>>5075259

OH, I see.. If there was not an OFFICIAL diagnosis of Scizophrenia, then he wasn't batshit insane...

>> No.5075275

>>5075266

Semiotic?

Just a geuss.

>> No.5075285

>>5075270
No, I'll accept an after-the-fact diagnosis. I'm disagreeing with yours. You've yet to demonstrate any sort of familiarity with psychiatry/psychology/neuroscience/etc.

>>5075275
That is not a fucking citation.

>> No.5075297

>>5075285

Spouts incomprehensible gibberish, talks of people suppressing and stealing his inventions, is afraid of being poisoned, and spherical objects.
You're right. It was probably a Toomer.

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5075307

>>5075297

>> No.5075313

>>5075297

*tumer dumgfuck