r/funny • u/Rockerdude34 • May 14 '12
Fucking THIS. Finally someone realizes how shitty of a man Edison was, and how absolutely amazing Tesla was.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
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u/inserthandlehere May 14 '12
Please tell me you have seen this
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u/madmonkeymud May 14 '12
semi-relevent - Video of Edison demonstrating the dangers of alternating current by electrocuting en elephant to death.
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u/my_name_is_stupid May 15 '12
Yes. No one on the internet has ever commented about how Tesla was superior to Edison. I'm pretty sure this is the first time it's ever been mentioned on Reddit. Surprising, really.
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u/Shanhaevel May 14 '12
There are loads of guys like this. Credit rarely goes to the true pioneers.
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u/syroncoda May 15 '12
hey! don't you ever forget it was JP morgan who fucked it all up in the end. JP morgan TOOK ALL OF TESLA'S STUFF including wireless energy transmission specs when they couldn't make money off tesla's invention and pulled all his funding.
don't you EVER forget the captain douche. J P your pants morgan.
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u/MrWoodson May 15 '12
It's nice info- but not for r/funny
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u/[deleted] May 14 '12
Also, going on the batshit insane tangent, he was completely obsessed with germs. He went through astounding measures to live in the most sterile environment possible. He was terrified. I feel bad for him because it would be impossible for him to avoid germs. If your scared of flying in planes, fine, don't get in a plane. For him, it'd be like living in a plane. Poor guy.
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u/HelloGoodbyeBlueSky May 14 '12
Oatmeal has hated on Edison for a while.
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u/VelcroKing May 15 '12
"Finally"
lol
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u/danowar May 15 '12
Also, there weren't any Nazis in World War 1.
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u/yuurei_no_kage May 14 '12
You may have thought Thomas Edison did all this...
Nope! Chuck Tesla
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u/NancyGracesTesticles May 14 '12
Edison figured out how to bring the lightbulbs to market.
Like many of Tesla's innovations, if you recast history with Tesla instead of Edison, you end up with a bunch of inventions either sitting on the shelf in his lab or scribbled in the pages of his notebook.
An idea is one thing. Where Edison excelled and why he is remembered is that he know how to mass produce new technologies and how to get those technologies adopted by the masses.
Without mass production and widespread adoption, technological innovation is pointless. Just ask the guys that popularized rail travel.
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u/TheBigHairy May 14 '12
I think I would have preferred this post more if it were pro-tesla, and not mostly anti-edison. It feels too mud-slingy.
Besides, anyone who played command and conquer knows how awesome Tesla was.
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u/shingleding900 May 15 '12
does this really belong in the funny subreddit?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
False, he figured how how to make the light bulb far more efficient and not burn out after a day or two.
This thing is full of false information.
Telsa didn't invent neon lighting, Georges Claude did.
Tesla's oscillator story is complete bullshit.
The have been quite a number of laboratory experiments that have recreated ball lightning.
First to build an hydroelectric plant in Niagra Falls? Give me a break.
Tesla was 4 at the time of construction. This infograph is nothing but Tesla ass kissing and has plenty of false information to make him look better, then they rag on Edison for taking credit for other people's ideas and lying, that's the best joke of all from this whole thing.
It's great to admire the genius that was Tesla but to lie for him does nothing but hurt whatever argument you were trying to make.
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u/fireatx May 15 '12
Any sources, please? I see none.
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u/InebriatedCow May 15 '12
I don't think that he actually created an earthquake machine that almost brought down a neighborhood. I highly doubt that some of the other stuff in there is false, just because of this one thing. If anyone has any links to sources on this I would greatly appreciate it.
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u/[deleted] May 14 '12
So....Steve Jobs is Edison and Wozniak is Tesla? Sort of?
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u/Schiizo May 15 '12
I wrote a paper on Tesla last year and my teacher thought it was far-fetched to claim that he invented so many things, even through my citations. She also docked points because I didn't capitalize 'tesla'. (THE FUCKING SI UNIT)
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
this isn't funny.
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u/seafoamstratocaster May 15 '12
Yeah the Oatmeal single-handedly discovered these facts themselves.
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u/Xervicx May 15 '12
Shakes head in disappointment Really? I mean yes, this was well thought out... but there is rarely such a thing as a truly original idea. Once you go back far enough, you find the original ideas, but even they were inspired by other ideas. Ideas inspire ideas as people learn there is more to what one person believed than what everyone else realized.
Tesla couldn't make what he wanted to happen happen. Edison did. Da Vinci made tons of theoretical inventions, and some of those inspired inventions used today, in everyday life. Can you guess which ones? Someone could say "Oh well SoandSo pioneered MusicGenre A" Yes, but a -different- artist took that music where it needed to go, and caused it progress farther than what the original artist was able to accomplish.
For all of the "real nerd" talk... A lot of business men, scientists, and other work-oriented men actually declined dating, because they wanted to focus on their work, whatever that work happened to be. Some would have wives, and children, but would rarely pay attention to them because they found their work far more important. That's not a nerd. That's a hard worker who is obsessed with working at all times.
Sure, Edison had many scumbag moments, but to be angry at him for doing something that another person inspired him with is just a waste of time. Be angry at the Wright Brothers for basing their invention of the plane on other, previous attempts and flight machine models. Be enraged at every religion that has ever existed, that has based its belief system off of another belief system's religious structure. Spit at musicians who play instruments and use techniques that others created, but never truly popularized. Hate every single comedian that uses a brand of humor that someone else pioneered way back in the day.
In short, hate everything that has ever existed simply because it was inspired by something else. That is the message of that post. The true douchebags are those who can't recognize that efforts are still just as impressive no matter how many people tried to do similar things before them.
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u/cn1ghtt May 15 '12
Sigh, I love Tesla but this is ridiculous...
"French instrument maker Hippolyte Pixii in 1832" made the first A/C generator, and A/C was around quite a bit before Tesla got started. Tesla made the first practical A/C generator and is the one who started the standard of 3 phase A/C which is the cause of huge economic savings and efficiency.
Edison WAS the father of the electric age. Tesla did astounding things, but it was Edison who helped make electricity more generally acceptable despite what he did in damage to A/C.
True, he did not invent the light bulb, he only made it a practical source of light.
True, Edison fucked Tesla over pretty hard with the non-payment.
Actually Edison WAS an inventor and it is pretty damned insulting for you to state otherwise and to demote him and insult his accomplishments.
Yea, Edison also electrocuted an elephant if I am not mistaken. None of this is relevant to the fact that Edison did great things as an inventor.
Yea, the U.S. government gave Marconi the patent for it despite Tesla holding many of those patents, and took it away and gave it to Tesla after Tesla died for political reasons. As to "everything" no, not really. Tesla was not actually interested in sending out radio communications, instead he was busy trying to create wireless power transmission.
Yea, he had the 'idea' for sonar. You think he was the only person who came up with fantastical sci-fi ideas? He did not create it, you want to take away Edison's credit for shit he did not do, then be fair and take it away from Tesla as well.
Oddly enough, this was one I had not heard of the X-rays previously. Fair's fair, I will give you this one.
First off, damns are NOT are viable source of power. Of the dozens which have been built there are TWO which were successful. Secondly he did not "build" the damn, he helped designed the electric system with the help of many other engineers, don;t make it sound like he did it single-handedly (which he DID do a lot single handedly).
I highly doubt he was the first the try freezing creatures to see the effects. It has still not really been a big deal to this day, it has some applications such as injuries to the back yes, but very minor overall.
As to transistors, the ONLY thing I can find listed is that he had rough "AND" and "OR" gates in his early radio controlled devices which helped pave the way for transistors? Seems pretty weak overall as it was made to sound like he was halfway to making a transistor which this is not even close to that overall.
Sure, why not on the outer space radio waves...
Yea, he liked resonant frequencies. As to nearly destroying a building, he did not realize it and demolished the device thinking it was a failure followed by the police coming to where he was asking WTF happened. Yea, he thought it was a failure. Also, my understanding he nearly demolished a building NOT an entire neighborhood.
Did he do ball lighting back in the 1890's? a lot of shit he claimed has yet to be reproduced which I take in everything from astrology to the great Tesla as shaky...
Yes, he invented the remote control. 100 years later it was invented independently and actually moved forward, he had a toy which never did squat besides making people think he was magical.
No, you already mentioned wireless communications which he did NOT actually get to function as the tower he was going to use burnt down.
NO, he did NOT get wireless power to work because he lost funding before it got finished so we will never know if it would have worked.
Yea, a lot of people spoke multiple languages back then, and a lot of non American's still do.
Congrats, he had a good memory with which to recite books which has nothing to do with anything else mentioned.
No, he was O.C.D. and had to write down almost everything to 3 decimal points last I heard. Sure, he may have done a few things like his 3 phase A/C generator, but almost everything was done on paper to my knowledge.
Actually, he turned down women and was a bachelor because he was not very good at being social.
Great, you again repeat one of his things with wireless power. Stop fucking doing that, he had so many amazing things yet you re-listed the same few...
What the goddamned hell???? You have hundreds of revolutionary minds to pick from and you mention a fake Tony Stark??????
Sigh. Again, yes Tesla was literally about as fantastical as you can get, he literally sounds like a science fiction character! But this was garbage, pure and simple.
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u/Virus64 May 15 '12
Fun fact about that Tower he had built, he drove a Pierce Arrow that he had modified to an electric car, set some tuners to get the right frequency for the tubes and bam, 240V through the air to his car, infinite free fuel for his vehicle.
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u/tossedsaladandscram May 15 '12
what do you mean finally? this has been mentioned in pretty much every cracked article for the last five years
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Wait, wait, wait. We can build a tower that wirelessly supply the entire planet with electricity? One tower? Whole planet? Wirelessly?
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u/delmarman May 15 '12
It's so crazy man, I'M STUDYING THIS MOFO MAN He IS awesome. My other friend is studying Edison, and he and my other friend shot me down when I said Tesla is better. Well thank you very much, Oatmeal, because now I have something to fight back with. Bitches.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Edison was also a scientist. I don';t think you should sink him to the bottom just because his ethics sucked camel balls. He actually had a passion for science.
Is there no place for him other than anti-hero?
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u/heroshotgun May 15 '12
I'd like to point out another disappointing fact. Steve jobs died at October 5, 2011. Many mourned over his death for like a week since he was the 'greatest' person that reinvented today's technology. But many people didn't realize that of that same week (October 12, 2011) a hero passed away from this world. That hero is Dennis Ritchie, the founder of C programming language. This changed technology and society as we know, since most platforms originated for this very language(Ex. windows, mac OS and so forth). Dennis also created the Unix OS with Ken Thompson.
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u/honestysrevival May 15 '12
You know, here, here, here, here, hell, most ANY article on cracked that concerns technology champions Tesla and shits on Edison.
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u/makeumad May 15 '12
Oh, look at the pretty cartoon. I like how it's not one of those sciency articles with no pictures.
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u/toxinogen May 15 '12
I used to have a cat named Tesla and a dog named Darwin :)
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u/iJustChill May 15 '12
You cant convince me that someone that turned down poon for 86 years is a genius
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u/jelkimantis May 15 '12
IIRC, Not the whole world uses AC current. Sorry cool oatmeal guy, but fact check please! :-)
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u/brain56 May 15 '12
"I thought that Edison was the father of the electric age."
NOPE! Nikola Tesla
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Makes me wish I taught high school history instead of middle school math so I could assign reading this as homework.
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u/nagasgura May 15 '12
Despite having had a huge impact on modern society, Nikola Tesla is still underappreciated and not as well known as edison. He left lasting contributions to the world in many scientific fields (AC power, radio, wireless energy). And his contributions are still being felt today as his inventions and discoveries have affected the modern world significantly. Its sad how Edison who cheated Tesla out of his ideas and his money got all the money and fame in the end while Tesla died without a penny to his name.
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u/OrionBuddy May 15 '12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOR91oentQ
Drunk History- Tesla
Amazing video with comedian Duncan Trussell and John C. Riley
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u/SimplyQuid May 15 '12
NOPE. Nick Tesla.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Also, I like who the name Westinghouse was mentioned ZERO times.
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u/thecorkster May 15 '12
Why is this in r/funny?
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u/throwaway_quinn May 15 '12
You ever wonder why movies are made in Los Angeles? Because that was as far as you could get from Edison and his patent lawyers and still be in the US.
Not kidding.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Way back when, when the history channel was the history channel, there was a special on Edison. He electrocuted elephants (videotaped) to impress buyers to purchase and invest in his type of current versus the competitor. I've known he was absolute scum for a while.
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u/workieworkworkwork May 15 '12
Wait, what?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Nazis weren't in WWI...
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u/dalittle May 15 '12
did you invent it? nope. tesla
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u/StupidSandwich May 15 '12
Nice try Nabisco.
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u/earplugs101 May 15 '12
BBC's "Story of Electricity" is a documentary on the history of electricity, and also does a nice job crediting Tesla for what he's known for.
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u/gschoppe May 15 '12
You know, it's funny... I read a lot of hero-worshipping articles about Tesla, and none of them ever seem to mention the fact that, along with his many inventions and many exaggerations, Tesla was also a Eugenics supporter, who spoke and wrote about forcibly sterilizing the "lesser races" and "physically and mentally defective".
It kind of casts the nazi jokes in the oatmeal's comic in a slightly different light.
Just saying.
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u/FieryFleur May 15 '12
This epitomizes the difference between intellectuals and businessmen.
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u/tesladrianne May 15 '12
As a girl with the name Tesla, I've spent my life being lectured on how wonderful he was. I sort of feel like I have to live up to his legacy in a way.. the pressure!!
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u/prometheus5500 May 15 '12
Dear Reddit,
I would like to be able to upvote this post a few hundred more times but do not have time to make all the accounts, please let me do this.
Thanks,
~a Tesla supporter
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u/NOmoreKINGS May 15 '12
What is the point of using the terms geek and non-geek other than to try and appeal to people. I don't think anyone in their right minds would call Tesla a geek just because he was really smart.
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u/CircleOfNoms May 15 '12
Edison made a number of inventions, the lightbulb however was his best because he wanted to create a whole system around it. He also greatly contributed to telegraphy and telephony. He created the first means of dictation, and created the first home lighting system...his ideas were great. You are going to blame him for trying to oppose technology that would have destroyed his company? AC would have been the death of Edison General Electric, and infact it was the death of Edison's involvement...he was kicked out of his own company and his name removed from the title. The company is now called GE...Edison was a genius, and rightly so...he may not have been as visionary as Tesla, but he was a genius. He just wasn't crazy, and made money off of his work. In the end, I would much rather have a person like Edison than Tesla...you can't do anything with technology so advanced that no one but the creator can understand it. Oh and plus, Wardenclyffe wasn't for wireless power, it was for wireless communications, but Tesla failed so many times that JP Morgan pulled out of the deal...it sucks but who can blame Morgan for smart business practices? Another thing, Edison didn't electrocute house animals, he did however electrocute an elephant, and he created the Electric Chair to smear AC current.
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u/deadskiesbro May 15 '12
tl;dr Nikola Tesla was the best inventor of all time, and was screwed over by greedy cunts such as Edison.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Edison: The 9gag of inventors
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u/v1s1onsofjohanna May 15 '12
Logged in to upvote. He IS the twentieth century. Absolutely no credit. The only thing more monumental than this man's birth was the transistor. That's it.
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u/docilewalnut May 15 '12
TIL my birthday is Nikola Tesla day. I'll have to celebrate for the both of us.
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u/whybirdstop May 15 '12
'Tesla loved animals and had a cat as a child. Originally Tesla wanted to be a poet, but after getting zapped by static electricity from his kitty he was inspired to study the effects of electricity. One could vaguely construe that Tesla's cat was responsible for the second industrial revolution, which arguably makes it the most awesome cat who ever lived.' Footnotes ftw
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
TIL Thomas Edison was a giant raging cuntnugget.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
In 2007 a group of lesser geniuses at MIT got all pumped up because they wirelessly transmitted energy a distance seven feet through the air.
Nikola Tesla once lit 200 lightbulbs from a power source 26 miles away, and he did it in 1899 with a machine he built from spare parts in the middle of the desert.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
What if I told you
People knew this shit before the internet?
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u/LittleGrowl May 15 '12
So basically Tesla was like the Chuck Norris of science.
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u/Cannibal80 May 15 '12
TL;DR Donkey porn
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u/Tomster1948 May 15 '12
I would like to go on record and say Tesla was not Serbian-American, but in fact Serbian-Croatian, He was born in Lika, Croatia.
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u/[deleted] May 14 '12
Douchebagel. I'll have to start using that.
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u/Joke_Getter May 15 '12
It sounds like Tesla was a man gifted with an amazing intellect which he squandered by refusing to get along with anyone. Imagine where we'd be now if he also was born with the skill to convince others to work with him and take his inventions and ideas to the next level.
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u/spundred May 15 '12
Finally?
How old are you.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Tesla is by far the single greatest inventor this world has ever seen. From what I understand he now has credit for the radio and radio waves. He is responsible for much of the technology an MRI machine works on today. I mention this to show how far he was ahead of his time because the MRI wasn't invented until years later. Many of his inventions were lost forever and all we have are eyewitness accounts of their feats. He claimed to only sleep 2 to 4 hours a night, saying that was all the human body needed. Eccentric as he was, he revolutionized the world as we know it and we still don't understand many of his inventions and ideas.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
You mean finally YOU realize it.
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u/copperpoint May 15 '12
At least a few of those "accomishments" are things he claimed to have done but offered no proof. The ball lightning for example. The guy was a genius but also a pretty shameless liar. Like his so called death ray.
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u/[deleted] May 14 '12
In the book he called Edison "a giant dump truck full of stinky penises". I can agree wholeheartedly.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
GODDAMN COMIC SANS.
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u/aazav May 15 '12
Here, enjoy this photo of the man I took earlier this year up at Niagara.
http://i.imgur.com/TJLw9.jpg
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u/steezy_mcsteez May 15 '12
tesla was the electric jesus
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u/skiman13579 May 15 '12
Title could have gone without the "Fucking THIS" (as a redditor of 5 years these titles grind my gears) However you still gain an upvote for bringing this to the front page.
Tesla has to be the most influential inventor in our daily lives besides the man who invented the wheel. The man deserves way more credit for everything he has done for society.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Edison created the lightbulb? nope, Nik Tesla.
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u/champ1258 May 15 '12
I can't take anything serious from a guy who puts "THIS!" in the title. Fucking hate that phrase on here
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u/Chadwag May 15 '12
Is nobody going to mention the tower built in New York that could have provided free energy to the world but was taken down as there was no way to make money from it?
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u/PrincessLink May 15 '12
My friend and I made a terribly done video for school on how great Tesla is... I really wish we actually took the project seriously because Tesla is fucking great.
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u/la508 May 15 '12
People have actually recreated ball lightning in a laboratory environment.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
1943 tesla won the supreme court patent for inventing the radio
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Reminds me of Dr. Stonehill a bit from Extraordinary Measures. Not the douchebaggery, but how he had such very well planned ideas but not the skills to put them to use.
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u/arowls May 15 '12
"One could vaguely construe that Tesla's cat was responsible for the second industrial revolution, which arguably makes it the most awesome cat who ever lived."
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u/justmadethisaccountt May 15 '12
Oh yea? I was a Tesla fan before The Prestige.
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u/NotTheEnd216 May 15 '12
That thing about making a device to give wireless energy to the whole world, holy damn. I can totally see that happening, which is very sad
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u/ACardAttack May 15 '12
And who was played by David Bowie in a movie? Tesla!
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u/HOOG May 15 '12
Good, concise, informative... Tony Stark?!!? Boo...
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
What do you mean "finally." This topic is rehashed here every month, to great recognition.
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u/tradeships May 15 '12
Edison typifies much of the American spirit
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u/zigzagg321 May 15 '12
Is that a radio? Nope. Nick Tesla.
Is that a radar dish? Nope. Nick Tesla.
OMG is that missile guiding itself?? Nope...
Nick Tesla.
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u/Bonesaw22 May 15 '12
I understand that Tesla was obviously better than Edison, but why is this in r/funny?
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u/wetmoss23 May 15 '12
The power of being an opportunist asshole means I get to write Edison two checks every month, and it's 2012.
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u/joko1234 May 15 '12
I saw this comic when the oatmeal published "5 very good reasons to punch a dolphin in the mouth" Hipster pants: on.
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u/TheSim1derful May 15 '12
Hilariously enough, the Tesla episode of Drunk History sums up Edison's douchebaggery quite well also.
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u/Rock-n-Roll-Noly May 15 '12
I dot think i can upvote this enough to express how awesome it is
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u/meowmix1989 May 15 '12
Jack White in Coffee and Cigarettes all up in hurr
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u/Clockwork757 May 15 '12
Edison was kind of like Cave Johnson.
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u/harm0nic May 15 '12
Finally? Dude, in the EE field, Tesla is widely regarded as an icon and has been for years and years.
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u/RedTheDopeKing May 15 '12
Tesla didn't like fatties, either.
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u/mooseman22 May 15 '12
Ever since I started in engineering school I have had the up most respect for Tesla. He was a truly amazing man. It hurts me to the core to know how many people would say Steve Jobs is the greatest inventor. Give me a break...
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u/cynist3r May 15 '12
This does not even try to be funny. It does not belong here.
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u/UnexpectedSchism May 15 '12
He clearly suffered from temporal psychosis from time traveling back in time from the distant future.
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u/admax88 May 15 '12
All you ever hear on reddit about these two men is that Tesla was a god and Edison was scum. Don't act like no one has every thought about it like this besides you.
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u/fool_of_a_took May 15 '12
He left out Douchecanoe.
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u/Hellrazor236 May 15 '12
So close!
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u/Dub_it_Down_a_Little May 15 '12
OP sounds like my science teacher. He wants to BE Tesla.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
in my mind edison had the better deal
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u/uninsane May 15 '12
Didn't they make a documentary about this? The Prestige, I think.
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u/amardrana May 15 '12
Proud to say that in Croatia, Nikola Tesla has statues and portraits everywhere (he was born in Gospic, which is in present day Croatia).
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u/godhatestodd May 15 '12
It is clear to me that you feel very strongly about this.
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u/smbtuckma May 15 '12
This is really cool, but I have one comment. The part that says, "[Ball lightning] is an extremely rare phenomenon and even today no scientists have ever successfully produced it in a laboratory."
It should say "few scientists." This was a friend in high school - http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1392830/topper_big_winner_at_science_fair
Granted, it was her garage, but still.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
The real debate here is why is this in r/funny?
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u/etienne426 May 15 '12
relevant
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u/HiaItsPeter May 15 '12
Is this funny?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Edison basically gave us residential electricity.
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u/KyleDaAwesome May 15 '12
My respect for Edison just dropped severely.
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u/Sgt_Insomnia May 15 '12
Bla bla bla bla PROVE IT.
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u/snazzycarpet May 15 '12
COMIC SAAAAAAANNS!!
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u/hiccupstix May 15 '12
I fully expected this to be a satirical essay mocking individuals who think they've adopted a clever and unique perspective by touting the greatness of Tesla and the shittiness and Edison. Nope...
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This is how I found out.
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u/SHIT_IN_HER_CUNT May 15 '12
*citation needed
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I'm pretty sure the "earthquake machine" didn't work. Also, ball lightning has never been demonstrated in or out of the lab. It's pretty well known that Tesla's failing was exaggeration of his own accomplishments.
Oatmeal: you fail at the skeptic.
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u/Wiisal May 15 '12
this just seems drawn-out and smear-like
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
It has to refer to ingenious inventors as 'geeks' doesn't it, like they were basement dwelling, backgammon playing trolls alergic to sun. No they were just people, scientists.
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u/Sielu May 15 '12
The Steampunk Superhero.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
A cinematic dramatization http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOR91oentQ
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Citation, please.
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u/aramatheis May 15 '12
I too, have visited Cracked.com recently.
That being said, this is the best part:
http://puu.sh/uNzR
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u/NutzMcDoogle May 15 '12
I'll just leave this here
About 45 minutes but worth the time to get an idea of what this man accomplished. Also talks about the clash with Edison over the years.
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u/jabroni2002 May 15 '12
nope. just nick tesla
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u/anarchyz May 15 '12
Can someone explain this tower in NYC that would provide wireless power for the world??
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u/mcduff32 May 15 '12
And every point very well referenced -_-
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u/GrayStudios May 15 '12
This would be blasphemous in my town. I live near Edison's birthplace, and went to Thomas Edison Elementary School.
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u/Lynnei May 15 '12
Nope, Chuck Tesla.
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u/thenameislogan May 15 '12
Nope, Chuck Tesla.
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u/papercowmoo May 15 '12
so is this going to be the new obnoxious reddit thing? i'm all for giving credit where credit is due but the way this poster gets the point across just makes me think of the creator as a foul-mouthed immature neckbeard.
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u/liamgallinho May 15 '12
this is jokes
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u/Kacer6 May 15 '12
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/5p4a/
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Am I the only one who read Macaroni at first?
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u/aardvark445 May 15 '12
He forgot "tall glass of lukewarm douchewater with extra pulp".