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Mad Scientist at Large
Join Date: Jun 2008
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There's already a thread about the invisibility cloak, but that pales in comparison to some of the other ones I learned about on the History Channel this weekend.
As it turns out, Nikola Tesla had a genius that even Dr Mindbender would have envied. Especially shocking is that he lived in the late 1800s! He was not only ahead of his time, he was probably ahead of ours! Just a week or two ago I was watching the Joe animated movie, and thought to myself what a bunch of baloney the BET (Broadcast Energy Transmitter) was. Lo and behold, the inventor of AC current, transmitting radio waves, and the flourescent light bulb was already working on that in our grandparents day. By the construction of a gigantic tower which housed a huge Tesla Coil, he could "broadcast" electricity wirelessly through the air with seemingly no danger to humans. Reports say his unfinished first tower (in what would have been a series) could light up a bulb two miles away. The fantastic nature of his inventions don't stop there. He supposedly invented a device that could produce vibrations sympathetic to various materials. He claimed to have tested the so-called "earthquake machine", which was only the size of an alarm clock(!), on a building under construction. According to him, it took only seconds before the vibrations caused a dangerous amount of shaking, and he claimed that in only five minutes he could have brought the entire building down into the street. An hour and he could to the same to the Brooklyn Bridge. And if THAT isn't enough to impress you, he was also working on a method of accelerating charged particles into a "death ray" that could destroy aircraft at a range up to 200 miles. After his passing, the government siezed his research, and only recently released it. Nothing resembling a death ray or earthquake machine were in the plans, but would that surprise anyone? Even if you don't believe in government conspiracies, it is a fact that almost every house in the world with working electricty has an appliance that utilizes technology he developed. |
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Darth_Henning
Join Date: Jul 2008
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You'd probably be suprised what Tesla and many other great minds of his era came up with that never became public.
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proud YoJoeSexual
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little suzi !
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Mad Scientist at Large
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ARASHIKAGE CLAN
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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...I don't get it
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yeah......
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Florida
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Tesla may have been geniuses but their music was horrible........wait....
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COBRA SITH LORD
Join Date: Mar 2008
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What about that some kinda of accelarator they are about to test that could in theory could open a worm hole on earth. I read it on yahoo news a month ago and some people are trying to block the test. It's suppose to happen real soon. I'll see if i can find the story and link it.
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SEND THE BOOKS!
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It's gonna open a black hole!!!
OH TEH NOES, DETH OF TEH LINE! ERrr DETH OF TEH EARTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUNS! I'm pretty sure Mythbusters came up with a similar earthquake device, and had it on a bridge, and got the whole thing to shake like crazy, and it was barely turned up. They got scared and turned it off. |
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What about that some kinda of accelarator they are about to test that could in theory could open a worm hole on earth. I read it on yahoo news a month ago and some people are trying to block the test. It's suppose to happen real soon. I'll see if i can find the story and link it.
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