If Nikola Tesla were around today and played an instrument...

Crono

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Electrifying performance :eek:

I like the animusic stuff, fairly hypnotic visuals and music. The first one I saw was one of those graphics card demos.
 

Jeff7

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Nifty animation. :)



I want his free-energy car. He demonstrated it, it had its gasoline engine removed and Tesla merely plugged in some electrical apparatus, reportedly worked great, SO WHERE IS IT????
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It's in the same place where all perpetual motion devices are: In the realm of pure fiction.
 

rockyct

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I want his free-energy car. He demonstrated it, it had its gasoline engine removed and Tesla merely plugged in some electrical apparatus, reportedly worked great, SO WHERE IS IT????

He publically demonstrated his free-energy boat to a whole lot of witnesses, including reporters who wrote about it.

After so many years, why the hell are we barbarically getting energy from combustion (nuclear is just a variant, cooking water) after N. Tesla DEMONSTRATED fuel-less cars & boats???

(barbaric because of consequent ruin caused to environment)

On one hand Tesla had a REALLY strange aberrant psychology, and on other hand he definitely was a true breakthrough genius many times over & over. Maybe he was Leonardo da Vinci reincarnated? Tesla was cheated at every turn. Nobody bothered to pay him royalties due him on his patents. Famous guys went out of their way to mess Tesla up, like Edison, bankers, etc.

Motor, radio, x-rays, beam weapon, flourescent light, yikes that's a LOT for one man to have invented!

I want my free energy car!!!
Really, AC power alone is an amazing legacy for him. He and Westinghouse went up against Edison and his propaganda machine and win. The US could have spent billions installing DC plants that they would have to abandon it due to its long distance inefficiencies. The brilliance of AC power and it's ability to easily step up/down voltages to send power for miles is truly amazing.
 

Wyndru

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mmmm, lasers
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It reminds me of this Beyond the Mind's Eye video my friends and I used to watch way back. It had a bunch of trippy animations placed to music like Jan Hammer lol.
 

rockyct

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Excellent question.

Maybe his disconnection from his social melieu, i.e.; his weirdness, freed him up to C O N C E N T R A T E in a superhuman way?” I don’t really know for sure.

When other engineers asked Tesla how various components would fare in some new breakthrough invention of his which they were working on, Tesla reportedly would reply, "Just a minute!"

Then he would actually RUN a model of the new machine in his mind to WAIT AND SEE which components wore out first. He was able to concentrate so single-pointedly that his mental visualization of the device was almost equal to "real."

So that's my take on answering your question, "how did Tesla work," ....he worked by applying fantastically deepest superhuman concentration, vastly surpassing normal human ability to focus the mind.

I could use that ability!
Woah, he was the first Charlie Sheen.
 

Bignate603

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So if you are reading this because of electricity, that’s due to Tesla. If you listen to radio, Tesla invented radio. If you are in college under fluorescent light, Tesla invented that. If you get an X-Ray at the Rx, Tesla invented that. The beam-weapon technology Tesla invented is still a very black top secret , 100 (one hundred) years later!!!! Woah!

Some guys are ahead of their time. Too bad school never tells us about Nikola Tesla, probably equal or surpassing Leonardo da Vinci in creative inspirational genius, envisioning things far ahead of the times they lived in, AND MAKING THEM WORKABLE REALITIES! Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Poincare, Newton, Tesla, maybe Carver Mead. The lauded Einstein, Feynman, Curie, were lesser lights than them, who ranked above all.

But the rarest few are so vastly far ahead of their own times that no matter what, they just flat can’t, don’t relate to the memes of their era. Crazy??

Answer= duhhhh

No.

So where is my free-energy car Tesla DEMONSTRATED 100 years ago? I want it!!! Will Dick Cheny Halliburton allow us to have it, or do we have to still die in mideast for oil for nuttin (since oil-based energy from combustion was demonstrated by Tesla 75+ years ago to have ALREADY been obsolete way back in great great grandpa's day?)

Maybe our coming revolution will finally break open the files from Tesla's very old work, long kept secret by government(s), FINALLY freeing the world from oil, fumes, drilling, chemical waste, smog, acid rain, pollution of water tables from fracking chemicals, supertankers splitting their guts on our fragile oxygen-creating oceans, etc.

Thank GOD!!!!.

Go back into the kitchen and make yourself a tin foil hat.

Tesla was a genius, but he was also a nut case.