Thread: Nicola Tesla: The Missing Secrets

Tesla was a genius to bad he was a serb.

Yeah fucking serbs

Tesla was a human!
Why can't people be proud of their kind instead of hating "towel heads" (don't want to use worse names I've heard). It's ok to be a bit patriotic, but this really is retarded in the most basic sense of the word. Evolve a bit, will you?

Sorry for rant and hijacking the thread.

Originally Posted by Bonsay

Tesla was a human!
Why can't people be proud of their kind instead of hating "towel heads" (don't want to use worse names I've heard). It's ok to be a bit patriotic, but this really is retarded in the most basic sense of the word. Evolve a bit, will you?

Sorry for rant and hijacking the thread.

I totally agree.

"too bad he was a serb" "fucking serbs" ...what is wrong with you people?

lookup HAARP. it is based on his ideas. sattelites that can cause catastrophies.

Originally Posted by ranma187

lookup HAARP. it is based on his ideas. sattelites that can cause catastrophies.

He knew that some of his inventions weren't ready for the world and kept them under wraps (but of course after he died they raided and confiscated everything of his) because the government didn't want to use them for energy but for defense and war and such. He didn't intend for it to be used that way...but that was the way the government was planning on taking it. Big surprise. If you watch those videos it talks about that a bit.

Yeah, Tesla is awesome, I learned about him quite a while ago. Its too bad there are so many scams and conspiracy theories on the web defaming his name. He was brilliant. He was a visionary, a modern day Da Vinci. Supposedly the government took his papers shortly after he died. The FBI file of Nikolai Tesla is floating around the internet too.

Originally Posted by Bonsay

Tesla was a human!
Why can't people be proud of their kind instead of hating "towel heads" (don't want to use worse names I've heard). It's ok to be a bit patriotic, but this really is retarded in the most basic sense of the word. Evolve a bit, will you?

Sorry for rant and hijacking the thread.

wat....tesla wasnt a "towel head" he was a white european from an orthodox christian background not an arab muslim as the word towel head implies{i wish he was though).....(and serbia sucks, go Croatia!!!!!)

Originally Posted by dragonoverlord

wat....tesla wasnt a "towel head" he was a white european from an orthodox christian background not an arab muslim as the word towel head implies{i wish he was though).....(and serbia sucks, go Croatia!!!!!)

I know. Sorry, that's because I just spill out my thoughts so they come out in a mess. It was supposed to be an example. You know, of racism.

Originally Posted by Bonsay

Tesla was a human!
Why can't people be proud of their kind instead of hating "towel heads" (don't want to use worse names I've heard). It's ok to be a bit patriotic, but this really is retarded in the most basic sense of the word. Evolve a bit, will you?

Sorry for rant and hijacking the thread.

Relax dragonoverlord obviously just hates their soccer team and I did it for the LOLZ.

Originally Posted by dragonoverlord

Tesla was a genius to bad he was a serb.

Damn man... intolerant much? Who cares what nationality he was? First, he was an earthling... Second, he was a humanitarian whose inventions touched and changed all of mankind for generations to come.

You'd better check that blind ignorance as it seems to have your mind closed in a box of limited thinking.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

He knew that some of his inventions weren't ready for the world and kept them under wraps (but of course after he died they raided and confiscated everything of his) because the government didn't want to use them for energy but for defense and war and such. He didn't intend for it to be used that way...but that was the way the government was planning on taking it. Big surprise. If you watch those videos it talks about that a bit.

Oh, and Nina I saw The Prestige today... quite an excellent film... I wasn't expecting that ending and Tesla to be so integral...

Originally Posted by SolSkye

Oh, and Nina I saw The Prestige today... quite an excellent film... I wasn't expecting that ending and Tesla to be so integral...

That was an awesome movie. Bowie makes a good tesla!

ah ha! they work for me now. This guy is amazing, how the heck did he get pushed back out of the limelight? This makes me proud to be studying electrical engineering!

Most of the outlandish stuff you hear about Tesla comes from bad biographers who got most of their information from show bills about his acts. In his time, Inventors were presented as magicians, and so thats what they made them sound like. In reality, Tesla was a brilliant man who did a lot of amazing things, and to me the really amazing but false things you hear about him undermine his true accomplishments.

I'm not sure why people claim that 'most of his patents never saw the light of day' and that they were stolen by the government. His papers were taken from the hotel that he lived in partly because with no family in this country, there was no one to collect them. As for his patents, I have his book that he wrote (the fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla; modest, no?) and it is largely a collection of all of his patents.

What may be confusing you is the fact that he didn't actually patent many of his inventions, since he saw them as toys for his own enjoyment, such as fluourecent lights, the discovery of plasma, the predessesor of the electron microscope (carbon button lamp), etc. etc.

Most people latch on to some of his more outlandish ideas and tout them as having been repressed by the government or other shady illuminati-esque shadow men, but in reality they just aren't practical or feasible. Unlike what is portrayed in the prestige, you can't really just charge the ground with electricity. Tesla also described a train that would encircle the globe and would be supported by its own counter acting gravitational pull, but who would really build such a thing? Sure it would be essentially frictionless but who cares, its unwieldy as all hell.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

Unlike what is portrayed in the prestige, you can't really just charge the ground with electricity. Tesla also described a train that would encircle the globe and would be supported by its own counter acting gravitational pull, but who would really build such a thing? Sure it would be essentially frictionless but who cares, its unwieldy as all hell.

That is untrue...he did light up a field with lightbulbs. It's not just in the Prestige, there's an image of it in one of those youtube videos. I have no idea how he did it though. And that train sounds awesome. =)

I need to read that book.

Aquanina it must be another supernatural conspiracy. Even if there is photographs of it.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

Most of the outlandish stuff you hear about Tesla comes from bad biographers who got most of their information from show bills about his acts. In his time, Inventors were presented as magicians, and so thats what they made them sound like. In reality, Tesla was a brilliant man who did a lot of amazing things, and to me the really amazing but false things you hear about him undermine his true accomplishments.

I'm not sure why people claim that 'most of his patents never saw the light of day' and that they were stolen by the government. His papers were taken from the hotel that he lived in partly because with no family in this country, there was no one to collect them. As for his patents, I have his book that he wrote (the fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla; modest, no?) and it is largely a collection of all of his patents.

What may be confusing you is the fact that he didn't actually patent many of his inventions, since he saw them as toys for his own enjoyment, such as fluourecent lights, the discovery of plasma, the predessesor of the electron microscope (carbon button lamp), etc. etc.

Most people latch on to some of his more outlandish ideas and tout them as having been repressed by the government or other shady illuminati-esque shadow men, but in reality they just aren't practical or feasible. Unlike what is portrayed in the prestige, you can't really just charge the ground with electricity. Tesla also described a train that would encircle the globe and would be supported by its own counter acting gravitational pull, but who would really build such a thing? Sure it would be essentially frictionless but who cares, its unwieldy as all hell.

Good to see Xaqaria has things well in hand here

Don't believe everything you read. There are a lot of conspiracy theories out there. They may be fun, but take them all with a grain of salt.

That said, can you recommend a good book or two on Tesla? I know you've been reading about him a lot, Nina. I researched him heavily a few years back, but came to the same conclusion as Xaqaria. If I'm missing something, (and it sounds like I am) please let me know. I love this stuff.

Don't believe everything you read. There are a lot of conspiracy theories out there.

Yeah but the conspiracy theories about Tesla are all mostly that he was less intelligent and achieved. When he was actually more intelligent and more achieved than the conspiracy theories credit him. So what is known cannot be eliminated no matter what conspiracy theories you may read that are floating around about him. We can point to inventions that he did develop and inventions that were destroyed. And that is part of history and telsas life.