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The mentally almighty mother-fucking Serbian God of Lightning is none other than, Nikola Tesla, but surprisingly few people these days know of one of mankind’s most eccentric, scientific super-geniuses of all time.
Let’s start off by saying first off; Nikola Tesla was extremely fucking brilliant. There’s not another single mother fucker, close to his genius, with only one exception, William Sidis.
In college the Croatian-born engineer spoke ten languages, could write simultaneously with both hands at the same time, while doing equally different writing task. Tesla then decided to come to America, and first got a job with Thomas Edison. Telsa in no time improved everything Edison had created. Telling him to switch from DC power to AC power, Edison thought that was the dumbest idea he ever heard of. Edison feeling overshadowed by Tesla’s brilliance decided not to pay for any work that Tesla did. Which made them mortal enemies. Tesla then got financial backing from Billionaire JP Morgan and George Westinghouse. Both Westinghouse and Morgan allowed Tesla to keep the patents, and a small salary, but both made millions off of Tesla.
Now with financial backing, Tesla developed technology that harnessed the power of electricity for household use(A/C), and invented things like electrical generators, FM radio, wireless electricity, radar, cellular technology, remote control, robots, spark plugs, fluorescent lights, microwave technology, hydroelectric power plant, X-Rays, constructed a bath designed to cleanse the human body of germs using nothing but electricity, created laser beams, turbines and vertical take off aircraft. He had over 700 patents in his lifetime
He had such a thirst for knowledge combined with his photographic memory and an insane ability to visually map-out even the most complex pieces of machinery – Tesla did advanced calculus and physics equations in his fucking head, memorized entire books at a time, and successfully pulled off many scientific experiments that modern-day geniuses still can’t even come close to replicating. For instance, in 2007 the top minds at MIT thought they were the smartest cat’s on the planet when they wirelessly transmitted electrical energy a distance seven feet through the air. Nikola Tesla lit 200 light bulbs from a power source 26 miles away for several days, and he did it in 1899 with a machine he built from spare parts. Most of the Top Brains of the world can not figure out how the fuck he pulled that shit off, because two-thirds of the schematics only existed in the darkest recesses of Tesla’s all-powerful noggin.
Like many other eccentric geniuses he was prone to nervous breakdowns, claimed to receive weird visions in the middle of the night, spoke to pigeons, and occasionally thought he was receiving electromagnetic signals from extraterrestrials. He had a severe case of OCD, hated pearls, and anything that wasn’t divisible by three. He was also celibate for his entire life. Tesla allowed himself few close friends, although one was author, Mark Twain.
Tesla did create a super weapon more powerful then 100 nuclear weapons, and decided that no single county deserve to have that sort of power so he divided up the plans half of them go each powerhouse country in the world, and the other half locked in his massive brain.
Towards the end, Tesla thought all mankind should have free electricity, but JP Morgan knowing their was no money in just giving away free shit, shut down his project. Financial black-balled Tesla, and made no one on the planet lend Tesla anymore money. When Tesla died J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI confiscated all his personal shit and locked it away in some Raider’s of the Lost Ark warehouse.
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Ordinary people. The courage to say no.
The photo was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowd, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labor for marrying a Jewish woman.
We know little else about August Landmesser, except that he had two children. By pure chance, one of his children recognized her father in this photo when it was published in a German newspaper in 1991. How proud she must have been in that moment.
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Yes this is exactly what I try to tell people thank you bob ross
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I just learned that what a Billion is has changed quite recently.
Now when I say quite recently I mean like 1975, and in Britain.
Basically, originally a billion, having the prefix bi meaning two, meant a million million, or (1 million)^2 hence 10^12.
This way was how a trillion was defined, and with this system any prefix would make sense, so centillion, cent meaning 100, would be (1million)^100 or 10^600.
However in most of the English speaking world, a billion means a thousand million or 10^9. Before in the old system, a thousand million was called a milliard. Basically in the new system it’s based on powers of a thousand, so a million is still (1000)^2 or 10^6, but a billion is now (1000)^3 or 10^9, this pattern repeats, so lets say a centillion would now be (1000)^101 or 10^303.
Point being, people think the reason for this illogical change was that someone in the US messed up once with writing a billion and it kind of stuck.
However, most of the rest of the world still uses the “Old system” which are based on powers of a million as the names of each suggest.
To put this in perspective, what used to be a billion is now a trillion. Kind of makes you feel a little bit better about the debt of some countries.