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Meister
07-10-2009, 11:39 AM
What, I have to learn that not from here or atomic-robo.com, but from Google of all things?

Here's to the man without whom Brian would be copy/pasting from under a bridge. Or maybe Robo would have been a creation of Edison then. Either way.
Mirai Gen
07-10-2009, 11:48 AM
It was cool to see that even Google recognizes Tesla as an important person.
The Wandering God
07-10-2009, 02:33 PM
And since they put it up there, people will search for info about him and become *ahem* enlightened.

Besides, without him, we wouldn't have the awesome weapons in C&C: Red Alert.

The Wandering God
Doc ock rokc
07-10-2009, 10:20 PM
It was cool to see that even Google recognizes Tesla as an important person.

he created Alternating current! The very basis of electricity in homes.
All Edison did was create the most inventions of all time the light bulb and Direct Current electricity which is the things all computers use...how weak is that.
Smarty McBarrelpants
07-11-2009, 09:59 AM
Psssh DC current is much better than AC current. Notice how all your best appliances have AC/DC converters- yeah there's a reason for that.
Tesla was all about practicality, Edison was all about huge fuck-off machines. I know which side I'm backing.
Doc ock rokc
07-11-2009, 10:55 PM
Psssh DC current is much better than AC current. Notice how all your best appliances have AC/DC converters- yeah there's a reason for that.
Tesla was all about practicality, Edison was all about huge fuck-off machines. I know which side I'm backing.

...you seriously couldn't feel the sarcasm off of that post? I totaly agree with ya
Kurosen
07-11-2009, 11:21 PM
They clearly both have their uses, but AC was the more practical solution to the problem of transmitting electricity.

That said: Edison was a big ol' jerkface. Nya :P
Smarty McBarrelpants
07-12-2009, 02:11 PM
They clearly both have their uses, but AC was the more practical solution to the problem of transmitting electricity.

Yeah if you're boring and run boring things like lightbulbs!
Death by Stabbing
07-12-2009, 04:33 PM
Suck it Edison

(ok he was pretty cool too but Tesla was more cool)
Doc ock rokc
07-12-2009, 07:25 PM
with out Edison we wouldn't have computers or the light bulb!
Or recorded music, the inspiration of the telephones, The discovery that lead to wireless technology, Fuses, movies, and the beginings of X-rays

of course with out Tesla we wouldn't have Loud Speakers, Wireless technology (they both played their parts in that field), electric motors, Logic gates and some fundamental robotics, The beginnings of wireless electricity (a feat way ahead of his time), and the beginnings of superconductivity
Kurosen
07-13-2009, 01:16 AM
Technically the light bulb already existed. All Edison did was find a cost efficient filament.
BitVyper
07-13-2009, 07:26 PM
with out Edison we wouldn't have computers

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/BitVyper/first-personal-supercomputer-TESLA-.jpg
Smarty McBarrelpants
07-13-2009, 07:36 PM
Technically the light bulb already existed. All Edison did was find a cost efficient filament.

Also advancing technology allowed him to use a better vacuum in the lightbulb which is pretty critical for the life of your filament.
Kurosen
07-13-2009, 07:45 PM
I felt that was implied :B
Smarty McBarrelpants
07-13-2009, 08:06 PM
Yeah well maybe if people spelled out everything fully instead of implying how things work, we would have our deathrays right now.
rpgdemon
07-13-2009, 08:23 PM
Yeah well maybe if people spelled out everything fully instead of implying how things work, we would have our deathrays right now.

You don't have yours yet?
Kikero
07-13-2009, 09:23 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/BitVyper/first-personal-supercomputer-TESLA-.jpg
It's like a giant middle finger pointed at Edison's grave.
BitVyper
07-13-2009, 11:06 PM
Teslaputers would be cooler anyway.