Tag Archives: technology

...and other stuff, INSIDE THE BOOK, ORDER OF OMEGA TIME TRAVEL CULT, READING MATTER, UNIVERSES

Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek EVER

Republished by Blog Post Promoter

THIS IS THE FIRST PAGE OF A VERY EXCELLENT ON-LINE “COMIC BOOK”  ABOUT NIKOLA TESLA.  READ THE ENTIRE THING HERE:  Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived – The Oatmeal

Additional notes from the author:

  • If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time
  • Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla. Ben’s also got a book out which is packed full of awesome.
  • There’s an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It’s corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life.
  • The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too.
  • X-rays: just to clarify, Tesla did not discover x-rays, but he was one of the early pioneers in its research.
  • Cryogenic engineering: I’m referring to the cryogenic engineering that has to do with using liquified air to cool a coil and reduce its electrical resistance (Patent No. 11,865), not freezing people and waking them up in the future so they can fight Wesley Snipes.
  • Transistor: Tesla’s influence on the modern transistor can be found in patents 723,188 and 725,605. (a better explanation here)
  • Radio: Tesla was the nicest geek ever until he decided to sue Marconi a few years later. 8 months after Tesla died, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Marconi’s patents on the invention of radio. So Tesla eventually won that battle, although he was dead by then.
  • Tesla VS Edison: I could write a novel on the differences between Tesla and Edison, but seeing as how this comic is already huge I decided to leave many things out. For instance, Edison killed cats and dogs, but Tesla loved animals and had a cat as a child. Originally Tesla wanted to be a poet, but after getting zapped by static electricity from his kitty he was inspired to study the effects of electricity. One could vaguely construe that Tesla’s cat was responsible for the second industrial revolution, which arguably makes it the most awesome cat who ever lived. 
    Edison believed that fossil fuels were the future and that there were enough resources in South America to provide for the next 50,000 years. Tesla believed that renewable energy sources like hydroelectric, solar, and wind power were the future. This is remarkable because in the 1890s there was no such thing as “going green,” so Tesla’s ideas on conservation were very forward-thinking at the time.  (From OATMEAL)
...and other stuff, BULLSHIT, PICTURE POEMS, READING MATTER, UNIVERSES

COMPUTER, END PROGRAMS

Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The personal toys we call “computers” are not real computers.  The “apps” we are allowed to use on our toy computers are social and mind control devices, designed for governmental surveillance and “dumbing down” members of “the masses”.  If the real potential power of computing technology were applied to creating prosperity and intelligence instead of war, subservience and scarcity, the human race could travel to the stars and beyond at speeds exceeding light, and create a literal paradise on Earth .  As it is, we’re going nowhere fast.

END PROGRAMS

...and other stuff, ALIEN INTERVIEW BOOK, FREE ADVICE, LIVES, PICTURE POEMS, READING MATTER, UNIVERSES

120 YEARS AGO

Republished by Blog Post Promoter

FRED OTT SNEEZE 1894

“Fred Ott’s Sneeze” by the Edison Manufacturing Company.

This was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.  In the five-second film, one of Thomas Edison’s assistants, Fred Ott, takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. The film was recorded between January 2, 1894 and January 7, 1894.    Source: Wikipedia

ALIEN INTERVIEW

It is truly amazing to me to think that motion pictures did not exist on this planet until as recently as 120 years ago.  This is only about two life times!!!  When my Grandmother was a young woman, motion pictures were a “new thing”!  She lived on a farm in Michigan.  She raised 8 children.

They, along with a lot of other Americans, were farmers.  They grew their own food, and raised chickens, and had a milk cow.  They churned their own butter and plowed hard dirt fields to grown corn and vegetables to feed themselves.

Their wooden house did not have indoor plumbing.  They pumped water from a hand operated water pump in the front yard.  They carried buckets of water into the house and boiled it on a wood-burning stove for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing clothes!

There was no electricity.  The only source of light and energy were candles, a wood burning stove and a fireplace and kerosene lamps.

Their was no indoor bathroom.  They had a small, wooden “out-house” about 30 yards from the main house.  When you needed to take a pee during the night, you used a brass or porcelain bowl that was kept under the bed.  Or, if you were brave enough, you could walk through the snow to the out-house to take a shit in privacy and freeze your ass off!

No air conditioning.  All the doors and windows were left open during the summer.  In the winter time they sat directly in front of the wood-burning stove, or snuggled together underneath piles of blankets in bed as soon as the sun went down! 

Times have certainly changed, technologically, at least in the USA. Do you ever wonder why and how so many technological innovations have been created during the past 120 years?  During the previous 10,000 years of human history there were nearly NO technical advancements!  Why have there been so many during the past 120 years?

Read the book ALIEN INTERVIEW.  You will find some answers in the pages of this book.

VISIT THE WEBSITE for the book at www.alieninterview.org

Support independent publishing: Buy this book on Lulu.

...and other stuff, BULLSHIT, FREE ADVICE, LIVES, READING MATTER

ELECTRICITY ~ DEATH OR DELIVERANCE

HUMAN BEINGS HAVE INHABITED EARTH FOR AT LEAST 10,000 YEARS ~ WITHOUT ELECTRICITY: UNTIL NOW, FIRE WAS THE ONLY COMMON SOURCE OF POWER. THANKS TO NIKOLA TESLA, BY THE 192OS, HALF OF AMERICAN HOUSES HAD ELECTRICAL POWER.
BEFORE ELECTRICITY THERE WERE NO ELECTRONIC OR ELECTRO-MECHANICAL DEVICES ON EARTH.
ONLY 100 YEARS LATER (the blink of an eye, historically) THE ENTIRE PLANET AND HUMAN CIVILIZATION HAS BEEN TOTALLY TRANSFORMED. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY THE ABILITY TO CONTROL, OR DESTROY, EVERY LIFE FORM ON EARTH IS POSSIBLE WITH DEVICES POWERED BY ELECTRICITY, INCLUDING THE ATOMIC BOMB, SATELLITES, TELEVISION, THE INTERNET OR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTERS and SURVEILLANCE DEVICES.
ELECTRICITY MAY BE THE ULTIMATE FRIEND OF LIFE, USED WITH BENEVOLENCE, OR THE DEADLIEST ENEMY IN THE HANDS OF PSYCHOPATHS.
“YOU MAY LIVE TO SEE MAN-MADE HORRORS BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION.”
~ Nikola Tesla, (Madison Square Garden, 1898)
(READ MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY) ~ https://mrelectric.com/…/the-history-of-electricity…