posted January 21, 2009 08:01 PM            

>>>Oh yeah..but without AC and other things Tesla brought to us...we could still be living by gaslight and horses for transportation. Mankind has progressed because of men like Tesla.

You missed what I said earlier -- If not Tesla then someone else. Someone was bound to discover AC. The whole war was about Edison insisting DC (direct current) be the defactor standard of electric power distribution as opposed to Tesla who said it should be AC. DC would have been more expensive and impractical over long distance. Today we use combinations of both. AC as power lines and DC for personal computers. Like I said many here are superstitious bums. The quality required to analyse any scientists work is so missing in those bums. I remember years ago when they sent the first pictures of Mars these same people believed there are Green men on earth. Jeez.

>>>Shame on you
Up yours. i am free to opine anything on anyone I wish. How do you know I do not respect Tesla? He was brilliant no doubt - but he lacked managerial skills.
Not a total man.

>>>Just as I surmised...you barely know anything about him.
And you love him of your own ignorance.

>>>You have given no valid reason for that judgment of him.
Maybe you were one of Edison's buddies in a past life?

Thats a lame argument. No comments. I am tired of giberrish by quite a few people here already. Gee , people never change.

>>>>Maybe men who were/are seriously dedicated to their creative passions,
and celibate men are revolting to you too

You suffer from poor memory. I raved about Tesla's star sign and his guru Vivekananda, an
Indian mystic (not enlightened) in GU a year ago.

>>>>because...Maybe you were one of the "ladies" he rejected "romantically/sexually? Or even a "man

I don't know what to call such arguments that spills all over the place hahaha..

>>>what are your feelings concerning pearls?
Rare and beautiful.

Or people who do not shake hands?

If you are referring to Bush?
urban haute bourgeois

posted January 21, 2009 08:13 PM            

LOL!
Bush?
Where did that come from?

posted January 21, 2009 08:26 PM            

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posted January 22, 2009 01:39 AM            

I don't think you understand electricity inspite of the brief explanation above.

It could have been DC + DC if Edison won and persisted. But it was too impractical. Hence the engineers chose AC + DC.

No brainer that was.

posted January 22, 2009 01:46 AM            

you said "...if Tesla had his way"

posted January 22, 2009 01:59 AM            

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I don't think you understand electricity inspite of the brief explanation above.

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posted January 22, 2009 10:14 AM            

Tesla is not made out here to be a perfect deity by any means, he was simply a man, , yet, he was a channel for divine power, the same essence of which can be seen and heard in the gifted among our race... Leonardo, Vivaldi, Tchaickovsy....to name but a few. Tesla's vision lay in the nature of Energy, his ego concerned with the self love and confidence to forsee what was necessary for his existence. DC AC doesn't really come into it, that just seperates Tesla's from the short-sightendness of Edison, yet who was a true a scientist also within his own rights...but a scientist through and through he remains.

And...Tesla remains a man, who lived a life in pursuit of a vision; into the true nature of things.

posted January 22, 2009 10:35 AM            

Well it definitely seems like you have created spark in this thread, no doubt , obiviously when you have the thread after Electrical Scientist what you expect

posted January 22, 2009 11:37 AM            

Did you watch the movie "The Prestige"?

I loved it absolutely.

It has Tesla's character in that movie.

posted January 23, 2009 08:23 AM            

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTiiblwwLPk&mode=related&search= part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXfWbEiTLII&mode=related&search= part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgkeP0CappU&mode=related&search= part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lExTqblIH_8&NR=1 = part 4

and thanks LEXX for your pictures throughout the conversation (would put a thumbs up sign here or star or something but i dont know how...eeep)

and Vinay too for all your input.... cheers everyone

posted January 23, 2009 08:39 AM            

** AN ELECTRIFYING IDEA ***

"The 'World System' envisaged by Tesla would, according to him, would have made possible 'not only the instantaneous and precise wireless transmission of any kind of signals, messages or characters, to all parts of the world, but also the interconnection of the existing telegraph, telephone, and other signal stations without any change in their present equipment'. The radio signals would have been 'non-interfering as well as non-interferable... There is virtually no limit to the number of stations or instruments that can be simultaneously operated without the slightest mutual disturbance.' Tesla described numerous applications. They included the worldwide distribution of news by radio telegraph or radio telephone and the interconnection of the worlds stock market tickertape machines. Clocks of cheap, simple construction would be synchronized anywhere in the world by the system without requiring attention.

('The idea of impressing upon the earth American time is fascinating', said Tesla, 'and very likely to become popular.') Facsimile transmission of documents would have been possible. A 'universal marine service' would enable ships to steer without compasses. Tesla promised that 'when the first plant is inaugurated, ...humanity will be like an ant heap stirred up with a stick...' The varied means of communication that he foresaw all exist today, and are become more widely integrated - but on a principle quite different from Tesla's: by relay from satellites in orbit."

posted January 24, 2009 04:39 AM            

Hi fellow Tesla fan how are you? how's your life going there?

Hey you should see movie called "The Prestige", i have seen it many times and it's a perfect movie you get to see and it has a Tesla role too.Directed by Christopher Nolan.

Well the posting on Tesla are good, thanks for the post.
Hey as you are through with Tesla life just wanted to know whats your view on what was said by some that he was from different planet.

posted January 25, 2009 12:58 AM            

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Yeah, its fantasy movie as Lexx said, but the author or whoever wrote that must be a genius as he came very close to reality.

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When my guru described the enlightenment process , immediately a scene from this movie came to my mind. Well not saying much for now.

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I love it when people makes such movies.
The Prestige, Matrix, Xmen, what the bleep etcc etc ...

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Another movie with intense food for thought!
The Man From Earth

posted January 25, 2009 03:18 PM            

My view on that is that I think that could be very possible that he was from ‘another planet, in that, another dimension perhaps…he was definitely influenced by higher spiritual powers…his thoughts were ‘beyond’ the comprehension of his time,. ☺

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Mannu: When my guru described the enlightenment process , immediately a scene from this movie came to my mind. Well not saying much for now.

LEXX: I will not comment further on what I have "picked up" either. But I think I know what you mean.

… how wonderful! I am going to watch the movie…and pick up on this point with you guys soon, as I doubt you will say anything about it at the moment??

I looked at the info for ‘The Man On Earth’ , it looks fascinating…im really intrigued!!
Ahh, i love the Matrix. Does anyone like the Russian cinema; Nightwatch/Daywatch films?

Lexx, howcome what the bleep annoyed you? If you don’t mind me asking ☺

posted January 26, 2009 02:57 PM            

Having played with motors and electronics from around age 6-7 and electronics from age 12, i went on to study Industrial electronic engineering. I have now over18 years experience on these topics. Unlike most here with few exceptions i have studied electric systems, motors, transmission lines, electronics etc. After all this i must say Edison was nowhere close to the genius of Tesla. Sure he too did achieve a lot and we are grateful to him for that, but were it not for Tesla, we'd be a lot more behind technologically today. He single handedly designed the electrical generation and transmission equipment. Nobody has rivalled such a feat. His discoveries are still used mostly unchanged today.
Were it not for Tesla, perhaps we'd be using AC for transmission of electricity today, but we'd need several inventors and many more years to achieve what he did in a short time.
He himself claimed that he got the designs through inspiration.