Nikola Tesla: Badass
*swoon* What girl can resist a true mad scientist? Pity he was asexual.
† The title of this post is a lyric from the song Edison's Medicine by rock band Tesla. Nikola Tesla once worked as an assistant to Edison, but the two men spent much of their lives as bitterly antagonistic rivals. The band Tesla also recorded an album named The Great Radio Controversy, which is a reference to the court ruling that found Nikola Tesla, not Guglielmo Marconi, to be the inventor of radio.
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Read a biography about Tesla a bit back. The guy was...amazing. And yes. Insane. But if you mix amazing and insane, that's a good thing, right? Thank god he was just a genius, and not one of the evil ones.
Josh: With those scary-brilliant-crazy ones, however, you really wonder if the line between good and evil gets buried somewhere under their "Oh, hey, I wonder if this would work? 'Cause it would be cool." impulses.
True. Plus that genius-ness also landed him with really strange affinities and aversions--like the fact he couldn't stand being around women with pearl earrings. Objects that were "too smooth" disgusted him.
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