Nikola Goddamn Tesla

[Doktor Howl]

Here's something I've always wondered about the whole - Edison zaps dumbo - thing (but not wondered so hard I ever bothered googling it) It's impossible to electrocute yourself with DC?

Fucking electricity - how does it work? 

You can be burned to death with DC.

The "alternating" part of AC fucks with the electrical pulses in your heart.  Gets it out of step.

[Eater of Clowns]

Forgive me, but did Edison actually electrocute a dog?

Because it doesn't matter if he's the nicest fucking dude who invented all of the modern world, if he electrocuted a fucking dog, I'll start hero worshiping Tesla just as a fuck you to the other guy's memory.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Here's something I've always wondered about the whole - Edison zaps dumbo - thing (but not wondered so hard I ever bothered googling it) It's impossible to electrocute yourself with DC?

Fucking electricity - how does it work? 

You can be burned to death with DC.

The "alternating" part of AC fucks with the electrical pulses in your heart.  Gets it out of step.

Aha! I only just learned how the alternating thing works (for a given definition of learned) so this kind of makes sense to me now 

Forgive me, but did Edison actually electrocute a dog?

Because it doesn't matter if he's the nicest fucking dude who invented all of the modern world, if he electrocuted a fucking dog, I'll start hero worshiping Tesla just as a fuck you to the other guy's memory.

So he can nuke as many elephants as he wants but as soon as he zaps one puppy and he's a monster?

[Cain]

I'll hero-worship Edison twice as hard if I discovered he electrocuted a dog.  Damn yapping mongrels.

[P3nT4gR4m]

What about if he electrocuted a quiet dog?

[Cain]

I will hero worship him in ratio to the number of dogs he electrocuted, no matter how quiet or loud.

[East Coast Hustle]

Forgive me, but did Edison actually electrocute a dog?

Because it doesn't matter if he's the nicest fucking dude who invented all of the modern world, if he electrocuted a fucking dog, I'll start hero worshiping Tesla just as a fuck you to the other guy's memory.

I don't think anybody's nominating him as a great humanitarian, so what's your point?

[Triple Zero]

That's no excuse for murder. There are laws, goddamnit! Due process. F'kin elephant was a vigilante pachyderm and we can't have that, that's why it was sentenced to appear in the next Edison advertisement.

The elephant was only standing its ground.

But the elephant was African-American.

Point.

Edison was a hero.  A True American Hero.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Forgive me, but did Edison actually electrocute a dog?

Because it doesn't matter if he's the nicest fucking dude who invented all of the modern world, if he electrocuted a fucking dog, I'll start hero worshiping Tesla just as a fuck you to the other guy's memory.

I don't think anybody's nominating him as a great humanitarian, so what's your point?

From everything I've read, Edison actually was kind of a huge fucking dick.

Either suck it up and go on liking him, or don't, but complaining about people thinking Tesla is awesome isn't going to change the fact that Edison was a giant fucking dick. OR the fact that he also introduced a ton of technological advancement (whether he invented it himself or just developed other people's ideas).

The fact that Edison was a fucking insufferable twat who treated people and animals like utter shit is a matter of history. So fucking what?

[Doktor Howl]

Forgive me, but did Edison actually electrocute a dog?

Because it doesn't matter if he's the nicest fucking dude who invented all of the modern world, if he electrocuted a fucking dog, I'll start hero worshiping Tesla just as a fuck you to the other guy's memory.

I don't think anybody's nominating him as a great humanitarian, so what's your point?

From everything I've read, Edison actually was kind of a huge fucking dick.

Either suck it up and go on liking him, or don't, but complaining about people thinking Tesla is awesome isn't going to change the fact that Edison was a giant fucking dick. OR the fact that he also introduced a ton of technological advancement (whether he invented it himself or just developed other people's ideas).

The fact that Edison was a fucking insufferable twat who treated people and animals like utter shit is a matter of history. So fucking what?

Edison was in fact a dick.  There's no disputing that.  He robbed his employees of both cash & credit, and he was an insufferable shitbag to everyone he knew.  Most of his work was actually that of other people...But he knew how to get things done.  He had the drive to push through inventions before their time.   We owe him a debt.  Doesn't mean we have to like him or venerate him.

Tesla was the original scatterbrained scientist, who would work on any idea that entered his head, regardless of actual application.  He couldn't stay focused on one project for any length of time.  He was more the initiator of genius, but without Edison he'd be just another crackpot.

Arguing that one is greater than the other is like saying that Lewis was better than Clark, or that Madison was more important than Jefferson.

[Elder Iptuous]

I think we should really push a Lewis v. Clark debate meme...
believable and vitriolic.

[Doktor Howl]

I think we should really push a Lewis v. Clark debate meme...
believable and vitriolic.

There is no debate.  Lewis did all the exploring.  Clark was just his cook & catamite.

[Triple Zero]

I have it on good authority that Edison liked pie, and Tesla preferred cake.

Also, Edison pronounced it "HIGH-MOBS", and it is rumoured that he once even put oil in the pasta water.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think we should really push a Lewis v. Clark debate meme...
believable and vitriolic.

I heard that Lewis was a douche, and that the only reason they were able to retain navigators and porters at all is because Clark would give them extra money and food behind Lewis' back.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Forgive me, but did Edison actually electrocute a dog?

Because it doesn't matter if he's the nicest fucking dude who invented all of the modern world, if he electrocuted a fucking dog, I'll start hero worshiping Tesla just as a fuck you to the other guy's memory.

I don't think anybody's nominating him as a great humanitarian, so what's your point?

From everything I've read, Edison actually was kind of a huge fucking dick.

Either suck it up and go on liking him, or don't, but complaining about people thinking Tesla is awesome isn't going to change the fact that Edison was a giant fucking dick. OR the fact that he also introduced a ton of technological advancement (whether he invented it himself or just developed other people's ideas).

The fact that Edison was a fucking insufferable twat who treated people and animals like utter shit is a matter of history. So fucking what?

Edison was in fact a dick.  There's no disputing that.  He robbed his employees of both cash & credit, and he was an insufferable shitbag to everyone he knew.  Most of his work was actually that of other people...But he knew how to get things done.  He had the drive to push through inventions before their time.   We owe him a debt.  Doesn't mean we have to like him or venerate him.

Tesla was the original scatterbrained scientist, who would work on any idea that entered his head, regardless of actual application.  He couldn't stay focused on one project for any length of time.  He was more the initiator of genius, but without Edison he'd be just another crackpot.

Arguing that one is greater than the other is like saying that Lewis was better than Clark, or that Madison was more important than Jefferson.

Well, don't forget Westinghouse. I am pretty sure that without Edison, somebody else would still have hired Tesla and developed his ideas.