[Citizen Zed]

Gay.

[cripplecreek]

Like many geniuses, he was a bit of a loon and seems to have really lost it at the end of his life.

[2banana]

And he also predicted that a car company would be named for him in the future.

And this very same car company would get billions of dollars in taxpayer funding so that they could build $100,000 subsidized cars only for wealthy people.

And then he laughed!

That could never happen!

[Alex Murphy]

He also made a really cool sidearm:

[pa_dweller]

and the instruments through which we shall be able to do [t]his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone

He was off a bit on that one.

[Swashbuckler99]

Regardless of how he degenerated socially, he was no less a true genius who was easily 100-150 years ahead of his time.

The following article illustrates his verifiable accomplishments in a humorous, but no less awe-inspiring, way:

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla.html

[C. Edmund Wright]

Really? THATS your searing insight?

[usurper]

It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.”

LOL if only he could have envisioned a TV show called "The View". He would have had to come up with a new theory.

[Veto!]

“Psychic” is the wrong word. Very intelligent business people I’ve known have an ability to think ahead. They are creative, can imagine how things might be. Ask themselves “what if” 90 times a day. Intuitive, can read people very well.

Psychic is something different.

[Boogieman]

“When wireless is perfectly applied...”

One thing to note, Tesla wasn’t just speaking of wireless transmission, as they already had the basics of radio pretty well understood in his day. What he really was referring to was wireless transmission of electricity, which was a pet project of his. Basically, he imagined the kind of world we have today, but with devices that would never need to be recharged, as they would charge themselves from the surroundings with an antenna.

[GreyFriar]

Nikolai Tesla ping

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[catnipman]

sigh. they’ve confused the word “psychic” with “prescient”.

[morphing libertarian]

Read a book on Tesla. Let’s see IIRC. The day after he died in his hotel, naval intelligence locked up his papers and took a model of a gadget out of the hotel vault. He had turned it over to the hotel as collateral against his room bill. Tesla thought he could send an electrical wave out and stop enemy ships and planes from attacking the US. His papers have all been released, but the model has never been.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

BFL

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[Jack Hydrazine]

Nikola Tesla vs Thomas Edison. Epic Rap Battles of History Season 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ1Mz7kGVf0

Plus...

Einstein vs Stephen Hawking -Epic Rap Battles of History #7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn7-fVtT16k