[SunkenCiv]

I like how you think. :')

"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic.? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature." -- Nicola Tesla, late 19th century

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Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney

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[William Terrell]

I'm afraid, though, that Tesla's ideas scare a lot of very powerful people shitless. Free energy, the kind of thing that makes ashes of wealth and spreads nose-thumbing sovereignty to the people.

In my tinfoil hatish way, I'm convinced that there are many that would gladly commit mass murder to keep that from happening.