Posted on 02/08/2005 3:50:43 AM PST by PatrickHenry
Ok, from the search of Wikipedia:
In 1900, with $150,000 (51%) from J. Pierpont Morgan, Tesla began planning the Wardenclyffe Tower facility. In June 1902, Tesla's lab operations were moved to Wardenclyffe from Houston Street. Among the various application of the 700-plus patents accumulated by Tesla, the most controversial today is his Wardenclyffe Tower. The tower was billed as the start of a global system for wireless telecommunications but was also intended by Tesla as a demonstration of wireless electrical power distribution. In 1903, upon hearing of Tesla's plans for wireless power transmission, Morgan refuses any more funding to support the Wardenclyffe Tower project.
Around 1916, Tesla filed for bankruptcy because he owed so much in back taxes. He was living in poverty.
Tesla started to exhibit pronounced symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the years following. He became obsessed with the number three. He often felt compelled to walk around a block three times before entering a building, demanded a stack of three folded cloth napkins beside his plate at every meal, etc. The nature of OCD was little understood at the time and no treatments were available, so his symptoms were considered by some to be evidence of partial insanity and this probably hurt what was left of his reputation.
At this time, he was staying at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, renting in an arrangement for deferred payments. Eventually, the Wardenclyffe deed was turned over to George Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria to pay a $20,000 debt.
Tesla died alone in the hotel New Yorker of heart failure, some time between the evening of January 5 and the morning of January 8, 1943. Despite selling his AC electricity patents, he was essentially destitute and died with significant debts.
Not exactly the kind of ease and relative luxury that I would care to go out with. Furthermore, I seriously doubt that folks really wanted to hang out with a guy at a party that has to walk around his chair three times before he can sit down.
Someone can correct me if I am mistaken, but I believe that the editor of that journal was fired mainly because he published that paper without it having gone through the normal peer review process. IOW, he wasn't fired for allowing an ID paper to be published. He was fired for giving special treatment to an ID paper so that it would get published when it otherwise wouldn't have.
Why didn't he use his free energy machine?
I do not mean to imply that all unexplained phenomena do not have natural explanations. Science will never stop discovery, thank goodness.
What I mean to point out is that true naturalists believe that there is no such thing as miracle. (what you referred to as magic)
BTW, miracle and magic are not the same. Magic is trickery that can be scientifically explained. Miracle is something divine which cannot be scientifically explained.
How do you reconcile the above statement with the below statement?
And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. Luke 17:22-30
Apparently this means that you believe in divine intervention.
I don't think he was fired. I think his term expired. It's possible he might have been given another term in the absense of the controversy.
It's clear he guided the paper through a nonstandard review and published it without noting the warnings of the reviewers.
I don't think his career should be destroyed by this. That would be counterproductive.
A volcano eruption?
He was not fired. He was a Research Associate at the Smithsonian, and is paid by the NIH, where he still works. His term as editor expired, he was not fired. But don't just believe me, read this rebuttal to Klinghoffer's piece in the WSJ, which was full of falsehoods here. You'll be surprised at the number of falsehoods in Klinghoffer's article.
...and I bet that you even believe that a human actually stepped foot on the moon.
Thanks for the correction. I was pretty sure, though, that he wasn't fired just because he dared to publish a paper dealing favorably with ID as was implied by the original poster.
HuH?
What experiment?
I believe it involved tinfoil.
I asked the question of someone who professes to be a Christian and presumably believes in the divinity of Christ based on the inerrant testimony of Scripture. If you don't believe that Scripture is given by inspiration of God, then your answer is irrelevant. You could have just as easily said the account of Sodom was written under the influence of mind altering mushrooms.
There were no mushrooms. God only created mineral plant and animal.
BTW, he also said Tesla had "free-energy" machine that big-money squashed.
Shoot, you keep bringing little ol' ME back into the fray. Wait till you see what I wrote to you next about going to the moon. You're REALLY gonna go through the roof!!
This is a hoot.
As an aside to WT and all the FReepers on this thread (I wasn't going to do this just because it was making Turkey so mad but I will anyway to see if he can calm down):
For those that missed it: I thought that the earth's moon was the only moon or planet in our solar system that did not spin it's face away from it's host. Turkey educated me as to the otherwise. (Thank you Turkey)
Also, Tesla himself claimed free energy, I didn't. (was he a 'real' scientist?)
Ok all, carry on....
999
1,000. Yet another prime number.
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