The Oatmeal Begins a Fundraiser for a Nikola Tesla Museum 134
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Quince alPillan writes "The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman is once again collecting money for a good cause. This time, he's collecting money for the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe to purchase the original location of the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York so that it can be rebuilt into a Tesla Museum. The fundraiser, titled Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum has already started."
No Turing phase for tesla? (Score:5, Informative)
More Info here :p
http://plus.google.com/blergasdf1234thimbleturdorgasm99meatpoopypoopxv9donkeypie [google.com]
But seriously, in this era of re-discovering and correctly honouring scientists for their hard-work and genius (like Alan Turing is now rightly getting, for example) why is Tesla still languishing? I mean, either, way, it was god-damn American* guy who made the light bulb, who cares which one it was? I think the US govt should buck up and admit they dun goofed, just like the Uk govt did with Turing.
*Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] says he was an american citizen
Re:Westinghouse (Score:5, Informative)
Tesla was not only fucked by Westinghouse, but many others. The PR campaign by Edison is the worst, but JP Morgan pulling his project money since JP could not restrict access to make lots more money, and of course Westinghouse robbing him of personal wealth.
Greed has screwed us all, and continues to do so today.
good marketing (Score:2, Informative)
This Oatmeal guy sure is milking his Tesla fetish and the Forbes "controversy" for all it's worth. Good for him.
Re:So... (Score:5, Informative)
Hijacking this comment because it's dumb and what I have to say is more important.
I won't give any money to the Oatmeal since last time they let an asshole lawyer block the fundraiser.
The lawyer tried to block the fundraiser, but it still proceeded as planned
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/charity_money
Money goes straight to foundation... (Score:5, Informative)
The Oatmeal is not getting any money from this kickstarter (not really a kickstarter but you know what I mean).
I really get way more of a sense, that he's on a real mission here regardless of what it does for income.