The Oatmeal's Fundraiser Tops $1M Toward Tesla Museum 63
The Oatmeal's call to raise funds for a museum celebrating Nikola Tesla seems to have electrified enough people. From Digital Trends: "The Oatmeal has raised over $1 million on IndieGoGo in an effort to secure Wardenclyffe, the site of Tesla's final laboratory, to build a museum dedicated to Tesla. ... [Oatmeal founder and artist Matthew] Inman’s original goal of $850,000 would buy just half of the cost of the property, but the state of New York has agreed to match contributions, bringing total funds up to $1.7 million. Raising the capital to build a museum from the property will be another cost, but from the looks of it, with 36 days left and having already surpassed the $1 million mark, there should be funds to spare."
Very underestimated scientist (Score:4, Insightful)
If only he had gotten as much attention as the media now tend to spend on famous trash, the world would be a much better place.
Audience (Score:5, Insightful)
I superficially glanced at this but couldn't figure out if the museum audience is supposed to be:
1) 10 years old
2) -or- electrical engineers and fellow travelers
3) -or- homeopathic crystal therapy conspiracy theory vampire worshipers
Its pretty hard to appeal equally to all 3, so I'm curious which audience the museum is aimed at.
Re:Excellent! This is worthwhile. (Score:5, Insightful)
They should build a Maker Center there, it could support it self in no time.
Education and invention.
Re:Audience (Score:4, Insightful)
Being a physicist or a retired teacher/librarian is in no way inconsistent with being a "Tesla nutter".