>Yes you are wrong.


...
Kevin, typing at his computer.
KEVIN'S CONSCIENCE: shouldn't you be checking these facts out?
KEVIN: Nah.  Who's gonna know?

Ouch!

Sorry-- I had all my Tesla factlings confused.  Went to a couple of Tesla
sites to get my head straightened.

I could've sworn that Tesla was the purported father of a couple of
world-changing inventions that were "suppressed."  What's the name of the
Tesla bio someone referenced?

Anyway, the embarrassment is all okay, since the thread managed to bring
up Buckaroo Banzai.  One of my favorite good/bad movies, and an important
part of my formative years.

Please don't tell my parents how little I got out of all that time at the
Science Museum...

Kevin "laugh while you can monkey boy" Daly

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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:22:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin Daly <[log in to unmask]>
To: "BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS The historic preservation free range."
     <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Vaux Electric in Gray Light

Ken donated the following:

> Which reminds me that Edison is reported to have
> invented the electric chair in order to scare people away from Tesla’s A/C
> current.
...
> 
> ][<en Follett
> 
I may be wrong on this, but I think Tesla was the big proponent of DC
current.  I've been told that he envisioned a world where whole areas
would be charged, and you'd only have to plug your drill into the ground
to get it working.

Edison, who liked AC better, reportedly would include a "demonstration of
DC" in his speeches on the lecture circuit (oops-- no pun intended) during
which he'd electrocute a dog.  (Though I can't say for sure that that's
true, I wouldn't put it past the guy).

Tesla's electrical system ranks up there with the 100-mpg carburetor as
revolutionary inventions which have been suppressed by Cancer Man.  One of
those subjects that I haven't ever studied though it sounds very
interesting.

Kevin Daly
Who was raised in San Diego, and spent a lot of time at the Tesla coil at
the Science Museum