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Re: Tesla's Folly

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Tesla's Folly
Date 2016-01-19 01:30 +0000
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benj <none@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/18/2016 06:27 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>>> On 1/18/2016 4:15 PM, Dan Elton wrote:
>>>> Tesla was a great inventor,
>>>>
>>>> The truth is that Wardenclyff was a fool's errand.
>>>
>>> bullshit,
>>>
>>> he was on the edge of the state of the art.  Lots of people were trying
>>> all sorts of things.
>>
>> Sure they were, but in Wardenclyff Tesla was trying something already
>> shown to be impossible.
> 
> You mean "impossible" like trans-Atlantic radio? Yeah nobody ever was 
> able to do that.
> 
>>> hindsight is always 20-20, but looking ahead like Tesla could and did is
>>> pure Gold.
>>>
>>>
>>> why dont you go beat up Edison for inventing cylendrical records that
>>> should have bee flat like a pizza ?
>>
>> Cylindrical records worked just fine.
> 
> Well, except if one considers the geometry and the hours of recording 
> that can be stored in a given volume of space.

Compared to what, a DVD?


-- 
Jim Pennino

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Tesla's Folly Dan Elton <delton17@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 14:15 -0800
  Re: Tesla's Folly Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-01-18 16:33 -0600
    Re: Tesla's Folly Helmut Wabnig <hwabnig@.- --- -.dotat> - 2016-01-18 23:57 +0100
      Re: Tesla's Folly benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 19:54 -0500
        Re: Tesla's Folly Helmut Wabnig <hwabnig@.- --- -.dotat> - 2016-01-19 10:59 +0100
      Re: Tesla's Folly Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-01-18 19:31 -0600
    Re: Tesla's Folly jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-18 23:27 +0000
      Re: Tesla's Folly benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 20:07 -0500
        Re: Tesla's Folly jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-19 01:30 +0000
          Re: Tesla's Folly benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 21:08 -0500
            Re: Tesla's Folly Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-01-18 20:12 -0600
              Re: Tesla's Folly benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 23:37 -0500
                Re: Tesla's Folly Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-01-19 08:24 -0600
  Re: Tesla's Folly James McGinn <jimmcginn9@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 16:00 -0800
    Re: Tesla's Folly benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 19:47 -0500
    Re: Tesla's Folly Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-01-18 19:35 -0600
  Tesla's Folly HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 16:26 -0800
    Re: Tesla's Folly benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 21:05 -0500
    Re: Tesla's Folly Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-01-18 20:14 -0600
  Re: Tesla's Folly benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 19:37 -0500
    Re: Tesla's Folly Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-01-18 20:17 -0600
      Re: Tesla's Folly Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-01-19 08:24 -0600

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