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Fun fact that you may wish to totally ignore: Tesla supported eugenics, and spoke about it often. In other words, he supported eliminating the stupid, the sick, and the criminals. I say this as a man with a Tesla coil sitting behind me, and as someone who has always liked Tesla. But be wary of turning your heroes into gods. They made mistakes, as we all do. 'The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.' Nikola Tesla

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Sorry in advance for the annoying music. Does anyone know what Tesla coils are actually for? We see them in all museums, and Tesla said it was his greatest invention, so he must have had better and bigger plans for them than 'useful for special effects in Hollywood movies'.

Don't care about his belief systems or his politics just interested in stuff about frequencies. I have read that Tesla also supported free energy which would be very anti-eugenic air? Very aware about heroes and killed most of mine many decades ago. Survival of the fittest is a contact sport nevertheless.

Survival of the fittest is a tautology.

Good question, Lebowski. A tautology is something that is true because of the way it is phrased. 'A = A', or 'A thing is a thing', or 'those that survive are fit, and those that are fit survive'. A tautology doesn't really mean anything. It just states the obvious.

i am sure others on here want to see your original vlog coil vids on your npub sir. I will repost you

DIY aurora and planetary rings, inspired by the 'Terella' experiments of Kristian Birkeland

Ele queria usá-las para transmitir energia sem fio. Não deu muito certo.

Isso não é inteiramente correto, pois há muitas causas, de forma que o "acaso" é uma delas. Afirmar a sobrevivência do mais apto não é uma tautologia, é uma falácia, pois claramente o mundo tem exemplos em contrário para desmentir esta afirmação. This is not entirely correct, as there are many causes, and "chance" is one of them. Stating that the survival of the fittest is not a tautology, it's a fallacy, as the world clearly has examples that disprove this assertion.

Chance is not a cause. A cause is always specific (water reaches 100 degrees = cause, and we all know what the effect is)

Accidental causation is a well-established concept. It refers to an inabarcable multiplicity of causes that we conventionally call chance. Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy has long addressed this point. And if one wishes to go further, one can say—without fear of error—that quantum physics provides material confirmation of conclusions already reached by the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition. If you are not familiar with this framework, then I believe our discussion ends here. I will leave a video on the work of a major Brazilian philosopher who explains precisely what I am arguing. Still, if this is not self-evident to you—self-evident in the same way that it is self-evident that one cannot prove that a being is alive merely because it is more fit, precisely due to the concept of accidental causation—then it becomes impossible to discuss any philosophical issue at all. Please watch the video. (all of them)