no, not some skank ho slut, but Tesla
I very, very, very rarely meet anyone who actually understands what Tesla was all about, people just regurgitate the usual shit “point the phasers at the dilithium crystals and get a free earthquake machine and wireless power transmission”
Of course this isn’t helped by gross and criminal mis-characterisations of Tesla and his work, such as those of the 2006 film The Prestige
At the heart of Tesla was a quest for harmonics and frequencies and tuning, this is the foundation of 99% of his work, and lest you suffer from the impression that this is all well and good but Tesla coils are old hat now, consider that CURRENT experiments on Quantum data transmission are nothing more than a quest for harmonics and tuning, so that changes made to A are reflected in the state of B.
Of course Tesla was an engineer, and engineer’s have never been understood by the masses, a state of affairs not helped by world & dog taking mundane repetitive by the numbers tasks and then calling those who perform those tasks engineers… so we live in a world where a vending machine engineer can’t fix a loose tappet, and a software engineer can’t cut a thread, but they are all engineers.. m’kay..
Bill Lear was a fan of Tesla, you’ve probably never heard of Bill Lear, but he invented the 8 track cartridge, founded Motorola, and later started LearJet.
I have a book on my shelf here from 1913, just before the first “Big one”, The Cyclecar Manual, the section on magneto’s is of course a homage to the work of Tesla, but the book as a whole does a better job of explaining the workings over every car parked outside on my street today than anything currently in print or available online, for free or paid.
To a book collector it is worthless, 2nd edition, well used dog eared and coming apart at the seams (again, now if you google that phrase it will talk about clothes, not aviation, where it originated) but show it to any kind of real engineer and they go all Gollum, my precious… sorry, it was my grandads, not for sale at any price.
Those of you reading this blog, because of the main subject, wimminz, are probably aware of the huge chasm between what wimminz are allegedly like, and what wimminz are really like, but if you imagine a Google Earth view showing that vast and apparently bottomless chasm, then just pull back and gain altitude, and you will find it is actually no more than a rather small crease in a blasted and torn surface that is everyday human ignorance of the science and technology and nature FACT about the world in which we live.
You simple cannot fix the small crease that is feminazism without first addressing and either filling or bridging many of the genuinely huge chasms surrounding us WRT human ignorance.
I once again quote the late Carl Sagan (<– keyword searches on this blog are always good)
“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology.
And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.
I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?”
… and observe yet again that the vast and profound implications of this statement alone are impenetrable to those who know nothing of basic science and technology.
Where ignorance = lack of knowledge and stupidity = refusal to accept knowledge, 99.99% of you are either too ignorant or too stupid to grasp the profound implications of Sagan’s words, at least those of you who are merely ignorant can be cured, those of you who are stupid can never be cured, you’d rather watch crap like The Prestige and call it “entertainment”
If you think that those who are running the western world are merely ignorant and not stupid, then you are either ignorant or stupid about their true nature.
For all their supposed ills, China was basically run by engineers, but the up and coming set are economists, only an engineer could have come up with one child per family and forced sterilization of wimminz who refused to obey…. and I don’t say that in a negative way about engineers…
Engineers are always the refuge of last resort for everyone else, when the ship is sinking due to overpopulation, lack of maintenance and everyone being on the entertainments and wimminz rights committees, they turn to the engineers for answers, and for no reason other than the fact that turning to the engineers is always the last resort in extremis, the solutions the engineers come up with are always very very tough.
Engineers do not relish tasks like “How do we control population explosion?” or “How do we dispose of a million Jews without poisoning the land or causing a plague?” or “How do we dispose of 8 millions human’s worth of crap per day, assuming each human produces 1 oz of crap per 12 lb of body weight per day?”
Engineers would much rather be working on flying cars, fusion power plants, moonbases, maglev trains, beanstalks and the like… but that is all actively economically discouraged.
Bill Lear would have been fucked if he lived in my city in 2012 as a young man, my nearest non ferrous metals suppliers are 45 miles away for aluminium alloys and 75 miles for copper alloys, and this is a fucking city, regional capital and MAJOR science and tech university centre, can’t do experiments if you can’t get any raw hardware…. so no Motorola and no LearJet.
That’s one thing we do not chart and track and count, the number of engineers that we are NOT creating every year.
Back in the 1980’s you could have talked to a German “mechanic” and he would invariably have been absolutely fucking stunned that his allegedly equivalent English “mechanic” had never even seen a lathe, much less able to use a simple 3 jaw chuck lathe to dress up a shaft ready for re-assembly.
The English “mechanic” could open packets and replace entire assemblies or parts, no “fitting” skills of any kind whatsoever, and everyone sat around wondering why the Germans had such a good name in engineering….
If you reading this are less than 50 you probably won’t even know what the fuck I am talking about when I say “mechanic” and “fitter”, after all, everyone today is an engineer or technician of some sort, nail technician, hair technician, cosmetics engineer…..
Google won’t tell you… you’ll get links to things like the Cambridge online dictionary that says “someone whose job is to repair or put together equipment or machines”
which is a bit like saying a surgeon is someone whose job is to make sick people better… shit that sounds easy-peasy, *I* could do that, hear me roar…
As a wimminz said to me not 5 minutes ago;
“Can you not talk to me like I’m stupid”
My reply;
“Sure, as soon as you stop being stupid”
Nota Bene – see above, stupid, not ignorant.
