What It's Like to Own a Tesla Model S (aka Magical Space Car)
 

That might just be the best car review in the Universe. Ever.

Or it might be the most cringeworthy.

Most car reviews are hopelessly subjective, anyway. Why not go the whole hog? :D

I get enough cursing when I play Army. I try to avoid it during my civilian life.

Wheres the unlike button??? :mad:This thread is very misleading. :mad: I thought someone who posts here was going to talk about their ownership, not hotlink an article from some site. :mad:

Well, I'm sorry your expectations do not mesh well with reality. There are no rules that I am aware of against posting relevant links in this forum, and it is done quite regularly. As these Teslas are quite expensive, the likelihood of someone posting about their experience is probably very low. I suspect few here can afford one, and there is a grand total of only one in the garage (owned by a member with only 8 posts since 2011).

I suppose you aren't a regular reader of The Oatmeal, then, eh? The author may not post here, but he is a Tesla owner (and avid fan of Nikola Tesla) so it is a first-hand review of the car. Granted, he creates web comics, so that is the form his review takes on, for better or for worse.

I found it hilarious, and posted it for others to enjoy. And it would seem most likewise found it amusing. I'll chalk that up in the "win" column.

In my best Beach Boys song voice: "...fun, fun, til daddy (US Gooberment) takes the T(*)-Bird away..." (wink,wink)





(*) = Tesla !!!

Having seen the review, I recognized the title; but I can commiserate. My suggestion is a suitable title would be "the Oatmeal: What It's Like to Own a Tesla...". Ask a Mod.

Matthew Inman is a big deal. His work on securing the Wardenclyffe Tower is an outstanding example of crowd-sourcing to secure an historical site. To quote http://http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

Here is an excellent rebuttal to that comic. I enjoy reading the Oatmeal; it's a very good comic, but in the end it is still a comic, and due to the limitations of the format cannot tell the whole story when it comes to a complicated history lesson like the Current Wars, about which volumes and volumes have been written and, like any other historical event, continues to be argued today.

Thanks for that it was a good read. As was Matthew Inman's reply.

I always suspected no-one had adequately explained electricity to me until I sat through 3 1/2 hours of Eric Dollard - History and Theory of Electricity - YouTube. He starts with Volta and winds up at the Radio Corporation of America's Bolinas, CA facility. Explaining polyphase and longitudinal waves along the way, he puts Tesla and Edison in perspective (in the first half as I reacall).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TttHkDRuyZw

His criticism of the effort to preserve Wardenclyffe is that it's aim is to surpress investigation of the underground parts (that were intentionally contaminated with industrial chemical to discourage research). Tesla's system used telluric currents. That's why his radar could work underwater.

If you like music, look for Eric Dollard Talks Bach, Tesla and The Church Organ - YouTube

Yeah, but Edison had a thing for cement. He made furniture and even homes out of it. :thumbup:

Thanks for pointing that out.

http://100yearsagotoday.files.wordpr...802b.jpg?w=538

2,300-piece nickel plated iron form? Unrepairable/remodelable? Yikes. Maybe 12 built in 1906.

Bucky Fuller built 250 houses in 1923 with his architect father-in-law.

Similar to modern Compressed Earth Blocks.
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If you follow Dollard recounting of the history of electrical theory, Tesla doesn't really stand out. I think there's more mention of Steinmetz and Alexanderson, and about how Einstein is wrong on faster than light motion.

He shows a picture of Edison as a bright young man before an explosion on a railroad car damaged his hearing, and compares it to the older man snarling at the camera. He claims all inventors wind up that way. I guess Bucky would be the exception.

Lot of neat stuff lost to time. In the 30s some doctors discovered that every disease, bug, virus, etc had a frequency it will respond to and self destruct. Kind of like an ultra sonic pool and kidney stones. You can target the thing that causes a disease and immediate eliminate it from the subjects body. Its however cloaked in a lot of controversy as those involved were all killed or died in mysterious ways and some oil company bought it out and it never saw the light of day. :eek: