Elon Musk Is Batman

Okay.

This does it.

This proves it.

Elon Musk is Batman.

He’s our modern day Batman.

But instead of wearing a cape and a mask and being a freak, he’s a fantastic scientist and researcher. We have it WAY better than Gotham. And he’s the Batman for the entire United States and even the world, really, with what he’s creating and inventing.

He began here:

How exactly did SpaceX start?

Then he announced better, far better mass transit.

What is Elon Musk's 700mph Hyperloop? 

The subsonic train

Elon Musk's Tunnel Under LA 

Is Already in Progress

This was announced a few days ago.

Elon Musk Wants To Link Human Brains To AI With Neuralink To Help With Brain Injuries

Elon Musk seeks to link brains, computers in four years

This just hit today, Sunday.

Elon Musk Drops a Bomb 

on The Auto Industry And Big Oil

So kudos to you, Mr. Musk.

And thanks, Batman.

We owe you.

Link:

Elon Musk - Engineer, Inventor, Explorer

Inventions by Black Americans, Part I

International Nikola Tesla Day

Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American[2][3][4] inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC)electricity supply system.

Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before immigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. His work in the formative years of electric power development was also involved in the corporate struggle between making alternating current or direct current the power transmission standard, referred to as the war of currents. Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless lighting and electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs and made early (1893) pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. He tried to put these ideas to practical use in his ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission; his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project. In his lab he also conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillator/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He even built a wireless controlled boat which may have been the first such device ever exhibited.

Tesla was renowned for his achievements and showmanship, eventually earning him a reputation in popular culture as an archetypal "mad scientist." His patents earned him a considerable amount of money, much of which was used to finance his own projects with varying degrees of success. He lived most of his life in a series of New York hotels, through his retirement. He died on 7 January 1943.

Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but in 1960 the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic field strength the tesla in his honour.Tesla has experienced a resurgence in interest in popular culture since the 1990s.

Links:  8 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Fell In Love With A Pigeon--And Six More Freaky Facts About the Iconic Inventor

Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived

Quote of the day

A small tribute to HG Wells, a brilliant man

Quotes from HG Wells (with some commentary in parentheses)

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. (how does that not sound like us, now, in the US? ke)

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. (Thinking here, specifically of now-former President and Vice President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney).

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. (applicable to the ongoing Copenhagen talks, at least)

Advertising is legalized lying. (ow)

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (I'd like to give that one to someone in particular).

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. (hear that, all you fundamentalists around the world?)

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. (makes me think of global warming, chemicals in our food, all kinds of pollution and a lot more)

Our true nationality is mankind. (or should be, anyway)

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. (another potential ow)

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. (man he was a funny guy)

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Go out and have a great day. (me)

Link to more information on HG Wells: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells