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While cringy, he does deserve the respect and admiration
But not for the fucking energy beams, lightning towers and earthquake machines
The man wanted to fuck a pigeon... he'd give /r9k/ a run for their money in a cringe competition.
>The man wanted to fuck a pigeon...
Do you not?
>No Newton, no Maxwell, no Gauss or Euler
How about Dirac, Gell-Mann, Weinberg and Feynman?
Guy was kind of an asshole in a way and mentally unstable while being also very intelligent which is a pretty rare case.
Naturally this combines two things: being very right with some achievements and then being very wrong because you're an autist. Then it's very easy for actual autist to latch onto the idea that everything he was very wrong about he was actually right like most of his failed inventions and then being very butthurt about relativity and thinking you caught space radiation going faster than the speed of light. Just slap some conspiracy theories on top of it.
i think it's cool that his best friend was a pigeon though
Because he's under appreciated and "in different basket" than other scientists that are already established in science books.
He never really make any scientific discoveries or invented much on his own...
However he alive during the time of the rise of unions and large anti-capitalist sentiment. Even then, just like today, there were few men of science that were motivated by money. He was a popular person to point to by capitalists to say that "greed is good."
>ywn be fed worms by a pigeon
why even live