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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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http://io9.com/5741015/the-year-2011-according-to-thomas-edison-in-1911
From a British newspaper article a century ago.
* Steam engine relegated to a quaint antiquity.
* All machines will be powered by electricity, with trains using hydraulic wheels to generate theirs.
* Colossal machines will allow man to fly at 200 mph.
* The house of 2011 will be enitrely furnished with and constructed of steel "so light that it will be as easy to move a sideboard as it is today to lift a drawing room chair."
* Books will be printed on leaves of nickel, with a two inch book able to house 40,000 pages. Each volume of Encyclopedia Britannica will weigh 1 pound.
* Gold will be devalued to the same worth as steel and iron., due to the impending creation of metal transmutation (and without a circle at that!). "In the magical days to come there is no reason why our great liners should not be of solid gold from stem to stern; why we should not ride in golden taxicabs, or substituted gold for steel in our drawing room suites. Only steel will be the more durable, and thus the cheaper in the long run."
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 "Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!" |
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Doddsino
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sidewaydriver
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What an idiot. I vote we posthumously change his name to Thomas Retardison.
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Andrew Man
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FNJ
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Whatever. You know what year Robocop was supposed to take place in? 1997.
It's over a decade later. Where THE FUCK are my ED-209s?
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
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Didn't Edison realize that building ships and cars out of solid gold instead of steel would probably be a very bad idea?
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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I'm willing to give some creative license on the book remark, given the presence of things like the Kindle and the Nook. The alchemy thing is still a bit of a head scratcher.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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Fun read. It is a shame he isn't around to see how things did turn out.
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Atma
Title: Dragoon
Joined: Apr 29 2010
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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"None But A Wizard Dare" 
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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You forgot Edison's most important prediction of 2011: "My archenemy Tesla will be dead dead dead! Mwa ha ha!"
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Knyte
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Yeah. Forget Edison. He was just better at self promotion than Telsa, and hence, is the one in the history books.
While Edison spent most of his time patting himself on the back, Telsa was actually working and building shit people still don't understand.
I mean we are just now starting to use wireless energy. Telsa had that working a CENTURY ago.
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
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Where's my solid-gold taxi!
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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| Black Zarak wrote: |
| Where's my solid-gold taxi! |
That gold and gem-encrusted Monopoly set comes to mind.
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
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Yeah since we're apparently making gold left and right here in 2011...
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Atma
Title: Dragoon
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We use to take Field Trips to the Edison Home in Ft. Myers, FL all the time. It was kinda cool the first time, then it was just really boring.
All the gigantic trees were sweet to check out though.
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Syd Lexia
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Did you get to see Edison's famed electric hammer?
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Atma
Title: Dragoon
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Did you get to see Edison's famed electric hammer? |
I don't really remember I was in Middle School when we did all of this, I just remember seeing the music players, light bulbs, and a ton of really old looking/smelling shit.
Yes, it has it's own "this stuff is super old" smell to it.
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Black Zarak
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What about his six-legged chair that won't tip over no matter how far back you lean?
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Andrew Man
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I saw this real scary documentary on Tesla one time. They made it seem like he was some evil mastermind.
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Black Zarak
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Well, his fabled Tesla Coils fried many an allied soldier, it's powers doubled when super-charged by a Tesla Trooper...
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Andrew Man
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Black Zarak
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Yeah, imagine getting into an accident with another solid gold car; you'd moosh together like two sticks of butter, no survivors.
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Atma
Title: Dragoon
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Everytime I hear Tesla it reminds me of Command & Conquer: Red Alert.
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Blackout
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Damn it, you guys beat me to the Simpsons jokes. 
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