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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 13, 2015 - 08:56pm PT
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I'm certainly not anti-Serb, but if the dude was so important then why
By the end of his brilliant and tortured life, the Serbian physicist, engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla was penniless and living in a small New York City hotel room. He spent days in a park surrounded by the creatures that mattered most to him—pigeons—and his sleepless nights working over mathematical equations and scientific problems in his head. That habit would confound scientists and scholars for decades after he died, in 1943. His inventions were designed and perfected in his imagination.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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May 14, 2015 - 10:59am PT
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I'm certainly not anti-Serb, but if the dude was so important then why
For the same reason Mozart died a pauper.
Warbler, I tried to restrict my comments to those on the original list proffered by Toker Villain.* If Jesus Christ were on the list, I would have said His influence exceeds any of the three named.
John
*Toker Villain, I never got a chance to compliment your choice of ST handle. When I was a kid, my cousin and I decided that natives of Castroville should be "Castrovillains."
John
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 14, 2015 - 11:08am PT
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Mozart died a pauper because he was anti-Serb? I thought he was just a
typical welfare cheat living beyond his means?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 14, 2015 - 12:07pm PT
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Mozart died a pauper cause he wasn't as 'smart' as Salieri.
Plus he had a high maintenance wife.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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May 14, 2015 - 01:04pm PT
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Heinrich Himmler and his trusty aid, Adolf Eichmann?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 14, 2015 - 01:22pm PT
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I got it now. This is quite a device. I wonder if Tesla invented it. I think it should be used sparingly though, e.g. maybe when your dissertation defense starts to go south.
Thomas Mann failed to finish Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren, erster Teil, for the same reason that Rosie Ruiz finished the Boston Marathon ahead of schedule.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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May 14, 2015 - 03:17pm PT
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Probably this guy.
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/ tewr-ing; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.[2][3][4] Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.[5]
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 14, 2015 - 06:05pm PT
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Agnes Driscoll
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Gary
Social climber
From A Buick 6
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May 14, 2015 - 07:11pm PT
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Agnes Driscoll
Wow, what a woman she was.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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May 14, 2015 - 07:12pm PT
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I've found AC to be useful so I'm going with Tesla
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 14, 2015 - 07:50pm PT
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Flip Flop's mention of Turing got me to thinking,
Who broke the Japanese naval code?
The world may have ended up looking quite different without Midway.
There she was.
From Toker's list Tesla, no contest!
Shockley and Noyce are right up there with him.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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May 14, 2015 - 09:10pm PT
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Hedy Lamarr.
Not because she invented spread spectrum frequency hopping to counter jamming of radio signals during WWII, but because she may have done the first Hollywood nude scene as well.
OK, Einstein and Tesla are up there also, but they're one dimensional compared to Hedy.
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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May 15, 2015 - 07:32am PT
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marx...for the 100 million (conservatively) murdered (usually slowly through starvation) to promote socialism
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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May 15, 2015 - 08:11am PT
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I vote Hedy Lamarr for most influential orgasm of the 20th C.
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Gary
Social climber
From A Buick 6
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May 15, 2015 - 09:08am PT
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^^ She said the secret of her beauty was “to stand there and look stupid.”
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sempervirens
climber
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May 15, 2015 - 09:15pm PT
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she spread spectrum frequency hop jamming nude.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that the light at the end of the tunnel or a tr
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May 16, 2015 - 04:33am PT
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Tesla
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Bob Harrington
climber
Bishop, California
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May 16, 2015 - 09:47am PT
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As to Warbler's list of influential musicians, they're great, but I have to put Les Paul first. Besides being a fine musician and recording artist, his pioneering work on the solid body electric guitar and multi-track recording had a ubiquitous influence on the sound and direction of 20th century music.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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May 17, 2015 - 08:03pm PT
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The suggestions above seem rather euro centric. No one has mentioned Mao yet. 1.3 billion people have him to thank for living on the cusp of the modern world... rather than a failed feudal empire.
Not making excuses for his technique but he got the job done. I'm living in China right now and not a day goes by that I am not amazed at this country... both the number of people and the rate of modernization. Say goodbye to mud huts and hello to widescreen TV in every house. Not that that is necessarily an improvement and no doubt mother earth will pay.... but it still impresses me.
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