He was a good businessman, but he also profited off of the inventions of the people he hired and took the credit. This isn't to say that he didn't invent SOME stuff himself, but he mostly just recognized the value and ideas of others and expanded on them and made a lot of money doing so. There are many cases that might be disputed, but the case of him hiring Tesla with a verbal agreement as to payment that he then backed out of because there were no legal consequences for doing so (as there was no physical contract) is a matter of public record in the courts.
This started the War of the Currents, in which Edison was kind of a shitbag. He invented the electric chair specifically to kill people as horrifyingly as possible and sold them to prisons to make alternating current look bad, and staged live demonstrations of electrocuting animals in the street for the same purpose. Because while Direct Current (the version of electrical distribution that Edison was invested in) was less efficient and much shorter range, you can't electrocute yourself on DC. It can't be done. Alternating Current (Tesla's invention, which we still use today) was better in every way BUT you could also hurt or have a nice day with it if you mishandled it. And Edison made damn sure that was the first thing that people thought of whenever AC was mentioned.
Obviously I've never experienced it myself, but from what I've read either the current wouldn't pass through you at all even touching a live wire (because its path of least resistance is still the rest of the wire, not you) or if the current does pass through you it freezes you in place as the muscles along the path its traveling all tense and lock from the nerve stimulation, but the rest of your muscles not on the path would be fine and DC would travel along the 'surface' of your body, passing through shallow muscles as opposed to deep tissue so its was extremely unlikely that it would hit your heart unless you were standing in exactly the wrong way in exactly the wrong situation. Descriptions don't SAY this is painful, but I assume it was. Just not lethal except in very rare circumstances.
AC is more efficient at energy transfer and thus penetrates deeper into your body, spreading out more and thus being very likely to stop your heart in the process.
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DC can absolutely kill you, it’s just that *most* modern consumer DC electronics are comparatively low voltage and current compared to the AC coming out of your wall outlet. But if you stick your fingers into a Glassman pumping out 400 V at 25 mA it doesn’t matter that it’s DC - that shit can still stop your heart.
>You can’t electrocute yourself on DC
You absolutely can, a guy in the lab I work at ended up in the hospital after he absent-mindedly went to rewire a high voltage DC supply without shutting the power off. Survived but was seriously injured.
Also - reminder that AC won the battle for power transmission, but DC ultimately win the War of Currents. 99% of all modern electronics are DC-based.
What, really? That's interesting. What's the sensation associated with being lit up by DC electricity?
Obviously I've never experienced it myself, but from what I've read either the current wouldn't pass through you at all even touching a live wire (because its path of least resistance is still the rest of the wire, not you) or if the current does pass through you it freezes you in place as the muscles along the path its traveling all tense and lock from the nerve stimulation, but the rest of your muscles not on the path would be fine and DC would travel along the 'surface' of your body, passing through shallow muscles as opposed to deep tissue so its was extremely unlikely that it would hit your heart unless you were standing in exactly the wrong way in exactly the wrong situation. Descriptions don't SAY this is painful, but I assume it was. Just not lethal except in very rare circumstances.
AC is more efficient at energy transfer and thus penetrates deeper into your body, spreading out more and thus being very likely to stop your heart in the process.
DC can absolutely kill you, it’s just that *most* modern consumer DC electronics are comparatively low voltage and current compared to the AC coming out of your wall outlet. But if you stick your fingers into a Glassman pumping out 400 V at 25 mA it doesn’t matter that it’s DC - that shit can still stop your heart.
>You can’t electrocute yourself on DC
You absolutely can, a guy in the lab I work at ended up in the hospital after he absent-mindedly went to rewire a high voltage DC supply without shutting the power off. Survived but was seriously injured.
Also - reminder that AC won the battle for power transmission, but DC ultimately win the War of Currents. 99% of all modern electronics are DC-based.
Please don’t make me go back… it’s overrun by /x/ schizos. I can’t take anymore threads about flat earth fake space free energy lizard people alien ghost psychic dot bullshit.
>He was a good businessman, but he also profited off of the inventions of the people he hired and took the credit. This isn't to say that he didn't invent SOME stuff himself, but he mostly just recognized the value and ideas of others and expanded on them and made a lot of money doing so.
>He was a good businessman >he also profited off of the inventions of the people he hired and took the credit
Why'd you repeat yourself. This is literally what entrepreneurs are supposed to do
>He was a true american
That he was. He was a more accurate representative of the American nation than even any president save perhaps for Reagan and Trump.
Yes, he was white. By definition that makes him evil and he should be wiped from history. Whites are incapable of achieving anything unless it's on the backs of others.
MCU has the weird thing where despite being mostly silly comedies that never take themselves too seriously they still don't want to use any of the more cartoony comic stuff. Which is why anytime someone shows up a slightly comically accurate thing they make of it and pretend to make the their version seem cooler.
Lion Edison was the creation of a cabal of wizard-industrialists to create and bind an artificial 'spirit of America'. Its a partially successful attempt at creating the living manifestation of an entire nation's power to serve as both a tool to exert metaphysical control over the population and to serve as a defense against the supernatural.
That's the point. He's an ehldritch abomination disguised as a techbro. He controls people into joining his "company' before absorbing them within himself.
Ms. marvel the show exists to help lay the foundations for the mcu like just about everything else they create. They’re not gonna waste their time on some bird guy.
Any of the newer runs worth reading? I read and enjoyed the initial run up until it was inevitably derailed by yet another editorially mandated crossover super event (secret wars, I think).
Because that's moronic and goofy, no one would watch that.
So is the entire fricking show.
My dude half the MCU is moronic and goofy.
Isn't this literally universe featuring a talking tree and racoon?
Mean while GotG with the talking tree and racoon is one of the MCUs most popular properties
>depicting one of americas finest upstanding and brilliant entrepreneurs as a villain
We should just arrest all of Marvel
That's a bird
Just adding insult to injury. Thomas Edison was not a bird. This kind of thing should be illegal
>Thomas Edison was not a bird
prove it
He can't have been a bird, because if he were, reddit wouldn't hate him so much. They love borbs.
>one of America's finest upstanding and brilliant entrepreneurs
I mean, he was an butthole, but you're gargling the putrid jizz leaking out of reddit a little too deeply.
Edison was nothing but a tinkerer and patent thief, the funniest shit I find is that in the end he ended up JP Morgan's little b***h
Yes
Edison is a fricking joke. In real life and in the comics.
How dare you. He was a true american hero and patriot
>How dare you
(you)
He was a good businessman, but he also profited off of the inventions of the people he hired and took the credit. This isn't to say that he didn't invent SOME stuff himself, but he mostly just recognized the value and ideas of others and expanded on them and made a lot of money doing so. There are many cases that might be disputed, but the case of him hiring Tesla with a verbal agreement as to payment that he then backed out of because there were no legal consequences for doing so (as there was no physical contract) is a matter of public record in the courts.
This started the War of the Currents, in which Edison was kind of a shitbag. He invented the electric chair specifically to kill people as horrifyingly as possible and sold them to prisons to make alternating current look bad, and staged live demonstrations of electrocuting animals in the street for the same purpose. Because while Direct Current (the version of electrical distribution that Edison was invested in) was less efficient and much shorter range, you can't electrocute yourself on DC. It can't be done. Alternating Current (Tesla's invention, which we still use today) was better in every way BUT you could also hurt or have a nice day with it if you mishandled it. And Edison made damn sure that was the first thing that people thought of whenever AC was mentioned.
When did this thread turn into a fricking history/science lesson?
Tl;dr
Edison's a c**t
Thanks
and I agree
Edison took credit for other's inventions, and invented the electric chair to make a competitor look bad.
>DC can't kill you.
What, really? That's interesting. What's the sensation associated with being lit up by DC electricity?
Obviously I've never experienced it myself, but from what I've read either the current wouldn't pass through you at all even touching a live wire (because its path of least resistance is still the rest of the wire, not you) or if the current does pass through you it freezes you in place as the muscles along the path its traveling all tense and lock from the nerve stimulation, but the rest of your muscles not on the path would be fine and DC would travel along the 'surface' of your body, passing through shallow muscles as opposed to deep tissue so its was extremely unlikely that it would hit your heart unless you were standing in exactly the wrong way in exactly the wrong situation. Descriptions don't SAY this is painful, but I assume it was. Just not lethal except in very rare circumstances.
AC is more efficient at energy transfer and thus penetrates deeper into your body, spreading out more and thus being very likely to stop your heart in the process.
DC can absolutely kill you, it’s just that *most* modern consumer DC electronics are comparatively low voltage and current compared to the AC coming out of your wall outlet. But if you stick your fingers into a Glassman pumping out 400 V at 25 mA it doesn’t matter that it’s DC - that shit can still stop your heart.
>DC can't kill you.
No
But they can sure support mentally insane people for long periods of time.
Flash can choke you
neat
>You can’t electrocute yourself on DC
You absolutely can, a guy in the lab I work at ended up in the hospital after he absent-mindedly went to rewire a high voltage DC supply without shutting the power off. Survived but was seriously injured.
Also - reminder that AC won the battle for power transmission, but DC ultimately win the War of Currents. 99% of all modern electronics are DC-based.
Please don’t make me go back… it’s overrun by /x/ schizos. I can’t take anymore threads about flat earth fake space free energy lizard people alien ghost psychic dot bullshit.
Scared to face the truth?
Yes
>He was a good businessman, but he also profited off of the inventions of the people he hired and took the credit. This isn't to say that he didn't invent SOME stuff himself, but he mostly just recognized the value and ideas of others and expanded on them and made a lot of money doing so.
Sounds like someone we all know on Cinemaphile
So does that make everyone who praises Kirby and Ditko the Teslagays of Cinemaphile?
Thank you anon for educating these wayward Cinemaphilemblrites.
>reddit spacing
>He was a good businessman
>he also profited off of the inventions of the people he hired and took the credit
Why'd you repeat yourself. This is literally what entrepreneurs are supposed to do
>He was a true american
That he was. He was a more accurate representative of the American nation than even any president save perhaps for Reagan and Trump.
>He was a true american
And like a true American. He's opportunist scum.
Teslagays seethe harder
>How dare you. He was a true american hero and parrot
fixed
It's not just Marvel. Evil Thomas Edison is an American comic book tradition.
The irony is Edison was the Elon Musk of his time
Yes, he was white. By definition that makes him evil and he should be wiped from history. Whites are incapable of achieving anything unless it's on the backs of others.
I was talking about how they stole credit from others work and made eccentric gestures in public, but okay
Your reddit is showing. Do you need some ointment for that?
>Your reddit is showing.
Takes one to know one
seethe
Okay but where's the lie?
MCU has the weird thing where despite being mostly silly comedies that never take themselves too seriously they still don't want to use any of the more cartoony comic stuff. Which is why anytime someone shows up a slightly comically accurate thing they make of it and pretend to make the their version seem cooler.
>despite being mostly silly comedies
Having jokes in it doesn't make something a comedy, you moron
Anon you have to speak up I can't hear you over the quips
Deadpool have Benjamin Franklin as supporting character
He teamed up with The Phantom as well solving mysteries together, including solving the Loch Ness monster.
Based and cultured Valiant enjoyer!
Wow
Who'd win in a fight?
Bird Edison or Lion Edison?
A Lion vs a Bird?
Are you really asking this obvious question?
Lion Edison was the creation of a cabal of wizard-industrialists to create and bind an artificial 'spirit of America'. Its a partially successful attempt at creating the living manifestation of an entire nation's power to serve as both a tool to exert metaphysical control over the population and to serve as a defense against the supernatural.
Bird Edison is basically just a ghost.
Its no contest.
>physics lesson while i wait for scans
you homies are radical
I don't care. I just pictured Kamala as cuter and waify
Yuck
Frick that
Give me Monopoly
That's the most Zoomer name and haircut ever
I know. That’s why he’s fricking perfect for this show.
Why Monopoly?
Discord would be a much better pick.
cont.
Seriously though
Because Josh is just a bitter teen who's going about things the wrong way and isn't beyond redemption. Not like Becky.
I don't remember who dude, who is he?
He looks like he exclusively uses Apple products.
That's the point. He's an ehldritch abomination disguised as a techbro. He controls people into joining his "company' before absorbing them within himself.
That doesn't seem so scary. Have you ever met somebody who works for a "disruptive" startup?
She’s so cute bros.
Because he’s a real American hero damn it
Ms. marvel the show exists to help lay the foundations for the mcu like just about everything else they create. They’re not gonna waste their time on some bird guy.
One of my favorite moments.
Any of the newer runs worth reading? I read and enjoyed the initial run up until it was inevitably derailed by yet another editorially mandated crossover super event (secret wars, I think).
I’m surprised no one in this thread suggested Becky St. Jude.
She’s easily one who of the most dangerous villains Kamala’s ever faced.
Plus she’s a mean girl. And we all know how much Cinemaphile loves mean girls
That haircut looks suspicious. How big are her breasts?
Cause it's dumb.
Thanks for reminding me that this kind of lolsowacky cringe is the reason I stopped bothering with her book despite Cinemaphile's non-stop shilling.
kamala is built for miles morales wiener
Agree