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Re:Supersonic plasma jets discovered by cat199 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:12AM (#13940410)
Tesla probably already did it in a year - too bad his notebooks were 'lost' ...
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Re:Supersonic plasma jets discovered by michaelcampbell on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:58PM (#13941601)
Is there a history behind this quote? Would love to hear it.
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Re:Supersonic plasma jets discovered by McKayDavis on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:06PM (#13942361)
Nikola Tesla was supposedly working on the production and wireless transmission of power -- including a "death beam". After his death, many of his papers were claimed to be missing:

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html

Interestingly, one of the main investigators into the incident was Dr. John G. Trump (uncle of President Trump).

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