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Should we discard achievements made by unlikable people?
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RE: Should we discard achievements made by unlikable people?
December 17, 2017 at 11:14 pm (This post was last modified: December 17, 2017 at 11:20 pm by Rev. Rye.)
(December 17, 2017 at 10:56 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:
(December 17, 2017 at 1:54 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Newton was an ass. Don't even get me started on Tesla.

Edison could have invented 3 phase AC electric power except he couldn't do the mathematics involved.

I had it in sparky school 35 years ago, and managed to 'get it' but fortunately my subsequent career path never intersected that stuff.

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He was just too obsessed with DC power to bother, and if he did figure it out, he'd probably be doing more shit like this:






I probably should have done a content warning of some kind, but given that A) the title gives it all away, and B) the makers of built AN ENTIRE EPISODE around this clip and it still got a TV-PG, I guess the point is moot.

EDIT: Okay, for some reason, the forum won't allow me to post the words "The makers of Bob's Burgers built an entire episode around this clip" without some of the words vanishing. Why?
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RE: Should we discard achievements made by unlikable people? - by Rev. Rye - December 17, 2017 at 11:14 pm

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