Nikola Tesla (The Real Inventor)

Nikola Tesla is finally beginning to attract real attention and encourage serious debate more than 70 years after his death.
Was he for real? A crackpot? Part of an early experiment in corporate-government control? We know that he was undoubtedly persecuted by the energy power brokers of his day -- namely Thomas Edison, whom we are taught in school to revere as a genius.  He was also attacked by J.P. Morgan and other "captains of industry." Upon Tesla's death on January 7th, 1943, the U.S. government moved into his lab and apartment confiscating all of his scientific research, some of which has been released by the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act. (I've embedded the first 250 pages below and have added a link to the .pdf of the final pages, 290 in total).
Besides his persecution by corporate-government interests (which is practically a certification of authenticity), there is at least one solid indication of Nikola Tesla's integrity -- he tore up a contract with Westinghouse that was worth billions in order to save the company from paying him his huge royalty payments.
But, let's take a look at what Nikola Tesla -- a man who died broke and alone -- has actually given to the world.  For better or worse, with credit or without, he changed the face of the planet in ways that perhaps no man ever has.

1. Alternating Current -- This is where it all began, and what ultimately caused such a stir at the 1893 World's Expo in Chicago.  A war was leveled ever-after between the vision of Edison and the vision of Tesla for how electricity would be produced and distributed.  The division can be summarized as one of cost and safety: The DC current that Edison (backed by General Electric) had been working on was costly over long distances, and produced dangerous sparking from the required converter (called a commutator).  Regardless, Edison and his backers utilized the general "dangers" of electric current to instill fear in Tesla's alternative: Alternating Current.  As proof, Edison sometimes electrocuted animals at demonstrations.  Consequently, Edison gave the world the electric chair, while simultaneously maligning Tesla's attempt to offer safety at a lower cost.  Tesla responded by demonstrating that AC was perfectly safe by famously shooting current through his own body to produce light.  This Edison-Tesla (GE-Westinghouse) feud in 1893 was the culmination of over a decade of shady business deals, stolen ideas, and patent suppression that Edison and his moneyed interests wielded over Tesla's inventions. Yet, despite it all, it is Tesla's system that provides power generation and distribution to North America in our modern era.

2. Light -- Of course he didn't invent light itself, but he did invent how light can be harnessed and distributed.  Tesla developed and used fluorescent bulbs in his lab some 40 years before industry "invented" them. At the World's Fair, Tesla took glass tubes and bent them into famous scientists' names, in effect creating the first neon signs.  However, it is his Tesla Coil that might be the most impressive, and controversial.  The Tesla Coil is certainly something that big industry would have liked to suppress: the concept that the Earth itself is a magnet that can generate electricity (electromagnetism) utilizing frequencies as a transmitter.  All that is needed on the other end is the receiver -- much like a radio. 

  3. X-rays -- Electromagnetic and ionizing radiation was heavily researched in the late 1800s, but Tesla researched the entire gamut. Everything from a precursor to Kirlian photography, which has the ability to document life force, to what we now use in medical diagnostics, this was a transformative invention of which Tesla played a central role.  X-rays, like so many of Tesla's contributions, stemmed from his belief that everything we need to understand the universe is virtually around us at all times, but we need to use our minds to develop real-world devices to augment our innate perception of existence.  

4. Radio -- Guglielmo Marconi was initially credited, and most believe him to be the inventor of radio to this day.  However, the Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943, when it was proven that Tesla invented the radio years previous to Marconi.  Radio signals are just another frequency that needs a transmitter and receiver, which Tesla also demonstrated in 1893 during a presentation before The National Electric Light Association.  In 1897 Tesla applied for two patents  US 645576, and US 649621. In 1904, however, The U.S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi's financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. This also allowed the U.S. government (among others) to avoid having to pay the royalties that were being claimed by Tesla.
  
5. Wireless Communications and Limitless Free Energy -- These two are inextricably linked, as they were the last straw for the power elite -- what good is energy if it can't be metered and controlled?  Free?  Never.  J.P. Morgan backed Tesla with $150,000 to build a tower that would use the natural frequencies of our universe to transmit data, including a wide range of information communicated through images, voice messages, and text.  This represented the world's first wireless communications, but it also meant that aside from the cost of the tower itself, the universe was filled with free energy that could be utilized to form a world wide web connecting all people in all places, as well as allow people to harness the free energy around them.  Essentially, the 0's and 1's of the universe are embedded in the fabric of existence for each of us to access as needed.  Nikola Tesla was dedicated to empowering the individual to receive and transmit this data virtually free of charge.  But we know the ending to that story . . . until now?

Tesla had perhaps thousands of other ideas and inventions that remain unreleased.  A look at his hundreds of patents shows a glimpse of the scope he intended to offer.  If you feel that the additional technical and scientific research of Nikola Tesla should be revealed for public scrutiny and discussion, instead of suppressed by big industry and even our supposed institutions of higher education, join the world's call to tell power brokers everywhere that we are ready to Occupy Energy and learn about what our universe really has to offer. 

Fast 7....These Scenes..?? but How..??

Furious 7, the latest of the Fast & Furious franchise is on the record breaking spree at the Box Office. Furious 7 has also made us all cry, around the world. It was that one time the world was united, and the magic was brought to us by Paul Walker.
The breathtaking stunts, the emotions, the love – how it was all done? Let’s go behind the wheel, and discover it all.

1. Creating a digital Paul Walker

  

Paul Walker died before the filming ended. The makers used Paul’s brothers Cody and Caleb Walker as body doubles for him. Also, they created a digital Paul Walker to finish the movie, which was re-scripted keeping in mind the loss.
The scene where this creation is the most apparent is the last shot of the movie where Toretto and Brian are racing together on the empty road before parting way.
Paul was just not there in that scene at all.

2. Cars dropping out of the plane scene

 

You might ask, if they actually jumped the cars off the flying plane? The answer is YES! They did drop cars out of the plane. Just that there wasn’t anybody in those cars! The scene was recorded by skydivers and helicopters, while the cars were being dropped off the plane.
To simulate the last part where the cars landed on the windy road with the drivers speeding away, they had the drivers seat in the cars and dropped them only 6-8 feet off the ground.

3. Flying the $3.4 million Lykan Hypersport

 

The second thrilling sequence is of that very expensive car jumping through the Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi. Well, they actually made the car jump, but not the Etihad Towers. A 40-foot glass building was created in a sound studio, and the car was jumped through it. The Lykan Hypersport costs a whopping $3.4 million, and there are only 7 built worldwide. It has custom rubies and diamonds in its headlights, and a gold plated roof.

 

Now the question is: did they actually use the real car? Not at all! The same company that build the original car, created a replica for the film. So, no difference spotted!

4. Paul Walker’s bus scene

 

When Brian jumped off the bus, and held onto Letty’s car, the audience had gone gaga with whistles and cheers. Most thought it was all special effects. Well, not really. They actually shot that too entirely. Of course with safety harnesses, and all other safety measures.

 

The bus was held down to the ground, so that Brian could walk on it safely. Letty’s car was rigged with a safety harness to prevent it from going over the cliff as it spurned around. Brian did jump and held onto Letty’s car, and the bus did make its way down the 160-foot cliff.
Stunt double was used for Paul Walker to film this scene.

5. Shaw & Toretto heads on crash

 

The part where Shaw & Toretto crashed into each other! Looks like that too happened for real. They actually crashed the Maserati Ghibli which had Shaw in it. Of course the replica. And nobody was in the car when it crashed!
Director James Wan said that they actually created several backup replicas of those cars. Just in case the scene didn’t turn out the way they wanted.

6. And now, last but not the least: HOW MANY CARS WERE CRASHED?
About 230 cars were crashed during the entire film, which included the latest Mercedes Benz AMGs and several high utility sports vehicles.