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You don't have to be a magician to make a doomsday weapon. In fact, he likely did not make it. He just possesed enough knowledge to imagine such a weapon possi

You don't have to be a magician to make a doomsday weapon. In fact, he likely did not make it. He just possesed enough knowledge to imagine such a weapon possible in theory. There's a reason why I said knowledge about a weapon.

bastawhiz 4y ago
To this day, nothing in Tesla's body of work is relevant to any weapon of mass destruction. There's no evidence whatsoever that he had any specific knowledge [0] about the means to create a weapon of mass destruction. The idea "big weapon make big boom" predates Tesla by numerous centuries. Saying he "just possessed enough knowledge to imagine such a weapon" isn't a falsifiable claim, and could reasonably be claimed about any 19th/20th century inventor. [0] I would say that the "death ray" doesn't count, because he's not the first to come up with it. The teleforce is not a weapon of mass destruction.