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Tesla was weird. I guess you have to be extraordinary to do extraordinary things. Einstein was also big on imagination, but I guess with none of the weird stuff

by Ecoste 3y ago

Tesla was weird. I guess you have to be extraordinary to do extraordinary things. Einstein was also big on imagination, but I guess with none of the weird stuff. Another two interesting figures are Jack Parsons and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Jack was heavily involved in the occult and followed Thelema which was founded by Aleister Crowley which included lots of sex magick and the like. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics, and he claimed to be speaking to extraterrestrial beings from time to time who would give him information.

moomoo11 3y ago
Honestly that just seems in line with people who are into psychedelics (not casual microdosers lol) and hardcore engineering. Know a few pkeple like that. They are genius tier but quirky af.
- mrwnmonm 3y ago
  "They are good but I am better than them."
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input_sh 3y ago
I'd point out that nearly everyone around that time at least occasionally dabbled in some substance abuse.
- arcanemachiner 3y ago
  I must be falling behind... I was unaware that this trend had fallen out of fashion.
yellowstuff 3y ago
Tesla was a lot weirder than Einstein, but Einstein's personal life was not totally normal. He wrote his wife a letter saying “You will expect no affection from me”, cheated on her with his first cousin, then married his first cousin, but only after deciding against marrying her daughter instead. https://allthatsinteresting.com/elsa-einstein https://allthatsinteresting.com/elsa-einstein
- cbracketdash 3y ago
  Yeah it seems like Tesla had a relatively respectable view on relationships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Relationships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Relationships
  - bmitc 3y ago
    One biographer of Tesla seems to think he had an emotional relationship with Katherine Johnson, who was friends with Tesla with her husband Robert Underwood Johnson. It is my understanding that they were his closest friends and that Tesla and Katherine would exchange letters.

by Ecoste 3y ago

moomoo11 3y ago

Honestly that just seems in line with people who are into psychedelics (not casual microdosers lol) and hardcore engineering. Know a few pkeple like that. They are genius tier but quirky af.

mrwnmonm 3y ago
"They are good but I am better than them."
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input_sh 3y ago

I'd point out that nearly everyone around that time at least occasionally dabbled in some substance abuse.

arcanemachiner 3y ago
I must be falling behind... I was unaware that this trend had fallen out of fashion.

yellowstuff 3y ago

Tesla was a lot weirder than Einstein, but Einstein's personal life was not totally normal. He wrote his wife a letter saying “You will expect no affection from me”, cheated on her with his first cousin, then married his first cousin, but only after deciding against marrying her daughter instead. https://allthatsinteresting.com/elsa-einstein https://allthatsinteresting.com/elsa-einstein

cbracketdash 3y ago
Yeah it seems like Tesla had a relatively respectable view on relationships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Relationships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Relationships
- bmitc 3y ago
  One biographer of Tesla seems to think he had an emotional relationship with Katherine Johnson, who was friends with Tesla with her husband Robert Underwood Johnson. It is my understanding that they were his closest friends and that Tesla and Katherine would exchange letters.