Ah.
An adequate execution.
Of course, you cannot possibly understand,
you merely followed the instructions.
Quickly, what is the time and place?
Uh, this would be North London, 2013.
Of course. I must see the city immediately.
See with my own eyes the myriad ways in which
man has learned to elevate both himself and
his fellow man!
Apparently I built a time machine that transported
Nikola Tesla to the 21st century.
Above certain frequencies the ether is no
longer bound by inverse-square laws. One need
only find the threshold values to erect a
transmitter emitting a wave complex of special
characteristics, then incorporate my unique
method of telephonic control over any amount
of energy.
But the ether as you seem to understand it
was disproved in your own time. We know there's
no such thing as a pure Newtonian vacuum,
but...
Without the ether a Tesla wave would not be
possible.
A Tesla wave is not possible. Particles do
not travel faster than light. Your system
must work using relativistic...
I have constructed a functioning special magnifying
system. You can talk all you wish of your
theories.
No offence, but there's value in understanding
how things actually work.
I wanted to go the university and we can do
tests and we can get this out there to the world.
There's something really weird going on with
the weather and I'm pretty sure we had something
to do with it.
Clearly man has utilized the earth's electromagnetic
power... attached his engines to the wheelwork
of the universe!
But considerations of mere utility weigh little
in the balance against the higher benefits
of civilization. Surely these discoveries
have strengthened our hopes and expanded our
minds! What great social advances have been
wrought?
Just read the article. Try not to read the
comments.
The evidence is unmistakeable. Man has not
acted on my discoveries. If we want to avert
an impending calamity and a state of things
which may transform the globe into an inferno
we must push the development of flying machines
and the wireless transmission of energy without
an instant's delay, and with all the power
and resources of the nation. I must be introduced
to the Kardashian family.
He just wasn't behaving logically. I mean,
he's a scientist.
Rather than a Kardashian you might want to
start with, say, David Cameron?
A politician? These are not the visionaries
who shape our world. I will speak with the
great industrialists.
Well, if you just come back to the university
with me, I'm sure we can find someone who...
There is no time for your bureaucrats. Take
me to Richard Branson.
I found him to be arrogant and difficult.
And rude.
I'm sure he would love to talk to you but
you don't just look up Richard Branson's address
and ring the doorbell.
You are clearly unfit to be my guide. My assistant
must be a man of science, capable of striking
boldly forward!
The future of humanity is at stake. Technical
instruments are being used not to free our
imaginations, but to suppress them. I will
liaise across the centuries and repair this
damaged future. Defeatists such as yourself
perpetuate a blind, faint-hearted, doubting
world. My mission calls for men of action.
Being realistic is not defeatism. You of all
people should have figured that out.
By the time he died in 1943 Tesla's finances
were exhausted, he was virtually unknown to
the public, and he lived in a small room in
New York, hallucinating and trying to communicate
with the birds he'd feed in Bryant Park.
You ended up broke and trying to talk telepathically
to a pigeon. If you want to talk to rich people
then fine, I'm sure there are loads who'd
love to talk to you. Go and figure it out
for yourself. Here, take some money for a
cab.
Nikola. A revolution is an idea that has found
its bayonets.
The receiver didn't just bring Nikola here,
it also brought someone else. Someone psychotic.
