尼古拉·特斯拉——这位著名科学家的最后一张照片，1943年1月1日
尼古拉·特斯拉，这位著名科学家生前的最后一张照片，1943年1月1日 [600 × 731]
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jarjarPHP3,063 赞2017/11/4
He's got that Grand Moff Tarkin look going on.
他那副长相简直就是塔金总督本尊。
irrelevant_notion891 赞2017/11/4
if he had the funds he'd built a Death Star. For the good of mankind.
要是他有那钱，他绝对会造个死星出来。为了全人类的福祉嘛。
PSI_Rockin_Omega172 赞2017/11/5
The actual Death Star was built for the good of mankind. Our grand Emperor wanted to use it to bring peace and justice to the galaxy.
真正的死星本来就是为了全人类的福祉而造的。我们伟大的皇帝陛下想用它为银河系带来和平与正义。
robotorigami105 赞2017/11/5
（帝国没做错）
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Naa, he'd have taken the funds, built something entirely different with a 40% chance of working and skipped town.
不，他肯定会拿走资金，搞出一个完全不同的东西，成功率也就40%，然后卷铺盖跑路。
StickyCarpet66 赞2017/11/5
Yeah, that's pretty much what he did in Telluride. Fired up the biggest Tesla coil he could build with the research investment, crack off a full sized lightning bolt, and melt down the municipal power supply. No question, he had the most extreme powers of invention and visualization, and he was a inexhaustible technician and laboratory experimenter. But if he had set the Earth magnetic field into resonant vibration, every trace in every computer board would be generating it's own power, and the digital age would probably never have been possible. He did not believe in electrons.
没错，他在泰柳瑞德干的差不多就是这出。拿了研究投资就整了个他能造出的最大的特斯拉线圈，轰出了一道全尺寸的闪电，把市政供电系统给熔了。
毫无疑问，他有着最极致的发明和构想能力，也是个不知疲倦的技术员和实验室实验者。但要是他真的引发了地球磁场的共振，那每块电脑主板上的每一条线路都会开始产生自己的电流，数字时代恐怕就永远不可能出现了。
他根本不相信电子的存在。
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>But if he had set the Earth magnetic field into resonant vibration What do you mean by that?
>但如果他把地球磁场设置成了共振状态呢？
你这话是什么意思？
StickyCarpet39 赞2017/11/5
He wanted to maintain a tuned sequence of powerful electrical impulses into the ground to cause a sustained resonant vibration in the Earths electromagnetic field. Once you got it going it could be sustained with a comparably small (still pretty big) amount of power fired as pulses to keep it going. edit: Think of little timed pushes keeping a big swing-set swinging. Then anyone with a stretched wire anywhere on the planet could get "free" power for their electric lights and motors. Downside is every stretched wire on Earth generates some power. That plan would have also run into the "tragedy of the commons" effect, where anyone could set up a massive power sink to convert the un-metered electrical supply into products for sale that would otherwise be uneconomical. Like making diamonds out of carbon. Those kinds of operations would have dampened the resonant vibration in unpredictable ways, and required that someone somewhere keep feeding the beast.
他想通过向地壳持续输入一组经过调频的强大电脉冲，从而在地球电磁场中引发持续的共振。一旦把它搞起来，只需用相对较小（其实也挺大的）的脉冲功率来维持就行了。编辑：想象一下推秋千，只要定期给点力，就能让大秋千一直晃个不停。
这样的话，地球上任何地方，只要拉根电线，就能搞到“免费”电力来点灯或带动电机。坏处就是地球上每一根拉开的电线都会产生电力。
那个计划最终还会撞上“公地悲剧”，因为任何人都能架设一个巨大的耗电设备，把这些没法计量的电力转化成商品卖钱，而这些生意在平时根本不划算。比如拿碳去造钻石之类的。这类操作会以不可预知的方式削弱共振，而且必须得有人在某个地方不断地往这个“怪兽”里投钱供能。
RorariiRS114 赞2017/11/5
His head looks like the Tesla logo
他的头看起来就像特斯拉的那个Logo。
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I thought it was "Grandma Tarkin" for years.
我好几年都以为那是“塔金奶奶”（Grandma Tarkin）。
2,440 赞2017/11/5
Here's a pic of Nikola a few hours before that one was taken. I think this was at the start of the party: https://imgur.com/gallery/e1So6
这儿有张尼古拉在拍那张照片前几个小时的照片。我觉得这是派对刚开始的时候拍的：https://imgur.com/gallery/e1So6
1,107 赞2017/11/5
That one looks a lot better
那张看起来好多了。
240 赞2017/11/5
He looks a little like my late grandpa here.
他这张照片看起来有点像我过世的爷爷。
261 赞2017/11/5
He looks right on time to me.
在我看来，他来得正是时候。
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Must have been a hell of a party. Might have been what killed him.
那场派对肯定炸翻天了。搞不好这就是他挂掉的原因。
27 赞2017/11/5
I think he looks better in this one but I think the OP pic is a better photograph.
我觉得这张他看起来更好看，但原博那张照片拍得更有质感。
268 赞2017/11/5
Must've been a hell of a party
那派对肯定嗨翻天了吧。
117 赞2017/11/5
OP's photo looks like his mate offered him a line at 9 am. He doesn't want it but he know he has to take it.
原博那张照片看起来就像是他哥们儿大早上九点给他递了道“白粉”。他其实不想要，但心里清楚这玩意儿他推不掉。
107 赞2017/11/5
I was absolutely convinced this would be Manningface. Pleasantly surprised.
我本来百分之百肯定这会是曼宁鬼脸（Manningface）。结果倒是给了我个小惊喜。
84 赞2017/11/5
I was expecting [Grand Moff Tarkin](
)
)我本来还以为会是[塔金总督]()呢。
)呢。45 赞2017/11/5
I was absolutely convinced this would be Manningface. Pleasantly surprised.
我本来百分之百肯定这会是曼宁鬼脸（Manningface）。结果倒是给了我个小惊喜。
15 赞2017/11/5
Oh, thank you! I'll try to remember his last moments with this image instead. Interesting difference between the two photos, quality-wise. This image's been compressed to bits I guess.
噢，谢谢！我会试着记住他最后的时光，而不是这段影像。
这两张照片在画质上的差别还挺有意思的。我猜这张图被压缩得稀碎了。
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Almost every one of us spends the last days so miserable and destitute.
我们几乎每个人最后那几天都过得凄凄惨惨、一贫如洗。
1,083 赞2017/11/5
Shit, I️ must be in my last days
操，那我肯定是在过我人生最后那几天了。
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74 赞2017/11/5
I had the same problem. Copy and paste the weird A and box character Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement and have the A character replaced with I. Also add I to replace I. And I to replace i. Works for me, check it. I went to the park. I remember the Alamo. I love penis. I wish I had penis all the time. I want penis for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Etc.
我也遇到过同样的问题。复制粘贴那个奇怪的 A 和方框字符。
进入“设置” > “通用” > “键盘” > “文本替换”，把那个 A 字符替换成“I”。
再加一条把“I”替换成“I”（大写），还有把“i”也替换成“I”。
对我来说有用，你试试看。
我去了公园。我记得阿拉莫之战。我喜欢丁丁。我希望我一直有丁丁。我早餐、午餐和晚餐都想吃丁丁。等等。
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"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive" --Robert Heinlein, Job - A Comedy of Divine Justice
“人生最大的讽刺是，几乎没人能活着走出这一生。”
——罗伯特·海因莱因，《约伯：神义喜剧》
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Destitute as he was due to his very poor money handling skill, lack of business acumen and profligate spending (he was eating out at the waldorf Astoria like it was a diner), Tesla was not really in deep distress. Samuel Westinghouse was taking care of him, paying for his rent at the new Yorker hotel (which was quite fancy at the time) and other expenses, in gratitude to Tesla for waiving the royalty on him.
尽管特斯拉因为极差的理财能力、缺乏商业头脑以及挥霍无度（他去华尔道夫酒店吃饭简直就像去平价餐馆一样随意）而变得身无分文，但他其实并没有陷入真正的困境。
塞缪尔·威斯汀豪斯一直在照顾他，为他在纽约客酒店（那地方在当时可是相当高档的）支付房租和其他开销，以此感谢特斯拉免去了他的专利使用费。
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Can confirm, 100% useless and worthless person here
实锤了，这里就有一个百分之百没用且一文不值的人。
16 赞2017/11/5
Oh man, you too?
天哪，你也是吗？
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54 赞2017/11/5
Your existence, and the existence of actors and entertainers, is far more important than you make it out to be. People need entertainment ... and people need people, too, for that matter. Although most of us really are ultimately easily replacable, it doesn't mean we are worthless and don't mean anything. We all matter. We should all believe that our fellow human beings has a fundamental value in this world. I don't view people's worth based exclusively on what great feats they've accomplished.
你的存在，还有那些演员和艺人的存在，其实比你自己认为的要重要得多。人们需要娱乐……再说，人们也需要彼此。虽然我们大多数人归根结底确实很容易被替代，但这并不意味着我们一文不值，也不意味着我们毫无意义。我们每个人都很重要。
我们都应该相信，在这个世界上，每一个同类都有其根本的价值。我衡量一个人的价值，从来不单单看他们取得了什么了不起的成就。
24 赞2017/11/5
Thanks for being you. Too many people come to comment threads to spread and share their apathy and act like it's normal to hate yourself and your life. Some do it ironically but the endless negativity can be really tough to those on the edge of depression or in a tough time in their life.
谢谢你一直做你自己。太多人跑到评论区来散布和分享他们的冷漠，还装得好像讨厌自己、讨厌生活是很正常的事一样。有些人可能是带着讽刺意味这么做，但这种没完没了的负能量对那些处于抑郁边缘或正处于人生低谷的人来说，真的太难熬了。
120 赞2017/11/5
Still, he was doing much better than most ethnic Serbs were in 1943.
不过说真的，他当时混得可比 1943 年大多数塞尔维亚族人强多了。
16 赞2017/11/5
Well yeah obviously because he was living in the USA while ethnic Serbs in Serbia when wars happened at that time.
那肯定的啊，毕竟那时候他住在美国，而塞尔维亚的那些塞尔维亚族人正处在战火纷飞中呢。
80 赞2017/11/5
And his mind really stated to go towards the end too. He "married" a pigeon he fed from his window everyday by calling it his wife
还有，到后来他的精神状态确实开始垮了。他管自己每天从窗户喂的一只鸽子叫“老婆”，还跟人家举行了场“婚礼”。
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Definitely a meme. Social isolation can definitely lead to a weird sense of humor and more metaphorical thinking Referring to an animal you see and feed regularly as your 'wife' falls under that. I'm not saying he wasn't a troubled guy, I just don't buy the literal interpretation that he literally thought the pigeon was his wife. All it really meant is he had a connection with it, which isn't that weird at all.
这妥妥的是个梗啊。社交孤立绝对会导致一种怪异的幽默感和更偏隐喻的思维方式，把你经常见到并喂食的动物称为“老婆”就属于这种情况。
我不是说他精神没问题，我只是不信那种字面意义上的解读，觉得他真以为那只鸽子是他老婆。这不过就是说他跟那只鸟产生了某种情感连接罢了，这其实一点也不奇怪。
16 赞2017/11/5
Can we blame Edison for it somehow?
我们能把这锅甩给爱迪生吗？
17 赞2017/11/5
No We can jump on his grave though! We can also point at his spiritual successor Elon Musk
不行。
不过咱们可以去他坟头蹦迪！
咱们也可以指着他那位“精神接班人”马斯克过过嘴瘾。
1,033 赞2017/11/5
We have an elderly mechanical genius friend who was hired by the US government to build working models of all of Tesla's patents, just in case they'd missed something revolutionary. (Apparently not.) He had actually known Tesla as a family friend.
我们有位机械天才老友，曾被美国政府雇佣去复刻特斯拉所有专利的实物模型，以防漏掉什么革命性的技术。（显然并没有。）他本人其实还是特斯拉家的世交。
256 赞2017/11/5
I thought that was the piont that we misses out on all of it because of Edison's greed. Or was it really unusable?
我一直以为重点在于我们错失了这一切，全是因为爱迪生太贪婪。还是说那些东西真的没法用？
230 赞2017/11/5
Gov definitely came in to nab up all his patents when he died, as to what happened to them afterword I’m not sure
他死的时候，政府绝对是第一时间跑去把他的专利全给收缴了，至于后来那些专利去了哪儿，我就不清楚了。
44 赞2017/11/5
Wouldn't they still be in the patent office, or some sort of central archive. 🤨
它们不应该还留在专利局，或者某种中央档案馆里吗？🤨
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or misplaced. or destroyed like JFK's x-ray to conserve space in the national archives
或者就是被搞丢了。
要不然就是像肯尼迪的X光片那样，为了给国家档案馆腾地方而被销毁了。
22 赞2017/11/5
Lol whut? Can provided a link to this? We'll just destroy some records to make room for more? Doesn't that destroy the point of records. I mean these aren't just minutes from some sub committee meeting from a hundred years ago.
哈哈啥玩意儿？能给个链接吗？我们就为了腾地儿直接把一些档案给销毁了？这难道不就毁了存档的意义吗？我的意思是，这些档案可不是什么一百年前某个小组委员会会议的会议纪要。
15 赞2017/11/5
All of his patents and "patent wrappers" (the correspondence pertaining to the patents) is available from the USPTO, for a fee, in paper form. What did get nabbed up was his body, immediately after death and without any medical examination, by the agents of the Serbian embassy. One theory is it was done to protect the legacy of a Serbian hero, and to keep private some kind of self-mutilation that was evident, and may have occurred in Tesla's teens just before he left for America, perhaps in penance and out of guilt for having killed his older brother when Tesla was just a toddler. (By leading a horse down the cellar stair above where his brother was playing.)
他所有的专利和“专利卷宗”（即与专利有关的通信记录）都可以从美国专利商标局（USPTO）获取，但需要付费，而且是以纸质形式提供的。
而真正被抢先拿走的，是他死后的遗体——在没经过任何医学检查的情况下，直接被塞尔维亚大使馆的代理人给弄走了。
其中一种说法是，这样做是为了保护这位塞尔维亚英雄的遗产，并掩盖某种显而易见的自残痕迹。这种痕迹可能是在特斯拉十几岁刚要去美国之前留下的，或许是为了赎罪，又或许是因为他在蹒跚学步时害死了自己的哥哥而心怀愧疚。（当时他把马牵下地下室台阶，正好压在了他哥哥玩耍的地方。）
25 赞2017/11/5
Fun fact, Donald Trumps uncle was the scientist the FBI hired to go through all of teslas blueprints.
说个冷知识，唐纳德·特朗普的叔叔就是FBI雇来翻阅特斯拉所有蓝图的那个科学家。
27 赞2017/11/5
The truth of the matter is that while Tesla did have many important patents and moved electrical engineering forwards massively, but he was a bit player at the time. Without Westinghouse no one would know who he is. Edison was the Steve Jobs of his time. The gilded age has so many direct parallels to our time, especially the patent wars over light bulbs and power distribution systems. And now HVDC is the future of power transmission. ~~A bit less efficient, but~~ far more robust. Turns out Edison might have been right on accident. Those interested in gilded age history, the patent wars over the light bulb, just role what Edison, Tesla, and Westinghouse played should check out the book "Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World," and no I am not the author. I just really enjoyed the presentation of the material without out all the Tesla circle jerking.
说实话，虽然特斯拉确实拥有许多重要专利，也极大地推动了电气工程的发展，但他在当时其实只是个小角色。如果没有威斯汀豪斯，根本没人会知道他是谁。爱迪生就是那个时代的乔布斯。镀金时代和我们当今的时代有很多直接的相似之处，尤其是在灯泡和配电系统的专利大战上。
现在的特高压直流输电（HVDC）才是电力传输的未来。~~效率稍微低了点，但~~稳定性要强得多。看来爱迪生没准是误打误撞对了。那些对镀金时代历史、灯泡专利大战，以及爱迪生、特斯拉和威斯汀豪斯各自所扮演角色感兴趣的人，应该去看看《光之帝国：爱迪生、特斯拉、威斯汀豪斯与电气化世界竞赛》这本书，我可不是作者本人。我只是真的很喜欢这本书呈现内容的方式，没那么多对特斯拉的盲目崇拜（circle jerking）。
154 赞2017/11/5
It's mostly a myth. There's no proof that they quarreled even. Tesla had some grand ideas that couldn't be executed on. Edison was good at business execution. It's like Ford, who didn't invent the car, he figured out ways to bring it to the masses. He still was a Nazi fuck tho. In this world the latter well always win. Personally I think that's a good thing...
这大多是个神话。根本没证据表明他们俩吵过架。特斯拉有一些宏伟但无法落地的想法，而爱迪生擅长商业执行。
这就像福特，他没发明汽车，但他找到了让汽车走进大众的方法。不过他依然是个该死的纳粹分子。
在这个世界上，后者总是会赢。个人觉得这是件好事……
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Ford was a nazi?
福特是纳粹？
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Nazi sympathizer. Yes
纳粹同情者。没错。
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Fun fact! Ford established a colony in the middle of the Amazon, so to acquire raw resources (like rubber) on the cheap. This factory town was run like a midwestern christian cult, and was a huge failure.
说个冷知识！福特曾经在亚马逊丛林中心地带建了个殖民区，目的就是为了廉价获取原材料（比如橡胶）。这个工厂小镇的运作模式简直就像个中西部的基督教邪教组织，而且最后惨败收场。
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Ford tried to run everything like a Midwestern Christian cult. His draconian moralizing and cheapskatery caused problems with the factory in Denmark too.
福特试图用管理中西部基督教邪教那套来经营一切。他那种严苛到变态的道德说教和抠门行径，在丹麦的工厂也惹出了一堆麻烦。
45 赞2017/11/5
"draconian moralizing and cheapskatery" Are you one of his investors, back from the dead?
“严苛的道德绑架和抠门劲儿”
你是他哪位死而复生的投资人吗？
99 赞2017/11/5
[He wrote The International Jew](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew), was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, and Hitler himself kept a portrait of Ford in his office. Yes. The man was a Nazi.
[他写过《国际犹太人》](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew)，被授予过大十字德意志鹰勋章，而且希特勒本人还在办公室里挂过福特的画像。
没错。这家伙就是个纳粹。
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I just lost a lot of respect for him
我对他瞬间好感全无。
55 赞2017/11/5
Just know that all people are capable of great things and evil things at the same time. Almost no one falls into all good or all bad categories, most are a shade of grey.
要知道，每个人都有能力做出伟大的事，同时也具备行恶的潜能。几乎没人能被完全归类为纯善或纯恶，大多数人都是介于两者之间的灰色地带。
30 赞2017/11/5
Ford helped circulate the same propaganda that helped to radicalize Hitler against the Jews. Ford and Hitler read the same antisemitic propaganda.
福特当年散布的那些宣传材料，正是让希特勒变得极度反犹的推手之一。福特和希特勒读的都是同一套反犹主义宣传品。
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Hilter read 2 books in prison, one was Fords
希特勒在监狱里读了两本书，其中一本就是福特写的。
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There IS proof that Edison went on a marketing tour electrocuting animals with AC power to scare people into thinking it's dangerous. Edison was pretty much a piece of shit. But if you want to call that "no proof that they quarreled", well....
爱迪生为了吓唬民众，让他们觉得交流电很危险，专门搞了一场巡回推销活动，在那儿拿动物做电击实验，这事儿是有实锤的。爱迪生这人基本就是个彻头彻尾的混蛋。但你要是管这叫“没证据表明他们吵过架”，那我也真是……
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Alternating current is obviously usable. Edison was definitely a better salesman.
交流电显然是好用的。爱迪生确实是个更厉害的销售。
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Yes, he was also better at forsight, execution, scaling and all the other things that allowed you and me to have electricity.
对，而且他在前瞻性、执行力、规模化以及其他所有能让你我今天用上电的事情上，都比对方强。
24 赞2017/11/5
Tesla didn't invent AC. Did not bring it to US. Was not the first person to create asynchronous motor. Did not invent the 3-phase system we use today. Didn't build the first AC system in the US.
特斯拉并没有发明交流电。也不是他把交流电带到了美国。他更不是第一个搞出异步电动机的人。我们今天用的三相电系统也不是他发明的。他在美国也没建过第一个交流电系统。
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He also didn't invent radio, xray, or radar but that doesn't stop people from giving him credit.
他也没发明无线电、X射线或雷达，但这根本挡不住人们要把功劳往他身上揽。
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We always remember great innovators in their twilight years. Vain as it may be, I wish we would remember them in their physical prime. Here's the same genius [in his early twenties](
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)我们总是通过伟人垂暮之年的样子来缅怀他们。虽然这念头可能挺虚荣的，但我真希望大家能记住他们风华正茂时的样子。
这就是那位天才[二十出头时的模样]()
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He hadn't even begun to peak!
他那时甚至都还没达到巅峰呢！
26 赞2017/11/5
Gods he was young then.
天哪，那时候的他可真年轻。
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i couldn't recognize him without a mustache
没留胡子我差点没认出他来。
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But young Nikola Tesla is tenfold more recognisable than old Tesla. I get what you're saying but it doesn't really hold water with regards to Tesla
但年轻时的尼古拉·特斯拉远比年老时的他更有辨识度。我明白你想表达什么，但就特斯拉这件事儿来说，你的说法站不住脚。
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_" Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark."_ -Tesla, upon discovering Edison's lightbulbs.
“看看这细腻的灰白色调，这极具品味的厚度。天呐，居然还有水印。”
——特斯拉，在发现爱迪生的灯泡时（如是说）。
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Nah dude, everybody knows Tesla as the guy with the mustache and [second mustache on his head](
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)不啦兄弟，大家伙儿心里的特斯拉就是那个留着胡子，而且[头顶上还长着第二撮胡子]()的家伙。
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This is definitely how I picture him. No one pulls off a dual mustache like Tesla.
这绝对是我心目中他该有的样子。没人能像特斯拉那样把这种双重胡须驾驭得这么完美。
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Christian Bale takes on many different forms.
克里斯蒂安·贝尔真是演啥像啥，千人千面。
20 赞2017/11/5
This all leads to The Prestige.
这所有的铺垫最终都指向了《致命魔术》。
427 赞2017/11/4
That's the face of a man who [fell in love with a pigeon.](
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/revision/latest?cb=20120527074201)这就是那个[爱上了一只鸽子的男人](/revision/latest?cb=20120527074201)的脸。
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Always wash your berries Arnold
阿诺德，浆果一定要洗干净啊。
42 赞2017/11/5
Unauthorized feels trip.
猝不及防的催泪弹，搞得我好难受。
15 赞2017/11/5
Permission to disembark from the feel-mobile
准许我从“情感快车”上下来。
32 赞2017/11/5
Reddit is freaky some times, I watched this episode the other day. I forgot how good Hey Arnold was.
Reddit 有时候真是邪门，我前几天刚看完这一集。我都快忘了《嘿！阿诺德》原来这么好看。
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This image is misleading... Nikola Tesla did not die poor and alone, nor was he forgotten. Since 1936 until his death he received a substantial monthly compensations from King Pavle Karadjordevic of Yugoslavia. He was also awarded the medal of "White Eagle of the first degree" awarded only to a few selected people who did something extraordinary for the state or the crown. Until the end of his life, he didn't have to worry about his financial situation.
这张图有点误导人……
尼古拉·特斯拉并不是在贫穷和孤独中死去的，也没有被世人遗忘。从1936年直到他去世，他一直从南斯拉夫国王彼得二世（应指保罗亲王，原文作Pavle Karadjordevic）那里领取一笔相当可观的月薪。他还被授予了“白鹰一级勋章”，这项荣誉只颁发给那些为国家或王室做出过非凡贡献的少数杰出人物。直到生命尽头，他根本不需要为钱发愁。
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Living_circumstances Doesn't sound too misleading to me. He definitely did not end his life happy, that's for sure. You don't board your self up in a hotel room and feed pigeons as your hobby in old age if your are a happy person. The maid found him in his hotel room dead, two days later, with a do not disturb sign on the door. I'd call that alone.
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That was his choice. He did not like being disturbed, he didn't have friends by his choice, and he chose to live in the hotel. He didn't have any children, no wife (tho he was very sought after as a bachelor)... What else could you expect? He deemed people not worthy to waste time on really. Combination of all of that, his very old age, the world changing around him must have hit him hard, but that's life for you.
那是他自己的选择。他不喜被打扰，没朋友也是他自己选的，就连住酒店也是他自愿的。他没儿没女，也没老婆（虽然他单身那会儿可抢手了）……你还能指望什么呢？在他看来，人们根本不值得他浪费时间。这一切加在一起，再加上他那把岁数，眼看着周围世界变迁，肯定对他打击很大，但这不就是生活嘛。
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> The maid found him in his hotel room dead, two days later, with a do not disturb sign on the door. Did they arrest the pigeon?
> 酒店女佣两天后发现他死在了房间里，门上还挂着“请勿打扰”的牌子。
所以他们把那只鸽子抓起来了吗？
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The smart must have accumulated in the upper part of his head
看来他那份聪明才智全都堆到脑门顶上去了。
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That's...generally how it works, yeah
那就是……大概的运作方式，没错。
52 赞2017/11/5
You don't have a brain in your lower mandible?
你下巴底下没长脑子吗？
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I love Tesla. The more I read about that man, the more I think of him as an amazing soul and mind way ahead of his time, an individual that loved to play with ideas and the prospects of reality that was yet to be discovered or is still to be descovered. And no matter how much you read about him, he still stays a mystery. It really makes me sad to see this photo knowing of the situation he was in in his late years and time of death. His eyes are so sad and exhausted and I only whish to have had a chance to meet him and talk to him, just listen and try to understand a mind so unique.
我超爱特斯拉。读过越多关于他的事迹，我越觉得他是个了不起的灵魂，他的思想远超他所处的时代；他是一个乐于钻研各种想法、探索尚未被发现（或至今仍待发掘）的现实前景的个体。无论你对他了解多少，他始终是个谜。
看到这张照片真的让我很难过，想到他晚年以及去世时的处境。他的眼神是那么忧郁和疲惫，我真希望当初有机会能见他一面，和他聊聊天，哪怕只是静静地听着，试着去理解那颗如此独特的大脑。
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"Prodigal Genius" is a good biography of him, written by a personal friend of his.
《天才的浪子》（Prodigal Genius）是他的一本好传记，作者是他的一位私交好友。
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Nikola tesla, overshadowed by thomas Edison, died, ironically, with his head the shape of a lightbulb.
尼古拉·特斯拉被托马斯·爱迪生盖过了风头，讽刺的是，他去世时，脑袋的形状竟然像个灯泡。
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Pretty sure he was only overshadowed while alive. Nowadays we respect him more than edison.
我敢肯定，他只是在世时被盖过了风头。如今我们对他比对爱迪生尊敬多了。
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> Nowadays we respect him more than edison. Reddit does.
> 现在我们比起爱迪生，更尊重他了。
Reddit 是这么觉得的。
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His face frame looks the same as Tesla logo.
他的脸型看起来和特斯拉的 Logo 一模一样。
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Damn this post is a minefield of comments
操，这帖子底下的评论简直是
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people like him seem to add credence to the idea of simulation theory. It's like every century or so we earn a few loot boxes of brilliant forward minds that literally change our species forever. Like for every five hundred million people we get someone who was worth the inane, pointlessness of most of our lives.
像他这样的人，似乎让“模拟理论”听起来还挺有那么回事儿的。感觉每隔一个世纪左右，我们就能开到几个装着顶尖天才的“战利品箱”，这些人直接永久性地改变了我们整个物种。就像每五亿人里才会出一个，证明我们大多数人那些平庸无奇、毫无意义的人生还没彻底白活。
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dunno if reddit really counts as common parlance, though.
不过，我不知道 Reddit 算不算得上是普通话语境。
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> Like for every five hundred million people we get someone who was worth the inane, pointlessness of most of our lives. Reminds me of what Stephen Jay Gould said about the analysis of Einstein's brain post-mortem: “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
> 就像每五亿人里才会出一个，证明我们大多数人那些平庸无奇、毫无意义的人生还没彻底白活。
这让我想起斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德在分析爱因斯坦死后大脑时说过的话：
“相比于爱因斯坦大脑的重量和褶皱，我其实没那么感兴趣；我更在意的是，几乎可以肯定的是，有无数同样天赋异禀的人，都默默地生在棉田里，死在血汗工厂中，却从没机会被人看见。”
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The point is to enjoy it and, if you want to be a good member of your species, to help future generations by leaving the world a little better than you found it. We’re just star farts that became sentient. Don’t over think it. Don’t ruin it for everyone else by being a bad person, enjoy it while it lasts
人生的意义就在于享受过程，而且如果你想做一个合格的地球物种成员，那就得在离开世界时让它比你来的时候好那么一点点，以此造福后代。
我们不过是一群产生了自我意识的星尘废气罢了。别想太多。别因为自己是个烂人就毁了所有人的兴致，趁还活着赶紧尽情享受吧。
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ehhh if we're in a simulation it's degrading pretty rapidly right now. maybe they ran out of space and are starting to use lossy compression
嗯……如果说我们真活在模拟程序里的话，那这运行质量现在崩得也太快了。估计是服务器空间不够了，开始用有损压缩了吧。
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Damn, it’s too late for Harry Dean Stanton to play old Tesla.
靠，哈里·迪恩·斯坦顿（Harry Dean Stanton）没机会演老年特斯拉了，真是太可惜了。
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One of the greatest people and minds of all time. Fuck Edison and even more so, fuck JP Morgan, you daddy-attention seeking piece of shit.
有史以来最伟大的人，最伟大的头脑之一。去他妈的爱迪生，更要去他妈的 JP 摩根，你这个只会像个缺爱的小屁孩一样到处找存在感的烂货。
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One of the devastating photos for those who admire him ;(
对于那些崇拜他的人来说，这照片看着真叫人心碎 ;(
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Why? Looks normal for 86 years
为什么？86岁长这样挺正常的吧。
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He’d be a BILLIONAIRE in the 90s if he had patented his inventions but he dint cuz he wasn’t greedy and just wanted the world to be a better place to live! (And he calculated the natural frequency of the earth way back then, scientists today still cannot precisely determine). That’s the kind of genius he was!! Huge respect to Nikola Tesla _/\_
他要是早把自己的发明申请了专利，90年代那会儿绝对是亿万富翁了，但他没这么干，因为他一点儿都不贪，只想让这世界变得更美好！（而且他早在那个年代就算出了地球的固有频率，现在的科学家都还没法精确测定呢）。他就是这种天才！！
对尼古拉·特斯拉致以崇高的敬意 _/\_
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To think this is the face of the guy who invested paypal
真不敢相信这脸竟然是那个投资了贝宝（PayPal）的大佬。
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Square jaw, positive canthal tilt, hunter eyes....he probably died by drowning in pussy!
方下巴，正向眦角，猎人眼……他这辈子估计是被女人淹死的吧！
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Looks like the picture was taken 3 years after he died
这照片看起来像是在他死后三年拍的。
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Evacuate? in our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!
撤离？在我们大获全胜的时刻？我觉得你太高估他们的胜算了！
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Why does he look so starved?
他怎么看起来一副饿死鬼投胎的样子？
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My mom lives near where his shop was in colorado springs. The people who live on the spot have asked media to not release the address anymore because all kinds of cosmic hippies and strange folks would show up at the door or be found in the back yard doing their conspiracy theory or energy stuff or whatever.
我妈就住在他以前在科罗拉多斯普林斯那家店附近。住在那儿的人已经要求媒体别再公布具体地址了，因为总有些神神叨叨的嬉皮士和奇奇怪怪的人跑去人家门口，或者被发现溜进后院搞什么阴谋论、能量玄学之类的破事儿。
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Did Edison steal his cheeks too?
爱迪生连他的腮帮子都给偷走了吗？
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I feel like I'm going to break him by just looking at him.
我感觉我只要盯着他看一眼，他就会散架似的。