Cover art for Programming the 8086/8088 by James Colton
Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a ‘working model’ of his ‘death beam’. He warned the staff never to open it, describing it as a war-ending particle weapon that could stop invading armies and make warfare pointless.
After his death in 1943, someone finally pried the box open and found nothing but a bunch of harmless old electrical components.
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A stunning view of the planet at night from an altitude of 240 miles, it was recorded on March 28, 2012. The lights of Moscow, Russia are near picture center and one of the station’s solar panel arrays is on the left.
Image Credit: ISS Expedition 30, NASA
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” ~ Nikola Tesla