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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2014 0:21:26 GMT -5
This subject matter created one of the best episodes of "Bob's Burgers" ever. Exactly what I came to post. That episode is the series' crowning glory, IMO.
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Aug 16, 2014 9:10:21 GMT -5
Saw this many years ago. Never had any respect for Edison, despite all his patents. He basically hoodwinked a lot of people and launched a propaganda campaign against AC to try to besmirch Tesla (who was once an apprentice of Edison's). He regularly electrocuted stray animals to try to show how dangerous AC was. However, AC ended up becoming the power source of choice. I thought it was Westinghouse he was trying to besmirch? I read an article in Weird NJ about how he invented the electric chair for the same purposes. Edison was a brilliant and hard working man-but he was weirder than Weirrd Al. Well, yea. Westinghouse funded Tesla's work, so it was a team effort.
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Post by Sephiroth on Aug 16, 2014 9:16:37 GMT -5
I'll add in that we need to remember that animal right's had nowhere near the kind of social/political support it does now. And really, how far have we come? Some moron sticks his head in a tiger cage and gets mauled-and they put the tiger down for it. Sea World has whales with the world "killer" in their name, and people act shocked when someone gets injured or killed by one? It seems like people really do forget that dogs and cats did not go from wolves and mountain lions to housepets overnight; it took centuries of selective breeding and domestication throughout pre-civilization to produce what we now know and love, so to expect that wild animals can somehow be made harmless so easily really is stupid.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 16, 2014 9:18:32 GMT -5
Shocking... WA WA!
Anyway, Edison executing an Elephant was not an isolated incident. At that time of history, the time of the traveling circus.. There was another Elephant that went on a rampage. And it is given a public execution by hanging!
Seriously. There is photos.. Not posting them here. Too sad. Look it up if you have to.
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