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14. "RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola"
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   >>Given some of his other inventions, I can't help but wonder if he
>>invented the infamous Thunderbolt ammunition on a slow weekend in the
>>1870s.
>
>I dunno about that. I suppose it's possible, but Thunderbolts are just
>an evolution of a well-understood technology, just making it smaller.
>Tesla's designs, aside from being a good bit quirkier, seem to utilize
>physics that aren't well understood by the scientists of the day. That
>IS his hallmark, after all.
>

I'd guess that he didn't - since Thunderbolt ammo, if I remember correctly, is built around a tiny core of antimatter, it wouldn't have been possible for him to invent it in the 1870s, when particle physics were in their infancy, or possibly still gestating.

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   RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola MuninsFire Apr-01-07 1
      RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola VA_Wanderer Apr-01-07 4
   RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Matrix Dragon Apr-01-07 2
      RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola asuffield Apr-01-07 7
      RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Tzukumori Apr-03-07 22
   RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Croaker Apr-01-07 3
      RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola mdg1 Apr-01-07 5
          RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Gryphonadmin Apr-01-07 6
              RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola O_M Apr-01-07 9
              RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola mdg1 Apr-01-07 12
   RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola asuffield Apr-01-07 8
      RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Gryphonadmin Apr-01-07 11
   RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola O_M Apr-01-07 10
      RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Verbena Apr-01-07 13
         RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Peter Eng Apr-02-07 14
              RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Moonsword Apr-02-07 15
                  RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Gryphonadmin Apr-02-07 16
                      RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Zox Apr-02-07 21
   RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola jadmire Apr-02-07 17
      RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola StaticdashPulse Apr-04-07 23
          RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola WengFook Apr-10-07 24
   RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Apostate_Soul Apr-02-07 18
      RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Polychrome Apr-02-07 19
          RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola MuninsFire Apr-02-07 20
   RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola WengFook Apr-10-07 25
   RE: BPGD: Tesla, Nikola Kendra Kirai Apr-16-07 26


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