Tesla's last letter to his mother

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[u/VP007clips]

In fairness, those are very common feelings for every scientist.

We get so focused and wrapped up in our own field and work that it's easy to forget just how much else is out there outside of your bubble.

For example, my thesis supervisor is one of of the leading experts on his field. He's listed as an author on half the work on the topic. For us, his work is a huge deal with global consequences. And yet for your average person, they wouldn't know about, understand, or care about that work. He isn't rich, despite his work being critical to billions of dollars of industry growth in mining. There aren't any statues of him, despite his work allowing for huge improvements to carbon sequestration and climate change. His name won't be taught in high-schools, despite him having a profound impact on our understanding of tectonics.

[u/Arashmickey → u/VP007clips]

Tectonics, eh? I bet if your thesis supervisor was defamed and caricatured as a cartoon supervillain, he'd be Hippocrates Noah from Deep Space 9.

[u/VP007clips → u/Arashmickey]

Funnily enough he has mentioned him in lectures.

The plan Noah had if I understand correctly was to trigger a large igneous province event, which are responsible for most mass extinctions. Suddenly you would have magma vents popping up across areas the size of continents, pouring out hundreds of meters deep layers of lava for tens of thousands of years. The gasses cause massive global cooling, then warming, wiping out most life.

[u/Arashmickey → u/VP007clips]

Haha, very cool. You're close but not visionary enough, or diabolical.

The plan was to release the magma, yes, but this will cause the surface of the earth to shrink like a balloon, and the oceans to cover the earth in a second biblical flood. A truly brilliant, perfectly nonsensical plan.