Tesla Time

Nikola Tesla: he's
probably thinking of how
to zap you.

January 10 is National Static Electricity Day, and while I don't have anything fun directly related to the topic, I do have something about a guy who worked with static electricity, as well as other forms of electricity, quite a bit: Nikola Tesla. Tesla first got interested in static electricity when his cat shocked him (something that happens to me quite a bit). He also invented a death ray, but he never used it.

So, what if he did use the death ray and started zapping things like crazy to get back at people? He would probably zap Thomas Edison first, as Tesla created the AC when working for Edison and demanded his $50,000 reward for completing it. Edison said that he was only joking about the money, so Tesla released AC to the public. Edison claimed it was unsafe and electrocuted animals to prove it, including cats such as the one that inspired Tesla in the first place.

Using that as a launching pad (recap: Tesla builds death ray, uses it on Edison, says "That's for the cats!"), what happens next?