Her voice always sounded weird to me, when it finally came out it was all an act I was 50/50 surprised and "oh yeah, that makes sense now."

"I'm a wet bag now, let's light this candle!"

Not on the ski slopes, apparently. The article says so far out of all these "ghost calls" auto-dials to 911 they got from an Apple Watch coming from the ski slopes, all of them have been accidental. It got so bad the manager had to tell his 911 operators to not worrying about calling back these numbers if it's from an Apple Watch & coming from the slopes, so that they could better focus on other real emergency calls.

> “It’s rare that someone falls on the mountain and there’s not a passer-by,” he said. “We’re hoping to get an actual 911 call from the person or someone on the scene.”

It really was a mini-Renaissance for technology during those times. The reason Tesla, Edison, & Bell lived around the same time, was because the powers of electricity were still being discovered, and people realized there's a whole slew of new inventions we could now create with it. They were all smart guys, but also, "born in the right place at the right time."

What Edison did is create a huge "invention lab" with tons of new equipment, and a standing order to the library to automatically order any new books on science & technology, and have them delivered. It was state-of-the-art.

He created it for himself after some of his earlier inventions took off, and to invite other inventors to use it for free under one condition: Edison owns the rights to whatever you create with his lab, tools, & resources.

The thing is, if you're a programmer, engineer, architect, etc. this is 100% standard practice now: whatever you create on the company's time with company resources, the company owns. If that's "stealing", every single modern company does it today, and we don't even blink at it. Edison is mainly guilty of starting this practice.

He wasn't always that way either. He created his first invention as a teenager, and teamed up with a businessman to help him sell it. He didn't understand the paperwork, and unknowingly signed away all his rights to the new invention, and the businessman profited from his work while he got nothing. He swore that day, to never let it happen again. He realized the business angle of being an inventor is just as important.

He wasn't "just a thief". He was an inventor in his own right, and loved it. On his wedding night he didn't even go to bed to consummate the marriage, he returned to his shop to continue working. His own children regularly had to take his plate of dinner out to his shop, because he wouldn't sit down at the table to eat with his family. Sounds like a guy who actually loves the craft to me.

It's cool, this comment was more in general to everyone, not specifically aimed at you.

I know how it is, in school you get taught about how he's an awesome inventor, but nothing about the bad stuff he did. School focuses all on the lightbulb story, but never mentions the electrocuted elephant. So later in life when people learn about the horrible stuff Edison did, it's like they flip 100% to the opposite side. "It's ALL lies, he NEVER did anything of note! He's just a lying, cheating, stealer!"

But that 180 deg turn in attitude towards Edison isn't completely accurate either. That's all I want to remind people of. Yes, you weren't told the whole truth, but that doesn't invalidate the other facts of his story either. Dude didn't even go to bed with his wife on his wedding night, he HAD to go continue work in his shop instead. That's not something a greedy hedonist does, that's the sign of an overly dedicated man. He's no saint, but he isn't some greedy businessman either, who couldn't care less about inventions. He loved inventing.

I know Edison gets a lot of (rightful) hate, but he was still an inventor thru-and-thru. People tend to forget that when they jump on the Edison hate-train.

For one, Edison, Tesla, Alexander Bell etc. were all born around the same time because it was peak industrial age, and everybody knew a bunch of wild inventions that had never existed before were now possible.

Edison created his first invention as a teenager, and met up with a businessman who promised to make it possible for him, and a lot of money. The businessman stole the patent for his invention & solely profited off it. Edison learned a lesson VERY early on: the business & legal side of being an inventor is very important.

That's where he got his early business-savvy from. A harsh lesson at his own expense. He vowed to never let it happen again. So when his other inventions started to take off, affording him the ability to create a massive inventors' shop, with a standing order to the library to automatically buy any new books on science or technology and add them to their shelves, it was with one caveat: Edison will own any invention you create with the resources in his shop.

He was still an inventor tho, those crazy stories about chasing the right filament for a lightbulb are true. On his wedding night, he didn't even go to bed to consummate the marriage; he returned to his shop instead. His own children would regularly need to take a plate of dinner to him in his shop because he was "too busy" to sit down at the table with them.

When Nikola Tesla had the tragedy with his shop, Edison carved out a whole corner of his shop for Tesla to exclusively work in... given he agreed to the same standards as all of Edison's other engineers, "he owns everything you create."

Sadly, Edison did start this trend in modern industry: no matter if you're an engineer or a programmer, your employer owns your work. But he was still an inventor. Still did it for the love. And the fact he only started his nasty policies AFTER being screwed over by others the same way, to me affords him at least a little sympathy.

100%. This is actually a pretty bad issue with space terminology. E.g. When talking about your highest altitude and lowest altitude for an orbit, for earth it's apogee or perigee. But the -"gee" suffix is specific to Earth, Gaia. So if you start orbiting the Moon, these same terms change to apolune or perilune, to reference the Moon's name, Luna. And should change based on the name of whatever planet is being orbited.

KSP has done a great job making the more agnostic terms, apoapsis vs. periapsis, more commonplace. And I wish more people picked up on it. It's embarrassing to watch supposedly knowledgeable people try to describe the orbit of a Mars satellite using "apogee" and "perigee".

Edit: just to make clear how simple it could be, and how confusing it actually is:

There's only 2 prefixes:

• apo- (highest)
• peri- (lowest)

But the suffix is supposed to change based on the name of the body being orbited. When instead, there's a suffix that's agnostic to the body's name: -apsis. Which could be used for any orbit of any body. Even if it still has a stupid scientific name, like TRAPPIST-7

Lol, reminds me of a courtroom transcript of a mortician:

Lawyer: "And you were the one who performed the autopsy?"

Mortician: "Correct."

Lawyer: "And you confirmed he was dead at the time of the procedure?"

Mortician: "Well he was certainly dead by the time I finished with him."