Excavating, Mining, and Whining: Tesla Coil Concert

So this was cool...

I was standing too far away to get a decent photo during the performance.

I had heard of Tesla coils before and had seen David Bowie play Nikola Tesla in The Prestige, so I was pretty interested in this. Let's just say Bowie had some big coils.

It fascinates me the things that science can do. It is fathomable that electricity shot at a certain voltage and frequency could make sound, but making an entire score is incredible.

If you want to understand Tesla coils a little better here is a cool and nerdy explanation I found online: http://www.sciencebrothers.org/how-a-tesla-coil-works/

I was there.

I want to see these suckers used to power everything wirelessly. I like technology but I hate having a ton of cords. Clutter is bad and cords are clutter. But other than my first world problems, these could be great to deliver electricity places during natural disasters or emergencies. I don't really know about them that much, so I can't say that my fantasies could be reality, but in theory if we could deliver electricity wirelessly imagine what we could do! Cool stuff.

Making music with these coils has apparently become a meme on the internet. Although I just thought it was people having fun with science. I guess anything can be considered a meme now if there's enough of it on the internet. Does that mean that dicks and vaginas are memes? Because there are certainly plenty of those online.

A lot of the songs played were sci-fi theme songs (Doctor Who, Star Wars) or video game music (Mario, The Legend of Zelda). They knew how to play to their audience. The crowd loved it.