WHEN EVERYBODY “KNOWS” YOU ARE WRONG.... but you!

Repost, this was supposed to post while I was in Italy, stupid Google

NASA, the mission: land American astronauts on the moon and return them safely back to Earth before the end of the decade. 
The task would test the ingenuity and determination of some of the best scientific minds on the planet. Led by the most brilliant and accomplished rocket scientist in the world, ex-Nazi and lead engineer of the V1 and V2 rockets that rained hell down on London during WW2, Werner Von Braun. 
The first task of the grandiose vision was to conceptualize the vehicle that would carry the precious cargo of humans and equipment to the moon and back, a mere half a million mile journey. 
There was no frame of reference, no previous mission experience to draw knowledge from. This mission would be blue-skyed by a room full of geniuses. 
One lone reticent scientist stood at the blackboard and diagramed his unorthodox plan for the mission. 
It must have been excruciatingly embarrassing for the normally quiet scientist to have his carefully thought out proposal dismissed and somewhat ridiculed by his peers, but having his idea panned by the great Werner Von Braun must have been an unparalleled humiliation. 

During another era, in another place, a young immigrant inventor faced his own bout with humiliation and rejection. 
His promising start in the new world must have seemed like a dream come true working for the famed Thomas Edison. 
This young unknown inventor had a special understanding of the properties of inductance and electromagnetism. 
His knowledge of coils, transformers and the armatures of motors and generators were ahead of its time. 
Nikola assured Edison that he could vastly improve the efficiencies of his electric motors and generators. 
Edison told him that if he could do that, he would give him $50,000 bucks.

A pretty nice bonus by today's standards, in the late 1800's it would be the equivalent of roughly 1.3 million dollars.  
After Nikola had completed his work, it’s hard to say who was more shocked, Edison when he came to the inescapable conclusion that Nikola had indeed  done what he said he would, or Nikola when Edison told him that he had only been joking about the 50 thousand dollar bonus. 
Edison got his new greatly improved motors and generators and Nikola got a job digging ditches after he stormed out of Edison’s laboratory. 
This would not be Edison's last conflict with Nikola.

The next conflict would evolve into a major pissing contest that would change the dark world forever. 
Nikola would not spend the rest of his career digging ditches. He would team up with George Westinghouse in a competition against Thomas Edison, both sides vying for the same goal of creating a method of delivering electricity to America and eventually the world. 
Westinghouse and Edison shared the same vision of creating the first practical electrical grid, but Nikola and Edison had complete opposite methods in mind as to how to how to go about it. 
Edison would even go on a bizarre and sometimes macabre tour demonstrating the dangers of Nikola's method of power transmission. The Wizard of Menlo Park was attempting to show the world that the uneducated Serbian immigrant was out of his depth. 

The time is now. And I am being told by Obama and his minions, by the Hollywood elitist, by the radical leftist media, by the indoctrinators who call themselves educators and by the crooked union bosses that they “know” I am wrong about my belief in Capitalism, American exceptionalism, Christianity, patriotism, family values, the 2nd Amendment, hell the whole damned Constitution for that matter.  
They all will tell you and me that they “know” we are wrong. 
But we are in good company. 

Thomas Edison, The Wizard Of Menlo Park “knew” that his DC (direct current) was the only practical method of transporting electricity from his power plants, to the world.

He even went on a tour electrocuting dogs, cats and even an elephant with AC current in an attempt to demonstrate the inherent dangers of Nikola Tesla’s AC delivery system.

 
Problem was Edison’s DC requires electrons to make the round trip from the power plant through the grid, to the point of use, then all the way back to the power plant.

That dog just won't hunt. The friction of DC current causes a huge amount of line loss as wasted heat on long runs.

Power plants would have to be built every mile or so and the only way to offer different voltages to a home or business would require multiple lines ran for each different voltage need.
Nikola Tesla was the father AC (alternating current) and with the backing of George Westinghouse set out to show the world who was really right. 
The "War of The Currents" would prove Tesla was right. AC current does not require electrons to make the round trip from power plant, to load and back to power plant.

Tesla’s electrons reverse direction 60 times (60 hz) a second.

This produces transfer of power by means of eletromagnatism, electrons pushing each other back and forth.



AC can be transmitted long distances with manageable line loss and much smaller electrical conductors. It can be transmitted at very high voltages and stepped down or up with transformers to meet the need for the various load requirements of different electrical appliances.
Tesla was right, the Wizard was wrong. 

Werner Von Braun “knew” his idea of building a single massive spacecraft to fly from the Earth to the moon, land on the moon, take off from the moon and land back here on Earth was the correct method to achieve President Kennedy's challenge.

John Houbolt the lone voice in the wilderness did not back down from his idea

of multiple task specific vehicles to achieve that same goal.
The LOR (lunar orbit rendezvous) worry expressed by Von Braun turned out to be a non-issue. Houbolt didn't let Von Braun's stature at NASA sway him from his belief and went over Von Braun's head with his idea. Eventually Von Braun came to realize on his own that Houbolt was correct. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Von Braun turned to Houbolt and said, "you were right John, we wouldn't be here without you". 

If two geniuses like Edison and Von Braun could be so completely wrong about something that they “knew” was right, how much more likely is it that Obama and his minions are completely wrong about everything they “know” to be true about me?
They are not even close to genius.