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Originally Posted by Didge

That's a big call - better than Newton? He was scarily smart (as we all know) Didn't Newton devise calculus over a weekend to solve a problem posed to him? What do you think of Elon Musk? Owner of Tesla cars - now there's another genius - Nikolai Tesla. This is making me feel dumber all the time :(

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Reading a Biography on Tesla at the moment, certainly scary smart.

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Originally Posted by Didge

That's a big call - better than Newton? He was scarily smart (as we all know) Didn't Newton devise calculus over a weekend to solve a problem posed to him? What do you think of Elon Musk? Owner of Tesla cars - now there's another genius - Nikolai Tesla. This is making me feel dumber all the time :(

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Don't worry Didge. I'm sure that in his quieter moments of reflection' Tesla and his mates Einstein and Eiffel as well, would have felt woefully dumb.

Now I am addicted to Defenders what worries me is I cant ever have a replacement if anything happens to mine..
Chris

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Originally Posted by cafe latte

Now I am addicted to Defenders what worries me is I cant ever have a replacement if anything happens to mine..
Chris

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You mean a new one.

I recon a lot of others are thinking this as well,including us.:(

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Originally Posted by scarry

You mean a new one.

I recon a lot of others are thinking this as well,including us.:(

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Ditto.

What you have all been waiting for....

Secret testing in France of the new Defender. Don't be fooled by the usual industry standard tricks to disguise the body shape...

(The French have been calling the Brits "swine" for hundreds of years - hence the secret codename)

[ame]https://youtu.be/2FbW_kVYcl0[/ame]

Can't imagine LR giving it that much flexibility, but would be nice.
In a perverted way I kinda hope the next Defender is a huge disappointment as it would make mine more valuable.

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Originally Posted by Didge

That's a big call - better than Newton? He was scarily smart (as we all know) Didn't Newton devise calculus over a weekend to solve a problem posed to him? What do you think of Elon Musk? Owner of Tesla cars - now there's another genius - Nikolai Tesla. This is making me feel dumber all the time :(

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I don't know enough about Musk's abilities to really comment, but from the publicly available information his outstanding talent is as a businessman who has a sound understanding of science, rather than any special intellectual ability (which he may well have as well!).

Tesla was an outstanding physicist, and is responsible for the theory behind the alternating current power system we use today. But whether he was greater than, for example, Maxwell, is not so certain. What he did have, was definite personality problems (but then so did a lot of other famous people, including, for example, his contemporary Edison, and his predecessor Newton!).

John

Hi,

New to the forum so apologies if this is answered elsewhere. I did a search for 'new' and 'used' but it came back and said those words were too short.

Anyhow, I'm looking to become a first time Defender 110 owner in the next month, and I'd appreciate any thoughts about whether you would recommend:

a) Buying a 2015 Defender.
PRO - pristine and a blank slate.
CON - I presume there's not much haggling can be done since they're disappearing.


b) Buy a recent (2009-2014) 110 in good condition with full service history.
PRO - have some $$$ left over to start putting on the bits I want.
PRO - someone else has sorted out any major gremlins
CON - someone has not sorted out any major gremlins, they've created some.

I'm going to see my local LR dealer on Friday - they say they have one more model allocation of what I want - Fuji White Defender 110 with the Black Pack.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

I don't know enough about Musk's abilities to really comment, but from the publicly available information his outstanding talent is as a businessman who has a sound understanding of science, rather than any special intellectual ability (which he may well have as well!).

Tesla was an outstanding physicist, and is responsible for the theory behind the alternating current power system we use today. But whether he was greater than, for example, Maxwell, is not so certain. What he did have, was definite personality problems (but then so did a lot of other famous people, including, for example, his contemporary Edison, and his predecessor Newton!).

John

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I think you'll find a lot of the famous physicists were on the Autistic Spectrum.