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Originally Posted by Bourke
American's did not invent the automobile OR computers. The first automobile was invented by Karl Benz, in Germany, in 1886. The first programmable computer was invented by Charles Babbage, in England in 1883. The first modern computer was invented, depending on who you speak to, by a German military team led by Konrad Zuse (the Z2) or a machine invented by a British military team led by Alan Turing. Turing was definitely the first to plan and discuss one.
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What about photographic film, the phonograph, the lightbulb, the airplane, the elevator, the skyscraper, the liquid-fuel rocket, the modern day electronic computer (nice one, claiming charles babbage, we'd all be pulling potatoes for Lord Blacksmere if you boneheads were in charge), laser, compact disc, on and on. And then there's this:
"So we arrive at the same conclusion: as the world military balance stands today, even in the unlikely case that the entire world aligns against them, the United States could not be conquered." Dylan Lehrke, IHS Jane's analyst hahaha! every last one of you could put aside your considerable differences and stop slaughtering, raping, and cheating each other and join in one big, smelly, some-part-of-the-goat-eating army and you still couldn't defeat the US! Ooooooh, that's got to burn!
I'll give you we have a lot of dummies here though. Robbie has a point. And even though we don't have a Mozart or an Alcubierre we do have, or had until recently, a culture of celebration of disruption and optimization.
In ten years, unless Hillary is elected, the answer might be different.