jbrettlip wrote:hecter wrote:jbrettlip wrote:Oh yeah, I also forgot all the medical advances our horrible health system has developed...liver transplants, cancer treatments, artificial hearts, polio vaccine. How about GPS, that seems to be pretty handy. And some older stuff: electricity, steam engine, submarine, telephone.
In other words, the rest of the world would still be in the dark ages if not for us(a).
PS Rest of the world, you are welcome.
Congratulations for spouting off random bullshit and proving you know nothing about what you're talking about. For the record, there is no artificial heart (not a real one, anyway), electricity just is, nobody invented it, steam engine dates back to at least the 1600's, the concept of the submarine dates back to antiquity and the first actual submarine was built by Ukrainians. Oh, and the telephone was invented by a Scotsman in Canada.
Ahh you got me there....I did mean nuclear sub!Telephone is pretty much attributed to AG Bell. There are artificial hearts, Jarvik developed one.
But yeah, you know what you are talking about with the steam engine. Perhaps I was thinking the steam boat, but not sure if that is true either.
How about the assembly line? Or was that used by the ancient Egyptians to build pyramids?
I think the main message is: US tech does not suck.
Nuclear fission was developed by an Italian, and as previously stated, Ukranians developed the first sub. Big whoop for combining the two.
Bell was Canadian, he only had a labratory in the US.
First artificial heart was developed in US, but not by Jarvik.
The first steamboat was constructed in England, sunk, and then the first working model was developed by the French. Then the US developed one in DC.
Oh, and the first assembly line was developed in Venice during the Rennaisance, to build boats. The first modern assembly line was in England in the 1800's.
This is so fun!
