Great country

[Chris 62]

Maybe the fact that it was so many more inventions then the others combined might be the reason?

[Bas]

Maybe that's bull****?

[Chris 62]

You wish.

You know it's true, so the mindless attacks continue.

[Sandman]

Chris 62: I concede that it was Ford's idea, Hitler got the idea from him whilst in prison, reading Fords biography. More Beetles have been produced than model Ts, but a substanial part of that production was in Mexico.

working in as gps and cell phone,

Sputnik transmitted beeps to earth. Is that not enough?

wrong about the computer too the first computer was built at the University of Pennsylvania

This is a picture of one of the Colossi. It was built to crack German codes. I suspect you're thinking about the first computer to use transistors as opposed to valves.

[Chris 62]

Sandman, you said Hitler came up with it first, just pointing out that wasn't the case, Ford built 15,000,000 model Ts from 1908-1927.
Volkswagen would produce 20,000,000 of the versitle beetles, but Ford did it first.

[flash9286]

well its all about how you think what is a computer

[Hueij]

Hueij, be quiet or we will pull the chewing gum out of the sea wall and watch that swamp you call a country sink

Ah, but I know you Americans will come to the rescue then

Btw, my country is not a swamp, it's part river delta, part land claimed from the sea. Now I would like to see Americans can do that

[Chris 62]

We don't bother with waste land, no profit in it.

And stop picking on the new guy, or I'll have ta get rough!

[red_jon]

I'm pretty sure DNA and the web were British discoveries.

Chris - your assertion that America has invented more things than Europe, Russia and Japan combined is one of the most poorly thought-out statements I have ever seen on poly. We were inventing things before you even started chucking tea away.

[Chris 62]

Nice try kid, but he said last 100 years, so you lose.

Nice try at an intelligent troll though.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Bas


You sound like ottok at the moment.

Uh, I don't think so.
Must know ottok by reputation only.

Yo, Red Jon. You need to do some investigative research before you post things that make you look silly.

[Chris 62]

He didn't need any research to post something silly.

[red_jon]

Originally posted by Chris 62
Nice try kid, but he said last 100 years, so you lose.

Nice try at an intelligent troll though.

Pot ... kettle ...

In the last 100 years I'd say a significant amount of inventions were American, but not the most.

[Chris 62]

Your double talk is getting better.

Won't kill you to admit it, we didn't become a super-power without creating things.

Britain was the world power in the 19th century, the USA is for the 20th, we will see about the 21st.

[Bas]

Before the edit the post was just as unintelligible as a typical ottok post, Sloww...

And I'm not even saying that Europe, Japan and the USSR invented more the last century (although that can certainly be the case, and it certainly isn't far less like you claim), but that the statement that the US is indispensable for technological progress in the last century is ridiculous. Sure, we probably wouldn't be as far as we are now, but the same goes for the European, Japanese or Russian contributions. But I if you like to live under the delusion that technological innovation stops outside of the USA, I won't stop you.