Decius wrote:

ibenez wrote:
cars, computers, silicon, pace makers, pacman, bread with no crust, etc.

Careful. A German invented the car, a Englishman invented the computer (although an American did build the first turing complete all-electronic computer), silicon is an element discovered in Sweden, a Canadian invented the pace maker, Pacman was written by a Japanese guy, and I have no idea who invented "bread with no crust" but an American did invent sliced bread.

Oh dear... feeding the trolls!

It's possible I'm not an american by ibenez' metrics of course. I actually like the idea of cooperating with other countries instead of dominating them militarily and economically. This article wasn't even about war or weapons, so it's kind of incredible to even see him/her post on it.

Any excuse to wail on about how america's done (and will do) everything worthwhile in the modern world, I suppose.

Did we really "harness" the power of the sun? So far, all we've done with fusion is figure out how to make the reaction run away in a manner that's incredibly effective at vaporizing buildings and people we don't like. Oh, and i guess we've fused some atoms in labs here and there too.

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