I am afraid I must apologize...after all, I have been making petty jokes on this thread, when the original intent was obviously to start a technology piѕsing contest. I didnt mean to be rude.

...based on information stolen from us:

Wasnt the first or the last time that the Soviets had to steal technology in order to keep up with us. A tradition that China is now continuing.

Apparently, communism can advance just fine as long as it has democracies to leech technology from. Too bad for them they could not also leech off of our economy. They might still be around.

Um...so what? The US detonated the first hydrogen weapon. The Soviet weapon would not have even existed had they not obtained the necessary data from us.

As for TV...the actual technology was invented by a German, not a Russian:

Of course, I am not typing this on a CRT...but an LCD. US Technology:

Actually, most of the compnents in your computer are probably American technology, including your Operating system.

Magnetic Storage:

Also, the first optical storage system (on which CDs and DVDs are based):

The Mouse:

Video Cards:

Network Technology:

The first Microchip:

The first Internet (Which formed the basis of the modern internet):

(I am curious...did the Soviets manage to figure out networking on their own or did they steal that from the US as well?)

On to the electric lamp...based on technology (light bulbs) developed first by Edison:

Though not the first attempt at an electric lamp, it was the first practical one. No Soviet technology was required as far as I know.

Without US supplies, those tanks would have been sitting in warehouses while the Germans began exterminating the Russian population. You're welcome.

Americans were the first humans to set foot on the moon:

We didnt even need to steal Soviet technology to do it. Honest.

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what about Tomas Edison and the light bulb? or the phonograph or synthetic rubber?
and the list goes on.

oh, and about the moon landing, I am sure the nut jobs will see that on here and
start screaming how it was all staged.

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Its absurd statements like this that make those who say it so absurd.

Plus an extreme lack of education....or at worst knowing full well how absurd it is but not caring.


Same calibre of person uses the Nazis camp system as well.

A lot of inventions of USSR you did not know,because USSR was closed country and First winged rocket which was controled by men was build in USSR in Afghan War.....a lot of medical invantions and others........just because f'cken communism was closed to outside world......SO VODKA IS Drinks which was entered to Russia with tsar Peter the Great....samagon is russian same drinks.....Vodka is not ukraine or russian thing......Vodka kill,Vodka is evel thing!!!!Medovuha is best thing,Honey spirt drinks FOREVER!!!!

You lie again! Von Braun has made american space program Appolo!!!

This one half of true! In 1949 in the USSR it has been blown up two nuclear bombs: One on the American technology (though it not American - the American nuclear bomb was done by scientists of all world), the second on original Soviet technology. But about it to speak it is not accepted in the West now.


The US detonated the first hydrogen weapon - YES! But this hydrogen weapon could not be shipped aboard the plane. And here the USSR has blown up already a hydrogen bomb!!!

Read closely! I about TV as about system, instead of about a cathodic tube have written!

Read closely! I did not approve, that all in the world was invented with Russian... But for example one of founders Google was born in Moscow...

You are right, this is absurd - in the US the Gulag prision system is largely privatised; not that state run, inefficient communist manner of caging their populations.

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LCD Technology was not US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crystal_display

The first working model was made at Hull university England.

The development of the DSM mode of LCDs was made in the US

But after all when the US nick something their ability to see where it came from disappears.

Copy right theft is a US national pass time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Www

What the US know about invention could be written on the back of a postage stamp. What the US know about theft could be written many books founding many libraries.

As for the reader in you disc drive it's a good job the russians invented the laser.

There appear to be several themes running through this thread. The most prominent seems to be simplistic and juvenile cheer leading for the technical and scientific prowess of one nationality versus another. A secondary thread involves (implicitly) the conditions that promote such advancements. That's considerably more interesting. Some observations.

Genius is distributed randomly. Making genius pay off in the form of scientific breakthroughs and even more crucially in terms of technological advancements requires a social and economic infrastructure that is most common in wealthy nations or in nations where a command economy can concentrate available resources productively.

Large (especially large developed) nations have significant advantages simply because they have more geniuses and more resources to devote to research and development.

A weakness of command economies is that they depend to a large extent on "betting" correctly about the most productive directions of technology development. A strength of command economies is that if decision makers bet correctly, the concentration of resources necessary to achieve scientific and technological breakthroughs is easier to accomplish.

Even nations that are otherwise committed to "free" markets frequently engage in politically driven investment (similar to command economies) in particular areas of science and technology. The Manhattan Project, for example, was not based on allowing the "market" to determine the direction of technological development. It followed the same model as the Soviets' in the recruitment and compulsion of scientists driven toward a politically determined goal.

By the same token, if a nation can afford to do so, the "waste" of a free market in funding R&D can, from time to time, pay off in unexpected ways. It bears noting, however, that such success is matched by other failures that are seldom noted. (From an economic standpoint there is no difference between wasting resources in the public and private sectors. But in a society where private investment is viewed as laudable, the social cost of such waste is ignored in the private sector and publicized in the public sector.)

All in all, if a nation wishes to be technologically productive, it's good to be rich, large, and already technologically advanced compared to one's competitors. Those conditions make additional technological development and scientific breakthroughs more likely. And if one is big and rich enough, a "free" market and limited government direction of investment can pay off in innovation.

In the absence of those conditions, the best bet appears to be to adopt a command economy with the attendant ability to direct investment through government action. In that case, success largely depends on decision makers "betting" the investment successfully.

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In the 90's??? you want to stick with that? OK I worked on the Internet in MIT in the 60's and 70's
but I was not the ones who came up with it for the government. the Internet is older then you think
and was a project for the government in the 60's that the government asked a few people at MIT
to help with. then later on the government handed it over to the public.

your so full of it.


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