White People And Science/technology

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  1. RichardTheFrog

    RichardTheFrog Newbie

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    Well apparently your radar is a little off. I guarantee I've seen more of the world than you have. It's not even worth my time telling you about it.
     
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  3. Karen_J

    Karen_J Visitor

    Asshole post.

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    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    What parts of the world have you seen?
     
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    Well I'm not a one-dimensional science guy that reads in his room if you got that impression. I just took offense to that.

    Other than the standard....

    ICU, county jail(s), state prison(s), state mental hospital, lived homeless for a good while.....

    Seen a lot of different types of people.

    The Bahamas.

    Everywhere on Google Earth.
     
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  11. Karen_J

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    What did you learn about them?
     
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  13. RichardTheFrog

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    They are very much the same. Eat food, breathe air, like to have fun. There's differences and similarities.

    And as far as "bs meter," just because you call me a liar, doesn't make me one.
     
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  15. Karen_J

    Karen_J Visitor

    No two people are alike.
     
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    That's true. But they all also share 99.9% of their DNA. It's a good starting point.

    We could all benefit from nutrition, exercise, and a full schedule of immunizations.
     
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    You could benefit from a lot of things. Some fresh air should be at the top of that list.
     
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    No one has even offered any answer to the original question of this post.
     
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    Why? If you don't like the answer you say it is wrong.




    I am so tired of trolls.
     
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    You didn't answer at all. The only answers were Egypt and aliens.

    Obviously, it's not aliens, and I'm not sure what Egypt was referring to.

    My personal opinion is that we evolved this type of brain to create engineering and technology because we lived in the cold and needed technology (clothes, etc.) to stay alive in cold prehistoric Europe.
     
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    I'm sure you read that in one of your many science books...
     
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  29. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Ancient Africa, excluding the north:

    The Lebombo bone 35,000 BCE
    The Ishango bone 18,000 to 20,000 BCE
    Iron smelting and forging 1200 BCE
    The Haya have been forging steel for nearly 2000 years
    Tetracycline was being used by Nubians, between 350 AD and 550 AD
    The knowledge of inoculating oneself against smallpox seems to have been known to West Africans, more specifically the Akan. A slave named Onesimus explained the inoculation procedure to Cotton Mather during the 18th century, he reported to have gotten the knowledge from Africa
    Cattle domestication in Nabta Playa and Bir Kiseiba as far back as 9000 BP
    Between 13,000 and 11,000 BCE wild grains began to be collected as source of food in the cataract region of the Nile, south of Egypt.
    The donkey was domesticated in the Horn of Africa in 4000 BCE

    African American inventors:

    George Washington Carver
    Percy Lavon Julian
    Alcorn, George Edward, Jr.
    Ball, Alice Augusta
    Banyaga, Augustin
    Bath, Patricia
    Beard, Andrew
    Berry, Leonidas
    Bharucha-Reid, Albert T.
    Blackwell, David
    Blair, Henry
    Boahen, Kwabena
    The list goes on and on.....

    Chinese inventions:

    Paper
    Gunpowder
    Printing
    Compass
    Blast furnace
    Cupola furnace
    Finery forge
    Puddling process
    Paper money
    Rocket
    Land mines
    Escapement
    Alcoholic beverages
    and this list goes on and on..

    And on and on and on.....

    Only Germanic people...really? I haven't even mentioned the Greeks, Italians, Koreans, Japanese.......

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    Your conclusion in the OP is not correct so your hypothesis doesn't matter.
     
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    Germans do rock on though, jus' sayin'. :punk:
     
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  35. AceK

    AceK Scientia Potentia Est

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    the way I see it, a whole lot of innovations come from particular companies and without them we Wouldn't be where we are today. as much as I hate capitalism, it does drive innovation.

    AT&T
    IBM
    Xerox
    Sun Microsystems
    Cisco
    Intel
    AMD
    MIPS
    Texas Instruments
    Microsoft (honorable mention)
    Apple (honorable mention)
    ... I'm sure I'm leaving out many important ones but...

    IMO AT&T clearly takes it ... telegraph, POTS and the PSTN (telephones) the C programming language and UNIX. they really were pioneers.

    the honorable mentions are because I think Apple and Microsoft definitely have produced innovation and shaped the industry, but I don't think they were really pioneers like AT&T ... they made some things popular that were already around long before and made a lot of money doing it.
     
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    don't forget dave matthews.
     
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  39. RichardTheFrog

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    I said past medieval. None of those Chinese inventions are past medieval.
     
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