On 09/02/2018 15:08, rbowman wrote:
On 02/08/2018 11:28 PM, Bod wrote:
On 09/02/2018 02:51, rbowman wrote:
On 02/07/2018 11:34 PM, Bod wrote:
On 08/02/2018 02:28, rbowman wrote:
On 02/07/2018 08:48 AM, Bod wrote:

We gave the US lots of our secrets, like advanced Radar to
encourage you
to help us in WW2.

That's nice and all but it was German rocket engineers that put the US
into space. All the Brits knew about rockets was how to duck.

Not true.

We invented a hell of a lot:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/scie...full-list.html





A few but not the important stuff. Von Liebig invented Oxo and laid
the foundation for marmite...

I'd say the brain and CT scanners/steam engine/electric
motor/cement/photography/hyperdermic syringe/telephone/lightbulb/vacuum
cleaner/television/hovercraft/carbon fibre/world wide web were pretty
important.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...* For example Brits like Swan might have tinkered
around with lightbulbs but it took Edison to make it work. The US had a
history like China has today. We considered British patents and
copyrights to be a good source of projects. Ideas should be free.

Ok.

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Bod