"Great Scott!"
Posted on 12/29/2015 9:55:30 AM PST by Red Badger
Tech PinG!...................
I always heard my whole life about “those people” from third world countries. With the inflection that we were so superior. Slowly, Americans must ask themselves what is our place in the world now that the most of the rest of the world has become connected to the internet and has a good educational system. The literacy rate for the young in China and India are high. They will be the ones doing more and more of this stuff in the future.
The Chinese invented gunpowder.
The Indians invented the Kama Sutra.
What could possibly go wrong?....................
And Alfred Nobel invented dynomite.
Are you sure?
I coulda sworn Jimmie JJ Walker did!..................
But, but, but.... Carbon is bad! Barry and the EPA said so.
How dare they use evil carbon!
Why does the drawing show nickel?
They meant NITROGEN. I don’t think the drawing meant to use the NICKEL symbol......................
We’re becoming a third world country while they are taking our place.
I wouldn’t mind having a phone that was powered by half-supercap/half-battery. Be able to charge it quickly whenever near power, and have the supercap charge the battery while being carried around.
Another factor is a political/social climate that is friendly to science. Germany was once on the cusp of this, which is why a lot of great scientists, including Einstein, hailed from Germany. Another key motivation is profit incentive. The Middle East is in general short supply of these motivations unless oil is the source of profit, which doesn’t require too much effort anyway since someone else built most of the infrastructure. Consider Africa another basket case. Europe and the U.S. seem to be focusing more on socialism and “down with the corporations” that you’d expect in communist countries, while ironically China is focusing more on how the real world works.
Probably a very useful invention but I would like to see something good for transportation. Basically 220 pounds of this stuff would let me drive about 40 miles around town, and less on the highway.
Chinese government-backed hacking has its benefits, I see!
Wasn’t this one of the technologies that the Chinese Communist Party targeted, and acquired, from the US during the Obama open house?
I seem to remember them giving A123 battery company all kinds of Energy Dept research grants and DoD contracts, only to sell it to the Chinese for pennies on the dollar.
Thanks Red Badger.
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