[Jordi]

A recent thread:

ESA Accelerates Towards A New Space Thruster (better than the Ion engine

anyway I do not claim any kind of supremacy of Europe's technology (just on cars perhaps) albeit I visited the impressive CERN and they claim they invented the Internet

My point: ESA's activities are of interest notably because with a smaller budget they follow NASA's path at close distance.

[dead]

Thanks for that link to the CERN site where they claim they invented the World Wide Web.

Interested, I clicked on the first link in their article (World Wide Web) only to discover that the link doesn't work!

LOL! They invented the World Wide Web, but don't know how it works. Très European, no?

[jveritas]

The ion engine is still a concept on paper thus it is not an invention until we have a real one. This concept was first introduced in the US many years ago and I bet you that if it will become a real thing it will be first built here in the US and not anywhere else. Regarding the Internet, it was used first by the US military in the 60's and came into limited civilian use in the 80's and it was not made world wide until the US made it so in the early 90's. Anyone who claim invention, developing or spreading of the Internet other than the US is living in a fantasy world of delusions.

[jveritas]

One more very important thing to add. There is a huge migration of scientific brains from Europe to the US because in the US these scientists are paid much more money, and they have much more funds available for their research. In other word all your brains belong to us.