cjreisen

Precisely why the US has accepted over 2 million refugees and asylum seekers since 1980. Just so we can kill them when they get here!

Isn't it time you guys get over your European bias of the US? I thought living here might make you less ignorant toward the US. Maybe if the US weren't so busy accommodating refugees and spending money to make sure they can assimilate into American society, we might have more money to go to space.

Bob

You need to pull the plug from out of your rear and realise the sentiment of the posts.

They are taking the mick out of the very sentiment of your reply :/

Oh and you're talking small change. One years military budget is more than the combined years of NASA spending in its entirety.

SultanOfSwing

With the best will in the world, mate, what the **** are you banging on about?

SultanOfSwing

Now, back to reality - here's my genuine favourite thing (non-human, my wife and children are rather implicit) about the US. I didn't buy it here but it was my dream to have one since I was eight years old and I bloody well paid for the privilege but it was (as far as I am led to believe) hand made in Corona, CA.

Shameless self-indulgence but it is at least on topic

HarryTheSpider

Hang about. Let's put it in perspective...

The US's Nazi rocket scientists beat the USSR's Nazi rocket scientists.

And as for pioneering aviation - hmmm... Only officially!!

To be serious for a mo... only the kind of entrepreneurial economy the US has had could achieve these and many other notable achievements. Kelly Johnson was a genius - to go from concept/idea for a mach 3+ aircraft when mach 2 was still an experiment, then create the new materials needed to withstand the heat, and new manufacturing processes to go with it, sketch it all out in the days before AutoCad (i.e. by hand. in pencil!) and get the first prototype (precursor to the SR-71) flying in a little over 3 years took genius, creativity and more than a little hard work.

IIRC the rocket that Alan Shephard took the US's first manned flight in had not had a completely successful launch (or perhaps only 1) before he took his flight - he knew that. That takes balls.

Jerseygirl

He's an American...trying his hardest to convert us.

SultanOfSwing

Yeah, I know the British and Germans invented the jet engine; the DeHavilland Comet beat the 707 by almost ten years and the US didn't have a Concorde, but the US were no slouches in that particular field back in the 40's et cetera. I wanted to pick something I did like to balance all my sarcasm and flippancy. I think, on reflection, my Stratocaster was a better choice (plus the name was derived from an aviation source) ...

Perhaps I should have picked the minds. People like Richard Feynmann, Carl Sagan, Neil DeGrasse Tyson. There's hope yet ...

HarryTheSpider

Now, you could be being ironic and all that, in which case, well done, you got me hook, line and sinker. On the assumption that you aren't, here's the appropriate reply...

...Wow, you are a slow learner, even for a knob jock. How many hints and explicit statements about the nature of BE do you need, FFS?

If you are a Brit, you should know better. If you aren't, welcome to a fascinating facet of the British psyche.

If you are American, I suggest you examine your own ignorance and bias, instead of giving the World more reason to maintain the inaccurate stereotype that Americans are ignorant, under-educated, overly positive to the point of pukedom, and utterly closed to anything that does not have 'Made in USA' or 'Thought of in USA' stamped on it.

We're (most of us) having a laugh in a classic British way. If you don't like it, p*ss off.

ian-mstm

To be fair, what other use is there for them?


Man has only gone as far as the Moon... which, in terms of space, is like a short walk to the chemist!

Ian

robin1234

To be honest, when I lived in Europe, I never gave the US a thought.. couldn't give a sh*t about the sorry place. It's only now that I live here, that I constantly grind my teeth and spit bile about it.

Uncle Ebenezer

Did I meet you earlier, in the parking lot, passing out tea party leaflets?

HarryTheSpider

AND - it is very sweet - a work of art!! <envy>

kimilseung

But lets not forget that refugees and asylum seeking has been used as a foreign policy tool as well as a domestic economic and social one.

Leslie

Or maybe if we'd stop fucking starting unnecessary wars, you idiot.

SultanOfSwing

I waited sixteen years to get that guitar, but it was worth it.

Of course, I plug it into a British amp, but we always did have the edge in amplification