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Originally Posted by maomao
do you realized how many times china has done exactly that?
just look up when this guy built a functional compass, earthquake detector and a model of the solar system.
you people are still germanic tribes living in caves at that time.
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Look up the Antikythera Machine. That was created when the Chinese still thought the Earth floated on water.
Its the Greeks around 400 BC or so that are credited with the first heliocentric solar model.
However, there is at least 1 Sumerian tablet that clearly shows a Sun with 10 planets around it. Why 10? Because they also have a story about a 10th planet that was destroyed which created the asteroid belt. They aren't given credit for this because modern scientists say its impossible they knew this information. Kinda weird they would name all 10 of them though if they didn't know about them.
The other two were invented around 1 or 200 BC. Clearly, Europeans weren't cave dwellers at that point in time.
Yes the Chinese dynasties did have some great discoveries and inventions, along with nearly every other culture around the world.
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Originally Posted by arr430
China has advanced more in 25 years than the US did in 100 years. Why? Because they were not ham-strung by Western notions of Economics, Governance and Faith-based Ethics.
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lol
Because they didn't have to invent their way through it. They just imported the tech to do it from the west.
Also they gave up on communist economic policies and adopted a hybrid capitalist system for the markets. lol.
That and they stole a ton of IP from western companies.
Oh and the US provided safe shipping lanes and invited them into the global trading system allowing them to import energy and raw materials. China is one of the most import dependant countries on the planet.
Without those things China would resemble Myanmar right about now.