French Inventions Quizz (slightly OT)

Mxsmanic wrote:
Gary writes:

What?! I think it's time you step away from the simulator, and learn
a little bit about the real world...

The US lost 400,000. The USSR alone lost 20 million, and 100 million
died altogether in WWII, with 75% of them being civilian. Civilian
losses for the US were virtually nil, and there was no signifcant
damage of infrastructure other than Pearl Harbor.

"Unaffected" my ass.

You don't know how good you have it.

Please site your source for those numbers. The wiki article said a
total of 65 million killed with the SU loosing 23.2 million of which
10.7 million were military. US KIA were 407,000 troops and 11,200
civilians. As for the infrastructure costs, while the US did not lose
much beyond Pearl Harbor to bombings, it lost a great deal to the
redirection of it's industrial complex to produce the goods needed to
fight the war in the rest of the world. The US also paid a majority of
the costs of fighting the war.

It was affected.

"John Theune" wrote in message
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The US also paid a majority of the costs of fighting the war.


And cleaning up afterwards.

Well, it is interesting how these things go... Early scientific
leaders were Greek and Egyptian with science traveling into Arabia...
The Romans were not scientists but they were adopters and builders of
technology, especially large civil works, roads, aquaducts, etc...

The countries convulsed with death and destruction at this time in the
middle east, were in the middle ages repositories of science with
mathematics and astronomy prominent... Though neither Egypt nor Arabia
became builders/users of technology based upon their sciences - the
pyramids being an exception in the case of the egyptians... That task
fell onto Europe with the industrial revolution, where Europe was
persued into the revolution by the USA...
As was mentioned the European states wasted their energy, resources,
their scientific and technology leadership, in incrementally increasing
bloody feuds covering some 250 years..

Now the USA seems to be coming to a crossroads where we will either
climb to a new level of scientific and industrial achievements, or
lapse into exhaustion and the penury of socialism and become a has been
begging for scraps at the periphery of the new world leaders, China and
Indoasia... The hemorrhaging of our resources into endless (at least
looking that way) war and death in the middle east by the Bush
administration does not bode well for the rapidly increasing
competition with the Chinese for technological and military leadership
of the world... At this point it looks like the rise, decline, and fall
of the american empire is pushing rapidly into the decline phase...
It's been a brief, if spectacular, ride...

denny

John Theune writes:

Please site your source for those numbers.

Why? Gary didn't cite his.

The wiki article said ...

I've written Wikipedia articles myself. If I put my figures into an
article, will that make them reliable?

It was affected.

It was pretty much out of harm's way, and it was one of the few
countries to be so.

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