OT: Alien Contact

Wardad · #1 February 27th, 2003, 10:25 PM

Confused Confucious philosophy with emphasis on harmony discouraged technical advancements and helped to bring about stagnation.

Fyron · #2 February 27th, 2003, 10:27 PM

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Originally posted by Wardad:
Confused Confucious philosophy with emphasis on harmony discouraged technical advancements and helped to bring about stagnation.

Remember that the European Dark Ages began in roughly 479 AD (something like that) and Lasted until maybe the 15th or 16th century AD. You are saying that the Chinese made no advancements during that period?

Aloofi · #3 February 27th, 2003, 10:35 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Those Dark Ages only happened in Europe. The rest of the world went on developing new science without them. The Arabs and Chinese in particular continued to make advances during the European Dark Ages.

Yes, and the Bizantine Empire.
And the chinesse invented the most important tech advance ever: Firearms.
But it was the west the one that took that invention to the highest level.

Atrocities · #4 February 27th, 2003, 10:39 PM

What?? Is everyone off today or something? My god 108 hits in less than 24 hours. This is a first for any of my topics.

geoschmo · #5 February 27th, 2003, 10:46 PM

You are both right. The Orient and Middle East did go through a phase similer to the European dark ages where technological advancment was stagnated due to political and religious pressures. Unfortunatly for them it came later, during the time when Europe was advancing again. The resulting technology gap allowed for the phase of European colonization that persisted into the industrial revolution. The East is only now really recovering from that.

Geo

[ February 27, 2003, 20:47: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

tesco samoa · #6 February 27th, 2003, 11:00 PM

Didn't the ummm Italian Reseach Council or something beat C by 5% ??

I know up in Subury Ontario and at carleton U They are doing experiments with sub atomic travel at very fast speeds Up to C and perhaps they have passed C... i remember there was a slashdot on it Last year some time... They were sending the particles down and getting more at the receiving end... Something they have yet to explain... Perhaps those who travelled quicker than C ?? But don't quote me on this... It is all from memory.

And I do not have the time to search for reference documents on it.

tesco samoa · #7 February 27th, 2003, 11:02 PM

I think it is called tunnelling