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How many of those Commonwealth nations planted a flag on the moon?

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First in flight, first with nuclear weapons, and carried the other English speaking countries to victory over the Nazis (must pronounce Not-c's, also Inglorious Basterds).

Post-WWII the rest of the anglophone countries follow the true leaders of the world, 'Murica!
 

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First in flight, first with nuclear weapons, and carried the other English speaking countries to victory over the Nazis (must pronounce Not-c's, also Inglorious Basterds).

Post-WWII the rest of the anglophone countries follow the true leaders of the world, 'Murica!

Canada supplied the uranium for 'the little boy', many of the nuclear scientists were educated in GB, but thanks for the Jeeps. ;)
 
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First in flight, first with nuclear weapons, and carried the other English speaking countries to victory over the Nazis (must pronounce Not-c's, also Inglorious Basterds).

Post-WWII the rest of the anglophone countries follow the true leaders of the world, 'Murica!

I won't list British firsts here, you would be scrolling for hours :)
 

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But with monster trucks added.
I find it pretty funny when non-Americans try to downplay America's achievements. During the 20th century, America achieved more high tech feats than probably the rest of the world combined.

Almost every piece of technology we use on a daily basis was created by America, or at a minimum, the root technology was.
 

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I find it pretty funny when non-Americans try to downplay America's achievements. During the 20th century, America achieved more high tech feats than probably the rest of the world combined.

Almost every piece of technology we use on a daily basis was created by America, or at a minimum, the root technology was.

America created nothing. It offered an attractive workspace for creative minds.

And I find it funny that you don't point out that many of those achievements were made by either immigrants to America; first-generation citizens and many others at least partially educated outside of the States. Everything is to a degree derivative. Do you have the high tech breakthroughs of the latter half of the 20th century without Betchley Park and the groundbreaking work by Alan Turing?
 
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Almost every piece of technology we use on a daily basis was created by America, or at a minimum, the root technology was.

I just choked on my metaphorical cornflakes (you did invent these).

You probably just typed this on a computer invented by Brits, using a screen invented by Brits and modernized by ****. Over the internet also invented by Brits. Or a device which is just a modern version of those thing's. Then you watched the morning news on a TV invented by Brits. Popped to the bathroom, turned on the light bulb (invented by a Brit, not Edison). Brushed your teeth with a British invented Toothbrush which listening to the radio invented by an Italian in England. Then drove to work on a modern road invented by Brits in a car invented by Germans, using tires invented by Brits. Maybe stopping at an ATM invented by Brits to get some cash. Maybe you take a call on a phone (invented by Brits) before arriving at work at the bicycle factory, both invented by Brits.

You probably have invented the most things in the 20th century like spray cheese and cigarettes but we already knocked off all the important stuff :whip:

Also, let's not take this seriously!
 

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"Over the internet also invented by Brits. "

Kahn and Cerf were American. DARPA was an American project. Much of the underlying technology was developed at Xerox's (an American company) Palo Alto Research Center.
 

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"Over the internet also invented by Brits. "

Kahn and Cerf were American. DARPA was an American project. Much of the underlying technology was developed at Xerox's (an American company) Palo Alto Research Center.
Cerf’s protocol transformed the internet into a worldwide network. Throughout the 1980s, researchers and scientists used it to send files and data from one computer to another. However, in 1991 the internet changed again. That year, a computer programmer in Switzerland named Tim Berners-Lee, a BRIT, introduced the World Wide Web: an internet that was not simply a way to send files from one place to another but was itself a “web” of information that anyone on the Internet could retrieve. Berners-Lee created the Internet that we know today.

 
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