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Let's have some fun, /sci/. For the next couple of hours, /sci/ is going to be nothing but homework threads, so we might as well have some fun.
Post your:
Country
Your country's greatest scientific advancement
The greatest decade of your country
How much you enjoy your country (x/10)
I'll start:
United States
Atomic bomb, maybe.
1920's
7/10

>> No.1822534

United States
Space Shuttle
60s
1000/10

>> No.1822538

Oppenheimer invented the atomic bomb you filthy yank.

>> No.1822540

The Great Nation of the USSR
Everything, from tokamaks to Sputnik
All of them
9999999999999999999999/10
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a capitalist pig.

>> No.1822539

United States
atomic power
not the 1920s, maybe the 1950s there always seems to be something wrong
100/10 our politics are so amusing

>> No.1822541

>>1822538
>oppenheimer invented the atomic bomb
>implying he solely did that
>implying that he wasn't an American citizen

>> No.1822542

United States
The Internet
80/90s
3/10

>> No.1822544

Canada
Weaponized Moose (just wait)
2030s (see above)
10/10

>> No.1822545

THE NETHERLANDS!
The telescope probably
1970s for a decade, I guess. We had an awesome century during the 1600s, though.
8/10, dropping due to retard politicians and their electors

>> No.1822549

>Country
Netherlands
>Your country's greatest scientific advancement
Telescope/Microscope
>The greatest decade of your country
make that a century: Golden Century (17th)
>How much you enjoy your country (x/10)
potato/10

>> No.1822558

United States
The silicon transistor, atomic energy, or the airplane
Probably the 40's, saving the world is pretty cool.
9/10, life could be better but it's pretty damn good.

>> No.1822561

America
Potato, corn, chocolate, and tomatoes
before the white man
6/10

>> No.1822566

Australia

Synthetic thongs

yeah, but na..

10/10

>> No.1822567

>>1822549
HALLO VRIND, WAAR WOONT U EN WAT STUDEERT U?

>> No.1822574

>>1822549

Netherlands is awesome, even carl sagan says so in Cosmos

>> No.1822580

>>1822567
~Amsterdam, Neuroscience. U?

>> No.1822595

>>1822580
Rijswijk, natuur- en sterrenkunde in Leiden.

>> No.1822598

>>1822595
Slaap lekker alvast, broeder /sci/entist

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1822600

Earth
Humanities compiled scientific knowledge to date.
It gets progressively better as time goes on.
6/10 We've got a lot to work towards, but we're getting there.

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United States
Combine harvester
Sometime in the future hopefully. Otherwise...1960's I suppose.(Shrugs) I really couldn't pick.
7/10(I live in Vermont ^_^)

(I don't do the whole nationality thing)

>> No.1822605

Belgium
Georges Lemaître proposed the Big Bang Theory
7/10

>>1822541
I know right. Might as well mention Manhattan Project.


On a side note : a country's scientific advancement doesn't mean squat. A better question would be :
what's YOUR greatest scientific advancement (apart from finishing high school).

>> No.1822609

>>1822605
as for greatest decade idk

>> No.1822612 [DELETED] 

ban?

>> No.1822610

>>1822605
>implying anyone on /sci/ has made a scientific acheivement
I taught some 12 year olds how to make diamonds once. Haven't heard from them since, I guess they're too rich to talk to me now.

>> No.1822613

UK
Evolution, Classical Physics
1960s
6/10 (above 3rd world, developing world and US) but no utopia

>> No.1822616

>>1822600
fuck yeah Vermont
Where you from?
I lived in near St. Albans for almost 6 years

>> No.1822619

>>1822610
>I taught some 12 year olds how to make diamonds once. Haven't heard from them since, I guess they're too rich to talk to me now.
Nigger you'd better be trolling.

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>>1822574
I know why.

>> No.1822621

United states
Apollo 11
60's
8/10

>> No.1822625

Inb4 italians

>> No.1822627

>>1822613
actually the UK ranks below the US

US is 11th
U is 16th

>> No.1822629

Italy
Enrico Fermi
1600's
9/10

>> No.1822632

>>1822627
>implying anyone has objectively ranked how enjoyable a country is

>> No.1822636

>>1822632
>implying he's not talking about the WDI

>> No.1822640

>>1822632
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

>> No.1822643

>>1822616
Really? That's uncanny; not unexpected though. I live in the shadow of Middlebury(Weybridge) Looking for work in the Burlington area; hopefully I get a job there and can afford to move in.

>> No.1822647

>>1822636
>>1822640
>not aware HDI is a scoring system with an error margin of 0.1

>> No.1822651

>>1822640
die in a fire scia

>> No.1822655

>>1822627
actually after living the US for 2 years i still prefer the UK. Its just a more relaxed way of life, safer and with more political and personal freedom.

I still recognise the UK has faults and see countries that are better, but cba to learn another language so that kinda limits my options

>> No.1822662

>>1822651
U mad

>> No.1822665

>>1822655
>political and personal freedom
that's not what i heard
don't you guys have some serious censorship laws?

>> No.1822675

Serbia
having Tesla
14th century (Dushan the Mighty)
5/10 (wars can be fucked up thing lol)

>> No.1822680

>>1822655
>more political and personal freedom
>can't have knives
>can't have guns
>have to be 18 to buy silverware
nigger u dumb

>> No.1822684

>>1822598
jij ook!
>>1822620
Actually it was because of the religious and scientific freedoms of our golden century (1600s as I said before) that he was praising it, allowing for much debate and such.

>> No.1822686

>>1822680
Oh, almost forgot. You also have police cameras on you 24/7, and censor the shit out of everything
deal with it

>> No.1822740

>>1822616
Bump.

>> No.1822750

> Country
USA

> Your country's greatest scientific advancement
We don't kill scientists for being of an inconvenient race or political persuasion

> The greatest decade of your country
1960s

> How much you enjoy your country (x/10)
7/10

>> No.1822751

>>1822675
>implying Tesla did all his work in Serbia
>implying Tesla wasn't an American citizen

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1822758

Denmark
Quantum Mechanics (Ye i know Bohr got some of it wrong but he started it)
decade = dunno, 11th century was pretty badass though
8/10

>> No.1822769

>>1822751

idiot he's not implying any of that
Tesla was Serb and just because theyre poorfags he had to go to Murrika

>> No.1822787

>>1822627

The britfag said he found the uk more enjoyable, which is perfectly acceptable.

I'm sure he wasn't claiming that Britain is more entertaining than America- which would be fucking retarded.

>> No.1822807

U.S.
Your country's greatest scientific advancement: Putting man on the moon.
The greatest decade of your country 1940's
How much you enjoy your country 7

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>>1822665
no, only moderation to free speach is crimes like incitement to ethnic or racial hatred so that vunerable people dont get turned into extremists

>>1822680
actually we can have knives and some guns. Theres no laws against anyone buying silverware

>>1822686
actually over 90% of our CCTV is privately owned. If we had a law against owning it to protect your own property that would be oppressive imo

>> No.1823889

Canada
Yellow Snow Cones
1980s
9.97/10

>> No.1824004

UK
Far too many. I'd probably go for people like Watt and Trevithick helping start the industrial revolution, Newton's work, Darwin's origin, or Turing's starting computer science.
1980s (shit happened, good music)
8/10 (apart from possibly Sweden or France, I can't think of anywhere else I would rather live)