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[Scia No.1700800]

The United States has been a leader in scientific research and technological innovation since the late 19th century. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone. Thomas Edison's laboratory developed the phonograph, the first long-lasting light bulb, and the first viable movie camera. Nikola Tesla pioneered alternating current, the AC motor, and radio. In the early 20th century, the automobile companies of Ransom E. Olds and Henry Ford promoted the assembly line. The Wright brothers, in 1903, made the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight.

The rise of Nazism in the 1930s led many European scientists, including Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, to immigrate to the United States. During World War II, the Manhattan Project developed nuclear weapons, ushering in the Atomic Age. The Space Race produced rapid advances in rocketry, materials science, and computers. The United States largely developed the ARPANET and its successor, the Internet. Today, the bulk of research and development funding, 64%, comes from the private sector.[104] The United States leads the world in scientific research papers and impact factor. Americans possess high levels of technological consumer goods, and almost half of U.S. households have broadband Internet access. The country is the primary developer and grower of genetically modified food, representing half of the world's biotech crops.

[Anonymous No.1700813]

and 90% of that funding is used to make your phone sound like a lightsaber

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1700829]

Shortly after the recession which started in 2007, a small brain-drain began from the United States as jobs in the country were outsources. The increasingly vocal Tea Party group starts riots in 2012 following the outcome of the Presidential election. The US economy began to collapse as hyperinflation ran it's course. Many scientists, some persecuted by the now super-religious government dictatorship, emigrated to Europe, Canada and parts of Asia and Australia. With the rise of neoconservatism and the effects of peak oil, the US split apart into the South and North, and gradually faded into global obscurity.

YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN FUCKER

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1700838]

>>1700829

That kinda sounds like a part of my novel, which is kinda creepy, all things considered.

Lol in this part the president of the Christian States of America is called Michael Bachmann. Obvious reference to that luddite, ignorant xenophobic fascist bitch Michelle Bachann.

>Christian States of America

YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN

[Anonymous No.1700841]

cool story, bro.

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1700842]

>>1700838
Ooh when you're done, send me a copy. I wish to read this.

[Anonymous No.1700847]

>>1700829
>US economy collapses
yeah, and so does the global economy

[Anonymous No.1700848]

>>1700838
Her name is spelled with one "l".

I disagree with her, but I love her and I voted for her. :D

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1700852]

>>1700842

Even the parts about the astronaut who falls in love with the genetically-engineered super-furry half-human half-leopard female hybrid?

lol nah i troll that's just the first part then they both die slow, painful, sad, sad deaths and I can't believe I did that to those poor people.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1700862]

>>1700848

>Her name is spelled with one "l".

Note taken.

>I disagree with her, but I love her and I voted for her. :D

Am I being trolled?

[Anonymous No.1700864]

>>1700847

You must break some eggs to make an omelette.

Fuck, I'm hungry.

[Anonymous No.1700893]

[Anonymous No.1700898]

>>1700829
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I'm moving to China. Time to start learning Chinese.

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1700908]

>>1700847
Actually when the US economy collapses it will be specifically because the base currency will be switched over to the Euro. They're doing this, right now. The US 'maxed out it's credit card' with the other nations somewhere in 2008.