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    Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End
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    Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End

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    1. vfvaetf on

      Empires rise and fall with time over decades and centuries.

      Germany was a scientific powerhouse until the 1930s. England was a scientific powerhouse in the 1700s. The US is a powerhouse from 1945 to today, but ideological meddling, budget cuts and poor education has made it so that China is now likely going to take over.

    2. Frogophile on

      Sadly they aren’t brought down by scientific reasons. They are brought down by the surrounding culture.

      Scientists fled Germany in the 1930s. Scientists fled Constantinople in the 1450s ahead of the Byzantine invasion. And scientists are going to flee the US in the next decade.

      And where the scientists fled to ended up the next big superpower.

    3. H0vis on

      It all comes back to the Civil War. The seeds of the USA’s eventual ratfucking were planted in the failure to adequately secure the peace and implement the reconstruction as planned. Having failed to destroy the country in war the traitors dragged it down in peace, holding everything back like an anchor.

    4. strufacats on

      I wouldn’t count the US out just yet. Things can change for the better over time.

    5. thinkB4WeSpeak on

      It’s ceaU how anti science and innovation people are. Even in small things that are helpful. For years studies have shown, for example, students learn better when going to school later. Yet we still send them at 7 am everyday. If we can’t change something as small as that in a area filled with degree holding people, how do we expect to compete with every other nation.

    6. elykl12 on

      But it’s okay America was shot it in the foot because we owned those libs !!!1!!!/s

      An entirely preventable and predictable loss to satiate a bunch of coal miners in Appalachian Ohio being upset at the world moving past the 1970’s