Hoplite wrote:
glocklover wrote:
the US is still where innovation happens, it is the incubator for the world. From Apple to tesla, to Boeing, Silicon Valley, Internet, space travel, and on and on.
WAS a place where innovation happened, not anymore. Now they think a clock taken apart and put into a briefcase is innovation and warrants scholarships and a trip to see the president. Sad.
Russians were the first into space. US innovation in regards to space travel has slowed to a crawl to the point where Russia is eons ahead. The US is so far behind that American astronauts need to hitch rides from the Russian Soyuz to reach the international space station.
Russians are charging 83 million US per ride per astronaut.
Also, don't forget that the Americans recruited Nazi scientists (led by Wernher von Braun) to invent rockets for them. Most notable the Saturn V which in turn was used for the Apollo program and got the Americans onto the moon.
Airbus has overtaken Being in sales. Boeing is basing it's hiring practices on making the company diverse which is fine and dandy, but meanwhile Airbus based its hiring on best man/woman for the job.
So much misinformation in that post I couldn't resist...
The Soyuz was developed during the cold war (most notably in the mid to late 60s) - it's "cheap" and reliable space launch/delivery vehicle that has seen incremental updates over the decades. It's not exactly
eons ahead -- Space X (a private US company) is well on their way on squashing this soviet relic.
Russians also "recruited" German engineers/scientists to kick start the soviet space program and please don't be naive enough to think that Wernher single-handendly developed the Saturn V.
Boeing and Airbus sale figures
link. Both companies are massively backlogged with sale orders. Boeing is currently leading the arguably more important delivery metric.
LOL RE: insider knowledge on hiring practices of both companies.
I won't argue America's decline as an undisputed world leader. But stating the it's a "has been" in innovation is simply unfunded BS.