>>409932
>The first claim and you're already wrong
https://archive.ph/i3Z0R
<The Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest existing complex geared device, an amazing geared analogue computer. It was built approximately 2150 years ago and was used to calculate astronomical phenomena.
<The device was operated manually by a user, to set a date on a dial and notice the astronomical phenomena that occur on that day. Respectively, by choosing an astronomical phenomenon he can observe at which date it will happen. All necessary calculations were made using a set of gears (at least 39).
<The Mechanism was used to calculate the diurnal and annual motion of the Sun, the Moon and probably the planets among the stars. It calculated the position of the Sun and the Moon in the Sky and the phases of the Moon for every day of the year and predicted eclipses of the Sun and the Moon.
<It implemented the astronomical knowledge of ancient Greeks about the motion of these heavenly bodies with astonishing accuracy, considering the anomalous motion of the Moon around the Earth, using a system of eccentric gears.
https://archive.ph/X8cde
<The Maya were excellent astronomers — they erected entire buildings to serve as observatories and created detailed tables cataloging the movements of the moon, Mars and other planets. Maya astronomical calculations even accurately dated a 1991 solar eclipse. Observations like these formed the basis for their calendar; the celestial clock provided a reasonably accurate means of measuring the passage of time.
>>409940
>Powder-based firearms were thought up and invented more than 700 years ago, which is before the 1970s, and as you know, guns have had literally no technological improvements neither in production, performance nor price ever since then
Wasn't the "biggest" evolution between going from the musket to the modern firearm was compacting the gunpowder and explosion into the bullets themselves and discovering that bullets actually travel further if they spin?
>>409941
>Riot will start banning users for what they say outside of their games
I thought this was a policy
already in place for the past several years.
<You seem to think I take issue with this
Anon, a lot of today's people want to feel "special" and "smart" because, "
Look at how stupid they were decades ago believing in things like magic." Never mind that every single ancient society was rather intelligent, the Greeks for their mathematics, the Egyptians for their medical techniques, the Mayans for their calendars, the Indians for their fabrics, etc..
<Literally all I am saying is that everything we use today comes from designs dating no newer than ~1970. This is a problem. It has to be addressed. There are newer designs across all fields of technology and science that would massively improve life for regular people. They, for some reason, just don't get buildout. Why? I don't know. I'd like to know.
It's because of Marxists, from the Frankfurt school to the U.N. and the WEF. They believe that they know the "true" evolution man is suppose to undergo, so they constantly push through efforts in order to stifle innovation because it's not "innovation" that was done as a result of Socialist thinking. It's kind of like how the E.U. was declaring a couple years back that "inventors" had discovered this "brand new" way to make electricity. You want to know what it was:
A fucking waterwheel. Yes, the same invention that was created two thousand years ago, but why it was so special was that invention was made by people who had the "proper" frame of mind, as in the people heading the project were Socialists. This is the reason why we were largely prevented from building more advanced rockets despite landing on the moon over 65 years ago, or actually creating nuclear reactors small enough to power a car. Because all those discoveries were made in the name of "Capitalism", and Capitalism is "bad", so we need to destroy all Capitalist improvement and in order to replace it with discoveries that were achieved through Socialism.
>>409943
>Maybe if you stupid fags report instead of responding to that mouthbreather
Do you actually have an argument, or are you just going to complain about people saying stuff you don't like?
>>409949
>If the prototypes and ideas of the 70s worked in the 70s, maybe they would have been fucking used in the 70s as well.
A lot of them were, until we had events like the manufactured oil crisis, where countries were "Required" to shrink their economies and living standards due to some conflict in the Middle East (Despite the fact that we could have drilled the oil from home), not mention the rise of environmental agencies declaring that we had to accept a lower standard of living in order to prevent "
Global COOLing" (Because everyone 50 years ago believed that we'd be living in a second Ice Age by the 21st century).
>Like the retard that thinks nuke aren't real
Where has anyone said or even implied that?
Or is this your attempt to make a strawman out of something no one said, so that you can then declare it as part of your "boogieman" lore?
>>409955
That could be attributed to the government and market. Biggest example of this is how Europeans used to be far behind the Chinese in terms of technological development, then somehow leapfrogged them by the time you get to the 1500's and controlling the country by the 1800's. And this isn't because the Chinese were backwards. Everything that the Europeans were using either came from or was also invented by the Chinese (Often much earlier). However Europe's market economy during the Renaissance contrasted against China's feudal economy could be attributed to causing their downfall because you are required to more quickly adapt in a free market as opposed to a rigid monarchical rule.
>>409959
>first a cultural shift from few people being literate at all and most of those few only knowing their jesus amen
The Church were the one's who first taught the general public how to read, you idiot.
>>409960
>We'd probably still be using LCD screens on phones without blue LEDs.
I wish we would (And some companies actually still do). LCD screens tend to produce a better display than (O)LED screens.