1001 Islamic Inventions

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 13, 2006 @02:20AM from the innovations-come-from-everywhere dept.

pev writes "There's a new traveling exhibition in the UK entitled 1001 inventions. It contains some of the most interesting inventions from the past few thousand years. The common theme, however, is that they all came from the Islamic world and not the west. In some cases [the list is] quite surprising. For the lazy, the Independent newspaper in the UK printed their top 20 from the exhibition."

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Okay, I'll bite by voice_of_all_reason · 2006-03-13 02:24 · Score: 5, Funny

"Party happy long time boom boom belt" is in the top 20, right?
Flying machine, eh? hilarious. by MyDixieWrecked · 2006-03-13 02:27 · Score: 3, Funny

That's hilarious that they had this to say:

Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.

about the muslim who attempted to build a flying machine.

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1. Re:Flying machine, eh? hilarious. by robbkidd · 2006-03-13 02:44 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  That's hilarious that they had this to say: Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him. about the muslim who attempted to build a flying machine.
  
  Though, to be fair, Abbas ibn Firnas did build a flying machine. It just wasn't good at being a landing machine as well.
Re:Makes me laugh. by tsa · 2006-03-13 02:27 · Score: 2, Funny

I made it to number 8, then I moved on to newer, more interesting news.

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#'s 1002 and #1003 by jcostantino · 2006-03-13 02:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Flying carpet
Magic Lamp
(rimshot)

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Re:But... by caliph_salahuddin · 2006-03-13 02:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Actually Islam didn't start with Mohammed. This is a fairly common misconception. It actually started with Adam & Eve. Mohammed didn't 'found' Islam, he is merely the last Prophet and perfected it.
Re:Nothing after 1300 by Daniel+Dvorkin · 2006-03-13 02:42 · Score: 3, Funny

The Mongols.

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Re:But... by arvindn · 2006-03-13 02:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Islam can never be more than 1.5 thousand years old!
Come on! A thousand years from now, Islam will clearly be more than 1.5 thousand years old ;^)
[I'm actually surprised no one beat me to it.]
Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-13 02:47 · Score: 4, Funny

>> perfected

Yeah. Perfect.
Re:Obl: Star Trek Russia quote by Eccles · 2006-03-13 02:55 · Score: 4, Funny

You have not experienced these inventions until you have seen them in the original Klingon.

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Re:ARABIC not ISLAMIC by mqduck · 2006-03-13 03:10 · Score: 2, Funny

All Arabs are not muslims

I'm pretty sure that at least a few are.

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Re:Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quote by Quiet_Desperation · 2006-03-13 03:11 · Score: 2, Funny

Well I do know XII / 2 is VII.

Won't that cause a compiler error with the mismatched variable types? And you should really use integer division (\) there.

"Error MMCMLXVIII: An un-oracled error as been handed down unto you by the gods. All hail Ceasar!"

Oh, and the answer is wrong. It's VI. Now write it 100, er, C times or I'll cut your balls off.
Re:As well... by beantherio · 2006-03-13 03:12 · Score: 2, Funny

"And don't forget the ever popular "Method and device for destroying infidel skyscrapers"." As was mentioned earlier: Tom Clancy holds the patent to this invention.
Re:It's sad . . . by slashname3 · 2006-03-13 03:31 · Score: 2, Funny

And the latest invention on the list is the suicide vest bomb?

Actually I am sure they have made some significant contributions. But like most things it gets over shadowed by the negative, which is what is normally reported by the media.
Re:"qamara" obscura by pavera · 2006-03-13 04:13 · Score: 2, Funny

ROFL
You do know this is slashdot right?
If everybody did read the articles, and then only qualified scholars commented there'd be like 3 posts per article.
Re:Uh, no... by tverbeek · 2006-03-13 04:23 · Score: 3, Funny

Jews did not and do not believe a "son of God" is coming back. Some do believe in a messiah, but that's completely different.
Mod parent up: Informative. This is correct info.

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Re:Nothing after 1300 by mnmn · 2006-03-13 04:39 · Score: 3, Funny

How offensive.

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Re:Uh, no... by yurnotsoeviltwin · 2006-03-13 04:44 · Score: 2, Funny

d00d, u need to let go of ur h8 and let jeezus into ur 3
Re:It's sad . . . by Gryle · 2006-03-13 05:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Cheney's not so bad. He'll always shoot straight with you. Or straight at you, as the case may be.

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Re:But... by jdray · 2006-03-13 05:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Right. And what have the Romans ever done for us?

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Re:But... by dual_boot_brain · 2006-03-13 05:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Jesus was Jewish!?!?!?! I thought all them Mexicans were Catholic?

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Obligatory (abridged) Monty Phyton quote by xPsi · 2006-03-13 07:04 · Score: 3, Funny

What have the Muslim's ever done for us?
Reg: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: Yeah.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return? (he pauses smugly)
Xerxes: Coffee.
Reg: What?
Xerxes: Coffee.
Reg: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
Masked commando #1: And the camera.
Stan: Oh, yeah, the camera, Reg. Remember what photography used to be like?
Reg: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you coffee and the camera are two things that the Muslims have done.
Matthias: And algebra.
Reg: Well, yes, obviously algebra. I mean, algebra goes without saying, doesn't it? But apart from coffee, the camera, and algebra...
Masked commando #2: Chess.
Xerxes: Surgical instruments.
Masked commando #3: Windmill.
General audience: Ohh...
Reg: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
Masked commando #1: And the fountain pen!
General audience: Oh, yes! True!
Francis: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss if the Muslims left, Reg.
Masked commando #4: The three course meal!
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Reg: All right, but apart from coffee, the camera, chess, surgical instruments, the windmill, the fountain pen, and the three course meal, what have the Muslims ever done for us?
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Re:But... by really? · 2006-03-13 07:44 · Score: 3, Funny

...aqueducts...

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Re:But... by ultranova · 2006-03-13 09:10 · Score: 2, Funny

Before the war of Independence America was under British rule and everyone here were British subjects.

And now Britain is under American rule and everyone there are American subjects through governor Blair. Nice symmetry there ;).

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Re:Uh, no... by fatphil · 2006-03-13 10:19 · Score: 2, Funny

Let Jesus into my bum?

Someone didn't preview :-)

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