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China Will Lead World Scientific Research By 2020
Hugh Pickens writes "An analysis of papers published in 10,500 academic journals across the world shows that, in terms of academic papers published, China is now second only to the US, and will take first place by 2020. Chinese scientists are increasing their output at a far faster rate than counterparts in rival 'emerging' nations such as India, Russia, and Brazil. The number of peer-reviewed papers published by Chinese researchers rose 64-fold over the past 30 years. 'China is out on its own, far ahead of the pack,' says James Wilsdon, of the Royal Society in London. 'If anything, China's recent research performance has exceeded even the high expectations of four or five years ago.' According to Wilsdon, three main factors are driving Chinese research. First is the government's enormous investment, with funding increases far above the rate of inflation, at all levels of the system from schools to postgraduate research. Second is the organized flow of knowledge from basic science to commercial applications. And third is the efficient and flexible way in which China is tapping the expertise of its extensive scientific diaspora in North America and Europe, tempting back mid-career scientists with deals that allow them to spend part of the year working in the West and part in China." Here's the Financial Times's original article.
America is a country of ignorant hicks who were lucky enough to avoid being demolished in WWII, enabling them to entice the best and brightest from other countries to come over and make us seem cultured and technologically advanced. With that lead long since gone, we are returning to our rightful place in the world: The loud, annoying hayseed who has the education of a glass of water and punches anyone who disagrees with him.
It's a shit country, America.
And I say that as an American who had such high hopes for his homeland, but has heartbreakingly concluded that he's better living abroad, and shouldn't come back home.
This is only one example but thanks to the Bush administration having its lips super glued to the ass of the religious "right", stem cell research is now being done largely by other countries. As the United States slid more into retreat and towards a theocratic nation, other countries just passed us by and lapped us: countries who aren't concerned about what Pat Robertson thinks and idiot hillbilly religious mentality. Mod it as a troll folks but the United States is largely to blame for its own self inflicted diminished role in research.
This guy must be smoking something, all the US propaganda I've ever seen seems to indicate that the Russians had shittons of nukes and were itching to use them on every single small town in America.
If this guy really is convinced the Russians didn't have shit for nuclear scientists, then he surely wasn't watching American propaganda. Honestly I suspect mental illness.
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USSR started using the US method of uranium isotope separation namely gaseous diffusion after they learned of the US success with this method.
In 1940, when it was proposed in USSR?
The use of plutonium as a fission weapon was also gained from spying.
If you count measuring radiation from nuclear weapons use as "spying".
They received the blueprints for the original Bomb there is no telling how many setbacks that eliminated.
Here is the blueprint:
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It's basically the same as "Sloika" design already used in USSR, and everything indicates that no one actually seen it.
I'm not saying Russia wouldn't have gotten the bomb but they were more then 5 years behind the US
USSR was 4 years behind because they spent 4 years fighting a war on their own territory, and had other priorities. Active development work on anything nuclear-related started only in 1943-44.
and once the US started tightening up their controls there advancements started retarding.
And this is apparently a new US propaganda formula, because it's neither not the old one, nor it has anything to do with reality. Fusion bomb development went in parallel, with almost simultaneous first tests by US and USSR, then USSR demonstrated Tsar-Bomba (granted, not very useful) everything after that remained evenly matched. Weapon-related development shifted to delivery (ICBMs), smaller bombs and other less "spying-worthy" areas, other nuclear research continued after that with less secrecy on both sides.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
The problem with young Americans is that they have an attention span equal to the time between two commercial segments on TV.
USA will never again become a world leader in anything, get used to it. The time for America is over, USA will over the next decade see a steady unemployment around 20% and it will not drop.
There is still time to avoid becoming a full fledged third world country but I do not see any work being done to avoid it, quite the opposite.
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